Episode 45 - Theresa Enkirch - A Closer Look At Viruses

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of ECDC on Air, we sit down with ECDC’s expert in genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics – Theresa Enkirch.

Theresa gives us an overview of what genetic epidemiologists and bioinformaticians do and how that has changed the current epidemiological world.

She also talks about a brand new ECDC course – the GenEpiBioTrain – that can properly boost one’s knowledge about all matters regarding bioinformatics and genetic epidemiology.

Want to know more? Check the ECDC’s Virtual Academy for the courses here.

You can find more information about ECDC's work on our website and on social media.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.4	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to this podcast.
0:17.5	My name is Catherine and today I am your host for this new episode of ECDC on air,
0:23.0	the podcast at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which is recorded
0:27.9	from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of
0:33.3	of ECDC's areas of work, microbiology and molecular surveillance, and more specifically, on genomic epidemiology.
0:41.5	What is ECDC doing in this area and why is this activity crucial to the prevention of epidemics? With us today, we have Teresa and Kirsch, who works at ECDC as microbiology experts.
1:08.4	Good morning, Teresa.
1:09.6	Good morning.
1:10.5	Nice to have you here. Can you tell us more
1:12.9	about yourself? What is your background? Yeah, so I'm a virologist and epidemiologist by training,
1:19.9	and I was born in Germany where I also grew up. Then I work in research of unrestbitory viruses
1:26.0	in Germany and Singapore for five years
1:28.0	and then moved to Sweden for the UFM Fellowship Program.
1:31.8	Then after finishing the UFM program, I continued to work at the Swedish Public Health Agency
1:36.5	for three more years, where I was responsible for the molecular surveillance of respiratory
1:41.7	viruses and also hepatitis A virus.
1:44.4	And then two and a half years ago I joined ECDC.
1:47.1	Okay. And then what brought you to work in this field? Because you seem to have a lot of experience.
1:52.7	Yeah, so I was always fascinated by viruses and how such tiny things can actually cause such a
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