EMBL Knowledge-Exchange Workshop
Bridging Research into Healthcare
This special knowledge-exchange event provides an opportunity for key research and healthcare scientists in the EMBL Member States to discuss challenges, opportunities and best practice in managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic using genomics and informatics-based approaches.
We will convene experts in high-throughput sequencing and data processing, in sequence-data analysis and sharing, and in phylogenetics and epidemiological analysis. Our goal is to ensure that all EMBL member states have access to the expertise to deploy sequence-based approaches to national management of the pandemic.
Monday 22 March 2021
This programme may be subject to change.
| Time (CET) | Subject | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30-09:45 | Welcome and opening remarks | Ewan Birney – EMBL-EBI, UK |
| 09:45-11:10 | Session 1: Sequencing and processing Chair – Ewan Birney | |
| 09:50-10:10 | The COG-UK project and COVID-19 sequencing in the UK | Sharon Peacock – University of Cambridge, UK |
| 10:10-10:30 | The Danish experience | Mads Albertsen – Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 10:30-10:50 | The Dutch Experience | Bas Oude Munnink – Erasmus MC, The Netherlands |
| 10:50-11:10 | The French EMERGEN SARS-CoV-2 surveillance programme | Bruno Coignard – Santé publique France |
| 11:10-11:30 | Discussion panel: Sequencing challenges and how might we address them? | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Short break | |
| 11:50-13:15 | Session 2: Analysis and data sharing Chair – Rolf Apweiler | |
| 11:55-12:15 | The European COVID-19 data platform | Guy Cochrane – EMBL-EBI, UK |
| 12:15-12:35 | Tracking the emergence and spread of new SARS-CoV-2 strains through Europe | Emma Hodcroft – University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 12:35-12:55 | The Austrian experience | Andreas Bergthaler – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria |
| 12:55-13:15 | Discussion panel: Data sharing challenges and how to address them? | |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00-15:25 | Session 3: Phylogenetics and epidemiology Chair – Emma Hodcroft | |
| 14:05-14:25 | Integrating genomics and epidemiology | Moritz Gerstung – EMBL-EBI, UK |
| 14:25-14:45 | Viral phylogenomics at scale | Nick Goldman – EMBL-EBI, UK |
| 14:45-15:05 | COVID-19 phylodynamics and application to public health | Oliver Pybus – University of Oxford, UK |
| 15:05-15:25 | Discussion panel: Challenges bridging genomics and epidemiology into healthcare | |
| 15:25-15:40 | Short break | |
| 15:40-16:25 | Round table: How do we distill current experience and share best practice across member states? How can EMBL best support these efforts? | |
| 16:25-16:40 | Concluding remarks and next steps, Rolf Apweiler |
Date: 22 March 2021
Location: virtual
Contact: iva.gavran@embl.de
Ewan Birney – EMBL-EBI, UK
Cath Brooksbank – EMBL-EBI, UK
Juergen Deka – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Iva Gavran, Elisabeth Wintersteller – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Sam Hester – EMBL-EBI, UK