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Prioritising individual animal welfare can clash with conserving whole species and can risk negative outcomes for biodiversity conservation. An open letter to animal rights folks. Thread 👇

Congratulations to George Warimwe on Royal Society Africa Prize royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…. Prof. Warimwe was awarded for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal. This is well deserved! Kenya Medical Research Institute

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Very happy to see one more paper from our work in Malawi, with this dream team @glichand Ciro Cattuto Daniela Paolotti laura.ozella Simon Hanni, John Phuka Jorge P. Rodríguez epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

In 2015 the National Grid commissioned a study into potential effects of Brexit on Energy supply in the UK. It was published in March 2016. vivideconomics.com/casestudy/the-… 1/

Owuor DC et al., 2021. Characterizing the Countrywide Epidemic Spread of #Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 Virus in #Kenya between 2009 and 2018. Viruses. mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/1… Virus Epi & Control James Nokes Charles Agoti Zaydah de Laurent.

With KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Ministry of Health University of Warwick Kenya Medical Research Institute testing explanations for why we saw multiple waves in Kenya. In brief, urban/rural and socio-economic groupings which led to first two distinct waves. Then variants came in. Free to read.

Paper news: Published in Science Magazine, a collaborative modelling study by Warwick Uni SBIDER & KEMRI-Wellcome Trust using PCR test, seroprevalence, mobility & genomic data to develop an explanation of the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Kenya. 1/2 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Exciting work from the #GeMVi team! Ivy Kadzo Kombe-W James Nokes

Applications now open for Wellcome Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health 4-year PhD programme The University of Edinburgh WT-HPGH Fully-funded and open to all students from the UK and overseas. Apply by 11 January 2022 for entry in October 2022. All details ow.ly/WzQD50Gqw5y

Really great to see the impact of Wellcome funding for genomics surveillance in Africa 👇 James Nokes @mlcotten13 Philip Bejon

“The narrative [in the West about Africa being helpless in the face of the pandemic] is disappointing, you kind of need to live here to know what we’re capable of” Isabella Oyier KEMRI-Wellcome Trust telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Devastating news from #theelephantqueen outreach and education team, who spent 2 years preparing the truck and outreach materials and had just started an 8 month tour to take the film to off-grid communities around Kenya. #morethanafilm # MiniNaWewe🐘

Humbled by your kind words. My good fortune has been to work with such incredibly talented individuals. Thank you.

The role of vaccination and public awareness in forecasts of Monkeypox incidence in the UK Paper: doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… Code: github.com/SamuelBrand1/m… Authors: @SamBrand101, Fergus Cumming, Paula Bianca Blomquist, Laura Guzmán-Rincón, Thomas House 热爱科学, @MattJKeeling, James Nokes #JuliaLang #EpiTwitter

Read our newly published preprint on medrxiv describing the genomic epidemiology of Human Adenovirus F40 and F41 in Coastal Kenya:medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. Many thanks to Charles Agoti george James Nokes Dr Charlotte Houldcroft KEMRI-Wellcome Trust and all the other co-authors.

Read our new publication describing the Genomic epidemiology of the rotavirus G2P[4] strains in coastal Kenya pre- and post-rotavirus vaccine introduction, 2012 – 2018: doi.org/10.1093/ve/vea…. With Charles Agoti James Nokes _W and the other co-authors.

KEMRI-Wellcome Trust & Oxford Nanopore are jointly hosting a hybrid East Africa Nanopore Day on the latest developments & applications of #Nanoporetechnology in 🇰🇪 on 28 July 2023. #genomesequencing #Bioinformatics To register & for more info., click here: nanoporetech.com/nanopore-semin…

How has our field drifted to the point where this obviously true point has to be made? Given the situation kudos to Miguel Hernán and Sander Greenland for making it so cogently.

The RaViG project aims to assess whether the implementation of real-time, in-field genomics to support investigation & management of suspected viral outbreaks is feasible & provides added value to the conventional response.This is to enable Whole-genome sequencing...

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