Scientist at @sandiegozoo and co-founder of @field_projects, wildlife biology, twin mum, @MaxwellHanrahan Fellow. My views are my own. Dr/she/her.
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Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
India’s extraordinary biodiversity — from alpine meadows to coral reefs — needs long-term field science now more than ever. Building a national network of modern ecological field stations is critical for understanding climate change, strengthening conservation, and shaping evidence-based policy for the future. It is also time to move beyond individual-centric science towards collaborative, long-term, institution-driven ecological research. @somanathan_hema @minivets @moefcc @wii_india @rameshpandeyifs @SPYadavIFS @ntca_india @IBCA_official @bhlab_india journals.biologists.com/jeb/…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
From data to decisions: Toward a Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
Critically ill infants need rapid treatment. Ni-Chung Le, through the Asia-Pacific N‑Care Project, showed how nanopore could deliver answers in ~5 days, changing management for half of ICU cases across the region. nanoporetech.com/about/event… #Nanoporeconf
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
In this blog, Lakmal outlines Oxford Nanopore's roadmap to proteomics.
nanoporetech.com/blog/london… #nanoporeconf
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
More details on new RNA modified bases detectable with @nanopore sequencing. #NanoporeConf
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
Initial release of Pomfret for methylation assisted phase block joining for more contiguous phased assemblies without any additional library prep from @nanopore data. Such amazing work from @0xfxfxf ! #NanoporeConf
github.com/nanoporetech/pomf…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
It’s on its way! The @nanopore #Mk1d just took its first steps towards an exciting summer of tropical genomics at up to 3 #insitulabs Thanks for the early access! @ZaneLibke @SurroundScience @giderk instagram.com/reel/C8NMCepPg…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
With #ICCWC support, @UNODC_ENV teamed up with NGO TRACE to set up a dedicated wildlife forensics laboratory in Uganda. 🔬🧪🦏
▶️ Learn about the impact of the lab & why forensics is so important to combat #wildlifecrime.
#TogetherAgainstWildlifeCrime
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
We recently collaborated with TRACE to deploy our portable forensic lab to Mozambique’s National Conservation Agency for the first time, using science to generate intelligence and boost anti-wildlife crime efforts🐘
Full story 👉 bit.ly/4elnCcV
#EndENVcrime
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
How to efficiently implement #ONT for #DNAbarcoding applications? Join our webinar on June 6th to hear useful tips and discuss with experts from the @iBOLEurope community!
iboleurope.org/june-6th-webi…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
Authors from CDC Taiwan found @nanopore sequences, generated with R10.4.1 & basecalled using Dorado 0.5.0 Super Accurate 4.3 model, exhibited comparable accuracy to Illumina sequences, effectively discriminating among bacterial strains from outbreaks journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
Carrion crows understand numbers and counting in the same way humans do, a new study suggests, making them the only other species known to have this ability.
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Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
A walkthrough of Clive's talk at London Calling 2024.
All right, all right, all right, it's that time of the year were Spring is upon us, the birds are chirping, and Oxford @nanopore gives us a tech update in #LC2024 #nanoporeconf
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
We're making several @nanopore datasets available to coincide with #LC2024 #LondonCalling2024. They are available for download now from the #EPI2ME blog. These include; Zymo fecal reference, plasmids, lambda and E. coli and some human reference RNA!
labs.epi2me.io/lc2024-datase…
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
The #insitulab team is pumped to be at #nanoporeconf this year, also @nanopore’s #londoncalling’s 10th birthday. We are excited to bring the first outputs from our #fieldlab programs to a global audience, and what a ride it has been!
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
Yup @iiSeymour and the rest of the @nanopore research and development team have really done something impressive here getting at the high end of 20s, >Q25 for quality scores (closing in on 1 in 1,000 errors in the raw reads). The "nanopore is high error" era is behind us though>>
There will be plenty of opportunity to dissect this bombshell later on during @The__Taybor 's update, but the move to transformers for basecalling is already... transformative! Dorado v0.7 Simplex >Q25
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
See you next week at London Calling 2024!! I will present Herro error correction github.com/lbcb-sci/herro. This photo is now 9 years old. W/ @IvanSovic and @bioinfoHR #nanopore #nanoporeconf
Mrinalini Watsa retweeted
But I thought that you were supposed to hook it up to your iPhone and do the analysis on the peanuts in the bowl in the bar in real time…..
(Retweet if you know what I’m talking about) – at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
@nanopore
So far our adoption of the MinION for rapid species detection of isolates recovered from food samples has been great. We can go from colony on plate to WGS predicted species in a single working day. This is DAYS faster than normal molecular methods.