Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Conte...

“What is urgently needed is a shift from pathogen-specific diagnostics toward pathogen-agnostic diagnostic systems,” write Krutika Kuppalli and Placide Mbala.

This role sits within the ARTIC network project (https://artic.network/), a global initiative that develops and supports genomic surveillance for outbreak response. Based in the School of Biosciences,...

This post-doctoral position will contribute to both complementary programmes, developing ‘broadband’ metagenomic sequencing capabilities for rapid detection and characterisation of emerging and unknow...

In October, as part of the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) 2025 pre-conference schedule in Cape Town, the ARTIC team hosted a workshop titled “Can you stop an outbreak becomin...

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

PhD Project - Metagenomic Methods Development for Public Health Genomics and Pandemic Preparedness at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The Last of Us: Developing a Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit for Fungal Outbreaks at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Our researchers are developing fast and portable virus sequencing techniques to track viruses in areas with limited medical resources.

Our researchers are developing fast and portable virus sequencing techniques to track viruses in areas with limited medical resources.

On Jan 30, 2025, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced the launch of the metagenomics Surveillance Collaboration and Analysis Programme (mSCAPE)—the world’s first biosecurity surveillance sy...

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing an innovative TB diagnostic approach, collaborating across a multidisciplinary team to advance our novel enzymatic lysis technology. Key...

You will primarily be working in Theme 2: Applying Novel Omics Methods to Public Health Microbiology, which aims to demonstrate potential utility of new sequencing technologies such as single cell gen...

The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.

> Fieldbioinformatics updated to 1.6.0 Fieldbioinformatics has been the first line recommendation by the artic network for generation of consensus sequences from Nanopore viral amplicon sequencing d...

primalscheme is a tool for designing primer panels for multiplex PCR. It uses a greedy algorithm to find primers for tiling amplicon generation for multiple reference genomes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced ten projects that will receive almost US$ 2 million in grants to improve capacities in pathogen genomic surveillance.

Preliminary analysis of 98 genomic sequences of MPXV clade Ib cases from Burundi, July to September 2024 Introduction A large mpox clade Ib virus outbreak started in the province of South Kivu in th...

New Health Protection Research Units will help responses to future incidents including terrorism and pandemics

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With three virus variants on the move in different populations, “it keeps getting more complicated by the day”

LoCost overview The LoCost workflow provides laboratory and bioinformatics protocols for whole genome amplicon sequencing of SARS-CoV-2. It has been designed to be used with the Oxford Nanopore (ONT)...