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📢📢📢 Equipment Alert!
We just took delivery of the first
@illumina
NovaSeq X Plus in Africa!
The Illumina NovaSeq X Plus is the most powerful and the most advanced sequencing system in the world. It can sequence more than 26,000 human genomes per year
#genomics
#sequencing
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🎉🎉🎉New Appointment Alert!
We congratulate our new professors, Professor Anise N. Happi and Associate Professor Ifeyinwa Aniebo
@IfyAniebo
on their appointments
@acegid
@RedeemersUni
.
Your professorship is evidence of your dedication to excellence.
Cheers!
#WomeninSTEM
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🎉🎉🎉
Thrilled to celebrate Dr. Ifeyinwa Aniebo
@IfyAniebo
on her appointment as an Associate Professor
@acegid
@RedeemersUni
!
Congratulations! 🍾🍾🍾
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The African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases has recently installed the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 Sequencing System. This is the first and only of its kind in Nigeria and Africa. This is one of the most efficient genome sequencing platforms in the world.
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We recently welcomed Dr. Ahmed Alebiosu
@this_ahmed_guy
to the
@acegid
team. Dr. Alebiosu resumed as the Coordinator for our site in Federal Medical Centre, Owo, where he will lead our surveillance activities. He is a medical doctor passionate about public health and health tech.
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Congratulations to our MSc Molecular Biology and Genomics students who defended their theses last week!
#Genomics
#PathogenHunters
#MSc
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We celebrate Dr. Idowu Olawoye
@idowuolawoye
for successfully defending his PhD thesis today.
Congratulations, Doc! Best wishes from all of us
@acegid
🍾🎉
#PhDone
#Bioinformatics
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🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to Judith Oguzie DVM, PhD for successfully defending her PhD in Molecular Biology and Genomics
@RedeemersUni
thesis today!
Dr. Oguzie used
#metagenomics
to identify and characterize viruses in insects and humans with a fever.
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Congratulations to 2 of our research fellows as they proceed to
@UCSF
for their post-doc!
Fehintola Ajogbasile-Oluniyi
@fehinajo
joins
@EPPIcenter_UCSF
& Paul Oluniyi
@pauloluniyi
joins
@UCSFPath
. Best wishes on this new journey!
Fun fact: They are the first
@acegid
couple💑
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Congratulations to Dr. Adeyemi Kayode
@_AdeyemiKayode
for his successful PhD viva today! His research focussed on understanding the genetic diversity of Plasmodium falsiparum and anti-microbial resistance in malaria within Nigeria 10 years after change in treatment policy.
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📢📢📢 PRESS RELEASE
ACEGID and Illumina to Increase Africa’s Genomics Capacity through Establishment of a Joint Training Academy
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Our team is working round the clock on suspected
#COVID19
clinical samples for the safety of our country
#COVID19Nigeria
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From sequencing carried out by scientists
@acegid
, we have identified the Covid-19 variant with B.1.1.7 mutation (the variant first identified in UK) within Nigeria. The variant was identified in a positive sample collected on December 29, 2020 from a patient in Abuja.
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We celebrate Dr. Fehintola Ajogbasile-Oluniyi on her successful PhD defence today.
Her research focused on the Genetic Diversity and Surveillance of Drug-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections in Nigeria.
Congratulations Doc!
#PhDone
#PhinisheD
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🎉🎉🎉
The MSc Molecular Biology & Genomics students of
@RedeemersUni
Department of Biological Sciences successfully defended their dissertations today!
Congratulations to this crew of pathogen hunters.🍾🍾🍾
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BREAKING: Prof Christian Happi (
@christian_happi
) awarded the iconic and prestigious 2020 Bailey K. Ashford Medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
@ASTMH
#TropMed20
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📢📢📢
Prof. Christian Happi
@christian_happi
has been appointed as a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
@GA4GH
Board of Directors.
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
Read the press release here:
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📢📢📢BREAKING!
Prof Christian Happi
@christian_happi
has been elected as an international member of the United States National Academy of Medicine
@theNAMedicine
during the ongoing NAM Annual Meeting.
