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.
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.
Blog
7 May 2021
Meet the Researcher: Beth Blane
Next up in our Meet the Researcher series, we meet Beth Blane — Logistics Manager for COG-UK, based at the University of Cambridge.
Blog
30 Apr 2021
Meet the Researcher: Radoslaw Poplawski
In this blog series, we meet just a few of the countless people whose dedication, commitment and hard work has been essential to the success of COG-UK.
Blog
20 Apr 2021
What next for COG-UK?
The consortium entered its second year on 1 April 2021, supported by funding managed by UKRI. Here, we describe our plans for the next 12 months.
