Find out more about the Department of Health and Social Care at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care

UKRI works in partnership with universities, research organisations, businesses, charities, and government to create the best possible environment for research and innovation to flourish. We aim to maximise the contribution of each of our component parts, working individually and collectively. We work with our many partners to benefit everyone through knowledge, talent and ideas. Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than £7 billion, UK Research and Innovation brings together the seven research councils, Innovate UK and Research England.

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Wellcome exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive. We support researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research. We are a politically and financially independent foundation.

https://wellcome.ac.uk/

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, is supplying supplying financial, technical, research and administrative support to the work of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)

https://www.sanger.ac.uk

Contributor:

• Mr Cherian Koshy, Chief Biomedical Scientist, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust [LinkedIN]

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Derek Fairley, (Regional Virus Laboratory)
• Dr Tanya Curran, (Regional Virus Laboratory)
• Dr James McKenna, (Regional Virus Laboratory)
• Molecular Typing team (Regional Virus Laboratory)

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) Regional Virus Laboratory team are working in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and BHSCT Regional Genetics Laboratory to sequence SARS-CoV-2 samples from patients in Northern Ireland as part of the COG-UK consortium.

http://www.belfasttrust.hscni.net/

Contributor:

• Dr Helen Adams

https://bcuhb.nhs.wales/

Contributors:

• Dr Christophe Fraser, Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr David Bonsall, Nuffield Department of Medicine [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Tanya Golubchik, Computational Biologist, Nuffield Department of Medicine [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Catrin Moore, Research Group Leader in the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance, Nuffield Department of Medicine [Profile] [Researchgate]

https://www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr M. Estée Török, Department of Medicine [LinkedIn]
• Dr William L. Hamilton, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Martin D. Curran, Public Health England; Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Joshua Maksimovic,
• Karla Spellman,
• Kathryn McCluggage, Genetic Technologist at the Institute of Medical Genetics [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Michaela John, Programme Manager, Genomics Partnership Wales
• Robert Beer,
• Safiah Afifi,
• Dr Sian Morgan, Head of Laboratory [LinkedIN]

http://www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Thomas Connor, Reader, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University and Consultant Bioinformatician/Pathogen Bioinformatics Lead, Public Health Wales NHS Trust [GoogleScholar] [ORCID]
• Dr Anna Price, Research Software Engineer (Supercomputing Wales and CLIMB-BIG-DATA) [ORCID]
• Joel Southgate,  Research Student, School of Biosciences
• Dr Angela Marchbank, Genome Hub Manager [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
• Dr Christine Kitchen, Assistant Director of Research Computing, University Research Technologies at Cardiff University [LinkedIn]
• Dr Ian Merrick, Senior Systems Engineer, School of Biosciences
• Professor Martyn Guest, Director of Advanced Research Computing and Technical Director at HPC Wales, [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Robert Munn, HEC System Engineer
• Trudy Workman, [ORCID]
• William Fuller, Laboratory Technician, School of Biosciences [Profile]
• Catherine Bresner, Senior Technician (Genome Hub) [ORCID] [Profile]
• Advanced Research Computing at Cardiff / Supercomputing Wales

The Cardiff team are supporting the project through the use of the MRC CLIMB node hosted at Cardiff, which will provide computational capacity for analysis and data storage for the consortium. The bioinformatics and sequencing staff in the School of Biosciences are also working as part of the PHW Pathogen Genomics effort to manage, sequence and analyse SARS-COV-2 samples collected in Wales.

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Veena Raviprakash, Consultant Microbiologist
• Sharon Campbell, Head Biomedical Scientist in microbiology at the University Hospital of North Durham
• Nicola Sherriff, Senior Biomedical Scientist

https://www.cddft.nhs.uk/

Contributor:

• Felicity Ryan, Senior Clinical Scientist [ORCID]
• Hannah Lowe
• Dr Samuel Moses, Consultant in Virology and Infection, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and University of Kent [LinkedIN]

https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/

Contributor:

• Dr Guy Cochrane, Team Leader, Data Coordination and Archiving and Head of the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
• Dr Zamin Iqbal, Research Group Leader

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/

Contributor:

• Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Chief Scientist

https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/

Genomics Partnership Wales (GPW) is the entity setup by Welsh Government to deliver the Welsh Genomics for Precision Medicine Strategy. GPW is the umbrella for pathogen and human genomics work in the NHS in Wales, and is supporting the Pathogen Genomics work being undertaken in Wales.

Contributor:

• Michaela John, Programme manager

https://genomicspartnership.wales/

Contributor:

• Dr John Boyes, Consultant Medical Microbiologist and Head of Microbiology Department at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Judith Breuer, Professor of Virology and Co-Director of the Division of Infection and Immunity at UCL and Consultant Clinical Virologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Kathryn Harris, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Julianne Brown, Clinical Scientist, Department of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Control [Researchgate]
• Dr Divya Shah,
• Laura Atkinson, Trainee Clinical Scientist (Microbiology) at Great Ormond Street Hospital [LinkedIN]
• Jack Lee, Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Virology and Infection Control [Researchgate]

https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic and cardiovascular services.

• Ms Chloe L Fisher, Sequencing and analysis, Genomics Innovation Unit, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Luke B Snell, Metadata curation, Centre for Clinical Infection & Diagnostics Research (St. Thomas’ Hospital); King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Mr Adrian W Signell, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London [ORCID]
• Dr Gilberto Betancor, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London [ORCID]
• Mr Harry D Wilson, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London [ORCID]
• Ms Adela Alcolea-Medina, Samples and logistics, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, Viapath [LinkedIN]
• Ms Themoula Charalampous, Samples and logistics, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [ORCID]
• Dr Gaia Nebbia, Sequencing and analysis, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Dr Rahul Batra, Project administration, Samples and logistics, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Dr Jonathan Edgeworth, Leadership and supervision – Funding acquisition, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Profile]
• Dr Ali R Awan, Leadership and supervision – Sequencing and analysis, Funding acquisition, Software and analysis tools Genomics Innovation Unit, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust [ORCID]

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk

Health Services Laboratories is a partnership between The Doctors Laboratory, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (the Royal Free London) and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH).

