Dr. Farah Ishtiaq, Principal Scientist at TIGS, gave a talk on the power of genomic sequencing to track emerging diseases such as Sars-CoV-2, Dengue, Avian Influenza in waste water. Her work was presented in the Remediation of wastewater symposium held at Kolkata.
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