From sequence to signal: Algorithms for wastewater-based pathogen surveillance
Invited talk, NWO Life 2025, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands
Invited lecture at NWO Life, the annual scientific conference for life scientists in the Netherlands!
Selected talks and presentations
Graph-based algorithms for viral lineage quantification: a wastewater story
Keynote, International Genome Graphs Symposium 2024, Ascona, Switzerland
A keynote lecture at the International Genome Graphs Symposium, where I presented several graph-based methods for wastewater analysis. Five days of genome graphs, what more could you wish for?!
AmpliDiff: an Optimized Amplicon Sequencing Approach to Estimating Lineage Abundances in Viral Metagenomes
Conference talk, Computability in Europe (CiE) 2023, online
Presenting our first results with AmpliDiff, great algorithmic work by Jasper van Bemmelen.
Virus pangenomics
Summer school lecture, Introduction to Pangenomics, Como, Italy
A lovely experience, lecturing at the Lake Como School of Advance Studies as part of a PhD Summer School in Pangenomics.
A reference-free solution to the viral quasispecies assembly problem
Honorary lecture, Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Conference (BioSB), online
Honorary lecture after receiving the BioSB Young Investigator Award!
Strain-aware assembly of genomes from mixed samples using flow variation graphs
Conference talk, Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), online
My first conference presentation through Zoom… check it out here.
De novo viral quasispecies assembly using overlap graphs
Conference talk (highlight), Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Paris, France
Our paper on de novo viral quasispecies assembly with SAVAGE was selected for a highlight presentation at RECOMB 2018!
Full-length de novo viral quasispecies assembly through variation graph construction
Conference talk, RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Massively Parallel Sequencing (RECOMB-Seq), Paris, France
Presenting our first results with Virus-VG at RECOMB-Seq in Paris.
De novo assembly of viral quasispecies using overlap graphs
Conference talk, Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Prague, Czech Republic
My first presentation at a major conference, awarded with a Best Talk Award! Recording available here.