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Location: Quadram Institute, Norwich, UK
Date: 2-4 June
Registration: Free. Attendance by selection to ensure a mix of skills and genders.
Attendees: 20

Timeline:

  • 12 March: Registration opens
  • 30 March: Travel bursaries application close
  • 5 April: Winners of Travel Bursaries informed. Other attendees confirmed.
  • 1 June: Registration remains open on a first come, first served basis for any remaining places, attendees confirmed on an ongoing basis.

Travel bursaries: 15 Travel bursaries of £400 will be available.

The application of high-throughput sequencing to food-borne pathogens is transforming our understanding of how pathogens and resistance genes emerge, evolve and spread. It is also delivering translational impact in public health labs in the rapid identification and surveillance of food-borne pathogens and detection, analysis and control of food-borne outbreaks.

However, it is clear that there are challenges in translating tools developed by bioinformaticians into robust and reliable standard operating procedures and workflows needed for public health. Here, Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) aims to bridge these gaps by hosting a 3-day food safety bioinformatics hackathon, 2-4 June 2019 at the Quadram Institute, Norwich. Its timing is scheduled before a major public health conference (Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology in Cambridge) to capitalise on the large number of international experts (US/Canada/Australia/EU/..) who will be in the UK at that time.

We aim to unite key internationally-renowned bioinformaticians, software developers, medical/molecular microbiologists, epidemiologists and clinicians to address targeted challenges in food-safety bioinformatics.

We aim to specifically address global public health challenges of strategic relevance to BBSRC who have kindly funded this hackathon, including associated technical issues, as follows:

  1. Antimicrobial resistance in the food chain
  2. Rapid foodborne pathogen outbreak investigation
  3. Visual mining of large scale public datasets of foodborne pathogens
  4. Extended sequence typing schemes

We anticipate that this dynamically stimulating intellectual environment will not only establish synergistic relationships in the international microbial bioinformatics community but also deliver impact through the development of new open source software tools, new bioinformatics workflows or working environments, and at least one open access peer-reviewed publication, all for the benefit of users around the world.

Proposed timetable:

  • Saturday 1 June – 19:00: Arrive in Norwich and meet at the Brewdog pub.
  • Sunday 2 June – 09:00-17:00: Quadram Institute
  • Monday 3 June – 09:00-17:00: Quadram Institute
    • Conference dinner
  • Tuesday 4 June – 09:00-17:00: Quadram Institute

Light refreshments will be available throughout the day, along with Lunch.

Venue address:

Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7UQ, UK. It is beside the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

If arriving by car, please park in the visitor’s carpark. Validated carparking may be available.

Organising committee:

Funding:

Supported by a BBSRC International Workshop (grant number BB/S020527/1) award.

Registration:

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