Congratulations, Prof. Happi!
#NAMClassof2023
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Sequencing Complete!
The first-ever SARS-CoV-2 sequencing run on Seychelles soil has been completed. 17 sequences were generated by the
@illumina
iSeq 100 donated to
@MoH_Seychelles
by
@AfricaCDC
&
@WHOAFRO
.
More sequences this week as the Seychellois perform another run.
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The moment when
@acegid
team received the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) 2021 Gold Medal Prize Award 🥇
Fun fact:
@RedeemersUni
scientists have won 2 out of the 4 NAS Gold Medal Awards given so far!
Congratulations to our amazing team. Excellence always! Let's go higher! 🎉
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This day, two years ago, we released the first SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence from Africa.
The genome was sequenced by our scientists within an unprecedented 48 hours of receiving the sample, and the report was released 24 hours after.
#PathogenHunters
#AfricanScientists
#Genomics
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We’ve released 24 more SARS-CoV-2 genomes from Nigeria. Detailed analysis and report are on
@virological_org
at the link below:
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When
@christian_happi
received the Al-Sumait Prize for African Development from His Highness, The Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The award was presented on behalf of the Government & the People of Kuwait.
Thank you
@kfasinfo
for the recognition!
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🎉🎉🎉
We celebrate Dr. Paul Eniola Oluniyi
@pauloluniyi
as he successfully defended his PhD thesis today.
Dr. Oluniyi studied and analyzed the genomic epidemiology (frequency & pattern of distribution, & risk factors) of HIV-1.
#PhDone
#Bioinformatics
#Genomics
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We are currently training 10 African scientists on next generation sequencing and bioinformatics for detection of
#Mpox
virus. This is to build capacity for detection of mpox through library prep and other wet lab practices, genomic data handling, analysis, interpretation
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Meet Edyth Parker
@EdythParker
, our Postdoctoral Associate (Bioinformatics) from
@scrippsresearch
's Andersen Lab
@AndersenBioLab
. She is a genomic epidemiologist who studies emerging viruses.
@acegid
, she will study viruses like Lassa, monkeypox, SARS-CoV-2 etc.
Welcome, Edyth!
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Apply now!
We are still accepting applications into our AQAS-accredited postgraduate programs (MSc & PhD) in Molecular Biology and Genomics
@acegid
@redeemersuni
.
Scholarships are available for female regional (African) students.
Find out more:
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Meet Tope Sobajo (
@Topsiebabe
), our PhD student, studying the prevalence of the co-infection of Hepatitis B & Hepatitis D in Osun and Ekiti States. Here, she was conducting quantitative PCR on
#Covid
-19 samples.
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We are excited to announce that Prof. Christian Happi
@christian_happi
received the Africa Hero for Infectious Diseases Award 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda today.
The award was presented by The Africa Skills Center South Africa & The Leadership in Obscurity Network, USA
@LIONoutreach
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SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from Nigeria Reveal Community Transmission, Multiple Virus Lineages and Spike Protein Mutation Associated with Higher Transmission and Pathogenicity
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We welcomed another group of scientists from 10 African countries to our hands-on Next Generation Sequencing training in partnership with
@AfricaCDC
's
@AfricaPGI
&
@ASLM_News
.
Over the next 2 weeks, participants will learn about & use different sequencing & bioinformatics tools.
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🎉🎉🎉
We celebrate our 22 MSc and 4 PhD graduates in today's 15th convocation of
@RedeemersUni
!
Congratulations,
#PathogenHunters
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Hearty congratulations to the duo of Idowu Olawoye
@idowuolawoye
& Paul Oluniyi
@pauloluniyi
for their successful post-field seminar (internal defense) yesterday.
#Bioinformatics
#PhD
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We are recruiting two Research Scientists/Associates to work on our malaria surveillance project.
This is an opportunity for highly motivated & passionate individuals who are interested in adding value to Nigeria's effort towards malaria elimination
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Congratulations to our bioinformaticians,
@pauloluniyi
&
@idowuolawoye
, for receiving
@pha4ge
sub-grant funded by
@gatesfoundation
.
