Hannah Trivett from the University of Liverpool is a doctoral student who presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The title of the presentation was “Highlights of a regional sequencing surveillance hub during a global pandemic.” They described the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium involved in a massive sequencing initiative. The University of Liverpool is involved, and Trivett worked on the sample processing and sequence generation. Their workflow takes less than five days from receiving samples to uploading to the website. The team also partnered with hospitals for several studies that informed infection control procedures. The University of Liverpool is also part of wastewater COVID-19 monitoring. This system serves as an early warning or surveillance mechanism. Trivett then spoke about the local impact of real-time SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and the benefits of a responsive genome sequencing system. Although not at typical way to start a PhD program, Trivett learned several techniques. As part of this, Trivett learned new techniques, contributed to a global initiative with regional impacts, and wrote articles for the Society of Microbiology blog.
