So proud of our former post-doc Sofonias K Tessema, featured in Bill Gates' latest writing.

Malaria genomic data can be a powerful tool to gain epidemiologic insight- reconstructing transmission is one of the most difficult but informative outputs. If you are up for the challenge, consider a postdoc @EPPIcenter at UCSF + @isabelrodbar, Rasmus Nielsen eppicenter.ucsf.edu/training

It's happening: Aug 5-7 there's going to be a fantastic workshop in Addis on applied molecular surveillance for malaria. Led by Bob Verity + a number of other fun and smart people, seriously consider it if this kind of thing makes you tick: shorturl.at/sxAB0 @AfricaPGI

New preprint- we profiled Ab response to entire Pf proteome (+ variants) at near epitope level in Ugandan cohorts and found interesting things. Great collab with Derisi lab, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, IDRCUganda + others. Madhura Raghavan has a detailed thread and even better manuscript.

With Europe on fire and the evident role of air travel in fueling the climate crisis, it would be rather ridiculous to pretend academic travel can continue as before. For this reason Radboudumc and Radboud University @[email protected] launch the International Travel Challenge 2022. 1/2

It is now even easier to calculate genetic distance (IBD) from polyclonal malaria infections using multiallelic and/or SNP data - check out Inna Gerlovina's package on CRAN.

New work led by Saj and Saki Takahashi investigating causes of nonmalarial fever in oral/nasal swabs and plasma from a cohort in Uganda. Great collaboration between IDRCUganda, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, and @EPPIcenter at UCSF + others UCSF HIVIDGM

Learning at our recently completed East African malaria genomics workshop in Kampala happened in and out of the classroom, for facilitators as well as trainees. Here, educator Amy Wesolowski reviews ontology of Japanese food with Sofonias K Tessema and Isabella Oyier

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Thrilled to be hosting Zulma Cucunubá🦟 on Oct 6th! TRACE-LAC Enhancing Tools for Response, Analytics and Control of Epidemics in Latin America & the Caribbean Pontificia Universidad Javeriana MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Imperial College London eppicenter.ucsf.edu/events/eppicen… 👀 Break Dengue Thibaut Jombart UCL Colombian Society 🇨🇴 R Epidemics Consortium (RECON)

Please RT: We are looking for a postdoc to join our modeling team at UC Berkeley working on an exciting project to quantify mosquito movement patterns, life history & population size based on kinship data. More info on the position & how to apply here: marshalllab.com/postdoc-ad.html

Estimate genetic relatedness between polyclonal infections from rich genetic data (biallelic, multiallelic): our Dcifer paper is now out in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/artic… (1/4)

Anyone running an academic interdisciplinary research group with good experience on shared project/task management platform and way of implementing that minimizes overhead while helpful in keeping track of tasks and progress please DM me, @isabelrodbar. Much thanks in advance

Promising post-doc positions listed IDDjobs: infectious disease dynamics jobs iddjobs.org Bay Area Malaria John Marshall Bryan Greenhouse Jessica Briggs @isabelrodbar Nathan Lo

Good vibes & great discussions on CHILD, our new trial to assess the impact of detecting and treating low density chronic malaria on child health. Ifakara Health Institute MEI UCSF Global Health Swiss TPH Stanford Epidemiology & Population Health Ally Ibrahim Olotu Günther Fink Jade Benjamin-Chung Bryan Greenhouse NIAID News

Word on the street is that MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM currently leads for "fastest time to successful run of Mad Hatter panel" clocking in at under 2 weeks. With holidays. Excited to see the data generated by the team.