Lab Matters Summer 2018 | Page 30

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 ”
28 LAB MATTERS Summer 2018
PublicHealthLabs @ APHL APHL . org