National Consortium for Microbial Genomics on December 7th 2017

Background

The Norwegian Consortium for Microbial Genomics (NCMG) was established in 2016 to stimulate the development of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for microbiology in a One Health perspective in Norway.

 The aim of the consortium is to provide a platform: 

• to establish culture-independent diagnostics for infectious diseases based on NGS
• to implement NGS as an epidemiological tool in Norway in order to detect virulence and antibiotic resistance changes in human and zoonotic pathogens
• to develop health registries of NGS data to support public health decisions
• to establish a network for bioinformaticians to deal with NGS data for microbiology and to support research using NGS within the field of microbiology

The first meeting of the consortium in May 2016 assembled about 70 participants and the programme included invited speakers from the UK and Sweden in addition to national experts. We hope to renew last year’s success and hereby invite you to this one-day seminar on December 7 at Folkehelseinstituttet. 

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