Congratulations to all participants at the FCDO Genome workshop for their hard work and commitment to scientific excellence!
WACCBIP wishes you all the best!
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Exciting collaboration at the FCDO Genome sequencing workshop finale!
Wet lab participants team up with computational group to showcase the transition from sequencing on the Illumina platform to bioinformatics analysis.
Bridging the gap between data generation & interpretation.

Participants are crunching #bioinformatics data on the server. The Linux server looks busy. Thanks to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office for sponsoring the workshop. Thanks to Thomas D. Otto WACCBIP and Saikou for giving us the server. #AMR Gordon Awandare

#ThankYou to Fundación Anesvad for #recognising my research efforts in #skinntds . WACCBIP University of Ghana Africa Higher Ed. Centers of Excellence-ACE Impact Skin NTDs Laboratory Network Theresa Manful Gwira Gordon Awandare

Participants discover the role of Artificial Intelligence in antimicrobial drug discovery with Prof. Samuel Kwofie, Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, on #day9 of our Genome Sequencing Workshop.
#Genomics #AI #DrugDiscovery #WACCBIPis10

Where Africa Centers of Excellence meets #AfricaEuropeCoRE : Gordon Awandare University of Ghana showing at World Bank Africa international partnership meeting how Africa Higher Ed. Centers of Excellence-ACE Impact long-term funding reversed brain drain, supported research students, and led to ground-breaking vaccine discoveries.

Yesterday and today, the leaders of two out of UG's three World Bank Centers of Excellence, WACCBIP and WACCI shared their impressive work at the ACE Impact workshop in Mauritius, receiving applause from the audience. It was especially gratifying to see Prof. John Gyapong, the…

WACCBIP founding Director Gordon Awandare as part of a high level panel discusses the Centre's impacts and success as part of Africa Higher Ed. Centers of Excellence-ACE Impact Europe Partnership meeting #WACCBIPis10 #ACEpartnerships #ACEat10

Highlights of #day8 of #GenomeSequencingWorkshop …
Wet lab tackled library quantification, serial dilution, & loading on miSeq after spiking with Phix while the bioinformatics team did an introduction to data manipulation and analysis in R. #Genomics #Bioinformatics #WACCBIPis10

Today marks #WorldThalassemiaDay
Join in to empower lives and embrace progress through equitable and accessible treatment for all affected by thalassemia. Let's work together to ensure every individual receives the care they deserve. #ThalassemiaAwareness
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On #day7 of the genome sequencing workshop, Dr Collins M. Morang'a expertly guides participants in utilizing command line blast to identify AMR genes within assembled bacterial genomes. 🧬💻 #Genomics #AMR #Bioinformatics
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#Week2 of our genome sequencing workshop!
In the wet lab, we've quantified DNA, tagmented & normalized libraries, and cleaned & amplified DNA while the bioinformatics team is engaged in practical genome annotation & identifying functional elements along the sequence of a genome.

‘Rising Stars from the HEPMAL Project’🤩🤩 Check out this article from EDCTP on two students of the HEPMAL Project Project:
edctp.org/project/rising…
Congratulations to our Rising Stars!!✨👏🏽👏🏽 Rawdat Baba-Adam Rawdat Baba-Adam and Bright Asare Bright Asare Debrah

Genome sequencing workshop day 5:
Francis Francis Dzabeng explores data integrity, ethical compliance, and the critical role of data governance and management policies. He featured data management tools for consistency, and how to ensure top-notch data quality for analysis.
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In our genome sequencing & bioinformatics workshop, the wet lab team is handling library preparation, quantification & miSeq sequencing, while the bioinformatics group is focused on scripting, genome assembly & quality assessment on Day 4! #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Workshop

Vincent Appiah leads the Bioinformatics group in a theory session introducing the Linux OS before proceeding to a practical phase.
Meanwhile, Joyce Ngoi, and the wet lab team are quantifying DNA using the Qubit fluorometer.
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Excited to start day 2 of the Combatting AMR Workshop today, with appreciation for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Wellcome, the main sponsors behind this initiative. 💪
Today's agenda starts with a presentation by Joyce Ngoi on the introduction to NGS.
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Dr. Samuel Duodu takes the stage, delving into antimicrobial resistance and One Health in an engaging session, before passing the baton to Dr. Lucas.
Dr. Lucas Amenga-Etego explores genomics & bioinformatics, unraveling their concepts & applications with participants.
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Excited to start the Combatting AMR: Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatics Workshop today! Supported by Illumina & ISN Medical.
Dr. Isawumi Abiola starts us off with his presentation on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, after a warm welcome by Dep. Dir., Admin. Prof. Lydia Mosi

If you have not already registered and submitted your abstract for the #WRC2024 , you still have an opportunity to do so.
The registration deadline has been extended to 30th April 2024!!

Register now at redcap.link/WRC2024