With this grant, the duo will generate high quality SARS-CoV-2 genomes using Next Generation Sequencing technologies and viral assembly pipelines
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🎉We celebrate the trio of Jessica Uwanibe
@JessicaUwanibe
(PhD Molecular Biology and Genomics), Tope Sobajo
@Topsiebabe
& Tola Ohiengbomwan
@royalesteemplc
(PhD Medical Microbiology) for successfully presenting their post-field seminars today.
Looking forward to your viva!
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Meet Judith Oguzie (
@judith_oguzie
), a PhD student in Molecular Biology and Genomics
@acegid
. She is studying the viruses that cause
#YellowFever
, zika virus disease,
#Dengue
fever,
#WestNile
, etc. These viruses are transmitted to humans by mosquitoes and ticks.
#WomenInSTEM
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ACEGID is trailblazing!!!
Learn about how we are making Impact in Nigeria!!!
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ACEGID will be officially awarded the Nigerian Academy of Science Gold Medal Prize on Wednesday, January 26, 2022.
This is the first time an institution rather than an individual, will be receiving the award!
Congratulations to our amazing team.
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We are happy to host (in partnership with
@AfricaCDC
and
@WHOAFRO
) three-weeks intensive hands-on training on Next Generation Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2, with participants from 13 African countries.
Grateful for the generous support of
@RedeemersUni
and
@illumina
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Our next training stop is
#Seychelles
where
@acegid
scientists are providing technical assistance & capacity building for Next Generation Sequencing (
@illumina
iSeq 100) & Bioinformatics at Seychelles Public Health Laboratory, Mahe, courtesy of
@MoH_Seychelles
&
@AfricaCDC
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Four of our regional students (from Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone) participated in the
#WANIDASymposium
. They presented posters of their research at the event. We are proud of them!
#genomics
#capacitybuilding
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Our Director
@christian_happi
was just inducted as Foundation Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialities of Nigeria
@acadmeds
.
Congratulations!!!
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We loaded our NovaSeq 6000 with the Mpox virus (MPV) samples from the participating countries in our ongoing Mpox Sequencing Training.
Grateful to
@illumina
and
@AfricaCDC
for their immense support for the workshop.
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We recently installed a new Labcyte
@LabcyteInc
Echo 525, an equipment that automates and miniaturizes the library preparation process (reduces the quantities of samples, reagents, etc. used in the process). Thereby facilitating efficiency and speed.
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Hearty congratulations to our Deputy Director, Professor Onikepe Folarin on her promotion as Professor of Molecular Biology and Genomics
@RedeemersUni
. The entire
@acegid
team celebrate your dedication, excellence and leadership. Many more feathers to your cap.
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Considering top-notch postgraduate studies in Africa?
Now is the best time to apply for MSc or PhD in Molecular Biology & Genomics
@acegid
@RedeemersUni
. Applications are open for the 2021/2022 academic session.
Non-Nigerians are especially welcome👇🏼
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🎉🎉🎉
We congratulate Dr Uwem George
@UwemGeorge
for successfully defending his PhD in Molecular Biology and Genomics (Infectious Diseases) today.
Through his research, Dr George detected & characterized
#coronaviruses
in bats living in close proximity to humans across Nigeria.
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We congratulate our graduates during the 14th Convocation of
@RedeemersUni
.
We had 23 MSc graduates from the Department of Biological Sciences (19 MSc in Molecular Biology and Genomics - MBG; 4 MSc in Microbiology) and 1 PhD MBG.
Congratulations, Team! Fly Higher! 🎉🍾🏆🧬
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African researchers lead scientific coalition developing surveillance system for detecting emerging pandemics in real-time....... read more here:
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📢📢📢We are recruiting!
Position: Zoonotic/One Health Research Project Manager
🎯to coordinate and manage zoonotic project tasks and deliverables
🎯create and refine tools for zoonotic disease & One Health surveillance
Details here:
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NEWS ALERT!
