Event:

Pore Safari

Date: 22th - 23th November 2018 
Location: Lusaka, Zambia

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 note, this event is now full. 

Day 1: Seminar

09:30 – 10:30 Registration 
10:30 – 10:40 Iain MacLaren & Angelica Vittori
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Introduction and Welcome
10:40 – 11:00 Iain MacLaren
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Nanopore sequencing technology
11:00 – 11:30 Laura Boykin
University of Western Australia
Sequencing cassava viruses in the field
11:30 – 12:00 Angelica Vittori
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Kits, Protocols and getting started
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch and live demos
14:00 – 14:30 Iain MacLaren
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Nanopore Applications
14:30 – 15:15 Patrick Chiza Chikoti
Zambia Agriculture Research Institute
Nanopore sequencing; practical experience in Zambia
15:15 – 16:30 Angelica Vittori
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Nanopore Software
16:30 – 17:30  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