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Wonderfully insightful commentary from our colleague Dr. Moses Adewumi at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria on our recent publication in Nature Communications. Important context on the challenges and rewards of conducting COVID-19 research in Nigeria: microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/multiple…

A team of NUCATS Institute members at the Northwestern Medicine Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution continues to sequence thousands of samples to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in the Chicago region in near real-time — bit.ly/3gl1gLT

What do you need to know about #stealthomicron? Egon Ozer MD PhD, Northwestern ID & Antimicrobial Stewardship Northwestern Medicine, tells @aarp vaccines will work for the subvariant at about the same level at original Omicron. bit.ly/3oxZxax

If the United States ignores #COVID19 in #Nigeria , we forgo global genomic surveillance at our own peril, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications. news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2022/02/why-co… Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Ph.D. Egon Ozer MD PhD

Chicago-area COVID-19 sequencing update. Most recent test in this data was collected Feb 17. In Dec/Jan we were sequencing ~6 - 10% of positives each week, now increasing again to ~12 - 20+%. Takeaways: 1) Omicron BA.2 not making much headway so far; 2) Delta is still out there.

Updated COVID-19 variant surveillance for the Chicago area through Northwestern Medicine. Most recent sequenced specimens were collected March 10. Recent weeks with a larger proportion of Omicron BA.2 and less BA.1. Delta also still making rare appearances.

Pls RT: Postdoc applicants: Come join us in the Alan R. Hauser Lab (Northwestern U, Chicago) as we ask the question, “How does Pseudomonas aeruginosa cause severe infections?” See labs.feinberg.northwestern.edu/hauser/job-ope… to apply.

As the #COVID19 pandemic enters its third year, Northwestern Medicine scientists (Susan Quaggin, Egon Ozer MD PhD and others) continue to help advance the understanding of the disease and its impact. spr.ly/6017Ks0QZ

Today(!) is the deadline for submitting a poster abstract to the Northwestern CPGME symposium "Genes, Genomes, and Infections". Please register and join us May 4th for workshops, posters, and talks on the practice and promise of pathogen genomics.

May 4th. Going to be great day for pathogen genomics! Looking forward to exciting and informative presentations from my colleagues at Northwestern ID & Antimicrobial Stewardship Lurie Children’s Infectious Diseases Northwestern Civil & Environmental Engineering and Northwestern Microbiology-Immunology.

Excited to contribute to this multidisciplinary work to combat global antibiotic resistance. Egon Ozer MD PhD Erica Marie Hartmann Faisal Mahmood Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Ph.D. Lurie Children’s Infectious Diseases Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/0…

Very well deserved!

This was a great visit and a great workshop! Really excited to return next year.

happy to see The Star Cabins on the NPS list alongside poets I admire! & happy to have a bit of this book-length poem appear in Denver Quarterly ! nationalpoetryseries.org/announcing-the…

So proud of what we've built and excited for where this amazing group is going to take us next!

Congratulations to our stellar grad student Estefany Rios Guzman for Best Early Career Poster at #RSV2022

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.

WATCH: A fungus called #CandidaAuris has caused numerous deaths in the U.S., and officials are issuing new warnings. NBC Chicago ReginaWaldroupNBC5 learns more from Egon Ozer MD PhD with Northwestern Medicine Northwestern ID & Antimicrobial Stewardship. bit.ly/3TDsZKD

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

KMFDM is a Drug Against War Egon Ozer MD PhD @Larry_Kociolek KMFDM Lucia Cifarelli