Contributors:

• Dr Lisa J Levett, Director of Genetics and Molecular Pathology [Profile]
• Dr Judith Heaney

https://www.hslpathology.com/

Contributors:

• Dr Paul Randell, Consultant Virologist, North West London Pathology [Researchgate]
• Dr Alison Cox, Lead Scientist in Cellular and Molecular Immunology [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Pinglawathee Madona, North West London Pathology

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Neil Ferguson, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health
• Dr Erik Volz, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Aileen Rowan, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Graham Taylor, Professor of Human Retrovirology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Manon Ragonnet-Cronin, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Fabricia F. Nascimento, Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• David Jorgensen, Research Postgraduate, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Igor Siveroni, Scientific Java Software Developer, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Rob Johnson,
• Olivia Boyd, Research Postgraduate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Lily Geidelberg, Research Postgraduate, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/

Contributor:

• Dr Sahar Eldirdiri, Consultant Microbiologist

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Rocio Martinez-Nunez, Lecturer in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences [Laboratory Page] [Profile]
• Dr Luke B Snell, Metadata curation, Centre for Clinical Infection & Diagnostics Research (St. Thomas’ Hospital); King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Mr Adrian W Signell, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London [ORCID]
• Dr Gilberto Betancor, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London [ORCID]
• Mr Harry D Wilson, Sequencing and analysis, Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London[ORCID]
• Ms Adela Alcolea-Medina, Samples and logistics, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, Viapath [LinkedIN]
• Ms Themoula Charalampous, Samples and logistics, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [ORCID]
• Dr Gaia Nebbia, Sequencing and analysis Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Dr Rahul Batra, Project administration, Samples and logistics, Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Researchgate]
• Dr Jonathan Edgeworth, Leadership and supervision – Funding acquisition,
  Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; King’s College London [Profile]

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/

Contributor:

• Dr Catherine Ludden, Operations Coordinator for the Covid-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium [Profile]

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/

Contributor:

• Dr Graciela Sluga, Deputy Director Infection Prevention and Control & Consultant Microbiologist

https://www.mtw.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Ryan George, Clinical Scientist/Infection Prevention & Control Senior Surveillance Officer [Researchgate]
• Dr Nicholas Machin, Consultant Virologist and Clinical Lead for Virology at Manchester University Foundation Trust and Public Health Laboratory Manchester [LinkedIN]
• Dr Shazaad Ahmad, Consultant Virologist based within the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership and Public Health England

https://mft.nhs.uk/

The mission of the MRC-Centre for Virus research is to carry out fundamental research on viruses and viral diseases, translating the knowledge gained for the improvement of health and the benefit of society.

Contributors:

• Professor Emma Thomson, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation [Profile] [ORCID] [ResearchGate]
• Professor David Robertson, Head of Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics, CVR Bioinformatics [ORCID]
• Dr Ana da Silva Filipe, Head of Genomics [ORCID]
• James Shepherd, CVR clinical fellow [ORCID]
• Dr Kathy Li, CVR clinical fellow [ORCID]
• Dr Natasha Jesudason, CVR clinical fellow [ORCID]
• Rajiv Shah, CVR clinical fellow [ORCID]
• Dr Kathy Smollett, CVR research associate – genomics [ORCID]
• Dr Stephen Carmichael, CVR research associate – genomics [ORCID] [ResearchGate]
• Dr Lilly Tong, CVR research associate – genomics
• Natasha Johnson, CVR technician – genomics [ORCID]
• Daniel Mair, CVR technician – genomics [ORCID]
• Jenna Nichols, CVR technician – genomics [ORCID]
• Dr Richard Orton, CVR bioinformatician, CVR Bioinformatics
• Dr Joseph Hughes, CVR bioinformatician, CVR Bioinformatics
• Dr Sreenu Vattipally, CVR bioinformatician, CVR Bioinformatics
• Dr Josh Singer, CVR software engineer, CVR Bioinformatics
• Dr Elihu Aranday-Cortes,  CVR Research Associate [ORCID]
• Dr Kyriaki Nomikou, CVR Senior Research Fellow [ORCID]
• Dr Yasmin A Parr, CVR Research Assistant [ORCID]
• Dr Kirstyn Brunker, Research Associate, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine [ORCID]
• Ms Alice Broos, CVR Research Technician [ORCID]
• Dr Patawee Asmaphan, [ORCID] [ResearchGate]
• Dr Marc Niebel, [LinkedIn] [ORCID] [ResearchGate]

https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/cvr/

Contributors:

• Dr Yusri Taha Consultant Virologist (Clinical Lead) [Profile]
• Dr Shirelle Burton-Fanning, Consultant Virologist [Profile]
• Dr Sheila Waugh, Consultant Virologist [Profile]
• Dr Brendan Payne, Consultant Virologist [Profile]
• Jennifer Collins, Microbiology Laboratory [Profile]
• Gary Eltringham, Microbiology Laboratory [Profile]

https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Nathan Moore, Department of Microbiology [Researchgate]
• Dr Emma Wise, Research fellow in virology [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
• Dr Nick Cortes, Consultant at Basingstoke Hospital and at University of Surrey [Researchgate]
• Dr Jessica Lynch, Basingstoke Hospital and at University of Surrey [LinkedIN]
• Dr Stephen Kidd, Basingstoke Hospital and at University of Surrey [LinkedIN]

https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Kate Templeton, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
• Martin McHugh, Clinical Scientist, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh [ORCID]
• Dr Rebecca Dewar, Clinical Scientist, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh

https://www.nhslothian.scot/

Contributors:

