TN CoE Launches Online Community of Practice (TN-CoP)

The TN Food Safety CoE will begin hosting a quarterly online Community of Practice (TN-CoP) for our regional partners, starting with a series focused on WGS topics (TN-CoP: WGS Series).

  • This will be a discussion-based and collaborative forum for getting information, posing questions, sharing successes, receiving support, sharing tips, and considering best practices.
  • TN CoE partners will facilitate discussions pertaining to specific topics or go over actual investigations.
  • Regional partners can share clusters they are currently investigating or share past investigations that were interesting or informative.
  • Contact Lauren Hudson (lkhudson@utk.edu) if you have a topic to propose or an investigation you would like to share with the group.

First Session:

Tentative Agenda:

  • Introductions
  • TN-CoP: WGS Series
    • What is the TN-CoP?
    • What would you like to get out of this?
    • Do you have any topics you would like to discuss in future sessions?
  • Salmonella Javiana
    • TN will share their results of a recent study, including:
      • Population structure from both TN and global clinical isolate datasets
      • hqSNP distance thresholds for cluster detection
      • geographical distribution within TN
    • Discussion (regional partners can share their experience with this serovar, including interesting outbreaks, geographic trends, difficulties, dendrograms, analyses)