Microbial Genomic Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course gives students an overview of the sequencing technologies and genomic sequence data analyses (e.g., sequence pre-processing, assembly) and demonstrates their application in the context of epidemiology (e.g., identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms and genes of interest). The course covers the concepts necessary to carry out comparative genomics analyses and interpret the results in the context of an outbreak investigation. These concepts are then applied in a practical sequence-analyses case study focused on the development of prokaryotic whole-genome sequence data analysis skills. Lastly, students are guided in the application of gained knowledge and skills through final projects.