Malaria Vector Surveillance Lead at the Wellcome Sanger Institute Genomic Surveillance Unit.
Joined January 2010
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Alistair Miles retweeted
23 Jan 2025
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨We sequenced the genomes of 334 mosquitoes in Tanzania to investigate the population genomic structure of Anopheles funestus, a dominant malaria vector in eastern and southern Africa.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Alistair Miles retweeted
18 Dec 2024
New research on Anopheles funestus in Africa reveals high genetic diversity, widespread insecticide resistance, and promising targets for gene drive vector control. 🦟
Read the full pre-print on the genomic diversity of this important malaria vector
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Alistair Miles retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Are you attending @ASTMH #TropMed2024? You are invited to my poster presentation on Saturday where I would be talking about ground & altitude mosquito 🦟. #Mosquito #arbovirus #epidemic_preparedness
Thanks to @NIAIDTraining @IRPatNIH
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Alistair Miles retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Many people ask me about PhD opportunities. This 👇🏼 is your best route. And loads of skills training too. Ask me about it.
Develop your talent for research. Our fully-funded, 4-year MRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is now open to applicants for an October 2025 start.
Apply by 23:59 on 4 December 2024.
Find out more: lstm.ac/MRC-DTP
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Alistair Miles retweeted
7 Nov 2024
The cryptotype paper is out!
A genomic epidemiology puzzle: how do parasites separated by thousands of km share more than 20 co-inherited loci across the genome? What is the function of this complex genetic background?
Read about it on The Lancet Microbe! thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…
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2 Nov 2024
Some very nice work happening to make datasets for drug discovery more accessible over at @Polaris_HQ, I'm following with interest...
1 Nov 2024
Curious to learn more about the work that went behind making BELKA accessible through Polaris? Learn more about Dataset v2.0 and how we’re helping scientists focus on research, not on data wrangling. 👇🧵
Read the blog: polarishub.io/blog/dataset-v…
Access BELKA: polarishub.io/datasets/leash…
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Alistair Miles retweeted
1 Nov 2024
📢 Exciting news! 📢
Applications are now open for the 4th iteration of the @pamcaafrica-MalariaGEN virtual training course in data analysis for genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors 🦟
More info about modules, key dates, and how to apply: malariagen.net/article/call-…
ALT Free online training course: data analysis for genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors 2025 Offered in both English and French! Course dates: 2 April to 11 June 2025 Application deadline: 1 January 2025
ALT The course will run for 11 weeks with whole-day workshops on Wednesdays
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24 Oct 2024
What a difference an algorithm makes! I added an implementation of Philip Clausen's dynamic neighbour-joining to anjl, so simple yet crazy fast. Short blog post on NJ algorithms, plus a couple of small things I learned about accelerating Python code with @numba_jit ...
alimanfoo.github.io/2024/10/…
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Alistair Miles retweeted
16 Oct 2024
Growing capacity for genomic data analysis in Africa = improved #malaria vector control 🖥️
Today, participants from the 3rd cohort of the @pamcafrica-MalariaGEN training course in data analysis for the genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors met for a virtual hackathon👏
ALT 2024 virtual hackathon for participants of the 3rd training course in data analysis for the genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors
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Alistair Miles retweeted
15 Oct 2024
🚀 We are thrilled to announce the release of the Icechunk storage engine, a new open-source library and specification for the storage of multidimensional array (a.k.a. tensor) data in cloud object storage.
Read our blog post about Icechunk here: earthmover.io/blog/icechunk
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14 Oct 2024
If you're actively working with data from the vector observatory, please see this update about a new cohorts analysis version:
malariagen.github.io/vobs-up…
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11 Oct 2024
I've made a small Python package which provides fast implementations of neighbour-joining. Includes an implementation based on the rapid algorithm which scales pretty well and should work on ~10,000 samples or more. Also interactive plotting with plotly.
alimanfoo.github.io/anjl/
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5 Oct 2024
If you use malariagen data resources and/or think they could be better, please take a moment to fill in this survey 🙏🙏🙏
4 Oct 2024
How do you use MalariaGEN data resources?
We're collating information on how MalariaGEN resources are being used to build an evidence base for their importance. This will help secure further funding for their maintenance and growth.
Fill out the survey📝
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
ALT MalariaGEN data resources evidence base survey
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Alistair Miles retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Today, participants from the 3rd cohort of the @pamcafrica-MalariaGEN training course in data analysis for genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors presented their research at a mini-symposium.
It’s exciting to see #malaria genomics capacity continue to grow in Africa! 🧬
ALT Screenshot of the virtual mini-symposium where participants from the third cohort of the PAMCA-MalariaGEN training course in data analysis for the genomic surveillance of African malaria vectors showcased their research.
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Alistair Miles retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Jacob Tennessen of @HarvardChanSPH discusses insights from the Ad1000G project, which has sequenced over 1000 samples of A. darlingi mosquitoes, the primary malaria vector in South America. Preliminary analysis notes potential signs of insecticide resistance 🦟
#GEM2024
ALT Ad1000G: A comprehensive, range-wide evolutionary analysis of over 1000 whole genome sequences of Anopheles darlingi, the primary South American malaria vector
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Alistair Miles retweeted
18 Sep 2024
New 📄 in @MalariaJournal: Whole-genome sequencing reveals new insecticide resistant variants in malaria mosquitoes in Burkina Faso malariajournal.biomedcentral…
This work was led by Mahamadi Kientega @mkient54, who is presenting a poster on the findings from this study at #GEM2024
ALT Mahamadi Kientega presents a poster on his study on genomic surveillance of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae populations in Burkina Faso.
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Alistair Miles retweeted
18 Sep 2024
Kicking off the first session at #GEM2024 with a deep dive into the Malaria Vector Genome Observatory🦟
Read more about this collaborative effort to sequence the genomes of thousands of Anopheles mosquitoes to improve malaria control: malariagen.net/vobs/
ALT The Malaria Vector Genome Observatory – data, tools and training for genomic surveillance of Anopheles mosquitoes
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Alistair Miles retweeted
15 Sep 2024
My commentary on the closure of @VectorBase. Join me in rallying for its sustainable continuation. Comment, repost, and circulate. Let’s ensure this vital resource remains accessible for our global #VectorBiology research community.
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Alistair Miles retweeted
17 Sep 2024
3 PhD fully-funded studentships in vector genomics at LSTM/KEMRI/UVRI/ GSU-WSI with @eochomo @EricRLucas @alimanfoo @kwambo_2 @TonahN Chris Clarkson and Jonathan Kayondo. Details tinyurl.com/4nfzyj3u
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Alistair Miles retweeted
12 Sep 2024
@veupathdb and @VectorBase go dark over the weekend after more than 20 years of continuous service to their scientific communities. science.org/content/article/…
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