Malaria Vector Surveillance Lead at the Wellcome Sanger Institute Genomic Surveillance Unit.
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Jul 3 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
Highlights from the Arthropod Genomics Symposium in Nairobi last week. Lots of great science across disease vectors, agriculture and conservation...
Drew Hammond (@DrewMarcHammond) showed that viable resistance to gene drives in Anopheles is possible even in ultra-conserved regions like doublesex. Resistance can be mitigated by multiplexing targets though.
Paper coming soon from Mariaou et al.
Jun 14 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Heading to @pydatalondon - looking forward to geeking out for a few days :-)
@pydatalondon Learning how to code for the GPU, great set of tutorials from @_JacobTomlinson at github.com/jacobtomlinson…
Feb 26, 2020 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
Some coronavirus advice I've gleaned from folks who've worked in or studied other epidemics. Please take seriously and pass on to family and friends...
1. Many countries like UK are currently in containment phase. But likely at some point infection will start spreading via local transmission. At that point, top priority is to slow the spread, and what we do as individuals and communities will be critical.