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SUMMARY:Real-time to Real-life: Phylogenetics & SARS-CoV-2 Variant Trackin
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DTSTART:20211116T121500
DTEND:20211116T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Emma Hodcroft\, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (I
 SPM)\, University of Bern\nAbstract: Since the UK government announced a m
 ore transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2020\, countries aroun
 d the world have quickly committed resources to tracking the main variants
  of concern (VoC). But even variants without obvious changes in viral trai
 ts can give insight into how SARS-CoV-2 spreads\, help track specific epid
 emics\, and give clues about arising mutations.\nHowever\, tracking varian
 ts can be challenging for scientists unfamiliar with huge numbers of seque
 nces and complex phylogenetic trees – with over 2.5 million publicly ava
 ilable sequences\, it is no small task to track and monitor emerging and e
 xisting variants.\nThis talk will discuss significant variants and what we
  have observed about them\, how we detect variants of concern and interest
 \, and how both our methods and what we classify as “variants worth watc
 hing” may change in the future.\n\nEmma Hodcroft\nISPM\n 
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