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Talks

Recent and upcoming talks covering topics in bioinformatics, workflow management, RNA-seq analysis, and community building in computational biology.

Unified, community-developed analysis guidelines and templates for multi-omics data interpretability
Biomedical research generates complex, large-scale data that presents challenges in manipulation, storage, distribution, and analysis, …
May 15, 2025
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Lorena Pantano: Unified, community-developed analysis guidelines and templates for multi-omics data interpretability
As part of the panel discussion ‘Managing Data Analyses with Nextflow and nf-core in Bioinformatics Core Facilities,’ I …
Mar 25, 2025
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BaWIB X BWCB joint meetup! Leveraging Mentorship Through Career Hurdles
I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion with Boahemaa Adu-Oppong, PhD (BWCB Member), Eleanor Howe, and Asha S. …
Jun 12, 2024
Lorena Pantano: Transitioning through the nf-core era at the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core is dedicated to fostering collaboration within the Life Sciences, aiming to expedite research …
May 23, 2024
Women in Life Sciences: How do we Close the Gender Gap in Leadership?
With a global push in recent years to encourage young women toward careers in STEM, the life sciences have benefited enormously from …
Sep 18, 2021
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Inside a Bioinformatics Startup – with NextRNA Therapeutics
In this podcast, Rob Lalonde of Seqera Labs speaks with Lorena Pantano, head of Computational Biology at NextRNA, a firm leading the …
Sep 15, 2021
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miRNA variants (isomiRs): real molecules or sequencing artifacts?
Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies led to the discovery of isomiRs, which are miRNA sequence variants. In the last …
Feb 9, 2019
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MiRNA Wars: The isomiRs menance
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules (~22 nucleotide long) involved in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Advances in …
Dec 2, 2018
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miRTOP: An open source community project for the development of a unified format file for miRNA data
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules (20-27 nt long) that are involved in eukaryotic gene regulation. They regulate targeted …
Jun 27, 2018
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Characterization of the small RNA transcriptome using the bcbio-nextgen python framework
The study of small RNA helps us understand some of the complexity of gene regulation of a cell. Of the different types of small RNAs, …
Jul 9, 2016
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