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I am a bioinformatician, holding a Masters degree in Data Science from Liverpool John Moores University. My experience with Nextflow started in 2018 with an interesting story about trying to help a biologist to complete her PhD instead of fighting with environment management or dependency issues for various bioinformatics tools. Today I work for Seqera Labs, the creators of Nextflow and I am passionate about making bioinformatics simple and easy through teaching and contributing through translational science.

I am interested in Open source, Machine Learning, drug resistance prediction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Genome Wide Association Studies.

Twitter / LinkedIn / Github : @abhi18av

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Stephen doubles as a Bioinformatics masters student at Makerere University and Research Fellow at the Infectious Diseases Institute found at the same University. His current work focuses on characterizing microbial diversity and resistome in urban sewage using shotgun metagenomics. He also has special interest in AMR and TB genomics where he has done some work. Stephen looks forward to integrating his current skill set with machine learning and artificial intelligence to further address threats of health concern.
Stephen has a Bsc in Biomedical Laboratory Technology and in addition to this, he has undertaken training in Bash, R, and Python through coursera

Twitter: @kanyerezi30

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I am a research fellow at the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Redeemer's University, Nigeria, where I have also just recently completed my PhD in Molecular Biology and Genomics (Bioinformatics).
My work focuses on using genomics and computational tools to understand evolution of pathogens and drug resistance as well. I am very much involved in bacterial genomics and other bugs like SARS-CoV-2.
I have been involved in capacity building across the continent and I look forward to doing more cool stuff and building tools.

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I am Simon Ereh, an Infectious diseases physician-scientist with the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria; currently studying for my PhD at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Unit for Morphogenesis and Antigenicity of HIV and Hepatitis Viruses and the University of Tours, France.
My PhD research is aimed at identifying novel IFN-induced factors against HIV.
For my MSc, I had earlier worked on intra-host genomic evolution of HEV on immunocompromised individuals with different outcomes.
My primary research interests are Virus genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and genome editing.
I look forward to an exciting, healthy and mutually beneficial interaction with us all.

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I am Yohannes G. Gedamu, Assistant Professor of Genomics and Crop Science at Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture, Wollo University, Ethiopia. I did my PhD in Genomics and Crop Science at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. It was DNA and RNA sequences from Eragrostis tef.
In addition to teaching, I am serving the university as Director for Research and Publication. I teach courses related to genomics and bioinformatics, horticultural crops production and management; research method and experimental design
I am interested in crop genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, plant breeding and horticulture.

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I am Sara El-Metwally, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, Mansoura University, Egypt. I completed part of my Ph.D. work in genome assembly at University of Southern California, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, Los Angeles, California, USA as a visiting scholar in Waterman lab. I am running a small research lab with four students that are working on applying machine and deep learning techniques in genomics errors correction, variant calling, CNVs, and long reads sequencing data analysis. I am a representative of AfriBioInfoNet for the North African Region.

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I am a PhD student at the University of the Witwatersrand, affiliated with the Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit in Soweto, South Africa. I am also a representative of the AfriBioInfoNet in the SADC region as well as responsible for the outreach program and part for the organizing panel of the network. As part of my research, I work in collaboration with the UCL, Oxford Uni., and NICD. I serve as a science consultant assiting with the development of genomics project for pathogens such as A. baummannii, S. agalactiae, and S. aureus. My research interest include maternal and child health, microbial genomics, and bioinformatics education.