Seit Jahrtausenden erkranken Menschen an der #Tuberkulose. Jetzt haben Forschende von #CharitéBerlin, Harvard Medical School und FZ Borstel mehr über die Übertragbarkeit verschiedener Tuberkulosestämme herausgefunden. Mehr im Charité Paper spotlight: charite.de/forschung/pape…

Which Strains of Tuberculosis Are the Most Infectious? New research from DBMI's Maha Farhat and Matthias Groschel in Nature Microbiology shows shared geographic origin between TB strain and human host could amplify risk for infection. Story via Harvard Medical School. hms.harvard.edu/news/which-str…

Reckoned without one's host: Researchers from the FZ Borstel, the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin & the Harvard Medical School showed in a recent study in Nature Microbiology that the transmissibility of tuberculosis does not only depend on the pathogen:▶️tinyurl.com/5fkkkr7c DZIF (inaktiv) PMI

Read our fantastic new research outcome linking Mtb genome diversity with transmission success - wonderfull collaborative work FZ Borstel PMI DZIF (inaktiv) TransEvo medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-l…

🔎take a closer look - epidemiological analysis shows host-pathogen sympatry affects Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage transmission in humans by @Maha_Farhat Matthias Groschel nature.com/articles/s4156…

📌Final session was on the Fundamentals of Health Research Data Security and Data Sharing “The security of health data is fundamental in health research”- Badou Gaye MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Ensuring integrity in research, its practices and the protection of the privacy of participants.

📌Session 2 was led by Prof. Anita Ghansah (senior research fellow Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research )on the Governance of biobanks. She delivered on operational structures, key components, legal frameworks,governance models of biobank governance and QMS and the issues of ethics, rights and privacy.

Demba Sanneh Biobank supervisor MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM led the 3rd session on “Quality- Policies and SOPs”. Lecturing on development of effective Biobanking SOPs, key elements of SOPs, ensuring SOP compliance and Biobank policy-sample use,storage and retention and compliant disposal.📝

Day 3/5: 📌Excerpts from the last lecture about@mrcunitgambia #biobank facility, daily operation of the bank and sample collection and processing lectures by Mathurin Diatta (Biobank manager),Demba Sanneh(Biobank supervisor) and Sheikh Jaru (of Laboratory management department).

Don´t miss this ERA4TB Project sponsored workshop! The Union Conference is the world largest on lung health We will show you how ERA4TB is tackling the complexities of developing novel regimens for tuberculosis treatment in a more efficient manner ARAID UCC unizar Universidad Zaragoza

Fantastic meeting of the SubSaharan SeqNet Consortium. Thanks for the fanstic collaborations and the push to transform TB diagnostics and surveillance by sequencing technologies

Nice and productive visit of colleagues from CERMEL (Gabon) in Borstel for training in tNGS and WGS of M. tuberculosis strains and discussion of TB sampling progress within the PANGenS project. PANGenS FZ Borstel CERMEL

📌Excited to share excerpts from Day 1 of the 16S metagenomics training at the University of Namibia! Participants delved into the latest techniques for analyzing microbial communities. Great discussions and networking opportunities made day 1 a success! Can’t wait for day 2🎊

Great start in our PANGenS week in Windhoek. Pushing genomic surveillance in Africa

Fantastic training at UNAM in Windhoek. Thanks to the trainers and participants FZ Borstel TransEvo

📌Today starts the 2nd In-person Global Health EDCTP3 -funded PANGenS meeting to discuss the project in detail. 📌This will provide an excellent opportunity to share insights, refine strategies, and ensure alignment with project goals ensuring more significant progress moving forward.

📌Keynote deliveries were made by Principal co-investigators Dorothy Yeboah-Manu and Stefan Niemann As well as from the WHO representative of Namibia, representative from the ministry of health and social services and the representative from the vice chancellor’s office #MyUNAM

Fantastic start of our second PANGenS consortium meeting. Pushing for pathogen genomics in Africa. FZ Borstel TransEvo PMI

📌The state of the art lectures of the in-person meeting began today with a lecture on “cgMLST Revisited - Evolvement, Success, and Challenges” delivered by Prof. Dr. Dag Harmsen.

Great talk of my friend Dag Harmsen and harmonizing NGS data for pathogen surveillance FZ Borstel PMI TransEvo