Scientific updates, events and publications from AfroBiomics.

20 Aug 2026

Call for Subject-Matter Experts and Potential Co-Authors: Chemical Biology of Microbial Interactions

Expressions of interest are invited from established researchers and subject-matter experts to join the proposed Springer book project Chemical Biology of Microbial Interactions, an interdisciplinary work exploring the chemical mechanisms that shape microbial communication, competition, cooperation and adaptation.

12 Jul 2026

African Collaboration in Cancer Chemoimmunotherapy, Biophysics and Mathematical Modeling

African researchers are invited to express interest in a multidisciplinary collaboration examining chemoimmunotherapy response in non-small-cell lung cancer through transcriptomics, drug-transport biophysics and mathematical modeling. Core analyses and an initial manuscript have been completed.

Current Microbiology — Springer Nature · 2026

Comparative Genomic Characterization of a Megaplasmid-harboring Multidrug-Resistant Raoultella ornithinolytica from a Septic Diabetic Patient in Uganda

Genomic analysis of a Ugandan sepsis isolate reveals multidrug-resistant Raoultella ornithinolytica carrying an ESBL-associated megaplasmid with multiple resistance genes and mobile elements.

Reuben S. Maghembe, Samweli Y. Bahati, Maximilian A. K. Magulye, Abdalah Makaranga Kuberwa, Simon Sekyanzi, Savannah Mwesigwa, Eric Katagirya

Discover Bacteria — Springer Nature · 2026

Pangenomic insights into multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from East Africa

A pangenome study of East African A. baumannii reveals repeated introduction of global high-risk clones, extensive genome diversity and mobile-element-driven antimicrobial resistance.

Samweli Y. Bahati, Reuben S. Maghembe

Current Microbiology — Springer Nature · 2025

Regional Genomic and Phylogenomic Insights into Multidrug and Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia

Comparative genomics across four East African countries reveals diverse multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae and both chromosomal and plasmid-borne mechanisms of colistin resistance.

Samweli Y. Bahati, Abdalah Makaranga, Reuben S. Maghembe

Microbiology Spectrum · 2025

Pangenome analysis of Tanzanian clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae reveals pandemic clones with high genome plasticity and versatile mobilome, virulome, and resistome profiles

Pangenome analysis of 198 Tanzanian Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates resolving population structure, genome plasticity, antimicrobial resistance, virulence, mobile genetic elements and capsule/O-antigen diversity.

Samweli Y. Bahati, Reuben S. Maghembe