London Calling 2025 - Speakers
Speakers
Check out the line up of speakers at London Calling 2025.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Judith Breuer
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- Job title
- Institution
- UCL Institute of Child Health, UK
- Biography
Judith Breuer is Professor of Virology at UCL and Clinical lead for Virology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Judith established a UKAS accredited diagnostic metagenomics at GOSH for the detection of pathogens in suspected cases of encephalitis. She leads work on metagenomics of sterile sites within the Serious Presentation of Infectious Disease (SPID) Genomic Network of Excellence (GNoE) and the Genomics to Enhance Microbial Screening (GEMS) Blood Transfusion Research Unit (BTRU), identifying metagenomically adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2) as the unexplained paediatric hepatitis occurring in children in 2022. Professor Breuer chairs and is a member of several national government and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) committees on vaccines and infection.
- Recent publications
Buddle, S. et al. Evaluating metagenomics and targeted approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of viruses. Genome Med. 16, 111 (2024).
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-024-01380-xPenner, J. et al. Translating metagenomics into clinical practice for complex paediatric neurological presentations. Journal of Infection 87(5):451–458 (2023).
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.08.002Morfopoulou, S. et al. Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children. Nature 617: 564–573 (2023).
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06003-w
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