Bioinformatics in Public Health Genomics: A Gentle Introduction

This presentation will provide a general, high-level introduction to the current state of the analysis of genomic data in public health labs in the US.

Featured Speaker

Drew MacKellar, PhD
Bioinformatician
Washington State Department of Health

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the history of how sequencing has been applied in tracking outbreaks to date
  • Describe the assessment of raw sequencing read quality
  • Identify the interpretation of genomic relatedness via phylogenetic trees

 

Date/time 
Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PDT