Impressed by today’s webinar by Dr Sarah Mwangi from @AfricaCDC on building sustainable pathogen genomic surveillance across Africa. A few major takeaways:
1️⃣ Africa expanded public health genomics capacity from 7 countries in 2019 to 46 countries by 2025
2️⃣ A continental surveillance network now connects 54 member states and >1600 public health specialists
3️⃣ Since 2021, Africa PGI has supported detection, sequencing, characterization & reporting for 56 outbreaks across 24 countries.
#Genomics #PathogenSurveillance #PublicHealth #AfricaCDC #OneHealth #AMR #OutbreakResponse
The Africa CDC has announced the launch of the African Strategic Advisory Group on Genomics (ASAG), a new continental advisory mechanism established to provide independent, multidisciplinary and trusted technical guidance on the strategic governance and implementation of genomics across Africa. Congrats to new members. @christian_happi, @Tuliodna, @Nicky_Mulder@HopkinsMedicine, @acegid_igh, @H3ABioNet, @UCTHealthSci, @AfricaCDC Press release https://t.co/LloEkbA71W
A STALLION Cruise Bus driver, whose video - using a cellphone while he was driving - circulated on social media has been arrested.
Lordsher Mushipe, 46, of Ascot in Gweru, is set to spend Independence Day in custody at Mbare Police Station.
https://t.co/hQOES9omqf
What does it take to turn genomic data into real-world public health action?
@GeraldGmboowa has spent his career answering that question. As a Senior Data Engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, his work spans whole-genome sequencing, bioinformatics pipelines, and genomic surveillance across Africa, with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance and pathogen transmission in low-resource settings.
At #VEME 2024, he brought that expertise into the classroom, leading hands-on training in next-generation sequencing analysis and showing participants how to move from raw data to actionable public health insight.
The skills built in that room do not stay there. Collaborations form, networks grow, and the science keeps moving.
Read the full story on #thegem, links in the comments section
Applications for #VEME2026 are still open : https://t.co/E800j9USf5
@daddyhope “Exchange of Genetic Material”…… the good doctor should read Genetics 101. Difference between somatic cells and gametes. No knowledge of whatever pseudo-science he is trying to peddle.
The Protein Design Competition expert selection is live!
We received so many impressive submissions that we doubled the number of handpicked sequences to 400.
➡️ Check out all the protein designs that will go into the lab for testing: https://t.co/RRD1fkhV97
Huge thanks to our experts for reviewing thousands of proteins in record time: @MartinPacesa, @btnaughton, @sokrypton, @BrianHie, @ferruz_noelia, @constance_frg, @BasileWicky, @anthonygitter, @CotetTudor, @simonduerr 💙