Scott Hazelhurst

2025-06 - New resource illuminates gene activity in African populations - Wits University wits.ac.za/news/latest-ne… via @WitsUniversity

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"This is about long-term African data ownership", @UCT_news Nicky Mulder told me this week, speaking about Africa's new bioinformatics institute. "Bioinformatics infrastructure is as essential as a lab. But it’s often invisible or taken for granted." researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-africa…

@Howardsackstein @miamalan @MYANC @Howardsackstein , sorry see this as a moment for schedenfreude

@miamalan It will end with the complete isolation of South Africa as a direct consequence of @MYANC anti American and anti-western sentiment and actions - we are finally learning that our actions have consequences

BREAKING Cancellation letters for #HIV and #TB research grants funded by #NIH started to roll in over the weekend. On Friday Wits got its 1st letter ending a R17-million #HIV and #TB research grant. And then the next one came. Where will this end? bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

Our AWI-Gen Microbiome paper is now out in print.

The project investigated air quality and use of low cost sensors for monitoring. Particular shout out to Matthew Benyon, Ngwako Kwatala, @JoshVandeHey , @caradeeyael

Another paper from the LEAP-Epi has just come out. LEAP-Epi, a collaboration between the University of Leicester, SAMRC and Wits (@SBIMB1 , @DPHRU_SA and Agincourt Research Unit) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Dr Jean-Tristan Brandenburg, of @SBIMB1, speaking at the launch of #KidneyGenAfrica at the @AfSHGenetics Conference in Uganda on the 4th of Feb.

I'm thrilled that our new article was published today in @AJHGNews. It was an excellent collaboration with @cschlebu, Yoro Diallo, Vaclav Janousek, and Viktor Cerny. Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel #Africa #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg…

Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research nature.com/articles/d4158… @WitsUniversity pioneering research for 100 years

Prof Michele Ramsay, #Director of the @SBIMB1 giving a #KeynoteAddress at the African Society of Human Genetics Conference that is taking place in Uganda. The subject of the talk was the AWI-Gen project. Here is a link to the other speakers: bit.ly/40KkdOJ

The African Bioinformatics Institute Stakeholder meeting was held over the last 2 days in Cape Town. There was excellent engagement and and lots of ideas for the establishment of this important organization.

Unravelling the Gut Microbiome: Insights from the AWI-Gen 2 Microbiome Project in Africa communities.springernature.com/posts/unravell…

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The work relied on the generous time that our 1800 participants gave us, the hard work of all the scientists and field workers at the research sites. A particular thanks to the NHGRI/NIH @genome_gov who were the main funders as part of @H3Africa

We think this is the biggest African microbiome study to date. This briefing by Juicer Olubayo and Jane Cook gives a good overview. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The AWI-Gen 2 Microbiome paper has just been published nature.com/articles/s4158… in Nature