• Professor Alison Holmes, Director of NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London [Profile at Imperial College London] [Profile at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust]
• Dr Frances Bolt, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr James Price, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Siddharth Mookerjee, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London [Researchgate]

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/hpru-amr/

Contributor:

• Dr Samir Dervisevic, Consultant Medical Virologist [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Dr Rachael Stanley, Norwich Park Biorepository Manager [LinkedIN]
• Reenesh Prakash, Microbiology Network Manager
• Claire Stuart,
• Dr Ngozi Elumogo, Consultant Microbiologist & Clinical Director of Laboratory Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Dr Dheeraj Sethi, [Researchgate]
• Dr Emma Meader, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Lindsay Coupland, Principal Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN]
• Will Potter,

http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Clive Graham, Consultant Microbiologist (Clinical Lead)
• Dr Edward Barton, Consultant Microbiologist
• Debra Padgett, Laboratory Manager
• Garren Scott, NHS Scientist

https://www.ncic.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Jane Greenaway, Associate Director of Durham Tees Valley Research Alliance
• Emma Swindells, Senior Biomedical Scientist

https://www.nth.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Tim Sloan, Clinical Associate Professor in Microbiology at University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant Microbiologist [LinkedIN]
• Dr Nichola Duckworth, Specialist Biomedical Scientist, Microbiology, Virology
• Dr Sarah Walsh,

https://www.nlg.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Monique Andersson, Clinical Infection Consultant [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Robert Shaw
• Professor Timothy Peto [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Miss Anita Justice [Researchgate]
• Dr David Eyre, Big Data Institute [Profile]
• Dr Derrick Crooke, Professor of Microbiology [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Sarah Hoosdally, Project Manager [Profile] [Researchgate]

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Anoop Chauhan, Respiratory Physician [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Sharon Glaysher, Specialist Biomedical Scientist and Translational Research Laboratory Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Ethan Butcher,

https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/

Contributor:

• Nick Levene, NHS Quality and Governance manager

https://www.pah.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Tim Wyatt, Consultant Microbiologist
• Dr Declan Bradley, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Clinical Lecturer in Public Health [ORCID] [Profile]

https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/

Public Health England aims to address urgent threats to health in the 21st century. The organisation has been central to the national response to COVID-19, and has led this proposal to develop a national capability to sequence the causative virus and use this to inform public health interventions.

The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium will be led by Sharon Peacock as a collaborative initiative to capture information on the virus and from patients so as to reduce the impact from the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK.

Contributors:

• Professor Sharon Peacock, Director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium and Director of the National Infection Service, Public Health England
• Richard Myers, Interim Head of Bioinformatics, PHE Core Bioinformatics Unit
• Professor Saheer Gharbia, Genomics Research Unit
• Dr Tamyo Mbisa, Head of the Antiviral Unit and Clinical Scientist at the Virus Reference Department at Public Health England
• Dr Angie Lackenby, Sequencing Lead, Clinical Scientist, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
• Dr Shahjahan Miah, Technical Lead for Sequencing, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
• Dr Steven Platt, Bioinformatician, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
• Dr Jonathan Hubb, Head of Central Sequencing Laboratory, National Infection Service
• Dr Meera Chand, consultant microbiologist
• Dr Gavin Dabrera, Consultant Epidemiologist
• Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisations
• Dr Daniel Bradshaw, Consultant Virologist
• Dr Peter Muir, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Ian B Vipond, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Mr Richard Hopes, Virology Laboratory Manager Bristol Public Health England [LinkedIN]
• Hannah Pymont, Trainee Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Ms Stephanie Hutchings, Trainee Clinical Scientist in Infection Sciences [LinkedIN]

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england

Contributors:

• Dr Martin D Curran, Public Health England Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Cambridge, UK [LinkedIn]
• Dr Surendra Parmar, Public Health England Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory, Cambridge, UK [LinkedIn]

https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/addenbrookes-hospital/services/clinical-microbiology-and-public-health-laboratory

Contributors:

• Professor Matthew Holden, Public Health Scotland and University of St Andrews
• Dr Sharif Shaaban, Bioinformatician, Public Health Microbiology Team, Public Health Scotland
• Dr Alison Smith-Palmer, Senior Epidemiologist, Public Health Scotland
• Dr Michael Lockhart, Consultant Medical Microbiologist and Clinical Lead for the Public Health Microbiology team, Public Health Scotland

https://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/

Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW) is the national public health authority for Wales. PHW works to protect and improve health and well-being and reduce health inequalities for the people of Wales. PHW is leading the national response to COVID-19 in Wales. PHW operates diagnostic laboratories across Wales and has been providing SARS-COV-2 testing in Wales. In addition, PHW epidemiology teams have been providing support across Wales to track cases and support management of the outbreak. Sequencing of Welsh samples is being undertaken by the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU). PenGU was formally launched in 2018, and provides an accredited sequencing environment for a range of clinical pathogen genomics services for the whole of Wales.

