1 / 17

APHL Annual Meeting 2013 Whole Genome Sequencing in the Public Health Lab:

APHL Annual Meeting 2013 Whole Genome Sequencing in the Public Health Lab: The Nightmare and the Dream. “Because of hype and disappointment… many…have taken a ‘wake me when we arrive’ approach to the field.”.

calix
Download Presentation

APHL Annual Meeting 2013 Whole Genome Sequencing in the Public Health Lab:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. APHL Annual Meeting 2013 Whole Genome Sequencing in the Public Health Lab: The Nightmare and the Dream

  2. “Because of hype and disappointment… many…have taken a ‘wake me when we arrive’ approach to the field.” —Bowen, et. al., “Public Health Action in Genomics Is Now Needed beyond Newborn Screening,” Public Health Genomics, September 2012

  3. “It’s exciting, but it’s scary, too. What are we gonna get?” — Carlos Saavedra-Matiz, MD, newborn screening DNA laboratory supervisor, Wadsworth Center

  4. Is your laboratory currently using Next Generation Sequencing technologies either in-house or with a partner? If yes, what sort of applications are you exploring? 53% Foodborne outbreak investigation 32% 71% YES 68% Other infectious outbreak investigation NO 12% Human genomics

More Related