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SUMMARY:2024 July Virtual Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Session Chair Prof. Julian Hiscox\, Network Director (Universit
 y of Liverpool)\n\n\n\nSpeaker 1. Prof. Alan Radford SAVSNET (University of
  Liverpool)\n\n\n\nTalk Title  AI of health records and whole genome sequ
 encing of samples to better understand coronavirus epidemiology in dogs\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\nBiosketch  Alan graduated from Liverpool in 1993 with degrees 
 in veterinary science and molecular biology. After a one year internship in
  Small Animal Medicine in Dublin\, he returned to Liverpool to complete his
  PhD on the evolution of feline calicivirus. Since then he has continued us
 ing “next generation” sequence data to understand the biology of infect
 ious diseases from viruses to antimicrobial resistance. In parallel\, and w
 ith major support from BSAVA\, BBSRC and DogsTrust\, Alan helped establish 
 the Small Animal Veterinary Surveillance Network (www.liverpool.ac.uk/savsn
 et).SAVSNET collects large volumes of companion animal electronic health da
 ta from veterinary practitioners and diagnostic laboratories across the UK.
  These are collated centrally\, and used for a wide range of research and s
 urveillance including antibacterial use and resistance. SAVSNET is generati
 ng real-time data on diseases (https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/savsn
 et.at.liverpool/). As well as research\, anonymised data are fed back to p
 articipating practices in real-time providing a new population perspective 
 to daily practice. We increasingly use a range of artificial intelligence a
 pplications to improve the extraction of useable data from over 10million h
 ealth records. These studies using data are now complemented by the establi
 shment with participating laboratories of a Virtual Biobank\, in which left
 over diagnostic samples are sent to Liverpool for typing to allow a better 
 understanding of the evolution and transmission of infectious diseases in o
 ur UK pet population.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker 2.   Prof. David Robertson 
  (University of Glasgow)\n\n\n\nTalk Title TBC\n\n\nBiosketch David earned
  a BSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 He completed a Ph.D. in ge
 netics at the University of Nottingham (1993-1996) after moving with his su
 pervisor's research group from Trinity College Dublin (1992-1993). Subseque
 ntly\, he was a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingh
 am\, a research fellow at the CNRS\, and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow a
 t the University of Oxford. In 2002 he became a lecturer and principal inve
 stigator at the University of Manchester. In 2017\, he moved to University 
 of Glasgow and became head of the Centre for Virus Research’s bioinformat
 ics research programme. His research focus has been on computational approa
 ches to the study of viruses\, molecular evolution\, and the analysis of vi
 ral diseases such as HIV\, COVID-19\, and others
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