Thank you to all the speakers, chairs, attendees and organisers of the COG-UK Anniversary Science Showcase Event.
If you missed the live event, you can watch the full recording here.
Thursday 7th October 2021, 13:00 and 15:30 BST
13.00 – 13.05 | Opening remarks – Professor Sharon Peacock, Executive Director and Chair, COG-UK |
13.05 – 13.55 | Session 1: Hospital and Vaccine Studies: insights from SARS-CoV-2 sequencing – Chair: Dr Thushan de Silva, University of Sheffield |
13.05 – 13.20 | The COG-UK Hospital Onset Covid Infection (HOCI) study; harnessing pathogen sequencing for infection prevention and control – Professor Judith Breuer, University College London |
13.20 – 13.35 | Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to understand nosocomial spread and the effects of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine in a UK hospital – Kate Cook, University of Portsmouth |
13.35 – 13.55 | SARS-CoV-2 Genomics in Oxford Vaccine Trials – Dr Tanya Golubchik, University of Oxford; Contributions of Sequencing to the Interpretation of Vaccine Efficacy in the Novavax UK Phase 3 Trial – Dr Joy Rivers, Novavax |
13.55 – 14.25 | Session 2: Care Home and University Studies: the impact of viral genomics in different settings – Chair: Professor Emma Thomson, University of Glasgow |
13.55 – 14.10 | COVID-19 in care homes: the challenges and opportunities for genomic sequencing in the VIVALDI study – Dr Maria Krutikov, University College London |
14.10 – 14.25 | Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a UK university identifies dynamics of transmission – Dr Dinesh Aggawal, University of Cambridge |
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14.30 – 15.15 | Session 3: Public Health and National Infection Surveys: the role played by SARS-CoV-2 genomic data – Chair: Dr Theo Sanderson, Wellcome Sanger Institute/Francis Crick Institute |
14.30 – 14.45 | SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing in support of the ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey – Dr Katrina Lythgoe, University of Oxford |
14.45 – 15.00 | SARS-CoV-2 lineage dynamics as inferred from representative community samples – what we can learn from the REACT-1 study – Oliver Eales, Imperial College London |
15.00 – 15.15 | The role played by COG-UK data in the UKHSA genomics cell – Eileen Gallaghar, UK Health Security Agency |
15.15 – 15.20 | Thanks and close – Professor Sharon Peacock, Executive Director and Chair, COG-UK |