Recent & Upcoming Talks

2024

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 6:00 PM

BaWIB, BWCB

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 2:15 PM

Nextflow, Lorena Pantano

2021

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 12:00 AM

Bio Talent, Lorena Pantano

Video

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 12:00 AM

Nextflow, Rob Lalonde, Lorena Pantano

Video

2019

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 12:00 AM CLS 421 (Cancer Center conference room).4th floor, Center for Life Sciences.3 Blackfan Circle, Boston MA

miRTOP group, Lorena Pantano

Slides

2018

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 3:06 PM Boston

miRTOP group, Lorena Pantano

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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 1:13 PM Portland, OR

Thomas Desvignes, Karen Eilbeck, Ioannis S. Vlachos, Bastian Fromm, Yin Lu, Marc K. Halushka, Michael Hackenberg, Gianvito Urgese, Elisa Ficarra, Shruthi Bandyadka, Jason Sydes, Peter Batzel, John H. Postlethwait, Phillipe Loher, Eric Londin, Aristeidis G. Telonis, Isidore Rigoutsos, Lorena Pantano

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2016

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 2:54 PM Orlando, Fl

Lorena Pantano, Brad Chapman, Rory Kirchner, John Hutchinson, Oliver Hofmann, Shannon Ho Sui

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