From ASV 2023 in Athens, Georgia, Vincent, Kathy and Brianne speak with Trevord Bedford about his career, the development of Nextstrain.org for real-time tracking of pathogen evolution, and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from January 2020 through Omicron.

Host: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Trevor Bedford

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Links for this episode

• MicrobeTV Discord Server
• Nextstrain
• Household influenza testing (Influenza Other Resp Viruses)
• SARS-CoV-2 outbreak Washington (Sci Transl Med)
• SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, Washington (Emerg Inf Dis)
• S1 changes drive SARS-CoV-2 clade success (Cell Host Micro)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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