BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
We cannot wait to welcome 30 participants and multiple speakers, experts and scholars from across Africa and beyond 🌍 to the 1st African Genomics Short Course
📆 Course Dates: 30 November–10 December 2025
🌐Register to join us online: lnkd.in/e3Hyrmdh
#Africa #Genomics
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Opportunity alert 🔔 An exciting MSc opportunity is available at Stellenbosch University to apply bioinformatics and statistical approaches in Tuberculosis research 🔬
📅Deadline: 1 December 2025
More details below ⬇️
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
📢Applications are now open for Group Leaders at the African Bioinformatics Institute!
We welcome senior scientists based at African institutions advancing bioinformatics.
🗓️First review: 19 Sept 2025
📎For more information click here: bioinformaticsinstitute.afri…
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Apply now for a fully funded PhD with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, supported by NIHR! Conduct your research at a world-class research programme, with complete support for tuition, stipend, and research costs.
Click here to apply: shorturl.at/u6N6k
Deadline: May 27, 2025
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Application Deadline Extended!
Applications for the SHEDS Internship 2025, supported by @IGHSatUCSF, are still open.
Deadline: Friday, May 16 – 3PM EAT.
Candidates interested in Mathematical Modeling & NLP are highly encouraged to apply.
Apply now: idi.mak.ac.ug/opportunities/…
#SHEDS
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Details here:
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BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Wow! I feel greatly honoured to be among TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2025.
I'm eternally grateful to my mentors, collaborators, funders, colleagues, students & team who made the grind through genomics & global health worthwhile. You made this happen.
Congratulations🎉
Proud to share: Our Director, Prof. Christian Happi, is on the 2025 #TIME100 list 🌍
Fiers d’annoncer : Le Prof. Christian Happi est sur la liste #TIME100 2025 🌍
🔗THE FULL LIST HERE: TIME.COM/TIME100
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
I want to tell you a story about computers, creativity and awe! (1/N)🧵
Sydney Brenner once said in 2012 that “nobody has actually read the human genome. I mean, computers have processed the human genome, but we all know computers are stupid.”
(This is a talk I gave last week..)
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Open opportunity... 👇🏽
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BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
2025: Reset•Restart•Refocus
Grateful for the small wins:
1. Keynote speech for Commonwealth Scholarships 65 year celebrations
2. Radio appearance
3. Co-organising the biggest African Human Genetics Conference to date
Still believing that this is the year of realignment 💛
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Are you a global health research expert? Or a community engagement and involvement specialist? 🌍
⏰ You still have time to apply for our open NIHR Global Health Research Funding Committee vacancies. Closing date is 25 February 👉 nihr.ac.uk/get-involved/comm…
ALT Vacancy NIHR Global Health Research Funding Committees Closing date: Tuesday 25 February 2025 Apply now
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
🔔The abstract due date for oral and poster presentations for #ISCBAFRICA2025 has been extended! Abstracts are now due February 20, one week away!
📥Submit here: t.ly/juOEe
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
A reminder that abstract submissions for the ISCB Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics conference in Cape Town in April close on February 20th. Travel fellowships will be available for African students with accepted talks, info will be on the website soon: iscb.org/africa2025/home
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Professor Claudia Langenberg is giving a 3rd keynote plenary on ‘Multi-Omics in Diverse Populations’. She believes that there’s a need for ancestrally diverse multi-omic studies and that there’s a lot of potential & challenges in omic technologies as well.
#AfSHG2025 #Genetics
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Professor Claudia Langenberg is giving a 3rd keynote plenary on ‘Multi-Omics in Diverse Populations’. She believes that there’s a need for ancestrally diverse multi-omic studies and that there’s a lot of potential & challenges in omic technologies as well.
#AfSHG2025 #Genetics
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
We see you all at the ongoing @AfSHG_Genetics meeting in Uganda. Congrats to the new PhD graduates🤣🤣& well done Mr "Vice Chancellor". When we say the best human genetic conferences are those hosted on African soil, we mean it. @ambelema, @col_codza @romyboua @SFatumo @TwesiDave
It is not all science but fun when playing and working with African Genomes, so join us @AfSHGenetics #AfSHG2025
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Prof Michele Ramsay is giving the 2nd plenary talk on ‘Leveraging Data Science for Genetic & Environmental Insights into Complex Traits in African Populations’. African Gut Microbiome was highlighted in talk, she said “Doing the work in Africa is a global imperative” #AfSHG2025
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
That's a wrap on the #AfSHG2025 conference!
What an inspiring 4 days filled with learning, research, networking and a vibrant exchange of ideas on ‘Harnessing Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for African Genomics’
Please stay in touch and we hope to see you soon! 🧬🌍🇺🇬
BOUA Palwendé Romuald, PhD retweeted
Day 2 and last day of the pre-conference workshop titled “Practical Approaches to Research and Discovery Using African Genomic Diversity”— hosted in collaboration with @eventsWCS is well underway with the 55 participants from 18 countries #AfSHG2025 #Africa #Genetics #AI #ML
