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VoM-UK announces the keynote speaker and abstract and registration dates for 2026
Professor José Penadés from Imperial College London will be presenting at VoM-UK as the keynote speaker this year. Registration and abstract submission for the conference is now open.
The deadline for abstract submission for oral presentations for VoM-UK 2026 will close on Friday, December 12th, 2025, while registration for the event will close on on Friday, January 9th, 2026. For more details on how to register and conference fees please check out the conference webpage here.
Virus of Microbes UK 2026
The dates for the two day conference Virus of Microbes UK (VoM-UK) 2026 have been announced. It will be taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of January 2026.
Hosted by the Microbiome Exploration Peak of Research Excellence, the fourth annual VoM-UK conference will be held at the end of January next year. As offered at previous conferences, a practical phage genomics workshop will be held the day prior. More details on registration, fees, and abstract submission will soon be available.
The Illumina MiSeq i100 Plus arrives at NU-OMICS
The arrival of Illumina’s latest sequencing platform marks the decommissioning of NU-OMICS first MiSeq.
Today NU-OMICS bids farewell to its first MiSeq, the first platform that the facility acquired in 2012 when it was established, to make room for Illumina’s latest sequencing platform. The MiSeq i100 Plus produces a greater output of data in less time while simplifying the sequencing process.
NU-OMICS takes part in the launch of Northumbria University's Higgs HPC cluster
Northumbria University has teamed up with Lenovo and Logicalis to launch a state-of-the-art high-performance computing (HPC) facility, named after Newcastle born Professor Peter Higgs.
The Higgs HPC cluster will give researchers university-wide the capability to quickly process large datasets and NU-OMICS plans to use that computing power to drive their genomics analysis and research.
Read more about Higgs on Northumbria University’s website and check out how NU-OMICS’s work on COVID-19 highlights the benefits of the new Higgs HPC facility.
The Festival of Genomics while launching SPRQ at NU-OMICS
While Professor Darren Smith and Dr Andrew Nelson attend the Festival of Genomics in London, back in NU-OMICS, PacBio’s new SPRQ chemistry is trialled for the first time.
NU-OMICS is set to offer PacBio’s new SPRQ chemistry upon launch as the first library is loaded during London’s Festival of Genomics 2025. PacBio’s new SPRQ chemistry for the Revio sequencing platform is set to revolutionise HiFi sequencing. The kit is set to increase data generation by 30% while reducing DNA input by 75% leading to increased affordability for ground breaking research.
Professor Darren Smith presents at PacBio Prism 2024
Professor Darren Smith joins a fantastic group of speakers in Lisbon, Portugal.
PacBio Prism 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal will include a talk by Professor Darren Smith on “High-throughput small genome sequencing on the PacBio Revio”.
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