Contributors:

• Dr Sally Corden, Pathogen Genomics Unit lead
• Dr Thomas Connor, Reader, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University and Consultant Bioinformatician/Pathogen Bioinformatics Lead, Public Health Wales NHS Trust [GoogleScholar] [ORCID]
• Dr Catherine Moore, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Wales Specialist Virology Centre
• Dr Simon Cottrell, Principle Epidemiologist, Communicable and Vaccine Preventable Diseases
• Joanne Watkins, Laboratory Senior, Pathogen Genomics Unit
• Dr Matthew Bull, Senior Bioinformatician, PHW Pathogen Bioinformatics [Google Scholar]
• Dr Sara Rey, Bioinformatician, PHW Pathogen Bioinformatics
• Alexander Adams,
• Amy Gaskin, Bioinformatician & Genomic Epidemiologist in the Pathogen Genomics Unit at Public Health Wales[LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Bree Gatica-Wilcox, Specialist Biomedical Scientist, Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU), Public Health Wales
• Dr Chris Williams, Consultant Epidemiologist [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
• Elen De Lacy, Public Health Research and Development Manager at Public Health Wales [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Ember Hilvers, Epidemiological Scientist at Public Health Wales & Aneurin Bevan University Health Board [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Dr Hibo Asad, Hospital Epidemiologist [LinkedIn] [Researchgate]
• Dr Jason Coombs, Healthcare Scientist at the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PENGU) [LinkedIn]
• Joanne Watkins, Senior Biomedical Scientist at NHS Wales [LinkedIn] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Joel Southgate, Biomedical Scientist (Bioinformatics) [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
• Jonathan Evans, Lead Biomedical Scientist, Wales Specialist Virology Centre
• Laura Gifford, Department of Virology [Researchgate]
• Lauren Gilbert, Higher healthcare support worker [LinkedIn]
• Lee Graham, Healthcare Scientist at the Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU) [ORCHID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mari Morgan, [Researchgate]
• Dr Nicole Pacchiarini, Bioinformatician at Pathogen Genomics Unit (PenGU) [LinkedIN] [ORCID]
• Dr Summer Kumziene-Summerhayes,
• Sophie Jones, [Researchgate]
• Alec Birchley, Biomedical Scientist at Public Health Wales, Pathogen Genomics Unit [LinkedIN]
• Dr Caoimhe McKerr, Epidemiologist [LinkedIN]
• Fatima Downing, Project Manager [LinkedIN]
• Malorie Perry [LinkedIN]
• Dr Noel Craine, Research Scientist
• Sarah Taylor, Healthcare Scientist, Pathogen Genomics [LinkedIN]
• Sue Edwards
• PHW Pathogen Genomics laboratory and Bioinformatics teams

The Pathogen Genomics team in Public Health Wales will be contributing to COG-UK by sequencing and analysing Welsh SARS-COV-2 cases. Data that is being generated is being fed back in real time to clinical colleagues across the NHS in Wales as well as feeding into outbreak management and planning within the Welsh NHS and Welsh Government. In addition to sequencing samples, the team are providing bioinformatics support to build production-ready pipelines for processing samples, supporting the development of systems on CLIMB for consortium use and leading efforts to enable metadata sharing across the UK.

https://phw.nhs.wales/

Contributors:

• Dr Justin O’Grady, Group Leader, Rapid infectious disease and foodborne pathogen diagnosis/detection [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Andrew Page, Head of Informatics [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Professor John Wain, Research Leader [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mark Webber, Group Leader  [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Alison Mather, Group Leader  [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• David Baker, Science Support [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Steven Rudder, Researcher [LinkedIn] [Profile]
• Dr Muhammad Yasir, Researcher [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Nicholas Thomson, Researcher [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Alp Aydin [ORCID]
• Dr Ana Tedim [ORCID] [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Gemma Kay, Senior Research  [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Alexander Trotter, Postgraduate Student [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Rachel Gilroy
• Dr Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Bioinformatician [ORCID] [Profile]
• Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Senior Researcher [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Thanh Le-Viet, Bioinformatician [ORCID] [Profile]
• Lizzie Meadows, Biorespository Manager [LinkedIN]
• Dr Anastasia Kolyva, Researcher [Profile]
• Dr Maria Diaz, Researcher [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Andrew Bell, [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Ana Victoria Gutierrez, Scientific Researcher [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Ian Charles [Researchgate]
• Dr Evelien Adriaenssens, Group Leader [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Professor Robert Kingsley, Group Leader [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]

https://quadram.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr David Simpson, Senior Lecturer/Genomics Core Technology Unit
• Dr Declan Bradley, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Clinical Lecturer in Public Health [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Zoltan Molnar
• Dr Thomas Thompson, Postgraduate Research Student, School of Pharmacy [Profile]
• Dr Erwan Atcheson, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences [Profile]

https://www.qub.ac.uk

Exeter Clinical Laboratory International is an NHS laboratory located at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in collaboration with the University of Exeter.

Contributors:

• Dr Bridget Knight, Senior Research Midwife/Nurse, Medical School [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Andrew Hattersley, Gillings Chair of Precision Medicine, Professor of Molecular Medicine & Consultant Physician, Medical School [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Sian Ellard, Gillings Chair of Precision Medicine, Professor of Genomic Medicine, Medical School [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Cressida Auckland, Consultant in Clinical Microbiology & Infection / Pathology Clinical Lead [Researchgate]

https://www.rdehospital.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Tabitha Mahungu, Consultant virologist and Infectious Disease physician [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Dianne Irish-Tavares, Consultant virologist [Profile]
• Dr Tanzina Haque, Clinical lead consultant virologist and honorary senior lecturer [Profile]

https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Cariad Evans, Consultant Virologist, [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mohammad Raza, Consultant Virologist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Alison Cope, Consultant Virologist
• Dr Alexander Keeley, Academic Clinical Fellow, Department of Infection and Immunity [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Benjamin Lindsey, Academic Clinical Fellow [ORCID]
• Dr David Partridge, Consultant Microbiologist [ORCID]

https://www.sth.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Paul Baker, Consultant and Clinical Lead [ORCID] James Cook University Hospital Pathology Laboratories and Research,
• Steven Liggett, Facilitator, Pathology Research and Development
• Sarah Essex, Clinical Trial Practitioner

