COG-UK News and Events

The latest news, blogs, events and videos across the COG-UK consortium

Blog / Events / Videos

23 Aug 2021

Covid Connections: From Mild to Mortal — Unlocking the Mystery of COVID-19 Symptoms

Read the Wellcome Sanger Institute's summary of the latest Covid Connections event.

Blog / Events / Videos / Women in COG

30 Jul 2021

From London Zoo to NHS England – the story of Angela Douglas, Deputy CSO

In the latest instalment of our Women in COG series, we caught up with Angela Douglas – Deputy Chief Scientific Officer for NHS England and NHS Improvement.

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.

Blog / Events / Videos

9 Jul 2021

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.

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...

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.

Blog / Events / Videos

7 Jun 2021

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...

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.

Blog

28 May 2021

Meet the researcher: Michelle Erkiert

This week we meet Michelle Erkiert, a Microbiology Administrator at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

Blog

19 May 2021

How can we protect the world from new variants of concern?

On 18th May, Sharon Peacock delivered a speech during a briefing co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of the United Kingdom and of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York,...

Blog

17 May 2021

Meet the Researcher: Thanh Le-Viet

We caught up with Thanh Le-Viet from the Quadram Institute to find out more about his work on the CLIMB platform and the key role he plays within COG-UK.