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Save the date: May 15-17, 2013, Møller Centre, Churchill College of Cambridge, UK

The conference on Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology in Cambridge provides a platform for discussing recent advances in sequencing and bioinformatics relevant to microbiology. International researchers get together to present their work on Next Generation Sequencing and other genomic approaches suitable to meet the needs of public health. Two representatives of the...

Successful week for Bacterial Genome Detectives PathoNGen-Trace presents itself in Münster

The Workshop & Conference 'Rapid NGS for Public Health Microbiology' which was held in Münster, Germany from March 4th to 8th 2013 in cooperation with PathoNGen-Trace was a success. About 80 participants from 20 countries attended the one day conference, while 26 participants stayed on for the whole week to take part in a so called Wet Laboratory where they were able to practice Ion Torrent...

Tracing TB outbreaks and transmission success: Whole genome sequencing better than standard test

A new study published in PLOS Medicine revealed that a new form of genetic testing of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis provides better information on TB transmission and also traces TB outbreaks more accurately than the current standard test. A team of experts from public-health institutions, research institutes and universities in Germany and France led by Stefan Niemann from the...

Workshop "Rapid Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS) for Public Health Microbiology" in Münster

The Medical Microbial Genomics Centre of Münster University is happy to announce the workshop "Rapid NGS for Public Health Microbiology" that will take place in Münster from March 4 to 8, 2013. In the recent past, NGS has become an increasingly important technology within the field of genomics research, especially for diagnostic purposes. The Patho-NGen-Trace project also relies on the innovative...

Münster Medical Genomics Conference 2012

The MMGC will be held from March 8-9, 2012 in Münster, Germany Conference OrganizationAlexander Mellmann & Dag Harmsen, University Münster In co-operation withNationale Forschungsplattform für Zoonosen; EU FP7-HEALTH-2011project Patho-NGen-TraceDGHM Section Microbial SystematicsPopulation Biology and Infection EpidemiologyBMBF Zoonosis projects FBI-Zoo and PBA-Zoo Scientific Advisory...