Oscar Torres

📢NEWS:The 4th LINE symposium will be on June 22nd @TheCrick!
Details:https://shorturl.at/LZPKT
Join us for this day of ECR-led science, networking, brilliant invited speakers and a fantastic careers panel.
Abstracts by May 10th:https://shorturl.at/UIXZg
Free registration:https://shorturl.at/JRzzo

We're really excited to have @sfauredupuy.bsky.social giving our first LINE+ seminar on the 18th of Feb! We hope to see you there! Register here tinyurl.com/3ys93ems

📣NEWS📣: The first invited speaker in our new LINE+ seminar series is @sfauredupuy.bsky.social from Institut Cochin, Paris!

Feb 18th at the Blizard Institute, hear all about her exciting research on viruses vs macrophages and science outreach!
All welcome!

Registration/details: tinyurl.com/3ys93ems

Hope you all have an amazing break filled with good food and great company! ✨
As we wrap up 2025, we're excited to announce our 4th annual celebration of ECR-led infection research:
📢Save the Date: LINE Symposium 2026
📅Monday June 22nd 2026
📍 Francis Crick Institute
More details coming in 2026!

📢📢📢 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

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/...

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...

Our review on clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens is now online in @natrevmicro.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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).

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

🚨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

This is a poster advertising the LINE scientific symposium aimed at early career researchers working in infection. Displayed is an electron microscope image showing two salmonella bacteria attached to a cells causing the cell membrane to ripple. Below the image, the organisational details about the symposium are shown.

📣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

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

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. ...

ONT vs Illumina approach for diagnosis and surveillance of #viruses

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📣 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!