ArboViral Infection (AVI) metagenomics project
Supervisor: Professor Emma Thomson
The ArboViral Infection study in Uganda is a project designed to identify known and unknown viral pathogens in samples derived from patients presenting to hospital with fever and in the surrounding environment. Samples obtained from rodents, mosquitoes, bats and ticks have been obtained and subjected to next generation sequencing.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/cvr/clinicalresearch/
Rotation projects are available to carry out next generation sequencing bioinformatic analysis and to develop serological assays for pathogens found as part of the study.