Teaching DNA sequencing
RAMPART real-time sequencing run monitoring
Sequencing with ONT MinION in a lift
Phylogenetic analysis of a mock outbreak
With lab work done, sequencing and bioinformatics made up the final days of the @artic.network workshop in Ghana
The Viral Sequencing and Bioinformatics workshop in Accra, Ghana is underway! @artic.network
If you enjoy lab based work, problem solving and contributing to something meaningful, we would love to hear from you.
👉 Apply here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
👉 Informal enquiries: j.quick@bham.ac.uk
📍 Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston (UK)
⏱ Full time, fixed term up to 18 months
💷 Salary: Starting in the range £30,062 to £31,900, with potential progression once in post to £35,883
🗓 Closing date: 7th April 2026
This is a great chance to join a collaborative team at the forefront of global pathogen genomics. You will work with liquid handling robots, LIMS systems and Oxford Nanopore sequencing to produce and distribute high quality primer panels that support rapid outbreak response worldwide.
Thanks for the great response to last week’s job post. We have another opportunity to share. This one is a Senior Research Technician role at the University of Birmingham, helping us build the ARTIC primer foundry facility: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
For further details and to apply, please follow this link:
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If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of metagenomics, open science, and global health preparedness, we would love to hear from you.
Informal enquiries: j.quick@bham.ac.uk
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston
Position: Research Fellow (Postdoctoral), Grade 7
Salary: £36,636 to £46,049 (with progression to £48,822)
Contract: Full-time, fixed term until March 2030
Closing date: 2nd April 2026
Work with international partners, drive open-source innovation, and play a key role in shaping the future of outbreak response through advanced metagenomics.
This high-impact postdoc will push forward innovative workflows, long-read sequencing, and enrichment strategies to detect emerging threats faster than ever.
Join the world leading ARTIC Network and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Public Health Genomics to help build the next generation of rapid, field-ready metagenomic sequencing for global pathogen surveillance.
ARTIC are hiring! Postdoctoral opportunity in metagenomics at the University of Birmingham
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We have assembled an end‑to‑end package including primers and sequencing resources, best practice pipelines for sequence data processing, and guidance for analysis and interpretation. Please share widely!
These resources provide guidance for public health and research labs who are planning to perform genome sequencing and analysis of measles virus.
A webpage section listing three resources related to measles virus genomic epidemiology. The first item shows an icon and the heading ‘Measles virus genomic epidemiology’ with a subheading ‘A primer on measles virus genomic epidemiology and why we do it.’ The second item shows an icon and the heading ‘artic-measles/400/v1.0.0 Primer Scheme’ with a description of the ARTIC-network primer scheme for sequencing measles virus. The third item shows an icon and the heading ‘ARTIC-network MEV wet-lab protocol’ with a description of the wet-lab protocol for sequencing MEV using the artic-measles/400/v1.0.0 primer scheme.
A webpage section titled ‘User‑interface pipelines using Epi2me,’ displaying four items. The first item shows an icon with the heading ‘amplicon‑nf: Running the pipeline in EPI2ME’ and describes using EPI2ME to run the ARTIC amplicon‑nf pipeline without the command line. The second item shows an icon with the heading ‘amplicon‑nf: Running the pipeline in EPI2ME for Illumina Data,’ again describing use of EPI2ME to run the amplicon‑nf pipeline without the command line. The third item shows an icon with the heading ‘amplicon‑nf: Running the pipeline in EPI2ME for Oxford Nanopore Data,’ with the same description. The fourth item shows an icon with the heading ‘amplicon‑nf: Viewing outputs of the pipeline in EPI2ME,’ describing how to view outputs of the amplicon‑nf pipeline within EPI2ME.
A webpage section titled ‘Command line interface pipeline SOPs.’ The first item shows an icon with the heading ‘Fieldbioinformatics: viral amplicon sequencing bioinformatics SOP’ and labels indicating ‘Nanopore | bioinformatics.’ A second section titled ‘Phylogenetics and Interpretation’ includes an icon with the heading ‘MeV Phylogenetics’ and a description stating it contains resources and protocols for measles virus alignment and phylogenetics.
ARTIC 2 measles resources are live!
As part of the Wellcome Trust funded ARTIC 2 project we have developed a collection of measles virus resources that are now openly available at artic.network/viruses/mev
Kick off the first Genomic Horizons webinar of the year with @bede.im on “Practical panhuman host sequence depletion for responsible data sharing”.
📅 12 February 2026
⏰ 14:00 – 15:00 UTC
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4kiYW80
'Can you stop an outbreak becoming a pandemic?'
ARTIC Network recently delivered a workshop at the PHA4GE conference in Cape Town. Read more: www.linkedin.com/posts/artic-... @pha4ge.bsky.social
Click the link for open-source recipes for end-preparation, barcode and adapter ligation. 60% cost saving over commercial kits for the ARTIC protocol.
Amazing work from our colleagues in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and elsewhere, making the first sequences available from the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone.
More to come - for now, head over to @pathoplexus.org:
pathoplexus.org/seqsets/PP_S...
Super exciting that we're now up to eight viruses supported on Pathoplexus - with lots of other exciting features in the pipeline too!
**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!
Screenshot of the homepage of Pathoplexus, showing tiles to navigate to the supported pathogens CCHF, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, HMPV, Mpox, RSV-A, RSV-B, and West Nile virus.
📢Today Pathoplexus announces the inclusion of 2 new viral pathogens: RSV (A & B) and HMPV.
These respiratory viruses cause a serious health burden, particularly in infants & the vulnerable, & Pathoplexus aims to support sequence sharing to improve understanding & response.
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ARTIC 2 is here!
Thanks to @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social for featuring our mSCAPE metagenomics surveillance collaboration and also thanks for the considered comments from Mario Falchi and Judy Breuer: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... - keep an eye out on mSCAPE.climb.ac.uk for further details and resources
