Today MiGEL and the UPMC Presbyterian Infection Prevention team met to discuss the past 2-years of real-time WGS surveillance for outbreak detection & intervention We shared our findings, analysis plans, wins, and next steps of EDS-HAT for our successful collaboration

Congratulations to the winner of this week’s Spot Award, Deena Ereifej! Deena is a Research Assistant with the Microbial Genomics and Epidemiology Laboratory. Her contributions to EDS-HAT help identify infections sooner and save patient lives. Thank you! #idpittstop #spotawards

New from Theodore "Ted" Rader et al Using mixed methods, ID Pitt Stop demonstrated utility of a selective reactive whole-genome sequencing approach to determine transmission pathways in outbreaks of COVID-19 across a healthcare system 📄: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

It’s a busy day in MiGEL! Our real-time WGS surveillance of healthcare-associated COVID-19 is up and running

.MiGEL had our lab safety meeting lead by our lab manager, Kady Waggle Don’t mouth pipette!

🚨NEW pre-print from Waggle et al in MiGEL ➡️We describe the laboratory, sequencing, and bioinformatics methods for our in-house bacterial WGS surveillance program 💰We calculate (including FTEs) WGS to be ~$91/isolate = feasible & affordable! 📄: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Checkout this piece in GenomeWeb on our lab’s latest pre-print!

Today Vatsala Srinivas is presenting her work on respiratory virus WGS surveillance at Pitt Public Health Dean’s Day!

'The Pitch: Patient Safety’s Next Generation' documentary showcases innovative #healthcare #tech, like the EDS-HAT system by Lee Harrison & Artur Dubrawski; premiering at the CIFF this week. Post-Gazette article linked below. #idpittstop 🎬 post-gazette.com/news/health/20…

A big congrats to the #infectiousdiseases team at #DOMResearchDay2024 🎉 Cheers to Abigail Gerberick for her best poster award and 2nd-year fellow, Mina Said, for his plenary presentation! Shoutout to all the ID division researchers as well for their efforts! #idpittstop

Today our lab celebrated two of our students’ graduations, Hunter & Shurmin! 🎉

Illinois Society for Microbiology is back from lunch. Kicking off our afternoon is Dr. @SundermannAJ and sharing experiences of whole genome sequencing to detect clusters in real time. CC: MiGEL and University of Pittsburgh

Bravo, Matthew Culyba (The Culyba Lab) and @SundermannAJ! Congratulations to you both for this well-deserved honor. 🩺👨‍💻

Coming to #IDWeek2024? Check out 3 of our sessions! - WGS symposia moderated by our own @SundermannAJ along with Costi Sifri, MD. Presentations by MiGEL head Lee Harrison, Lilian Abbo, & Emily Snavely - WGS of respiratory virus by Vatsala Srinivas - WGS cost analysis by Kady Waggle!

I'm excited to share the next interview in my "Meet a genomic epidemiologist" series. The interviewee is @SundermannAJ , and he shares his journey from undergraduate studies through to his current work applying genomic epidemiology for infection prevention and control.

Kady Waggle from MiGEL at ID Pitt Stop up now presenting at #IDWeek2024 Cost efficient WGS in hospital outbreak investigation.

Our own Kady Waggle talking about the methods and economics of real-time prospective WGS surveillance at our hospital #IDWeek2024 Read her pre-print here: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Yesterday, Lee Harrison presented findings on EDS-HAT and evidence for real-time genomic surveillance at #IDWeek2024 ID Pitt Stop

Today at 4:15PM @ #IDWeek2024 come hear Vatsala Srinivas talk about genomic surveillance for respiratory viruses! ID Pitt Stop

.Vatsala Srinivas presenting in her work for genomic surveillance at #IDWeek2024! That’s a wrap for MiGEL !