Onboard R/V Sikuliaq for a DNA sequencing workshop with Oxford Nanopore Technology
In October 2018, Anne-Lise Ducluzeau, post-doc in Devin Drown’s
lab at the Institute of Arctic Biology, and 11 undergraduate students of STEMseas and UAF BlaST programs spent a week aboard the R/V Sikuliaq. Their
goal was to explore marine communities of the ocean using MinION DNA sequencing
stations, of the British company, Oxford Nanopore Technology.
During this transit in Alaskan seas, the ship sailed through
multiple storms. Despite winds and seasickness, students sampled several…