London Calling 2024 - Speakers
Speakers
Check out the line up of speaking at London Calling 2024.
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Dr. Ahmad Abou TayounAl Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital & Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Health, UAE
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Antoni P.A. HendrickxNational Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands
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Andre HolzerHolzer Scientific Consultancy, Germany
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Anoushka JoglekarNew York Genome Center, USA
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Adrien LegerDirector, Modified Base Research, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Alex ShawImperial College London, UK
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Alex TrotterDevelopment Scientist – Translational Development, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Alexander WittenbergKeyGene, Netherlands
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Akelia Wauchope-OdumboAssociate Director, Technical Applications — Americas, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Bryant CatanoSenior Product Support Scientist, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Prof. Benjamin KippMayo Clinic, USA
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Bosheng LiInstitute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, China
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Ben PriceNatural History Museum, UK
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Claire AndersonUniversity College London, UK
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Chris AlderBioinformatician, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Clive BrownChief Technology, Innovation, and Product Officer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Chao Chun LiuSimon Fraser University, Canada
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Dr. Charles K. CooperbioMérieux, France
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Dr. Clemens JakobiLonza, Switzerland
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Dr. Carolyn TregidgoVP, Late Stage and Applied Product Development, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Daniel BrantonHarvard University, USA
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David W. DeamerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Dan FordhamDirector, Strategic Product Management EMEA, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Dr. Danny E. MillerUniversity of Washington, USA
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Devin OglesbeeMayo Clinic, USA
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Prof. Emma BapleUniversity of Exeter and South West NHS Genomics Laboratory Hub, UK
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Ethan Hill‘Iolani School, USA
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Emma WhiteVP, Marketing Operations, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Eddy de BoerUniversity Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
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Dr. Helen Bulbeckbrainstrust, UK
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Hagan BayleyUniversity of Oxford, UK
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Dr. Helen GunterBASE mRNA Facility, The University of Queensland, Australia
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Hanlee JiStanford University, USA
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Heather Ritchie-ParkerRoyal Zoological Society of Scotland, UK
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Prof. Ian AbbsGuy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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Dr. Inès HassanTony Blair Institute for Global Change, UK
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Jessica AndersonSenior Field Applications Scientist, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Prof. Sir John BellEllison Institute of Technology Oxford, UK
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Jimmy CreithField Applications Scientist, Bioinformatics, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Julie DragonUniversity of Vermont, USA
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Dr. Janessa LaskinBC Cancer Centre & University of British Columbia, Canada
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Joanne TrinhInstitute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Germany
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Prof. Joris VermeeschKU Leuven, Belgium
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Jose-Crispin Zavala AlvaradoPathoQuest, France
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Kimberley BillingsleyNational Institutes of Health, USA
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Kara DicksProgramme Manager, Conservation Genomics—ORG.ONE, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Dr. Karen SherwoodUniversity of British Columbia, Canada
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Katharina WolffTU Braunschweig, Germany
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Lyn ChittyGreat Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust & UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK
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Lauren LuiLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
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Dr. Luke W. MeredithWHO-EMRO World Health Emergencies, Egypt
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Dr. Luca MazzarellaEuropean Institute of Oncology, Italy
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Prof. Laurent MesnardSorbonne University, France
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Lorey SmithPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
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Lara UrbanHemholtz AI, Germany
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Medini AnnavajhalaColumbia University Irving Medical Center, USA
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Mark AkesonUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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Prof. Matt BrownGenomics England, UK
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Morgan GueuningBlood Transfusion Service, Switzerland
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Morghan LucasMedical Genetics Center, Germany
Michael NakaiPeter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
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Dr. Matt ParkerDirector, Clinical Bioinformatics Software, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Mile SikicGenome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore
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Mrinalini WatsaSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, USA
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Natalia GarciaBioinformatics Workflow Developer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Ndack NdiayePasteur Institute, Senegal
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Nick SeddonOptum Genomics, USA
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Paul ArvidsonGenomics England & SWAN, UK
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Ping LuPeking University, China
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Prof. Dr. Pieter WesselingPrincess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology & Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands
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Dr. Rahul BatraGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust UK
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Rui ChenBaylor College of Medicine, USA
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Rea KobialkaInstitute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Germany
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Rachel RubinsteinTechnical Product Manager, Software, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Rosemary Sinclair DokosSVP, Product and Programme Management, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Rhys WhiteInstitute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand
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Sergey BatalovRady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA
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Seanne P. BuckwalterMayo Clinic, USA
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Sam DavisPrincipal Scientist, Machine Learning, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Sneha GoenkaStanford University & Princeton University, USA
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Sarah GriffithsBioinformatics Workflow Developer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Sirisha HeskethClinical Bioinformatician, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Sofia KudashevaEarlham Institute, UK
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Susie LeeTechnical Product Manager, Basecalling and Models, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Sean McKenzieAssociate Director, Genomic Applications Bioinformatics, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Dr. Simon PaineNottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
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Steph WilbrahamDirector, Automation Product Management, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Spike WillcocksChief Strategy Officer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Thias Oberg BoesenNovo Nordisk A/S, Denmark
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Tomás Di DomenicoNational Cancer Research Center, Spain
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Tomasz DobrzyckiField Applications Scientist, New Product Introduction, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Dr. Telmo GraçaLonza, Switzerland
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Tina HanTwist Bioscience
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Dr. Thomas R. KreilTakeda, Austria
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Tetyana VasylyevaUniversity of California, Irvine, USA
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Tjakko van HamErasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Mrinalini Watsa
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- Job title
- Institution
- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, USA
- Biography
Mrinalini Watsa is a research scientist with the Conservation Science Team at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Her primary focus is applying low-cost field genomics tools, like nanopore sequencing, in tropical field labs to enhance biodiversity and disease surveillance. She is also developing affordable conservation tech, such as animal-mounted collars and microchip-based sensors, for wildlife monitoring. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Grinnell College in Iowa and her doctorate in biological anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis.
- Recent publications
Watsa, M. and Wildlife Disease Surveillance Focus Group. Rigorous wildlife disease surveillance. Science. 369(6500):145–147 (2020). DOI: 10.1126/science.abc0017
Watsa, M., Erkenswick, G.A., Pomerantz, A., and Prost, S. Portable sequencing as a teaching tool in conservation and biodiversity research. PLoS Biol. 18(4):p.e3000667 (2020). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000667
Arana, A., et al. Lack of local genetic representation in one of the regions with the highest bird species richness, the Peruvian Amazonia. Plos one. 19(1): p.e0296305 (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296305