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/

Contributor:

• Professor Ronan Lyons, Professor of Public Health at Swansea University and Honorary Consultant in Public Health with Public Health Wales NHS Trust [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor David Aanensen, Director of the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance
• Dr Khalil Abudahab, Principal Software Developer
• Mirko Menegazzo, EpiCollect Lead
• Ben Taylor, Principal Software Developer
• Dr Anthony Underwood, Bioinformatics Implementation Manager
• Dr Corin Yeats, Computational Biologist

https://www.pathogensurveillance.net/

Contributors:

• Dr Anthony Hale, National Infection Service, Public Health England, and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust [Researchgate]
• Dr Louissa MacFarlane-Smith, National Infection Service, Public Health England, and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust [Researchgate]
• Katherine Harper, National Infection Service, Public Health England, and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/

The UK Biocentre is hosting and managing the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Lab set up to provide diagnostic services for COVID-19 testing.

UK Biocentre is a subsidiary of UK Biobank and was established to share expertise of high-throughput sample handling with other academic partners. UK Biobank is a national health resource following the lives of 500,000 participants and providing key data for a wide range of health studies, including those into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contributor:

• Dr Tony Cox, Chief Executive

https://www.ukbiocentre.com/

The Alderley Park, Cheshire Lighthouse Lab is supplying diagnostic services to the UK’s COVID-19 testing. The Lab is located in new dedicated labs at Bruntwood SciTech’s Alderley Park and is led by Medicines Discovery Catapult.

https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/

The Cambridge Lighthouse Lab has been set up to supply diagnostic services to the UK’s COVID-19 testing. AstraZeneca, GSK, and the University of Cambridge have formed a joint collaboration to setup the Cambridge Lighthouse Lab at the University’s Anne McLaren laboratory.

https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/

The Glasgow Lighthouse Lab is supplying diagnostic services for the UK’s COVID-19 testing service. The Lighthouse Lab is led by the University of Glasgow and is located at the city’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Campus. The Glasgow facility is supported by the Scottish Government, BioAscent and the University of Dundee.

https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/

The Milton Keynes Lighthouse Lab, set up to provide diagnostic services for COVID-19 testing is based at and managed by UK Biocentre – the largest facility in the UK for storing and processing biological samples.

https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/

The UK Lighthouse Labs have been established across the nation in a matter of weeks to dramatically increase the number of coronavirus tests that can take place each day to support the national effort against the coronavirus pandemic.

The new Lighthouse Labs have been constructed through a partnership with the Department of Health, Medicines Discovery Catapult, UK Biocentre and the University of Glasgow. Their development is being closely supported by both the NHS and Public Health England.

COVID-19 swab samples are sent to the laboratories from across the country for analysis. Samples are received from the NHS on the front line and other testing sites, such as the temporary COVID-19 drive-through testing centres.

Lighthouse Labs are based at:

• Alderley Edge, Cheshire
• Cambridge
• Glagow
• Milton Keynes

https://www.lighthouselabs.org.uk/

Contributors:

Leading the sequencing initiative at UCL are:

• Professor Judith Breuer, Professor of Virology and Co-Director of the Division of Infection and Immunity at UCL and Consultant Clinical Virologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Sergi Castellano Hereza, Reader in Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Rachel Williams, NGS Facility Manager and Project Manager, Pathogen Genomics Unit
• Dr Mark Kristiansen, UCL Genomics Facility Manager, UCL Genomics
• Dr Sunando Roy,  Research Associate in Bioinformatics [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Paola Resende Silva, Visting Worker and Researcher in Public Heath at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute [Researchgate]
• Charlotte Williams, Research Assistant at the Pathogen Genomics Unit [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Patricia Dyal Bynoe, Research Technician in the Pathogen Genomics Unit
• Dr Helena Tutill, Senior Research Technician [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Yasmin Panchbhaya, Research Assistant
• Leysa Forrest, Applications Specialist, UCL Genomics
• Dr Paola Niola, Application Specialist, UCL Genomics
• Dr Jacqueline Findlay, Research Fellow, Division of Infection and Immunity [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Tony Brooks, Applications Specialist, UCL Genomics [Researchgate]
• Dr Artemis Gavriil, Research Fellow [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Lamia Mestek-Boukhibar, Research Geneticist at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health UCL [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Sam Weeks, PhD Student [LinkedIN]

The team have been working in joint partnership with Virology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Dr David Muir and Dr Paul Rendell to deliver the pipeline of sequencing data.

UCL and Imperial are also leading the COG-UK Hospital-Onset COVID-19 Infections (HOCI) Study; A phase III prospective, interventional, cohort, superiority study to evaluate the benefit of rapid COVID-19 genomic sequencing (the COVID-19 GENOMICS UK project) on infection control in preventing the spread of the virus in United Kingdom NHS hospitals. COG-UK collaborators include Glasgow, Sheffield and Guys and St Thomas’ Trust

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Husam Osman, Consultant Virologist at Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham and Public Health England [LinkedIN]
• Dr Anna Casey, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Andrew Bosworth, Clinical Virologist at Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham and Public Health England [LinkedIN]
• Dr Esther Robinson, at Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham and Public Health England [GoogleScholar]
• Dr Venkat Sivaprakasan, at Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/home.htm

The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) Blood Sciences Genomics Laboratory,  are working in partnership with University of Warwick to sequence SARS-CoV-2 samples from patients in Coventry and Warwickshire as part of the COG-UK consortium.