Prof. Christian Happi
@christian_happi
was today inducted as a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
He is the 4th non-Nigerian to be inducted into the Academy.
Congratulations, Prof Happi, on this well-deserved honour!
🎉🎉🎉
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📢📢📢 ANNOUNCEMENT!
Applications to the 2023 ACEGID Genomics Bootcamp has been reopened.
The Bootcamp has been rescheduled for August 14 - September 8, 2023
@RedeemersUni
, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.
Applications close: July 21, 2023.
Spread the word!
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📢BREAKING!!!
@acegid
wins Al-Sumait Prize for African Development 2021!
We are honoured to share this award with
@JNkengasong
of
@AfricaCDC
.
We are grateful to the Al-Sumait Prize Board of Trustees for this honour
@kfasinfo
#Africa
#Kuwait
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Our team is currently facilitating a three weeks long genome sequencing and bioinformatics training of scientists at Rwanda Biomedical Centre
@RBCRwanda
. Sponsored by
@RwandaHealth
, the training will lead to an upscale of in-country genome sequencing in Rwanda
#CapacityBuilding
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🎉🍾
We celebrate and congratulate our outstanding collaborator, Dr. Pardis Sabeti
@PardisSabeti
on her recognition in
@genome_gov
's first Outstanding Award for Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the genomics workforce. 🧬
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About last night:
@acegid
won the Sterling Bank
@Sterling_Bankng
Most Outstanding Genomic Laboratory of the Year at the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award 2022
#NHEA22
!
This was in recognition of our outstanding service to Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thank you NHEA
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Following hands-on wet lab practice, participants at our Mpox sequencing workshop were introduced to bioinformatics, genomic epidemiology and Bioinformatics pipelines.
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Our workshop on Next-Generation Sequencing & Bioinformatics for the Detection of
#Mpox
has come to an end. Participants from 5 countries had 3 weeks of hands-on wet lab and dry lab training.
Much gratitude to our partners:
@illumina
@AfricaCDC
for the support.
#CapacityBuilding
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One of our PhD Fellows, Jessica Uwanibe
@JessicaUwanibe
, is studying the prevalence of multi-drug resistance in Salmonella typhi within Osun State, Nigeria. The knowledge of
#AntimicrobialResistance
in this pathogen will guide drug prescription for adequate treatment of typhoid.
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The
@acegid
team is at the Seychelles Public Health Laboratory (SPHL), Maine,
#Seychelles
to train SPHL scientists on SARS-COV-2 Genomic Sequencing and Bioinformatics using
@nanopore
MinION.
Proud of our collaboration with
@WHOAFRO
&
@MoH_Seychelles
#capacitybuilding
#genomics
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The first week of our
#Seychelles
training featured sequencing platform (
@illumina
iSeq 100) set up, lab practical (RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, amplification, library preparation & sequencing), & bioinformatics (base calling & assembly, data submission to
@GISAID
&
@NCBI
SRA)
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Congratulations to our Director, Professor Christian Happi
@christian_happi
from all of us
@acegid
, as he receives the Bailey K. Ashford medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
#TropMed20
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📢ACEGID wins Nigeria Academy of Science (NAS) 2021 Gold Medal Prize for Life Sciences.
Congratulations to our amazing scientists whose dedication earned us this feat.
Gratitude to our funders & partners for reposing so much trust in us.
Thank you NAS.
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🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to Dr. Oguntope Sobajo
@Topsiebabe
for successfully defending her PhD (Medical Microbiology) thesis today.
Dr. Sobajo studied Hepatitis B and D virus co-infection in out-patients in South-West Nigeria.
#PhDone
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As we start 2022, a new article co-authored by
@acegid
's Prof Christian Happi
@christian_happi
and
@AfricaCDC
's Dr. John Nkengasong
@JNkengasong
was published on
@Nature
. They share lessons for the world from Africa's response to Covid-19
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📢📢📢
We present African Pathogen Hunters, a documentary on
@acegid
sponsored by
@Cambridge_Uni
@CambridgeAfrica
#genomics
#Africa
#capacitybuilding
#Excellence
#research
#health
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📢
We welcome Harouna Soumare, ACEGID's new Data Scientist.
