Infectious Diseases – Webinars and Online Events

In this webinar, Dr. Catherine Houlihan, will describe an unrecognized case of viral hemorrhagic fever imported into the UK and the important lessons learned for the emergency clinicians, GPs, virologists, infection specialists and public health doctors.

Over recent years, genomic sequencing of pathogens has emerged as a powerful tool to guide public health action by providing a deeper understanding of pathogen evolution, emerging variants and transmission dynamics. Oxford Nanopore Technologies offers an accessible, all-in-one sequencing platform that enables rapid, distributed and scalable genomic pathogen surveillance.

In this webinar, you will hear from leaders in the field of microbiology and infectious disease research, who will share their experiences in developing and implementing fast and accessible pathogen surveillance protocols with nanopore sequencing. The protocols presented in this webinar can be leveraged for targeted whole genome sequencing of different viral pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and monkeypox virus, as well as more broadly for the genomic characterization of known and novel viruses in an untargeted manner.

Kevin Coombs, PhD, is a professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases. Research from Dr. Coomb’s group involving the screening of over 1300 host proteins in Zika virus-infected cells.

This inaugural online symposium will provide a unique opportunity to hear from experts within academia and industry. The focus will be given to advances and innovations that are driving vaccine R&D, with process challenges and bottlenecks also discussed.

In this third and final part of our translational cell and gene therapy webinar series we delve into cell therapy applications beyond immune oncology.

In this webinar, we will explore the common challenges encountered by developers and manufacturers when developing PCR tests, and how these challenges can be overcome with the right technologies.

Combining both real-time live-cell imaging with biosensor-based impedance measurements is now possible for the first time, providing a multi-parametric, information-rich cellular analysis.

In this on-demand webinar, we will discuss a new approach to profiling influenza proteins. The solution demonstrated will showcase how commercially available kits and prebuilt cartridges used together with capillary gel electrophoresis with sodium dodecyl sulphate (CE-SDS) can separate viral proteins with ease.

Kevin McKernan, CSO at Medicinal Genomics will be joining us to discuss genetic variation in the Psilocybe cubensis synthesis pathway and the design of qPCR assays for simultaneous quantification of E. coli and Salmonella species contamination concurrent with Psilocybe cubensis species identification.

Analysis of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells is important in understanding their role during acute disease and in long-term protection. Find out about some of the tools used in T-cell research and the promise they show as a cell therapy for COVID-19.