Events
Genomics and Clinical Microbiology
- Category:
- CONFERENCE
- Date:
- January 22-27, 2012
- Location:
- Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge
- Link:
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- Abstract:
The study of bacterial genomes is revolutionising clinical microbiology, and the clinical microbiologists of the future will have to process and interpret data very different from that provided by the agar-centric clinical microbiology labs of the 20th century.This course combines practical hands-on laboratory and bioinformatics work with a set of faculty lectures by leaders in this exciting area. The principal aim is to equip clinical scientists, specialist registrars, and consultants in medical microbiology (including joint medical microbiology and infectious diseases) with sufficient understanding of these areas to meet these challenges in the future.The course will concentrate on techniques that are currently practicable but will also look to the likely application of ‘next generation’ sequencing approaches to clinical microbiology.
PLEASE NOTE: bursaries are available for clinical and academic applicants from anywhere in the world to attend this course, see below for details. This includes bursaries for UK registrars. In addition, CPD accreditation (41 credits) was approved by the Royal College of Pathologists in 2011. A similar application will be submitted for the 2012 course.