Harouna holds PhD in applied mathematics & deep learning for genomics. He will use his expertise for effective data management & build predictive models & machine-learning algorithms, among others.
Welcome on board!
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We have confirmed a total of 29 cases of the B.1.1.7 lineage of
#Covid19
in five states of Nigeria (Edo, Kwara, Lagos, Osun and Oyo) and Abuja. This lineage (first discovered in the UK) is able to infect people more readily, cause more severe illness and can lead to death.
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Sequencing in progress!
Today, we prepared libraries and loaded both
@illumina
NextSeq 2000 &
@nanopore
GridION X5. We also had some more practical bioinformatics using
@TerraBioApp
.
#capacitybuilding
#genomics
#sequencing
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Glad to welcome Dr Oyebola Oyesola
@Oyeb2003
back to ACEGID. Bola interned
@acegid
in 2015 & is now an Independent Research Scholar & Chief, Immune Priming Unit
@NIAIDNews
@NIH
.
She gave a lecture titled: “Context Matters: Variation during Infections” to our team.
Welcome, Bola!
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Over the last three weeks, our team has been training Rwandan scientists at Rwanda Biomedical Centre on genome sequencing using
@illumina
&
@nanopore
technologies.
We also covered the use of
@LosAlamosNatLab
EDGE COVID-19 Cloud Platform and
@NetworkArtic
Bioinformatics Workflow
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Following a week of showing them the process, the Seychellois team started SARS-CoV-2 sequencing with supervision from the
@acegid
team.
@Illumina
iSeq 100 loaded!
Thank you,
@AfricaCDC
!
@christian_happi
@chizzygrace1
@idowuolawoye
@Mr_Olumade
@UncleMohamz
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Join us on May 10, 2021 for the virtual launch event of Nature Africa
@natAfrica1
, a new website from
@nature
Portfolio that focuses on research and the science community of sub-Saharan Africa. Find more details here:
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The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 Next Generation Sequencing Training is a brain child of the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative &
@acegid
. We are proud to work with
@AfricaCDC
@WHOAFRO
@ASLM_News
& other partners to deliver this training. Thanks to
@illumina
@RedeemersUni
for the support
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Our partners from the
@broadinstitute
were here to train our team on mCARMEN, our CRISPR-based surveillance detection technology that can simultaneously distinguish multiple pathogens from multiple samples in one run.
#pandemicprevention
#pathogenhunters
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The ACEGID Genomics Bootcamp is
@acegid
's flagship residential genomics workshop for graduates, postdoctoral trainees, faculty members, laboratory technicians & public health scientists.
📅Jul. 30 - Aug. 27, 2023
📌
@RedeemersUni
, Ede, Nigeria
More info:
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If you wondered what a virus variant means or you desire some clarifications about the new SARS-CoV-2 variant discovered in Nigeria, here are some explanations
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And so, Fehintola Ajogbasile-Oluniyi
@fehinajo
had a successful post-field seminar (internal defense) today! Congratulations, Fehintola!
#PhD
#malaria
#AntimicrobialResistance
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We have an opening for a fully funded PhD programme on health risks associated with urban wild meat in Nairobi, Kenya & Lagos, Nigeria.
This is a collaboration between
@WUR
in Netherlands &
@acegid
@RedeemersUni
Apply soon; short deadline: March 11, 2022
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The ACEGID Genomics Centre
@RedeemersUni
is nearing completion. What does this home for science look like? Here is a sneak peek.
#Genomics
#Africa
#PathogenHunters
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We are glad to announce that
@acegid
is partnering with Afroscientric
@afroscientric
to get more African women and girls into science through inspiration, support and empowerment.
Watch this space for updates!
#WomeninScience
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@chritian_happi
: ACEGID is changing the narrative in Africa by moving the continent from its position of genomics knowledge consumer to knowledge producer. By doing this, we will be contributing and participating equally in the world's scientific discourse.
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