Oscar Torres
@oscart32.bsky.social
Research fellow in clinical metagenomics at University College London
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Oscar Torres
@oscart32.bsky.social
· Apr 11
Nanopore-based hybridization capture approaches for targeted viral metagenomics and whole-genome sequencing
Hybridization capture approaches can significantly increase the sensitivity of metagenomics. However, their implementation with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing has been limited due to th...
www.medrxiv.org
New preprint!
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Oscar Torres
📢📢📢 Our next LINE seminar is approaching. This time with a twist:
On Wed the 26th of Nov, we will be meeting in Cambridge @mrclmb.bsky.social! Sina Krokowski and @juliasg.bsky.social will be sharing their science!
All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/LINEseminar
On Wed the 26th of Nov, we will be meeting in Cambridge @mrclmb.bsky.social! Sina Krokowski and @juliasg.bsky.social will be sharing their science!
All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/LINEseminar
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢📢📢 Our next LINE seminar is approaching. This time with a twist:
On Wed the 26th of Nov, we will be meeting in Cambridge @mrclmb.bsky.social! Sina Krokowski and @juliasg.bsky.social will be sharing their science!
All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/LINEseminar
On Wed the 26th of Nov, we will be meeting in Cambridge @mrclmb.bsky.social! Sina Krokowski and @juliasg.bsky.social will be sharing their science!
All info and registration to join in person or online here: tinyurl.com/LINEseminar
Reposted by Oscar Torres
New preprint!
Using single-molecule and kinetic assays combined with nanopore, myself, @alex-hg.bsky.social, @oscart32.bsky.social & co showed that the SauUSI restriction enzyme from S. aureus recognizes methylated DNA and initiates a motor-driven shredding process.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Using single-molecule and kinetic assays combined with nanopore, myself, @alex-hg.bsky.social, @oscart32.bsky.social & co showed that the SauUSI restriction enzyme from S. aureus recognizes methylated DNA and initiates a motor-driven shredding process.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
New preprint!
Using single-molecule and kinetic assays combined with nanopore, myself, @alex-hg.bsky.social, @oscart32.bsky.social & co showed that the SauUSI restriction enzyme from S. aureus recognizes methylated DNA and initiates a motor-driven shredding process.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Using single-molecule and kinetic assays combined with nanopore, myself, @alex-hg.bsky.social, @oscart32.bsky.social & co showed that the SauUSI restriction enzyme from S. aureus recognizes methylated DNA and initiates a motor-driven shredding process.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Our review on clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens is now online in @natrevmicro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens - Nature Reviews Microbiology
Metagenomics approaches are being increasingly used for the diagnosis of viral infections, outbreak investigation, and new and emerging pathogen surveillance. This Review highlights sequencing approac...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Our review on clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens is now online in @natrevmicro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Join us!
Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position)
Apply by July 9th.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position)
Apply by July 9th.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Join us!
Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position)
Apply by July 9th.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position)
Apply by July 9th.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Reposted by Oscar Torres
Our community members presented incredible ONT use cases, including Judith Breuer showcasing how rapid metagenomics is faster than standard microbiology for identifying respiratory infections & how new targeted methods increase sensitivity & speed for sterile sites www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Our community members presented incredible ONT use cases, including Judith Breuer showcasing how rapid metagenomics is faster than standard microbiology for identifying respiratory infections & how new targeted methods increase sensitivity & speed for sterile sites www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Oscar Torres
Routine metagenomics is vital in protecting public health, yet current methods are slow.
Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. nanoporetech.com/about/events...
Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. nanoporetech.com/about/events...
May 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Routine metagenomics is vital in protecting public health, yet current methods are slow.
Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. nanoporetech.com/about/events...
Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. nanoporetech.com/about/events...
New preprint!
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Nanopore-based hybridization capture approaches for targeted viral metagenomics and whole-genome sequencing
Hybridization capture approaches can significantly increase the sensitivity of metagenomics. However, their implementation with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing has been limited due to th...
www.medrxiv.org
April 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New preprint!
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with @nanoporetech.com without additional ligation-based steps!
We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics @twistbioscience.com and Viral WGS @Agilent
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Oscar Torres
Come next Wednesday at 5pm at #UCL to listen to @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social share their science and have a drink with us after!
The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!
The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!
🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) at UCL. We are excited to host @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! As always: Followed by a networking social! Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh
April 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Come next Wednesday at 5pm at #UCL to listen to @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social share their science and have a drink with us after!
The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!
The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!
Reposted by Oscar Torres
🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) at UCL. We are excited to host @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! As always: Followed by a networking social! Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) at UCL. We are excited to host @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! As always: Followed by a networking social! Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh
Reposted by Oscar Torres
📣NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June @crick.ac.uk .
Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl
Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more.
Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL
Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY
Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl
Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more.
Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL
Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY
February 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📣NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June @crick.ac.uk .
Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl
Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more.
Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL
Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY
Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl
Join us for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a brilliant careers panel and so much more.
Submit your abstract by 25th April: shorturl.at/7KuXL
Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY
Reposted by Oscar Torres
This ECR-focussed symposium is made possible by the support of our fantastic sponsors: @biologists.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk NEB @promegauk.bsky.social @proteintech.bsky.social 2BScientific @cytiva.bsky.social Avantor @stratechscientific.bsky.social INTEGRA @twistbioscience.com THISTLEScientific
February 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This ECR-focussed symposium is made possible by the support of our fantastic sponsors: @biologists.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk NEB @promegauk.bsky.social @proteintech.bsky.social 2BScientific @cytiva.bsky.social Avantor @stratechscientific.bsky.social INTEGRA @twistbioscience.com THISTLEScientific
Reposted by Oscar Torres
ONT vs Illumina approach for diagnosis and surveillance of #viruses
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Evaluating metagenomics and targeted approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of viruses - Genome Medicine
Background Metagenomics is a powerful approach for the detection of unknown and novel pathogens. Workflows based on Illumina short-read sequencing are becoming established in diagnostic laboratories. ...
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com
December 23, 2024 at 1:42 PM
ONT vs Illumina approach for diagnosis and surveillance of #viruses
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Reposted by Oscar Torres
📣 Our next seminar is on the 13th of Feb at the @blizardinstitute.bsky.social .
Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea
Come for the science, stay for the networking social!
Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea
Come for the science, stay for the networking social!
January 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
📣 Our next seminar is on the 13th of Feb at the @blizardinstitute.bsky.social .
Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea
Come for the science, stay for the networking social!
Sean Carlson from @qmul.ac.uk and Anna McNaughton from @bristoluni.bsky.social will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea
Come for the science, stay for the networking social!