WHO Public Health Laboratories knowledge sharing webinar series: Sequencing Protocols for SARS-CoV-2

16 June 2021 11:00 – 12:30 CET

Our speakers will share the choices and challenges of different sequencing platforms and the specifics of sequencing protocols on two platforms.

In this webinar session, we will welcome;

Dr Joshua Quick (ARTIC network - Institute of Microbiology and infection, University of
Birmingham) - "Bringing genomic sequencing to the field – protocols and experience from the ARTIC network project implementing nanopore sequencing."

Dr Meriem Bekliz (University of Geneva, Switzerland) - "SARS-CoV-2 variants: The pandemic within the pandemic? Optimization of a Sanger sequencing protocol to identify and monitor variants."

Webinar in English with simultaneous translation provided in French, Portuguese and Russian.

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