“NAO Updates, Spring 2024” by Jeff Kaufman

This is a link post. Now that the NAO blog is up, we’re taking the opportunity to post some written updates on the work our team has done over the past ~6 months. We’re hoping to make similar updates something like quarterly. Since this post covers a longer period it's a bit longer than we expect future ones will be. If anything here is particularly interesting or if you’re working on similar problems, please reach out! Wastewater Sequencing In the fall & winter we partnered with CDC's Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program and Ginkgo Biosecurity to collect and sequence paired wastewater samples of aggregated airplane lavatory waste and municipal treatment plant influent. Initial sequencing is complete, and we have banked nucleic acids for additional sequencing. We have continued processing weekly treatment plant samples and banking the nucleic acids Developing a good approach for extracting the nucleic acids from these samples took [...] ---Outline:(00:31) Wastewater Sequencing(03:30) Pooled Individual Sequencing(04:45) Other Sampling Strategies(05:39) Nucleic Acid Tracers(06:28) Analysis of Sequencing Data(08:46) Cost Modeling(10:21) Organizational Updates--- First published: May 20th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zughYDDFCXKSxaQq8/nao-updates-spring-2024 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.