CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

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• Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium
• Monday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00
• Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

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How sequencing became a cornerstone for scientific evidence on viral spread, immune evasion and disease severity.

Microbial sequencing allows us to define the genetic code of individual microbes as well as microbial communities. Already a well-established research tool by the time that the COVID -19 pandemic took hold, this was translated at pace to track viral evolution at an unprecedented scale. In this talk, I will give an overview of how genomic data were used to guide the pandemic response at a national and global scale. I will provide a birds-eye view of the reasons behind viral evolution as well as the practical reality of tracking variants. I will also describe what it took to translate and embed this technology into the UK response during a national emergency.

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