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Excited to share our latest publication on the potential role of Enterobacter phages with tail fiber drug targets isolated from Kenyan urban ecosystems. Read the exciting findings here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1moFsArcH5zn… Work led by @MutaiIvy & @DrAtunga and the wider brilliant global team

📢 New publication in @PLOS Global Public Health Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections are curable but often asymptomatic. When left undiagnosed, they can lead to serious complications and continued transmission. In Kenya, a multi-center prevalence study by GARDP, the @MOH_Kenya and the @DNDi found: • Gonorrhoea prevalence was 1.0% in pregnant women and 9.4% in key populations (at higher risk for STIs) • Chlamydia prevalence was high in both groups: 9.6% in pregnant women and 11.2% in key populations • Younger individuals, particularly those under 20, carried the highest burden With STI care being largely syndromic, strengthening diagnostics 🧪 and surveillance will be critical to protect reproductive health and support antimicrobial stewardship 💊 🔗 Read the full paper: plos.pulse.ly/wh66ctplf6 #STIs #GlobalHealth #AMR #PublicHealth

Are you an early career scientist attending @agbt this week? If you’re looking for your next post, I’m hiring! We’re looking for a biomedical genomics / computational biologist (100% dry lab), Scientist to join my group at ATCC! Please dm me here or on LinkedIn if you want to chat! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/4047/scie… @officialatcc #genomics #bioinformatics #AGBT #AGBTGM26

Interested in molecular animation and in SF for #BPS2026? Stick around for the evening Structural Biology workshop (Rm 204/205/206) and my talk at 8:45pm (New Tools for Visualizing Dynamic Molecular Models) to learn about ProteinBlender! animation-lab.github.io/ProteinBlender/

Nature research paper: Nucleotide signals coordinate activation and inhibition of bacterial immunity go.nature.com/4aHbUID

New evidence shows Kenya faces a 22% prevalence of gonorrhoea, higher than global estimates. With resistance to commonly used antibiotics exceeding 94%. More: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S9HMXMJE… @PhageKenya @PhageHunters @IbadanPhageTeam @PhageForum @IbadanPhageTeam

Honored to have PhD Bioinformatics graduand Dr. @JohnMukisa3 at @wellcomegenome, UK, for #AIR2026🇬🇧! He shared research on the critical link between the gut microbiome & immune activation in children in LMICs🔬. Thanks to @WellcomeCS & @Fogarty_NIH for funding this trip🌍.

Visualizing pairwise genome comparisons? No need to run BLAST separately anymore! 🧬 ​#gbdraw has implemented #LOSAT, a WASM-powered Rust reimplementation of BLASTN/TBLASTX. ​✅ No local installation ✅ No data transfer (Serverless) ​Try it here: gbdraw.app

Staphylococcus aureus | Trends in Microbiology (cell.com/trends/microbi…)

Out Now! Pneumococcal S protein coordinates cell wall modification and repair to resist host antimicrobials bit.ly/44zqdN5 #Microbiology #Pneumococcus #Streptococcus

Our website has been up for a while now: phagekenya.netlify.app. Feel free to engage with different researchers in Kenya, labs, featured articles, opportunities, etc. 🤓😎 Our LinkedIn page too: linkedin.com/in/phage-kenya…

Scientists identified a single bacterium responsible for 76% of all stomach cancers. It already lives inside roughly half the human population. Most carriers feel perfectly fine. Years later, cancer appears without warning. This is what it is (and how I’d prevent it):

Antibiotics save lives, but they’re not all the same. 🧫 Each type fights bacteria differently. When we misuse them, bacteria get stronger. Learn the 7 main types and why smart use matters. Together, we can stop antimicrobial resistance. #AntibioticAwareness

Two interesting & interactive days @mmeg2024 coming to an end. Thanks for interesting science & organising to the team around @jamesemcdonald !

AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination | Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…

In an op-ed for @sfchronicle, @AMRActionFund CEO Henry Skinner warns that California is seeing outbreaks of drug-resistant superbugs like Pseudomonas, Shigella, and Candida auris while the pipeline for new antibiotics in development struggles to keep up. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

#NewPublication lnkd.in/epysvjVx Kenya’s aquaculture is growing rapidly, but bacterial pathogens pose a threat to fish, farmers & food safety. #Aquaculturehealth

High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa nature.com/articles/s4146…

The @AfrBioInstitute is exhibiting at the Science Forum SA in Pretoria this week alongside DS-I Africa and @eLwazi_ODSP. If you are in the area come and visit us. #SFSA2025

I appreciated getting to present our work in #Kyiv. We should support efforts to bring #phage therapy to patients who urgently need it, especially as pan-resistant strains rise and new drugs remain scarce and costly. 🇺🇦