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@IGHupdates, @RedeemersUni.
- 🎉🎉🎉New Appointment Alert! We congratulate our new professors, Professor Anise N. Happi and Associate Professor Ifeyinwa Aniebo @IfyAniebo on their appointments @acegid @RedeemersUni. Your professorship is evidence of your dedication to excellence. Cheers! #WomeninSTEM
- 🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled to celebrate Dr. Ifeyinwa Aniebo @IfyAniebo on her appointment as an Associate Professor @acegid @RedeemersUni! Congratulations! 🍾🍾🍾
- The African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases has recently installed the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 Sequencing System. This is the first and only of its kind in Nigeria and Africa. This is one of the most efficient genome sequencing platforms in the world.
- 📢📢📢 Equipment Alert! We just took delivery of the first @illumina NovaSeq X Plus in Africa! The Illumina NovaSeq X Plus is the most powerful and the most advanced sequencing system in the world. It can sequence more than 26,000 human genomes per year #genomics#sequencing00:00
- We recently welcomed Dr. Ahmed Alebiosu @this_ahmed_guy to the @acegid team. Dr. Alebiosu resumed as the Coordinator for our site in Federal Medical Centre, Owo, where he will lead our surveillance activities. He is a medical doctor passionate about public health and health tech.
- Congratulations to our MSc Molecular Biology and Genomics students who defended their theses last week! #Genomics#PathogenHunters#MSc
- 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Judith Oguzie DVM, PhD for successfully defending her PhD in Molecular Biology and Genomics @RedeemersUni thesis today! Dr. Oguzie used #metagenomics to identify and characterize viruses in insects and humans with a fever.
- We celebrate Dr. Idowu Olawoye @idowuolawoye for successfully defending his PhD thesis today. Congratulations, Doc! Best wishes from all of us @acegid 🍾🎉 #PhDone#Bioinformatics
- Congratulations to 2 of our research fellows as they proceed to @UCSF for their post-doc! Fehintola Ajogbasile-Oluniyi @fehinajo joins @EPPIcenter_UCSF & Paul Oluniyi @pauloluniyi joins @UCSFPath. Best wishes on this new journey! Fun fact: They are the first @acegid couple💑
- 📢📢📢The ACEGID Genomics Bootcamp is Back! We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the 2023 @acegid Genomics Bootcamp scheduled for July 30 - August 27, 2023. Find out more information and apply here: acegid.org/acegid-genomic…
- Congratulations to Dr. Adeyemi Kayode @_AdeyemiKayode for his successful PhD viva today! His research focussed on understanding the genetic diversity of Plasmodium falsiparum and anti-microbial resistance in malaria within Nigeria 10 years after change in treatment policy.
- 📢📢📢 PRESS RELEASE ACEGID and Illumina to Increase Africa’s Genomics Capacity through Establishment of a Joint Training Academy
