Presenters' biography

Speaker 1 - Dr. Chloé Baum (Institut Pasteur, France)


Dr. Chloé Baum is a molecular biologist specialized in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies. She completed her PhD with New England Biolabs and the Genoscope, focusing on the development of innovative NGS-based methods applied to microbiology and microbiome research. She now leads the implementation of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) at Biomics, the sequencing core facility of Institut Pasteur.


Speaker 2 - Rania Ouazahrou (Insitut Pasteur, France)

Research engineer in bioinformatics at the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub and the Biomics sequencing platform at the Institut Pasteur. I also previously worked at the I2BC / CNRS sequencing platform as a research engineer. I work mainly on prokaryotes and occasionally on eukaryotes. At the sequencing platform, our main role is to develop pipelines to make it easier to run our analyses on a day-to-day basis.I analyse Illumina and Nanopore data. We mainly do RNAseq analyses, variant calling for Illumina data, but also custom analyses. For Nanopore, we mainly do assemblies but also detect modifications in direct RNA.


Speaker 3 - Dr. Guillaume Croville (National Veterinary School Toulouse, France)


Guillaume Croville works as an engineer at UMR IHAP, a multi-disciplinary research unit in animal infectiology attached to INRAe's Animal Health Department. His expertise lies in next-generation sequencing techniques such as Oxford Nanopore Technologies for the detection and characterization of pathogens as a routine diagnostic tool, but also for the exploration of the virosphere using metagenomic protocols.


Speaker 4 -  Niamh Lacy-Roberts (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

I hold a BSc in Biomedical Science from Edinburgh Napier University and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen. I am passionate about combining my laboratory experience and bioinformatics skills to support antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance and strengthen whole genome sequencing (WGS) capacity. I specialize in Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long-read sequencing, with hands-on experience in both laboratory work and data analysis. As a research assistant in the Global Capacity Building Group at the Technical University of Denmark, I work on the Fleming Fund Regional Grant project, SEQAFRICA. My role involves developing ONT sequencing protocols and delivering bioinformatics training as part of the SEQAFRICA initiative.
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