Lab Matters Summer 2024 | Page 27

GLOBAL HEALTH

Infection , Centre for Pathogen Genomics , University of Melbourne will be organizing a wet-bench and bioinformatics training for sequencing enteric bacteria using Oxford Nanopore Technology ( ONT ) at TEMs to scientists participating in the PulseNet WGS feasibility study project . PulseNet International has been implementing PulseNet protocols for the detection and surveillance of antibiotic resistant bacteria within the Asia-Pacific region . This includes training laboratory scientists on current PulseNet wet-bench methods and using bioinformatic workflows in Terra as part of the Global AR Laboratory and Response Network surveillance activities . This will be the first training for PulseNet International on the Oxford Nanopore sequencing platform . Offering this ONT training will enable public health laboratories to utilize alternative sequencing instrumentation , which leverages the investments from the COVID-19 pandemic to sequence enteric bacteria as part of PulseNet and the Global AR Laboratory and Response networks .

The Future of TEMs

Since 2022 , TEMs has trained more than 300 scientists from Thailand and the region . The utilization of TEMs has grown from CDC programs to other institutions and funders implementing programs within the region . The efforts to develop TEMs as a regional workforce and laboratory diagnostics strengthening program can serve as a model to support additional similar workforce initiatives for both laboratory scientists and bioinformaticians in other regions of the world . g

Goals of the Training Center for Excellence in Medical Sciences :

• Enhance lab workforce capacity to respond to infectious disease threats through training on advanced lab technologies and bioinformatics

• Support outbreak response testing within Thailand and region

The Public Health Pricing List is a membersonly listing of discounts and special offers that APHL negotiates with corporate partners .

You can get special pricing for instruments , service agreements , equipment , testing supplies , PPE and more , from companies such as Bio-Rad , Luminex , Roche Diagnostics , QIAGEN , Promega , SCIEX and Waters .

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For more information about the public health pricing list discount offerings , please contact Camille Walker , Manager , Corporate Relations , camille . walker @ aphl . org .