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SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) update

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

The SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) has been updated to version 1.6.2, with an important hotfix to address software version incompatibility for rules using

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SARS-COV-2 outbreak investigation using contact tracing and whole-genome sequencing in an Ontario tertiary care hospital

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

Tsang et al. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 Apr 24;e0190022. Genomic epidemiology can facilitate an understanding of evolutionary history and transmission dynamics of a severe acute respiratory

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Congratulations Ph.D. student Jalees Nasir!

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 agmcarthur

Congratulations Jalees Nasir on being awarded the Dr. Jordon Page Harshman Bursary! The Dr. Jordan Page Harsham Bursary was established in 2011 by the Harshman

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Congratulations Dr. Sheridan Baker – Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 9, 2023March 3, 2023 agmcarthur

Congratulations Dr. Sheridan Baker on being awarded a 2-year Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship, which will allow him to train jointly in clinical epidemiology, molecular epidemiology,

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Future-proofing and maximizing the utility of metadata: The PHA4GE SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification package

February 13, 2022April 13, 2022 agmcarthur

Emma J. Griffiths et al. Gigascience. 2022 Feb 16;11:giac003. Background: The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) (https://pha4ge.org) is a global coalition that is

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A survey on Canadian pediatric hospital clinical/medical teaching unit implementation during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

November 11, 2021 agmcarthur

Kara K Tsang, Andrew Latchman, Nishma Singhal, Giuliana Federici, Sandra Russell, Denise Irwin, Robyn Stevens, Andrew G McArthur, & Sarah Khan BMC Med Educ. 2021

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Emily Panousis wins the Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship for her work on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance!

November 3, 2021November 5, 2021 agmcarthur

More information about IIDR Trainee Day and Michael Kamin Hart here.

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Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

August 23, 2021August 27, 2021 agmcarthur

Jalen Singh, Pranav Pandit, Andrew G McArthur, Arinjay Banerjee, Karen Mossman Virology Journal. 2021 Aug 13;18(1):166. The emergence of a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory

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Surface and air contamination with SARS-CoV-2 from hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Toronto, Canada

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 agmcarthur

Kotwa et al. 2021. medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.17.21257122 Background: The aim of this prospective cohort study was to determine the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on

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Temporal dynamics and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrate the necessity of ongoing viral genome sequencing in Ontario, Canada

May 8, 2021May 8, 2021 agmcarthur

Sjaarda, C.P., J.L. Guthrie, S. Mubareka, J.T. Simpson, B. Hamelin, H. Wong, L. Mortimer, R. Slinger, A.G. McArthur, M. Desjardins, K. Douchant, Ontario’s COVID-19 Genomics

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