Infectious Disease Genomic Epidemiology Course

Date: May 1-3, 2017
Location: Vancouver, BC 

With increasing adoption of Next Generation Sequencing technologies to infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations, genomic epidemiology (combining pathogen genomics data with epidemiological investigations to track the spread of infectious diseases) is poised to change the practices of public health and infection controls and provides unprecedented amount of data for pathogen evolution studies.

This 3-day CBW course provides an introduction to genomic epidemiology analysis followed by hands-on practical tutorials demonstrating the use selected analysis tools. The tutorials are designed as self-contained units that include example data and detailed instructions for installation of all required bioinformatics tools or access to publicly available web applications.

Participants will gain practical experience and skills to be able to: Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop Series: 

• Analyze NGS data for pathogen surveillance and outbreak investigations;
• Analyze antimicrobial resistance genes;
• Detect emerging pathogens in metagenomics data;
• Perform phylogeographic analysis;
• Use visualization tools for genomic epidemiology analysis;

For more information and to register, please visit the event website here.