We have really grown this year, special thanks to all our graduate students, medical fellows, post-docs, and staff ! #DreamTeam

Been a while since our last update, but here is our most recent #COVID surveillance data for the Chicago area. Each bar represents #SARSCoV2 isolates sequenced per week starting on the day shown. BA.5 and BA.4 variants dominating since June. Just 1 BA.2.75 in July.

Congratulations to our stellar grad student Estefany Rios Guzman for Best Early Career Poster at #RSV2022

Congratulations to Northwestern MSTP @NUMSTP student Bettina Cheung Bettina Cheung on her Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference (MMPC) Abstract Poster Award! Great job!

Our latest COVID-19 sequencing results data from Chicago region. Figures both show the same data represented as number of variants per week of collection or proportion of total per week. Only 3 isolates from last week sequenced so far, but BQ.1 is increasing. No XBB yet.

Chicago-area COVID-19 sequencing update through the week of November 13th. BQ.1 and its BQ.1.1 subvariants continue to increase in proportion relative to other BA.5 lineage variants.

Excited to begin working on this project! Huge thank you to my collaborators, lab, mentors, colleagues, UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy, my family, and others for the support and making this all possible. A testament to the power of team science!

The 2nd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium is underway! Workshops covering sequencing data analysis are happening now! 💻 #data #pathogen #wgs

Come on down to Simpson - Querrey for research Flash Talks starting at 12:15 today!

Flash talks are underway with our poster award winners! #AntibioticResistance

Dr. Ashlee Earl from Broad Institute gave a fantastic keynote address to kickoff our afternoon of research talks! #bacterialgenomics

A big congratulations to all of our poster presentation winners at this years symposium! #thefutureisbright

We are so proud of our graduate students!

Cool case of sequencing-confirmed Omicron superinfection on top of persistent Delta by Lacy Simons of Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution Hultquist Lab at the 7th isirv antiviral Conference

Great presentation by Estefany Rios Guzman of Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution Hultquist Lab presents Northwestern Medicine surveillance and sequencing of RSV isolates suggesting emerging diversity in RSV B at the 7th isirv antiviral Conference

Huge congrats to @TedLinghu from Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine for winning the best poster abstract isirv antiviral 2023

Really beautiful overview of the ViralVar webtool for visualization and analysis of viral genomes isirv antiviral by Aria from Center for Pathogen Genomics & Microbial Evolution Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

Happy Birthday to our fearless leader of RSV research!

See you Tuesday, April 23rd & Wednesday, April 24th at the 3rd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium! Abstract submission deadline is 📆 Friday, March 22nd. Event RSVP 👉spr.ly/6013nzzDF Abstract submission 👉spr.ly/6015nzzDN

Next week! Join us at the 3rd Annual Pathogen Genomics Symposium🔬 🗓️ Wed, April 24 ⌚ 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m. 📍 Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St, Chicago Agenda & RSVP: spr.ly/6018b3HKk