Join Us For This Webinar
Beyond COVID: Using LoopSeq long-read wastewater surveillance to understand Enterovirus epidemiology.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
10:00–11:00 AM (PT)
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) of viruses is not a new idea, but it is one that has gained renewed attention as a potentially more accurate and cost-effective way to monitor the spread of infectious diseases through communities.
Learn how scientists at Arizona State University used LoopSeq™ to develop and test a novel method for long-read WBE of Enteroviruses during the COVID-19 pandemic, when standard methods for tracking the spread of these viruses were not available.
Featured Speakers
Tuval Ben-Yehezcal, PhD
Sr. Director of Applications & Loop Genomics Founder
Element Biosciences
Temitope Faleye, PhD
Center for Environmental Health Engineering
Arizona State University
Topics:
- Hear why enteroviruses are a particularly important target for wastewater surveillance
- Understand the advantages of long-read amplicon sequencing for WBE
- Learn how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the spread of Enteroviruses in Maricopa country during the historical annual June-October peak season
- Understand the current challenges associated with sequencing-based assays for enterovirus surveillance
Hosted by: Meredith Ashby, PhD - Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing