News
27 Jul 2021
Alpha variant spread via ‘super-seeding’ event within UK: Oxford, Northeastern and Edinburgh Universities
Read the Oxford Martin School's press release on a recent study that analyses the transmissibility of the Alpha variant.
Blog
23 Jul 2021
How SARS-CoV-2 sequencing is becoming a national service
We depict our transition journey and celebrate the lasting legacy of COG-UK sequencing efforts.
Covid Connections – Variant or Villain
In the second event of the COVID connections series, organised by Wellcome Connecting Science and COG-UK, researchers discussed variants of SARS-CoV-2.
News
8 Jul 2021
Why COG-UK is joining the UK Health Data Research Alliance
The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium joined the UK Health Data Research Alliance earlier this month. Find out more about the Alliance and our collaboration with HDR UK in this...
Blog / Events / Videos / Women in COG
29 Jun 2021
In conversation with the “Queen of Virology”, Professor Judy Breuer
In the latest instalment of our Women in COG series, we caught up with Judy Breuer – Professor of Virology at University College London, and COG-UK Principal Investigator and Chief...
News
24 Jun 2021
Expanding the COG-UK research portfolio to increase impact from genome data
COG-UK is enhancing its research portfolio by awarding up to £40,000 to 12 of its consortium partners.
News: COG-UK and WCS receive funding for a global training programme in SARS-CoV-2 genomics
The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium and Wellcome Connecting Science (WCS) are delighted to have been jointly awarded a ‘Wellcome-FCDO Joint Initiative on Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response grant’...
Blog
11 Jun 2021
Meet the researcher: Greg Young
This week we meet Greg Young from Northumbria University, who has played a vital role in managing his lab’s logistics of COVID-19 sample transfer and analysis.
Genomics in a pandemic – Shedding light on the invisible
Read the Wellcome Sanger Institute's summary blog of the first Covid Connections event, with COG-UK and Wellcome Connecting Science.
Blog / Events / Videos / Women in COG
3 Jun 2021
“Girls like you can’t be doctors” — how Charlotte Summers battled stereotypes to thrive as a woman in science
In the first instalment of our Women in COG series, we caught up with Charlotte Summers – a Reader in Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Cambridge who practices...
News
2 Jun 2021
EMBL-EBI: Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in England
Read EMBL-EBI's summary of a recent preprint by COG-UK associates, involving the largest in-depth analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance data.
Blog
1 Jun 2021
SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape – an update
Learn more about a recent COG-UK review on variants and mutations and the latest improvements to the COG-UK Mutation Explorer tool.
