2022 Project: University of Washington

Collaborative technology development, and analyses to support genetic epidemiology in Washington State

What to know

Researchers are building on infrastructure for multipathogen respiratory disease surveillance to combine SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data with detailed demographic and behavioral metadata to understand transmission dynamics and co-circulating respiratory pathogens.

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Findings on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and investigations

Awarded in 2022, this project continues collaborations to understand new SARS-CoV-2 variants and how they relate to severity and transmission dynamics. Researchers are also developing wet laboratory methods for sequencing, as well as maintaining and improving Nextstrain software that is widely used for phylodynamic analysis.

  • Described the usability and real-world performance of automation-friendly swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing.1

Awarded in 2022, this project is still in progress.

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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
  1. Tiny swabs: nasal swabs integrated into tube caps facilitate large-scale self-collected SARS-CoV-2 testing | Journal of Clinical Microbiology (asm.org). J Clin Microbio