Yi Chen
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, USA
Title: Whole genome and core genome analyses of Listeria monocytogenes associated with recent outbreaks
Biography
Biography: Yi Chen
Abstract
A number of listeriosis outbreaks have been reported recently, in which next generation sequencing was used to complement
epidemiologic investigations. In this presentation, I discuss multiple whole genome sequencing and core genome
sequencing approaches using these outbreaks as case studies. Th e analyses provide insights to the selection of appropriate
approaches to defi ne the scope of an outbreak, to diff erentiate epidemiologically unrelated isolates, and to study the persistence
and microevolution of isolates in a single outbreak