Contributors:

• Professor Dimitris Grammatopoulos; Professor Consultant in Molecular Medicine, Warwick Medical School and Institute of Precision Diagnostics, Pathology, UHCW NHS Trust [ORCID]
• Sarojini Pandey; Senior Biomedical Scientist Blood Sciences Genomics Laboratory, UHCW Pathology [ORCID]
• Dr Lisa Berry, Principal Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN]
• Katie Jones,

https://www.uhcw.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Christopher Holmes, Clinical Scientist, Clinical Microbiology [LinkedIN]
• Paul Bird, Clinical Microbiology [Researchgate]
• Karlie Fallon, Technician, Clinical Microbiology [Researchgate]
• Thomas Helmer, Clinical Microbiology
• Dr Julian Tang, Consultant Virologist, Clinical Microbiology [GoogleScholar] [Researchgate]

https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Nick Loman, Institute of Microbiology and Infection [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Josh Quick, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Institute of Microbiology and Infection [Google Scholar] [Profile]
• Dr Claire McMurray, Research Fellow (Molecular Biology) [Researchgate]
• Dr Sam Nicholls, Research Fellow (Bioinformatics)  [Profile]
• Radoslaw Poplawski, CLIMB System Manager
• Dr Will Rowe, Research Fellow (Bioinformatics) [Web page]
• Dr Jo Stockton, Research Fellow (Sequencing) [LinkedIN]
• Professor Alex Richter, Senior lecturer and Consultant in Clinical Immunology, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy [Profile]
• Professor Andrew Beggs, Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences [Profile]

The team will be drawing on ARTIC and CLIMB. The CLIMB project, which recently secured funding for a further five years with the CLIMB-BIG-DATA project, will provide the data analysis pipelines, computing and storage capacity required.

The ARTIC project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award, is a collaborative project to put genomics at the heart of outbreak response

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/index.aspx

Contributors:

• Professor Colin Smith, Professor of Functional Genomics [Profile]
• Dr Giselda Bucca, Experimental Officer, Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences [Profile]
• Dr Andrew Hesketh, Experimental Officer in Bioinformatics [Profile]

https://www.brighton.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Julian Parkhill, Department of Veterinary Medicine [Profile]
• Professor Gordon Dougan, Department of Medicine [Profile]
• Professor Ian Goodfellow, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [Profile]
• Dr Luke W Meredith, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [Profile]
• Dr M. Estée Török, Department of Medicine [LinkedIn] [Profile]
• Dr Myra Hosmillo, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr William L. Hamilton, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [Profile]
• Dr Martin D. Curran, Public Health England; Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [LinkedIN]
• Theresa Feltwell, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN]
• Grant Hall, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology
• Anna Yakovleva, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [Researchgate]
• Fahad A Khokhar, Department of Medicine [Profile]
• Dr Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Department of Medicine [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Laura G Caller, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology; Francis Crick Institute [Researchgate]
• Dr Anna A Smielewska, Department of Pathology [Researchgate]
• Dr Aminu S. Jahun, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [Profile]
• Dr Sarah L. Caddy, Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease [Profile]
• Carol Churcher, Project Manager, Department of Medicine [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Michael Chapman, Director of Health Informatics at Health Data Research UK, Cambridge Health Data Research UK Cambridge Hub (including Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge) [Profile]
• Dr Elias Allara, Research Associate, Department of Public Health and Primary Care [Profile]
• Clare Pearson, Public Health England and University of Cambridge [LinkedIN] [ORCID]
• Grant Hall, MPhil Student, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [ORCID]
• Dr Aminu Jahun, Research Associate, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [LinkedIN]
• Yasmin Chaudhry, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [ORCID]
• Malte Pinckert, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [ORCID]
• Dr Iliana Georgana, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology [ORCID]
• Anna Yakovleva, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology  [Researchgate]
• Katherine Bellis, Research Assistant [ORCID] [Profile]
• Sophia Girgis, Research Assistant [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Plamena Naydenova, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Beth Blane, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Sally Forrest, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Claire Cormie, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Joana Dias, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [Profile]
• Ellen Higginson, Research Associate, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Mailis Maes, Research Assistant, Department of Medicine [GoogleScholar] [Profile]
• Jamie Young,
• Leanne Kermack, Department of Medicine [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Nicola Reynolds, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]

https://www.cam.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Luke Griffith, PhD Student, [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Tracey Swingler, Senior Research Associate [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Rose Davidson, [Profile] [Researchgate]

https://www.uea.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Andrew Rambaut, Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences
• Dr Kate Templeton, Consultant Clinical Scientist, RIE and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology
• Dr Thomas Williams, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
• Dr Carlos Balcazar [LinkedIn]
• Dr Kathleen Williamson, Research Fellow, Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, MRC Human Genetics Unit [ORCID]

https://www.ed.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Stephen Michell, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences [Profile]
• Dr Ben Temperton, Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics, College of Life and Environmental Sciences [GitHub] [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Aaron Jeffries, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter Medical School
• Professor David Studholme, Associate Professor in Bioinformatics, College of Life and Environmental Sciences
• Dr Jane Masoli, Academic Geriatrician, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust and University of Exeter Medical School
• Claire Bewshea, Exeter IBD and Pharmacogenetic Research Manager [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Michelle Michelson,
• Joanna Warwick-Dugdale, PhD Student, [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Robyn Manley, Postdoctoral Researcher, [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Audrey Farbos, Laboratory Technician, Exeter Sequencing Service, [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Bridget Knight, Senior Research Midwife/Nurse, Medical School [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Andrew Hattersley, Gillings Chair of Precision Medicine, Professor of Molecular Medicine & Consultant Physician, Medical School [GoogleScholar] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Sian Ellard, Gillings Chair of Precision Medicine, Professor of Genomic Medicine, Medical School [ORCID] [Profile]

The team is working closely with the Clinical Diagnostics teams at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust and in the surrounding area.

