Join us for the next webinar featuring Dr Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez, hosted by Prof Sarah Auburn on Thurs 23 July 2pm-3pm AEDT. Understanding Plasmodium vivax resurgence dynamics by integrating genetics and transmission modelling 🔗Register now: lnkd.in/gnWrnkXy

Postdoc (Barcelona, Spain) Computational methods for malaria transmission inference integrating genetic and epidemiological data. with @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social at @isglobal.org More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2548

📣 4 scholarships are available to support women parasitologists from LMICs to attend the ICOPA 2026 conference in Montréal (August 16-21)! Application deadline 11. February & requires proof of abstract submission (deadline 2. February). Further info: www.herminthology.com/equip

Menzies was pleased to co-host a stakeholder meeting in Ethiopia with EPHI and Arba Minch University, bringing together the National Malaria Programme, regional health offices, academics and partners to review new evidence and explore tools to support the malaria response.

Shout out to our Menzies team heading to Addis Ababa for a major stakeholder meeting with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health & National Malaria Control Programme. Over 30 partners and researchers will discuss Plasmodium vivax malaria & how new evidence can inform national policy.

Still buzzing from #IDMAPP-LATAM! 💫 I had the privilege of co-leading IDMAPP-LATAM to build capacity in infectious disease modelling & analytics for pandemic preparedness in Latin America 🌎 🗓️ 10 days ✨ 38 outstanding participants 👩‍🏫 6 lecturers & 8 keynote speakers 🌎 12 countries & >25 institutions

🔔 Applications now open for our "Infectious Disease Modelling and Analytics for Pandemic Preparedness: A focus on Latin America (IDMAPP-LATAM)” short course in Quito, Ecuador in October 🤩🌎 ☑️ Apply by 18th July. Limited spaces & scholarships available! 🔗 more info: mrc-ide.github.io/IDMAPP-LATAM

📣 Apply to our workshop on “Malaria molecular surveillance study design” 🦟🧬 back by popular demand for a 2nd iteration 🤩 🗓️ 6-8 Nov, 2025 📍Toronto 🇨🇦 📖: sample size calculation, hypothesis testing, cluster-based & multiple endpoint study designs 🔗: apply by 31st July (forms.gle/DV61PYcxckrh...)

🔔 Applications now open for our "Infectious Disease Modelling and Analytics for Pandemic Preparedness: A focus on Latin America (IDMAPP-LATAM)” short course in Quito, Ecuador in October 🤩🌎 ☑️ Apply by 18th July. Limited spaces & scholarships available! 🔗 more info: mrc-ide.github.io/IDMAPP-LATAM

Understanding the cause of recurrent #vivax malaria infections is key to evaluate treatment efficacy & describe transmission dynamics. Excited to see this important work out where use genomic & analytical tools to explore this, always a pleasure to work with my good friend @jjrosados.bsky.social ✨

Jason Rosado@jjrosados.bsky.social · last yr.

This work began in 2019 during my PhD, with the help of @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social. After navigating a pandemic, finishing my PhD, and changing labs, I am pleased to share our work on a modest #ampseq panel for #P.vivax. This panel is designed to facilitate molecular corrections in clinical trials

This work began in 2019 during my PhD, with the help of @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social. After navigating a pandemic, finishing my PhD, and changing labs, I am pleased to share our work on a modest #ampseq panel for #P.vivax. This panel is designed to facilitate molecular corrections in clinical trials

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.

Understanding Plasmodium vivax recurrent infections using an amplicon deep sequencing assay, PvAmpSeq, identity-by-descent and model-based classification https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.25327775v1

Current efforts in malaria modelling and pop gen are largely separate endeavors due to complexities of the parasites’ genetics. Here we review advances to understand strain hyperdiversity with potential to link these processes. Super excited to see this out✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Var genes, strain hyperdiversity, and malaria transmission dynamics

The microbiological paradigm for surveillance of diverse pathogens requires knowledge of the variation of the major surface antigen under the most int…

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Trends in Parasitology@cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · last yr.

