Event:

Pore Safari

Date: 19th - 20th November 2018 
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Hear about the latest tech updates for Oxford Nanopore as well as hearing from local scientists about their latest research using nanopore technology. 

There is no delegate fee for this event. 
Your place at this event will be confirmed via email from events@nanoporetech.com (or suggested method from the local). Completion of this form does not constitute confirmation. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

The agenda below is subject to change.  Please complete the form below to apply for a place. 

Day 1: Seminar

09:00 – 09:30 Registration 
09:30 – 09:40 Iain MacLaren & Angelica Vittori
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
 Introduction and Welcome
09:40 – 10:10 Iain MacLaren
Oxford Nanopore Technologies		 Nanopore sequencing technology
10:10 – 11:50 Peter Sseruwagi
Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute
Laura Boykin
University of Western Australia
 Sequencing cassava viruses in the field
11:50 – 12:30 Clara Yona
Sokoine University of Agriculture		 Using Nanopore MinION sequencing in African swine fever virus (ASFV) genomics
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and live demos
14:00 – 14:45 Joseph Ndunguru
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute		 Translating upstream science into impact and benefit for the poor
14:45 – 15:30 Charles Kayuki
Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute		 Nanopore sequencing; practical experience in Tanzania
15:30 – 16:45 Angelica Vittori
Oxford Nanopore Technologies		 Kits, Protocols and getting started
17:00 – 18:00  Networking
    

 Day 2:  Workshop (the workshop has limited availability due to lab space of 20 people)

09:00 – 09:30 Registration 
09:30 – 09:45 Introduction and Welcome
09:45 – 10:30 Planning your experiment 1: input material
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break    
11:00 – 12:00 Planning your experiment 2: DNA kits, RNA kits, barcoding options, washing and re-using a flow cell.
12:30 – 12:45 Live demo flow cell loading
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Rapid control experiment (wet lab)
15:15 – 16:30 Software introduction: MinKNOW, Albacore, Epi2Me, Data file structure
16:30 – 17:30  Networking
    

 

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