Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO | Bird flu | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Wow - check out Rebecca Katz 's new book - 'Outbreak Atlas'

Case studies and visuals walking through every aspect of outbreak preparedness and response.

Super timely!

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Free online 12-week biosecurity course: biosecurityfundamentals.com

Includes small-group discussions, a 4 week project sprint, and a (in my view) well-curated curriculum. Apply by May 5!

Wastewater surveillance is one of the biggest public health advancements of the last few years. But is it ready to move beyond COVID-19 to tracking a wide variety of health threats?

My latest💩feature, for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

We're excited to be working with scientists across the world to advance the state of the art in wastewater surveillance!💩As our head of bioinformatics, Casandra Philipson, points out, we'll also need to fill in gaps in clinical data on pathogens beyond COVID, flu, & RSV!

Our head of Strategy & Partnerships Robert Morfino discussed biosecurity technologies at the 2024 French American Innovation Day on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Response, hosted by Tufts University Embassy of France in the U.S. Ventum Biotech!

We are actively recruiting for two open Computational Biology positions in our NGS group - both covered by this listing

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THAT'S A WRAP! 🥳

#Ferment2024 is now one for the history books.
But Ferment + momentum = Fermentum. So let's keep the Fermentum going.

We had SO MUCH FUN! And we couldn't have done it without you.

Stay tuned for a wrap-up to watch any panels you might have missed!

Our Horizon data feeds, launched today, help leaders establish global situational awareness of biothreats. ginkgobiosecurity.com/horizon/

“I think AI will take us further in our preparedness efforts” than anything we’ve had before. -NikkiRomanik

Cindy Friedman at CDC who heads up their program for collecting waste water from planes to monitor for variants in partnership with @ginkgo biosecurity

Also great POLITICO article about our new program with the Gates Foundation to build a measles forecasting model

Wastewater surveillance for [mpox] was not only data for action; it allowed us to find clusters before they emerged and make critical early interventions, NikkiRomanik adds.

“We just need to be cognizant of using the right tech for the right public health need.” Wastewater surveillance has a lot of valuable use cases, Dr. Friedman adds.

In low resource countries, “we should invest our efforts and our money in early warning systems.” -Wilmot James

“You can’t fight a pandemic if you have different systems and are measuring different things. You just can’t.” Wilmot James on the importance of global harmonization

Amazing panel on biosecurity right now at @ginkgo Ferment !

Nikki Romanik from the White House office of pandemic preparedness and response policy - what we learned from the response to COVID.

So glad this is getting put together- learnings in COVID are invaluable for

African leaders used to say biosecurity was a Western issue — “they don’t say that anymore,” according to Wilmot James. “There’s a window to do something about this, and that window is quite small.”