Congrats to Matan, Orel and Sharon for excellent poster presentations of their MAGICAL graduate projects (sewage MGx, WGS of ESBLs and water microbiome, respectively).
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Microbiology, Advanced Genomics and Infection Control Applications Laboratory
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ECCMID 2019 in Amsterdam was an outstanding success setting new records, with nearly 14,000 delegates from 130 countries, ~5,500 submitted abstracts and a notable 50/50 balance between female and male speakers. Preparations for ECCMID 2020 in Paris are already underway!
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The first paper coming out of The Global Sewage Surveillance project has been recently published in Nature Communications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408512/pdf/41467_2019_Article_8853.pdfThe MAGICAL Group is a collaborator of this project, which analysed sewage in 60 countries (including Israel) for AMR using metagenomics.