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Julian Hiscox, Chair in Infection and Global Health, Institute of Infection and Global Health [Profile]
• Professor Alistair Darby, Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the Centre for Genomic Research, Institute of Integrative Biology [Profile]
• Professor Steve Paterson, Professor of Genetics, Institute of Integrative Biology [ORCID] [Profile]
• Professor Miren Iturriza-Gomara, Professor of Virology, Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Kathryn Jackson, Centre Manager, Centre for Genomic Research [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Anita Lucaci,  Research Associate, Functional and Comparative Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Edith Vamos, [Researchgate]
• Dr Margaret Hughes, Senior Research Assistant, Functional and Comparative Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Lucille Rainbow, Research Associate, Functional and Comparative Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Mr Richard Eccles, Research Associate, Functional and Comparative Genomics [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Charlotte Nelson, Functional and Comparative Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mark Whitehead, Researcher in Functional and Comparative Genomics at University of Liverpool [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Lance Turtle, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology [Profile] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Sam Haldenby, Head of Informatics [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Richard Gregory, Senior Research Associate, Functional and Comparative Genomics [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Matthew Gemmell, Research Associate, Functional and Comparative Genomics [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [Profile]

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Darren Smith, Associate Professor in Bacteriophage Biology, Department of Applied Biology, Cellular and Molecular Sciences/Microbiology Group, University of Northumbria
• Dr Andrew Nelson, NU-OMICS laboratory manager and Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University.
• Dr Matthew Bashton, Lead Bioinformatician, Vice Chancellors Fellow- HBBE, Northumbria University.
• Dr Greg Young, HBBE, Northumbria University.
• Members of the research team:  Dr Wen Chyin Yew, Dr Josh Loh, Dr John Allan, Dr Giles Holt, Dr Mohammad A. Tariq (Quadram Institute), Prof. Gary Black, Dr Lynn Dover

Dr Smith is the academic lead for the DNA sequencing research facility at Northumbria University, NU-OMICS that is linked to both academic and industrially linked DNA sequencing projects

The team is working in partnership with:

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Consultant Virologists Yusri Taha (Clinical Lead), Shirelle Burton-Fanning, Sheila Waugh, Brendan Payne and Microbiology laboratories,  Jennifer Collins and Gary Eltringham.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Consultant and Clinical Lead, Paul Baker, James Cook University Hospital Pathology Laboratories and Research, Steven Liggett and Sarah Essex.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: Consultant Microbiologists Clive Graham (Clinical Lead) and Edward Barton, Laboratory Manager Debra Padgett and Garren Scott

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust: Associate Director of Durham Tees Valley Research Alliance Jane Greenaway and Senior Biomedical Scientist Emma Swindells.

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Matt Loose, Academic Lead for DeepSeq, Developmental and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Professor Jonathan Ball, Professor of Molecular Virology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences [Profile]

The team is working closely with the Clinical Pathology team at Nottingham University Hospitals.

The University of Nottingham next generation sequencing platform, DeepSeq, is providing sequencing expertise and the Virology groups are helping support access to samples.

Deep Seq

Deep Seq is the University of Nottingham Next Generation Sequencing Facility in the Life Sciences, Queens Medical Centre. Deep Seq is able to help with projects from both within and outside the University.

Deep Seq Team:

• Dr Nadine Holmes, Technical Specialist [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Christopher Moore, Technologist in Specialist Genomics [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mr Matt Carlile, Genomics Technician [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Dr Fei Sang, Research Bioinformatician [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Victoria Wright, Senior Experimental Officer [LinkedIN] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Johnny Debebe,

Clinical Microbiology

• Dr Gemma Clark, Consultant Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Wendy Smith, Clinical Trials Coordinator and Research Administrator [LinkedIN]
• Manjinder Khakh,
• Dr Vicki Fleming, HSST Clinical Scientist in Medical Microbiology [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Michelle Lister, Healthcare Scientist [Academia] [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Hannah Howson-Wells,

Virology

• Dr Patrick McClure, Experimental Officer [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate] [Scopus]
• Dr Joseph Chappell, PhD Student [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Theocharis Tsoleridis, Research Fellow [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate] [Scopus]

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Oliver Pybus, Department of Zoology
• Professor David Aanensen, Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, cohosted at the Big Data Institute
• Dr David Bonsall, Nuffield Department of Medicine
• Dr Mariateresa de Cesare, Wellcome Centre Human Genetics
• Professor Julian Knight, Wellcome Centre Human Genetics
• Professor John Todd, Wellcome Centre Human Genetics
• Dr Tanya Golubchik, Big Data Institute
• Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, Big Data Institute

http://www.ox.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Samuel Robson, Senior Research Fellow and Bioinformatics Lead at the University of Portsmouth and the Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI) [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Yann Bourgeois, Lecturer in School of Biological Sciences [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Angela Beckett, Specialist Research Technician, Centre for Enzyme Innovation
• Dr Garry Scarlett, Associate Head (Innovation and Impact) [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Katie Loveson, Postdoctoral Research [GoogleScholar] [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]

The University of Portsmouth Team are currently working in partnership with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust:

• Professor Anoop Chauhan, Respiratory Physician, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Dr Sharon Glaysher, Specialist Biomedical Scientist and Translational Research Laboratory Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Scott Elliott, Specialist Biomedical Scientist and and Translational Research Laboratory Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Ethan Butcher, Research Associate Practitioner, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Kelly Bicknell, Clinical Scientist (Virology), Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Dr Sarah Wyllie, Consultant Microbiologist and infection control lead, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Allyson Lloyd, Microbiology Laboratory Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

https://www.port.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Thushan de Silva, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, University of Sheffield Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Matthew Parker, Sheffield Bioinformatics Core at the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre [ORCID] [Profile]

