“We kept learners engaged in a virtual setting” – Our COG-Train educators tell us about their experience
COG-Train provides open-access learning in SARS-CoV-2 genomics and is facilitating an increase in global genome sequencing and analysis capacity, reducing sequencing inequality, and helping to enhance pathogen surveillance. With two...
Blog / Events / Women in COG
18 Jul 2022
“Never underestimate the importance of building strong relationships” – In conversation with Professor Emma Thomson
Professor Emma Thomson, OBE, is a Professor in Infectious Diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. We spoke to her during our June Women in COG event...
Bioinformatics for pathogen surveillance: Launching our third COG-Train online course
Launch of our third COG-Train online course "Making sense of genomic data: COVID-19 web-based bioinformatics". Explore the tools for web-based SARS-CoV-2 sequencing analyses and learn techniques to prepare data and...
News
27 Jun 2022
Metagenomics Funding Scheme – Awarded Projects
COG-UK recently launched a scheme to fund new research, with a particular focus on metagenomics. We are pleased to announce that four projects have been funded.
Maximising access to SARS-CoV-2 bioinformatics training: What are distributed classrooms?
COG-Train’s ambition is to provide high quality, open-access training across the world, on all aspects of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and bioinformatics. Key to this is having a model which supports a...
Blog
22 Jun 2022
Development and deployment of a genome analysis tool to track seasonal human coronaviruses
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that we have the ability to perform large-scale genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV2 virus. Harnessing this capability could allow us to track and learn more...
Diaries of SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Training: in Conversation with COG-Train Educators
The recently launched COG-Train programme is an open-access educational initiative focused on providing impactful learning opportunities around SARS-CoV-2 genomics to a global audience. We spoke to two educators who took...
News
13 Jun 2022
Early Career Funding Scheme – Awarded Projects
COG-UK has recently launched a new internal fund to support career development in the Consortium. This scheme aims to provide support to early career scientists with a particular focus on...
A shared vision of future pandemic preparedness: WHO’s 10-year strategy and the COG-Train Programme
WHO’s recently published global strategy for the genomic surveillance of pathogens offers a practical framework for future pandemic preparedness, which COG-Train is already starting to deliver on.
Answering public health questions with testing and sequencing strategies. Learn more with our second COG-Train course ‘From Swab to Server’
How do sequencing experts decide upon their testing and analysis strategy? Our second COG-Train online course “From Swab to Server: Testing, Sequencing, and Sharing During a Pandemic” will take you...
Blog / COG Train / Events / Videos / Women in COG
21 Apr 2022
“The coverage of our work re-ignited people’s interest in science” – in conversation with Dr Senjuti Saha
For our April Women in COG event, the team hosted a discussion with Dr Senjuti Saha, a molecular microbiologist who is currently Director at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF)...
Reflecting on the launch of our first COG-Train online course
Genome sequencing enabled the world to rapidly identify SARS-CoV-2, classify variants and develop diagnostic tests and other tools to help manage the outbreak, yet how genome sequencing and analysis works...
