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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Incredible work by Eugenie Yen on #turtle sexing by methylation differences. Excited to see if this persists across other temperature dependent species. Badly needed for Podocnemus unifilis in #Peru @nanoporetech.com

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The simplicity and elegance of this solution to protein sequencing rather masks how impressively impactful this can be. What would you do with protein sequencing? @nanopore #nanoporeconf

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A true appreciate brewing for conferences with good coffee. #nanoporeconf #jetlagged

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hello #nanoporeconf! Back at the Billingsgate @nanoporetech.com mainly for the music ;)

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

@arynwilder.bsky.social presents on the incredible ways in which conservation genomics has impacted reintroductions of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (which is not a mouse!) at the 50th anniversary of the #FrozenZoo #consgen 🧪🧬

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Absolutely amazing moment: the #FrozenZoo turned 50 today, and so many amazing scientists were here in San Diego to celebrate 🧪@sandiegozoo.bsky.social

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Absolutely brilliant work at GOSH on targeted rapid metagenomics for same day results on respiratory infections at a hospital. 30 new centres across the UK to adopt this. #nextgen medicine. #Nanoporeconf

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Peptides are being detected directly, folks. PEPTIDES. #LakmalJayasinghe is delivering on his promise. Accurate and sensitive - peptides are grabbed by two DNA handles and run through the pore. #brush up on your #proteomics. This WILL happen. 🧪#nanoporeconf @nanoporetech.com

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Ok. 🤯🤯🤯 It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

⁦Boston Children’s Hospital‬⁩ showing DNA from samples in a fridge can be successfully assessed for methylation at #nanoporeconf 🧪

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

My journey with @nanoporetech.com began in 2018 - really glad to have stuck it out till today, for faster and more reliable pores/enzymes. Here to see how the latest tech can impact #conservation #genomics.🧪🐾

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Does anyone know what snake this might be? Location #kenya, #nairobi. It’s been killed :/ I’m trying to advise on better approaches to the next snake sighting here🐾🧪

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is before one plant got us. Now, I’ll use a digital zoom :) #cacti #nature #wild

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Beautiful and prickly, these cholla cacti, or teddy bear cacti, actually launch at you unprovoked. This stand blooms where the Mojave transitions into the Colorado desert in #joshuatreenp and is stunning. What’s more, most are thought to be identical clones of parents with the same DNA 🧪🐾

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Setting up major Thanksgiving traditions with kids while secretly working on math skills #nerdymama #clevermama ?

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ok by this point it’s probably pretty clear I #nanopore a lot (no such thing as too much) but for the 3 people who care - broke my #flongle pore record. 94! #consgen 🧪

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I have a slight flongle problem :) so hard to let go! #consgen #recycle #nanopore #portablesequencing 🐾🧪

Desk with pile of small sequencing flowcells called flongles and a desk plant and lamp

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A very small flowcell made to fit a Nanopore sequencer. It looks like this and can produce about 1 gigabase of data. Since its pores are temperature sensitive, it tends not to ever arrive with the full 120 pores it started with - and I usually take them to field labs, so 90 is rare! 🧪

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

19mins and 25k, N50 325 bp (ok, so maybe not as short as you were thinking!), and is there a more beautiful feeling? All because of #kvsevolodova who isn’t on this app yet but whom I shall coax over shortly. #thankyou #consgen 🧪

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A rather exciting Thursday night,quickly becoming the norm. #nanopore #flongles #fieldgenomics #consgen The new MK1d just soaring on my first ever Flongle with 90 pores. Fresh out the factory, run within a week. Savouring this rare moment :)

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So excited to have backed this #consgen effort to get genetic data on the Indian #wolf in #Pakistan. They're #fullyfunded! The one year countdown begins. #experiment.com

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’m leaving the world of basic bird sounds for some blue sky. It’s hard to start over, but I am ever hopeful that given the option, the world will be kinder.

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