Drs Karen Day, Mun Hua Tan, Qixin He @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social Qi Zhan, Kathryn Tiedje & Mercedes Pascual review #var genes, #strain #hyperdiversity & #malaria #transmission #dynamics. #Plasmodium #falciparum #Population #Genetics #Variant #Antigen authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7E75Eb1x...

In an increasingly divided world, “our call to action is both urgent and critical: join us in protecting global health and the partnerships that sustain it.” Proud to have been a small part of this powerful collaborative opinion piece

PLOS Global Public Health@plosglobalpublichealth.org · last yr.

NEW Opinion published today: Protecting global health partnerships in the era of destructive nationalism journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

What an amazing talk by @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social about the community-led project PGEforge, an open-access & central repo for tool landscaping, software standards, tutorials & analysis workflows! I’m inspired by the power of #hackathons & look forward to the future of this project! #rstats #coding

R-Ladies Melbourne@rladiesmelb.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨✨Happening now! Join us to learn more about PGEforge and see the application of epidemiological methods using R in action! Meet up link in the comments ✨ #RLadies #Genomics #Malaria

Really looking forward to connecting with my fellow @rladiesmelb.bsky.social 💜 I’ll be talking about some of my recent work and the exciting results of a big community effort through the Plasmodium genomic epidemiology (PlasmoGenEpi) network! Tune in this Thursday ✨

R-Ladies Melbourne@rladiesmelb.bsky.social · last yr.

⚠️ 🚨 UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED from 27th Mar to 03 Apr Join us for a talk by Dr. Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez on PGEforge: an open-access platform for malaria genomic data analysis. #RLadies #Bioinformatics #Malaria #Genomics #OpenScience #PGEforge

🎉 R scholarship applications open on January 20! If your team (government or nonprofit) works in applied epidemiology in a low- or middle-income country, you could get access to our Intro to R course and Support Desk! Details: appliedepi.org/training/sch... #Rstats #epitwitter

Starting 2025 with a new year gift! ✨ Amazing book with 90 authors from 26 countries 🌎🌍🌏 Very honored to have contributed to the chapter ‘Partnership-based approach to infectious disease research in Papua New Guinea‘ with colleagues in PNG & Australia 🇵🇬 🇦🇺 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transforming Global Health Partnerships

An open access book about the human experience of doing infectious disease research, linked to operational responses to disease outbreaks around the world

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new year gift! Open access book on Transforming Global Health Partnerships Edited by Drs Anna Stewart Ibarra & Desiree LaBeaud 90 authors from 26 countries I had the privilege of writing the prologue link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A starter pack of the R-Ladies Melbourne community, friends, alum, speakers and #rstats accounts! 💜 go.bsky.app/8h9PWdv

Interested in Lassa fever? Hear @drpdoohan.bsky.social summarise our Lassa review, recently published in @thelancet.bsky.social Global Health and part of our wider multi-pathogen review project: bit.ly/imperial-PERG

Pathogen Epidemiology Review Group

The Pathogen Epidemiology Review Group (PERG) under the leadership of Dr Anne Cori, are undertaking an ambitious project to make key epidemiological...

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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis@mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Patrick Doohan about Lassa fever: historic outbreaks, mathematical models & disease parameters. Why is a comprehensive overview informing future real-time analysis of Lassa outbreaks so important? youtu.be/dZgtOgDyIUs

As health agencies and researchers try to piece together the situation in DRC, my piece from earlier this year on the predictable task that eats up valuable time in outbreaks: kucharski.substack.com/p/the-predic...

The predictable task that eats up valuable time in outbreaks

How can we avoid a monumental duplication of effort?

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Bueno, lo prometido es deuda. Va una primera versión de #CientificosLatam en múltiples áreas. Si alguien quisiera que su contacto fuera agregado, por favor dejarlo en comentarios🥂 go.bsky.app/2oEhFSh