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Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · 21/05/2026

That’s a wrap on London Calling 2026, powered by innovative speakers and scientists rethinking what is possible. From posters to focused breakouts, #NanoporeConf saw ideas turn into action. With 70+ speakers and thousands attending in person and online, this wasn’t one to miss. See you next year.

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

Watching the way in which long read, direct RNA, and methylation data are transforming cancer diagnostics and treatment makes me so happy. This is an inflection point. Respect for the @nanopore #squiggle. I’ll endeavour to ensure a diverse world worth living in for all lives saved #conbio #congen

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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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Matt Loose @minomatt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Very cool to see noise cancelling headphones for adaptive sampling #nanoporeconf

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

My pre-coffee grammar is atrocious. Appreciation*

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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 · 27/09/2025

Org One is a program assisting in the creation of reference genomes for endangered species - and that’s what I was referencing.

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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

Look for Jeff Nivala’s work from the UofWashington - he’s the primary research consultant on this work as I understand this for ONT. Super exciting progress from his team!

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

3/ Genomes from wildlife can be T2T just 3 years after the first complete human genome in 2022. An ncredible pace of dvlpmnt and a fully local sequencing solution requiring no sample export. #democratising #genomics. #NanoporeConf🧪

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

2/ As national #biobanks emerge globally, we are asked often “Why save bio samples? What can you do with them?” - well, I no longer have to say we are saving them for the future. Tomorrow is here today. Nanopore-only #reference #genomes can be T2T AND in situ!🧪

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

1/ There’s just no doubt - the future of biobanking and de novo genome sequencing lies in a single (higher throughput) flowcell running ULK and pore-C together + hifiasm + dorado polish + teloseq! #oneflowcell #onegenome #orgone #NanoporeConf 🧪

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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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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 22/05/2025

Rosemary Dokos #NanoporeConf Project GargantION; maintains all of the richness of existing flow cell chemistries, but is based on voltage sensing; about 1 genome per hour per flow cell.

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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 · 21/05/2025

Excited to see what’s new in this #nanopore world. #nanoporeconf is live!

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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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Carlos Rossa @carlosrossa.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🍇🍷🍾🥂 💡🔌 🧪

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

So excited that my favourite primates (they’re non-human!) are featured here - can’t wait to watch with the @fieldprojects.bsky.social crew! #congrats #theamericas #scicomm #tamarins 🧪

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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

One of those things has a very cute face - bottom right. This is the least scientific response to it, but I do appreciate your #virosky #bluet nevertheless!

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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 · 23/11/2024

Sorry :( it’s admittedly really only maybe interesting to a few people :/ sort of the lot of doctorate holders … but if this is something you really want to understand I can get you there..

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oh my gosh. You’ve ratted out my gifter big time 😂

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It was a present so I’m afraid I have no idea beyond somewhere in the vicinity of Portland :)

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

Just don’t make them nanopours and you’ll have no trouble from me :)

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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

Amplicons indexed by a second PCR, which is more affordable and quicker than the NBD kit (which ligates indices on).

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

Please add me to this one! Getting addicted to SWFS meetings :)

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

More people are having shittier days :/ don’t take it to heart if possible. It’s likely not you, but the added ever-unpaid task + the world at large that may generally lower the tenor of the whole endeavour.

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

So is #MBARI - I shall be forever envious and in awe of your engineering teams. Like eDNA on land wasn’t hard enough!

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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

This might be a bit off the mark but what about the black footed ferret and the P-horse? Their reintroductions are a WIP and cloning key. Other than that - California condors, but they managed it with just genetics not genomics :)

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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

I can’t give away what’s running as yet but it’s short fragments of #endangered #species for an absolutely satisfying #conservation outcome if this works. Crossing all my fingers!

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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 · 19/11/2024

Brilliant, thank you! Excited bsky newbie here, ready to start over.

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yes it has been a bit wild :) Thank you!

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Mrinalini Watsa @surroundscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I work on eDNA on portable sequencing devices for SDZoo - mostly Peru at the moment, and work with the eDNA collaborative. Could you add me please?

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