Regional Capacity-building for Integration of Next Generation Sequencing in the Clinical Microlab 2017

Regional Capacity-building for Integration of Next Generation Sequencing in the Clinical Microlab is organized by European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and would be held during Oct 30 - Nov 01, 2017 at Daniel Hotel Herzliya, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel. The target audience for this medical event for microbiologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists and bioinformaticians from hospital and public health settings.

Target Audience
microbiologists, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists and bioinformaticians from hospital and public health settings from Middle Eastern, European, Balkan and African countries.

Description
The workshop is intended to introduce the emerging role of next-generation sequencing in clinical and public health microbiology and support the building of national and regional capacity in this area. Special focus will be placed on available sequencing technologies, their implementation in the microbiology laboratory settings, the use of various bioinformatics tools for analysing NGS outputs and clinical interpretation. Capacity building will take place using relevant exemplars such as surveillance of infection, outbreak investigation and control, antimicrobial resistance and food and water microbiology. Moreover, the course aims to create new networks between microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, bioinformaticians and other allied professions in the region in order to facilitate the application of NGS in the European neighbourhood.

Additional Details will be posted as soon as they are available.