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The 10th Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology conference serves as a multidisciplinary forum to demonstrate how advances in microbial and viral genomics, bioinformatics, data science, and sequencing technology are being used to meet the growing needs of public health.
This year’s meeting will focus on the transformative impact of these advances on global public health, featuring sessions that exploring public health genomics, equity in public health, and infection control in healthcare. Attendees can expect to gain insights from a “State of the Union” session, which will provide nationwide perspectives from laboratories and industry.
New methods and algorithms will also be highlighted, with a session dedicated to scaling bioinformatics, focusing on infrastructure and industry. There will also be an opportunity to demonstrate new tools in the popular bioinformatics and data resources showcase. A significant portion of the programme will consist of talks derived from submitted abstracts.
This conference attracts clinical microbiologists and bioinformaticians, and researchers involved in public health, including professionals from reference laboratories and hospital settings.
The conference has been awarded 12 CPD credits by the The Royal College of Pathologists.
The MEEP Lab runs workshops on methods for evolutionary analysis. Our annual Sydney Phylogenetics Workshop is held in July each year and is free to attend. We have also run workshops at other venues, including the National Herbarium of NSW, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Some of our workshops have been offered in conjunction with COMBINE or with the annual conference of the Genetics Society of Australasia.
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Embarking on training in microbial genomics can be daunting with so much new terminology. We asked several members of the CDGN Teaching, Training and Curriculum Working Group to prepare some information from their experience and resources they used that can hopefully assist others in their training journey, whether to provide a starting point to wrap your head around what is ahead or whether to guide your discussion with a prospective training lab for example for NPAAC/RCPA microbial genomics certification.
We are also increasingly hearing about new Omicron sub-variants with names such as BA.2, BA.4 and now BA.5. The concern is these sub-variants may lead to people becoming reinfected, leading to another rise in cases.
We are also increasingly hearing about new Omicron sub-variants with names such as BA.2, BA.4 and now BA.5. The concern is these sub-variants may lead to people becoming reinfected, leading to another rise in cases.
University of Melbourne Associate Professor Torsten Seemann has won the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Innovation Challenge for his work leading the development of AusTrakka, Australia’s national pathogen genomics surveillance platform.
Published in Nature Communications, researchers behind AusTrakka outline how the platform has facilitated rapid data sharing, democratised access to computational and bioinformatic resources and expertise, and achieved national real-time genomic surveillance.