London Calling 2025 - Speakers
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Heather Carleton
- Job title
- Institution
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, USA
- Biography
Dr. Heather Carleton, MPH, PhD is the chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch (EDLB) in the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at the National Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA. The mission of EDLB is to provide and use quality data, expertise, and effective tools to improve the control and prevention of enteric diseases in the USA and around the world. Dr. Carleton joined the CDC in 2012 as a microbiologist and led the development of whole-genome sequence-based analysis tools for the transition of the foodborne molecular surveillance network, PulseNet, from pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to whole-genome sequencing (WGS). She serves as chair of PulseNet USA and co-chair of PulseNet International steering committees. Dr. Carleton leads activities in prevention of enteric diseases, bioinformatics, metagenomics, and next generation sequencing in EDLB.
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