AfroBiomics
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Research area
We use genomic, epidemiological and ecological evidence to investigate how infectious agents emerge, spread, adapt and persist across connected populations and environments.
Scientific context
Infectious-disease research often requires evidence from pathogen genomes, hosts, geography, time, antimicrobial-resistance patterns and environmental context. These elements are most informative when analysed as parts of one transmission and evolutionary system.
This domain brings together genomic surveillance, molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and One Health research without treating them as disconnected scientific fields.
Representative questions
Analytical approaches
Genome assembly, quality assessment and annotation
Comparative genomics and phylogenomics
Variant, genomic-distance and population-structure analysis
Antimicrobial-resistance and mobile-element analysis
Molecular epidemiology
Cross-host and geographic contextualisation
Statistical analysis and scientific visualisation
Evidence synthesis and surveillance-gap assessment
Research collaboration
