Oct 21 Jennifer Gardy - Integrating Genomic & Digital Epidemiology for Improved Infectious Disease Surveillance
Dr Gardy joined the B&M Gates Foundation’s Malaria team as deputy director, Surveillance, Data, & Epidemiology in 2019. She had spent ten years at the British Columbia CDC & the U of BC's School of Population & Public Health. Her research focused on genomics as a tool to understand pathogen transmission, and incorporated techniques drawn from genomics, bioinformatics, modelling, information visualization, and the social sciences. >>>
Dec 9 Rasmus Nielsen- The genomic evolutionary traces of human-pathogen interactions
Dr Nielsen's work is on statistical and population genetic analyses of genomic data, in particular methods for detecting natural selection, describing population genetic variation, inferring demography, and methods for association mapping. Much of his current research concerns statistical analysis of next-generation sequencing data, both in the context of medical genetics and population genetics. >>>
We are always looking for talented trainees to join the EppiCenter
Bioinformatician/ programmer analysis of next-generation sequence data related to pathogen genomics. Implements or modifies existing algorithms to analyze genetic data in the context of spatial, transmission, or other epidemiologic contexts, including population genetics and longitudinal data. Postdocs in malaria genomic epidemiology and immunology
Genomic spatial & temporal trends in malaria transmission. Characterizing strain specific immunity to malaria using genomics & high-throughput serological assays.
Congrats to our awesome grad student Adrienne Epstein who defended her dissertation in October! We are all so proud of her work, and thrilled to see her pursuing her science. Very much looking forward to collaborating for many years to come!
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