Poster Presentations at the 2018 Annual Meeting:
fellows
Endings and Beginnings: APHL Fellowship Programs Update
by Heather Roney, MA, manager, Fellowship Program
AR Fellow Ayodele Ojebode presents a poster at the APHL Annual Meeting
APHL’ s fellows had a visible presence at the recent APHL Annual Meeting in Pasadena, California.
Xiong( Sean) Wang( Bioinformatics) and Emily Snavely( Antimicrobial Resistance) presented at the pre-conference workshop,“ Quality Considerations for Next Generation Sequencing” and talked about their role in developing bioinformatics pipelines. Fellows were also highlighted during the session,“ Spotlight on Public Health Laboratory Fellowships: What Can a Fellow Do for Your Lab?” Patrice Held( Newborn Screening alum), Marisabel Etter( Antimicrobial Resistance), Sean Wang( Bioinformatics) and Cecilia Kretz( Laboratory Leadership Service) presented their project work and discussed how their work has benefited their laboratory and their careers.
APHL congratulates four of its Infectious Diseases Laboratory Fellows who were offered positions in their host laboratories following completion of their fellowship terms. It is a testament to the value of the program that the host laboratories want to keep their fellows.
Four candidates have been accepted into the 2018 class of the APHL-CDC Antimicrobial Resistance Fellowship Program. These fellows will help address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance by providing increased laboratory capacity to allow for better prevention, detection and response. They will begin their assignments in Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network regional laboratories in summer 2018. The fellows will also attend a week-long orientation at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC) where they meet with representatives from CDC programs working on antimicrobial resistance.
APHL congratulates six Bioinformatics Fellows who completed their fellowships. Several are staying on in their host labs; others are taking the skills gained during their fellowship and applying them to new arenas in academia. And APHL is excited to welcome five new candidates as 2018- 2019 APHL-CDC Bioinformatics Fellows. The program prepares bioinformaticians to aid public health personnel in the use of bioinformatics. n
Poster Presentations at the 2018 Annual Meeting:
Jennifer Dale:“ Reliable identification methods for carbapenem-resistant carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter( CP-CRA)”
Caitlyn Daron:“ Health concerns addressed in North Carolina through public health laboratory Practices”
Nicholas Florek:“ Comparison of sequence based Salmonella serotyping methods for use in a state public health laboratory”
Michael Mash:“ Application of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight( MALDI-ToF) Mass Spectrometry for Identification of Campylobacter jejuni in the Public Health Laboratory”
Thomas Moore:“ Implementing a real-time method of Aedes aegypti surveillance for the Tennessee Department of Health” Co-author is past EID Lab Fellow Alessandra Rodriguez
Ayodele Ojebode:“ Validation of a real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of emerging multidrugresistant C. auris from blood”
Mimi Precit:“ Surveillance Trends and Prevalence of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and other Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms in Washington State, 2012-2017”
Emily Snavely:“ Whole-Genome Sequencing of Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Recovered from a CRE Colonization Investigation”
Alesha Stewart:“ Using Whole Genome Sequencing Data for Salmonella Serotype Prediction”
Victoria Stone:“ Laboratory Surveillance of Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from Patients in Tennessee”
Dana Woell:“ Workflow Analysis of the New Jersey Public Health Mycobacteriology Laboratory”
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