Global Metagenomics Summit MetaSUB Annual Meeting, Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Miami, FL  November 18-21, 2022

RADx-rad Team Presentations

November 19, 2022 Poster Presentations:

Presenters pictured from left:

Ayaaz Amirali, University of Miami
“Understanding the Influence of COVID-19 Testing Intensity on Wastewater-Based Epidemiology through Quantitative Analysis”
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Erik Lamm, University of Miami
“Associations of Water Quality and Flow with SARS-CoV-2 RNA Levels in Wastewater”
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Kristina (Tina) Babler, MSc Department of Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami “DNA Isolation from Wastewater: Experimentation from a SARS-CoV-2 Optimized Workflow”
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Matthew Rocas and Collette Thomas, University of Miami
“Wastewater-Based Epidemiology as a Strategy for Tracking and Tracing COVID-19 on a University Campus”
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Samantha Abelson, University of Miami
“Influence of Meteorological Conditions and Water Characteristics on SARS-CoV-2 Concentration in Wastewater”
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Not pictured:

Krista Ryon, Weill Cornell Medicine
“MetaSUB and its journey from subways to global pathogen surveillance”

Dusica Vidovic, PhD University of Miami
“SF-RAD Data Standards and Informatics Infrastructure to Support Data Collection, Harmonization, and Sharing for Effective Surveillance of COVID-19 Outbreaks”
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George Grills, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
“The Role of Shared Resources in Facilitating Human and Environmental Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2”
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Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Health Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Environmental SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Prediction at Local, Regional, and National Scales”

Plenary Session 1 Presentation:

Braden Tierney, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine & Harvard Medical School Director of Bioinformatics, MetaSUB
“Interrogating the Intersection of Microbial Evolution and Human Health at Humanity’s Greatest Frontiers”

November 20, 2022 Presentations:

Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., MPH, Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, Associate Director, Population Science and Cancer Disparities Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“The New View of Public Health”

Braden Tierney, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Assoc., Weill Cornell Medicine & Harvard Medical School Director of Bioinformatics, MetaSUB
“Detecting, Understanding, and Mitigating Microbiome Biases”

Stephan Schürer, Ph.D., Associate Director, Data Sciences, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Data Standards and Informatics Infrastructure to Facilitate Effective Surveillance of COVID-19 Outbreaks: Towards a Global Alert and Response Network”

November 21, 2022  Presentations:

Helena Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D., P.E., Professor, Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Miami
“Reflections from RADx-rad Wastewater-based Epidemiologic Studies and Potential Future Directions”
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Mark Sharkey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Utility of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to Detect Multiple Human Pathogens”
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Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Health Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Environmental SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Prediction at Local, Regional, and National Scales”

Kenneth Goodman, Ph.D., FACMI, FACE, Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy (Silver Sponsor) Professor of Medicine
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
“Ethics, Philosophy, and Environmental Surveillance”
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Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D. Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine  Director, The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction Founder and Director, MetaSUB
“Sewers, Subways, and Space Stations: Genetic Maps of Earth’s Cities and Beyond”
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