Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution

Next week! Join us at the 3rd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium🔬 🗓️ Wed, April 24 ⌚ 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 📍 Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St, Chicago Agenda & RSVP: spr.ly/6018b3HKk

See you Tuesday, April 23rd & Wednesday, April 24th at the 3rd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium! Abstract submission deadline is 📆 Friday, March 22nd. Event RSVP 👉spr.ly/6013nzzDF Abstract submission 👉spr.ly/6015nzzDN

Happy Birthday to our fearless leader of RSV research!

Cool case of sequencing-confirmed Omicron superinfection on top of persistent Delta by @simons_lacy of @NU_PathoGen @HultquistLab at the 7th @isirvAVG Conference

Great presentation by @EstefanyRiosGuz of @NU_PathoGen @HultquistLab presents @NorthwesternMed surveillance and sequencing of RSV isolates suggesting emerging diversity in RSV B at the 7th @isirvAVG Conference

Really beautiful overview of the ViralVar webtool for visualization and analysis of viral genomes @isirvAVG by @Arghavan_Aria from @NU_PathoGen @NUFeinbergMed

Huge congrats to @TedLinghu from @NU_PathoGen @NUFeinbergMed for winning the best poster abstract @isirvAVG 2023

We are so proud of our graduate students!

A big congratulations to all of our poster presentation winners at this years symposium! #thefutureisbright

Dr. Ashlee Earl from @broadinstitute gave a fantastic keynote address to kickoff our afternoon of research talks! #bacterialgenomics

Flash talks are underway with our poster award winners! #AntibioticResistance

Come on down to Simpson - Querrey for research Flash Talks starting at 12:15 today!

The 2nd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium is underway! Workshops covering sequencing data analysis are happening now! 💻 #data #pathogen #wgs

Excited to begin working on this project! Huge thank you to my collaborators, lab, mentors, colleagues, @UICPharm, my family, and others for the support and making this all possible. A testament to the power of team science!

Chicago-area COVID-19 sequencing update through the week of November 13th. BQ.1 and its BQ.1.1 subvariants continue to increase in proportion relative to other BA.5 lineage variants.

Our latest COVID-19 sequencing results data from Chicago region. Figures both show the same data represented as number of variants per week of collection or proportion of total per week. Only 3 isolates from last week sequenced so far, but BQ.1 is increasing. No XBB yet.

Congratulations to Northwestern MSTP @NUMSTP student Bettina Cheung @BettinaCheung on her @MMPConference Abstract Poster Award! Great job!

Congratulations to our stellar grad student @EstefanyRiosGuz for Best Early Career Poster at #RSV2022

Been a while since our last update, but here is our most recent #COVID surveillance data for the Chicago area. Each bar represents #SARSCoV2 isolates sequenced per week starting on the day shown. BA.5 and BA.4 variants dominating since June. Just 1 BA.2.75 in July.

We have really grown this year, special thanks to all our graduate students, medical fellows, post-docs, and staff ! #DreamTeam