GGBC Seminar : COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 Webinar – Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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GGBC Seminar : COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 Webinar – Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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The GGBC invites you to join us Wednesday, August 4th for a webinar on sequencing and bioinformatics approaches used to analyze SARS-CoV-2 data.
Speakers from Illumina, IDbyDNA and UGA will be presenting.
This promises to be an interesting and informative series of talks for those interested in the latest short read sequencing approaches used for the analysis and epidemiological surveillance of SARs-CoV-2 variants.
Schedule of talks:
12:00pm – 12:40pm
Kelly Hoon
Executive Sales Specialist
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Illumina
Illumina COVIDSeq Test (RUO) and additional methods for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, including requirements, workflow, and analysis.
12:40pm-1:20pm
Benjamin Briggs, MD, Ph.D.
Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs
IDbyDNA
Precision Metagenomics: use cases and capabilities of the Respiratory Pathogen ID/AMR Enrichment Panel (RPIP)
1:20pm-2:00pm
Justin Bahl, Ph.D.
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Molecular epidemiology of pandemics: Lessons learned and remaining challenges