9:00 – 9:30 am

Opening

Dr. Ciro Ugarte
Director, Health Emergencies
Pan American Health Organization

Dr. Wenqing Zhang (remote)
Director, Global Influenza Programme
Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS)

9:30 – 9:45 am

PAHOGEN Surveillance

Dr. Juliana Leite
Laboratory Response Team, PAHO

9:45 - 10:00 am

GISAID Then & Now

Dr. Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
Executive Director, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore
Origins, Importance of transparent data sharing

10:00 – 10:30 am

Navigating the Platform

Dr. Aishwary Shivgan
Scientist, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore
Navigating the EpiFlu database
Curation best practices: why does this matter?
Visualizing and data retrieval

10:30 - 10:45 am

Break

10:45 - 11:15 am

Learning from Nipah Virus Outbreaks

Dr. Pragya Yadav (remote)
Director in Charge, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Sequence Annotation

Raphael Lee Tze Chuen
Senior Research Manager, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore
Utilizing the GISAID FluSurver,
Quality assessment and clade calling,
Mutation analyses, including adaptation mutations,
Types of download files, AA_Filter: drug-susceptibility mutations

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break
 

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Comparative Sequence Analyses - watch the video 

Ondina Palmeira
Scientist, GISAID Data Science Initiative, USA
Utilization of phylogenetic trees, 
Phylodynamics and interactive ggtree

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Surveillance of Zoonotic Influenza Viruses - watch the video 

Dr. Erik Karlsson
Director, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Hands-on Case Studies

Dr. Aishwary Shivgan
Scientist, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore

2:45 - 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 - 3:30 pm

Tracking Mutations of Consequence - Part 1 - watch the video

Raphael Lee Tze Chuen
Senior Research Manager, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore
PrimerChecker, Emerging variants

3:30 - 4:15 pm

Tracking Mutations of Consequence - Part 2 - watch the video

Dr. Saira Hussain
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne
Antiviral-susceptibility surveillance: WHO AVWG tables - watch the video

Dr. Emi Takashita
WHO Collaborating Center, Tokyo
Japan Institute for Health Security
Antiviral-susceptibility surveillance: Japan - watch the video

4:15 - 4:30 pm

Disease X Preparedness and Upcoming Features - watch the video

Dr. Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
Executive Director, GISAID Data Science Centre, Singapore
EpiX, EpiPhylo, EpiIntel, AI tools