Members of the research team:

• Dr Adrienn Angyal, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease [LinkedIn] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Rebecca Brown, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease
• Matthew Wyles, Senior Core Facility Technician in the Microarray and Next Generation Sequencing Facility, Department of Neuroscience [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Luke Green, Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Rachel Tucker, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, [Researchgate]
• Dr Paul Parsons, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Danielle Groves, Research Assistant [LinkedIN]
• Laura Carrilero,
• Dr Kate Johnson, 
• Dr Nikki Smith, [Researchgate] [Profile]
• Dr Dennis Wang,  [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate] [Profile]
• Timothy Freeman, [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• and others: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/medicine/research/research-themes/infection/covid-19

The team is working in partnership with:

• Dr Cariad Evans, Consultant Virologist, [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Mohammad Raza, Consultant Virologist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Alison Cope, Consultant Virologist
• Dr Alexander Keeley, Academic Clinical Fellow, Department of Infection and Immunity [ORCID] [Profile] [Researchgate]
• Dr Benjamin Lindsey, Academic Clinical Fellow [ORCID]
• Dr David Partridge, Consultant Microbiologist [ORCID]
• at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s regional NHS virology laboratory based at the Northern General Hospital

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Emma Wise, Research Fellow in Virology, School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences [LinkedIn] [ORCID]
• Dr Nick Cortes, Consultant at Basingstoke Hospital and at University of Surrey [Researchgate]
• Dr Jessica Lynch, Basingstoke Hospital and at University of Surrey [LinkedIN]

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/

The University of Warwick is working in partnership with The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW) Blood Sciences Genomics Laboratory to sequence SARS-CoV-2 samples from patients in Coventry and Warwickshire  as part of the COG-UK consortium.

Contributors:

• Sascha Ott, Associate Professor (Reader) Director, Bioinformatics Research Technology Platform, Dept of Statistics [Profile]
  
• Dr Meera Unnikrishnan, Associate Professor in Molecular Bacteriology, Warwick Medical School [Group Page] [Profile]
• Dr Chrystala Constantinidou, Associate Professor in Microbiology, Warwick Medical School [Group Page] [Profile]
• Dimitris Grammatopoulos, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Warwick Medical School [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr Tauqeer Alam, Bioinformatics Group Leader [Profile]

The following researchers are contributing to the day-to day running of the project:

Sequencing

• Jeff Cheng– PhD Student [LinkedIN]
• Lucy Frost -PhD student [Profile]
• Grace Taylor-Joyce -PhD student [LinkedIN]
• Hannah Bridgewater – Postdoc [LinkedIN]

Bioinformatics RTP

• Richard Stark, Bioinformatician [LinkedIN] [ORCID]
• Dr Laura Baxter, Research Fellow in Bioinformatics [LinkedIN] [GoogleScholar]
• Dr Paul Brown,  [Profile]

https://warwick.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Dr Mariateresa de Cesare, Postdoctoral Research Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Professor Julian Knight, Professor of Genomic Medicine [GoogleScholar] [Profile]
• Professor John Todd, Professor of Precision Medicine [ORCID] [Profile]
• Dr David Buck, Head of High Throughput Genomics [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Dr Angie Green, Senior Research Assistant [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• Amy Trebes, Senior Process Improvement Officer [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
• George MacIntyre-Cockett, Research Assistant [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]

https://www.well.ox.ac.uk/

Contributors:

The Wellcome Sanger Institute has a large team working to support the COG-UK network led by Dr Cordelia Langford, Ian Johnston, Dr Alex Alderton, Dr Jeffrey Barrett, Dr Matt Berriman, Dr Mara Lawniczak, Professor David Aanensen, John Sillitoe and Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski.

Dr Ewan Harrison serves as Project Manager responsible for overall coordination of the COG-UK network.

The full of contributors can be seen here: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/covid-team

Including:

• David Jackson, Senior Scientific Manager [Profile]
• Luke Foulser, Research Assistant [Profile]
• Katherine Bellis, Research Assistant [ORCID] [Profile]
• Sally Kay, [Researchgate]
• Matthew Dorman, PhD Student [Profile]
• Dr Mathew Beale, Postdoctoral Fellow [GoogleScholar] [ORCID] [Profile]
• Gaurang Patel,
• Maria Garcia-Casado, Advanced Research Assistant [LinkedIN] [Profile]
• Thomas Dibling, Research Assistant [Profile]
• Dr Samantha McGuigan, Health and Safety Advisor [Profile]
• Dr Hazel Rogers, Senior Research Assistant [Profile]
• Dr Adam Hunter, Senior Research Assistant [Profile]
• Emily Souster,
• Alexandra Neaverson, Research Assistant [Profile]

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/

Contributors:

• Professor Rory Gunson, Consultant Clinical Scientist
• Dr Alasdair MacLean, Clinical Scientist
• Dr Igor Starinskij, Infectious Disease and Virology Specialty Trainee [LinkedIn] [ORCID]

Working with the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

https://www.nhsggc.org.uk/about-us/professional-support-sites/laboratory-medicine/laboratory-disciplines/microbiology-and-virology/west-of-scotland-specialist-virology-centre/

Contributors:

• Dr Fenella Halstead, Clinical Scientist [ORCID] [Researchgate]
• Dr Venkat Sivaprakasam, Consultant Microbiologist [Researchgate]
• Wendy Hogsden, Microbiology Department

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/