Publications
Lab members are shown in bold. Selected posters and invited talks are listed below the papers. A fuller record is on Google Scholar.
2025
nanoCAS: a web platform for nanopore-based point-of-care diagnostics.
In preparation, BMC Bioinformatics.
2023
Oxytetracycline-resistant Paenibacillus larvae identified in commercial beekeeping operations in Saskatchewan using pooled honey sampling.
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. DOI
Portable crop disease diagnostic solution.
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/614,174, filed 22 December 2023.
2022
Posters
2026
Badea A, Taylor KR, Soomro T, McGonigle TP, Wang X, MacEachern D, Khanal R, Blackwell BA, Sura S, Foroud NA, Weerasinghe V, Embrador D, Quill Z, Wijekoon C, Fernando WGD, Walkowiak S, Tucker JR. Breaking the cycle: innovative collaborative approaches to fusarium head blight in barley breeding. Canadian Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS.
2026
Soomro T, Horovatin S, Dumonceaux TJ, Links MG. nanoCAS: an event-driven framework for real-time detection and decision making during nanopore sequencing. London Calling, London, UK.
2025
Soomro T, Horovatin S, Dumonceaux TJ, Links MG. nanoCAS: web platform for nanopore-based point-of-care diagnostics. BioNet, Calgary, AB.
2021
Soomro T, Jordan M, Watts S, Migicovsky Z, Forney C, Song J, Myles S. Harvest date shapes apple volatilome. Plant and Animal Genomes Conference, San Diego, CA.
2020
Soomro T, Napper S, Bonham-Smith PC. Investigation of the Arabidopsis thaliana kinome after infection with Plasmodiophora brassicae and establishment of clubroot. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, WA.
2018
Soomro T, Links MG. Sequence and forget: a new paradigm for MinION DNA sequencing. Research Fest, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan.
Invited talks
2026
The Bioinfomagician: modernizing Brandon’s breeding and genomics pipelines. BRDC Science Seminar.
2025
nanoCAS: web platform for nanopore-based point-of-care diagnostics. BioNet Conference.
2024
How data is used in agriculture. Data For Good Saskatchewan.
2023
Breaking the wall of diagnostic roadblocks. Falling Walls Lab Atlantic Canada.
2022
The genetics of apple aroma. UC Davis Plant Sciences Symposium.
2022
Introduction to pan-genomes and how to create one. Institute for Comparative Genomics, Dalhousie University.