Advances in Genomics-Enabled Surveillance for Infectious Diseases
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366). This special issue belongs to the section "One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 July 2026 | Viewed by 349
Special Issue Editors
2. Leidos, Reston, VA 20190, USA
Interests: microbiology; virus discovery; genomics; high throughput sequencing; biosurveillance; bioinformatics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing accessibility and cost-efficiency of high throughput sequencing platforms has enabled substantial expansion in global capacity for genomic surveillance of emerging pathogens. This Special Issue aims to explore new methods, original research, and collaborative efforts specifically focused on genomic surveillance for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. We are interested in the development of methodological frameworks to enable high-resolution characterization of bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pathogens within the umbrella of Tropical Medicine and to establish genomic reference databases.
We invite submissions that address the following:
- Establishing Surveillance Methods and Infrastructure
- Comprehensive surveillance methods after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Genomic surveillance of antimicrobial and antifungal resistance.
- Computational infrastructure, data sharing, and access and benefit-sharing models.
- Establishment and maintenance of genomic reference databases.
- Data-to-Decision Making for Public Health
- Using genomic data to infer transmission chains, AMR prevalence, and support clinical decision-making.
- Sentinel surveillance (wastewater, airports, hospitals, rural settings) linking surveillance and policy to outcomes.
- AI, Automation, and Workforce Enablement
- Artificial intelligence for dataset generation, protocol optimization, troubleshooting, and workforce development.
- Scalable analytics and automation for longitudinal surveillance.
- Assay Design and Tradeoffs
- Metagenomic versus targeted sequencing approaches in public-health decision contexts.
- Novel methods that offer considerable performance, cost, and interpretability tradeoffs.
- Pathogen Genome Biology, Evolution, and Risk
- Instances where genomics can be used to infer persistence, emergence, or that a pathogen may have crossed the species barrier.
- Applications using genomics to advance women’s health as it relates to clinically relevant pathogens (e.g., HPV) for diagnostics, vaccines, or other therapeutic design.
Through sharing successes and methodologies, we can accelerate progress in maximizing the use of longitudinal genomic surveillance for infectious diseases to improve public health.
Dr. Adrian C. Paskey
Dr. Casandra Philipson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high throughput sequencing
- metagenomics
- biosurveillance
- AI
- genomics
- molecular epidemiology
- bioradar
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