Proud and thankful for positive reception we've had on our approach to embedding pathogen genomics research at the public health interface
@auspathogen
National collaboration has been critical for generating evidence for use and impact of genomics-informed public health in Aus.
New personal view article
Implementing a national programme of pathogen genomics for public health: the Australian Pathogen Genomics Program (AusPathoGen)
thelancet.com/journals/lanmiโฆ#OpenAccess#OA
#SchulichMedDent researchers secure over $7M in CIHR funding. This boost supports research to combat antibiotic resistance and develop a promising new surgical technique to improve organ donation recovery, among other projects. Learn more:
brnw.ch/21wMEl2@cihr_irsc
๐ข๐Excited to share our team received a ๐ฑ-๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ which will allow us to gain much needed insight into MRSA in the community. Grateful to the reviewers for their support.
@CIHR_IRSC@westernuMNI
Well deserved grant ๐for one of the best bioinformatics scientists in clinical/public health micro ๐คฉ We will all be waiting in anticipation for what you build next!!!
I am excited to win a CZI EOSS grant! This is the first grant I have ever won after 20 years in science. It feels wonderful to finally be funded for my open-source contributions. With @wytamma we will deliver the next generation of my popular Snippy software! ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Two more nights til start of @CSM_SCM2024#CSM2024@CSM_SCM. We now have 568 registered. Online registration link is closed, but donโt be disappointed - you can still register on site in North Campus Building @WesternU. Book your seat now! Please repost!
Seq data of varying quality can be used for different public health applications (analysis, training, more). @pha4ge standardized QC tags help users share, triage, and identify a wider array of data in public repos. For more info, see: shorturl.at/1yaCw hot off the presses!
First paper from my student Daria Frolova's PhD now on biorxiv:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
The key question: plasmids change structurally ~as fast as they mutate, so how can we decide whether 2 plasmids are "the same plasmid" for epi purposes?
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Excellent Guthrie Lab grad student showing at today's ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ. Posters by Jishnu Talukdar, Caitlin Howard and Emily Boyko @westernsogs@westernuMNI@westernuepibio#ResearchPosters
OMG this week in microbiology (TWIM) podcast 303 (microbe.tv/twim/) talks about our CRyPTIC project to sequence ~12,000 M. tuberculosis isolates from 23 countries and obtain quantitative resistance phenotypes for 13 drugs. (Paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiologโฆ ).
๐ Celebrating Success! ๐Delighted to share that Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Idowu Olawoye has been honored with a @CIHR_IRSC REDI Early Career Transition Award! Congratulations, @idowuolawoye - your success is well-deserved! ๐๐#DiversityMatters#ResearchExcellence#ProudMentor
BIGSdb v1.43.0 has been released. This version improves database logging of user access to the web interface and API. BIGSdb powers all the databases on @PubMLST. Release notes at github.com/kjolley/BIGSdb/reโฆ.