Webinars

BV-BRC periodically offers live instructional webinars where users can participate and ask questions along the way. The webinars are recorded and made available for viewing afterward from the BV-BRC YouTube Channel.

Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium

September 15, 2022. BV-BRC organized the Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini Symposium in response to the global 2022 monkeypox virus outbreak. The presentations begins with a brief primer on monkeypox virus. Addtional topics include bioinformatic resources and tools currently available and in development for the purpose of studying monkeypox virus, as well as updates on the analysis of emerging MPXV genomes. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

• Introduction and poxvirus primer

• Phylogenomic characterization & signs of microevolution in 2022 multi-country outbreak of MPXV

• MPXV sequencing in the 2022 outbreak reveals multiple independent lineages & unique mutational signatures

• A distinct phylogenetic cluster of MPXV genomes suggests an early & cryptic spread of the virus

• Genetic variability in early sequences from the 2022 global monkeypox outbreak

• Nextclade, Nextstrain and New Monkeypox Sublineages

• Detection of monkeypox viral DNA in a routine wastewater monitoring program

• Monkeypox virus whole genome sequencing using combination of NextGenPCR and Oxford Nanopore

• Amplicon-based sequencing of human monkeypox virus

• Applying the COVID-19 Lessons Learned to Other Pathogens of Public Health Concern

• Poxviridae & the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: ICTV

• Monkeypox/Orthopox data and tools in NCBI Virus

• Monkeypox/Orthopox data and tools in the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center

• Viral Bioinformatics Research Center: Bioinformatics for Poxviruses

• Advanced Genomic Sequencing for H2H Transmission Analysis of Poxvirus

• Plumbing a MPXV genome sequence assembly, annotation, and public database submission pipeline

• Diagnostic assays (PCR and POC) for monkeypox virus

• UCSC Genome Browser & hgPhyloPlace/Usher-web

Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens

March 8 - June 14, 2022. This webinar series, created in collaboration with our sister BRC, VEuPathDB, is geared towards researchers working on ticks and the bacterial, viral or eukaryotic pathogens they transmit. The webinars focus on highlighting data and bioinformatic tools provided by BV-BRC and VEuPathDB. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

• Ticks: How to analyze omics and field population data sets in VectorBase (VEuPathDB)

• Analyzing Bunyavirales viruses in ticks using BV-BRC (BV-BRC)

• Analyzing endosymbionts of ticks using BV-BRC (BV-BRC)

• Analysis of tick metagenomics samples using BV-BRC (BV-BRC)

• Resources for eukaryotic pathogens transmitted by ticks (VEuPathDB)

• Comparative genomics analysis of tick-transmitted bacteria uisng BV-BRC (BV-BRC)

• Flaviviridae virus in ticks (BV-BRC)

• SNP and RNA-Seq analysis of bacteria transmitted by ticks - (BV-BRC)

Introduction to BV-BRC

February 25 - April 1, 2022. This webinar series provides overviews of each major aspect of the BV-BRC resource. The webinars were recorded and are available from the links below. (Click here to see the original webinar announcement and schedule).

• Introduction to BV-BRC

• Bacterial data in BV-BRC

• Viral data in BV-BRC

• BV-BRC Workspace introduction and use

• Finding and working with data

• BV-BRC Analysis Services