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Since the beginning of April, members of the HBBE team at Northumbria University have been working as part of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK) to provide data to help map the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The team, led by Darren Smith, Associate Professor in Phage Biology and HBBE theme lead for Microbial Environments has been working with Northern England NHS hospitals trusts from North Cumbria, North East and North Yorkshire, gathering data in a national effort to understand and combat the virus.
Darren said: “We welcome our addition as the northern England hub for the COG-UK consortium. The power to understand the spread and genome change of SARS-CoV-2 over the timeline of the pandemic is extremely important. This data supports national surveillance but importantly it can be aligned to research questions being asked by the northern NHS Trusts that we hope will support the fight against this novel and devastating virus.”
Patient samples identified as positive for SARS-CoV-2 from these Northern England NHS trusts are being sequenced at the Northumbria University outfacing DNA sequencing research facility, NU-OMICS.
The team, led by Dr Darren Smith, includes Dr Andrew Nelson, Dr Matthew Bashton, Dr Gregory Young, Dr Josh Loh, Dr John Allan, Dr Mohammed Adnan Tariq (Quadram Institute), Dr Giles Holt (Newcastle University), Professor Gary Black and Dr Lynn Dover.
Find out more regarding how the team at Northumbria University is working on genome sequencing to help map spread of COVID-19 here.
