Phionah Tushabe was the winner of our poster prize! Her study used metagenomics to identify viruses in stool of patients with non-polio acute flaccid paralysis. She not only had a beautiful poster but did a fantastic job of presenting her project. We can’t wait to see her work in the future!

Congratulations to our fellow organiser @cmavian.bsky.social on receiving the Hipergator Early Career Award. She wasn’t able to join us in Stellenbosch this year but we hope to hear all about her research in next years workshop!

Congratulations to one of our speakers, Dr Cheryl Baxter, on receiving the Conversation Africa Award. We were lucky enough to receive a great talk from Cheryl on project planning and ethics in metagenomic research.

Day 4 of the metagenomic virus discovery workshop is all about phylogenetics and virus evolution! Thanks to Eduan Wilkinson, Jackie Mahar and @spyroslytras.bsky.social

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Go @eakarlsson.bsky.social knocking it out of the park at the @virus-metagenomics.bsky.social workshop at CERI in Stellenbosch.

This afternoon we have @amnbio.bsky.social talking to our participants about implementation of Oxford nanopore technology in metagenomic sequencing. We’re very grateful for ONTs support in making this workshop possible

Tomorrow evening we have our keynote lecture session from 16:00 in the Neelsie Cinema, Stellenbosch University. Dr Maja Vukovikj will be speaking about Africas ancient disease landscape and Dr Erik Karlsson will talk about metagenomics and high-risk interfaces tinyurl.com/ytj3sppm

This morning we’re starting bright and early with a hands on tutorial in handling large sequencing output and designing a virus discovery pipeline

The advanced metagenomics for virus discovery workshop is underway in South Africa. Participants from 20 countries, global South such as Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, and Ghana, collaborating with expert teams from CERI, Karolinska Institutet, Germany, Australia, Japan

Day 1 of the metagenomic virus discovery workshop is underway with lectures on project planning. Fantastic to have teachers and participants from 20 countries here together in Stellenbosch

Today, we start one of the most advanced virus discovery & metagenomics workshop in the world in Stellenbosch. Experts from Australia, America, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Italy, Nederlands, Japan, U.K and Sweden come together to teach participants from 20 countries.

The Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop kicks off bright and early on Monday morning in gorgeous Stellenbosch, South Africa. We hope our participants are ready for a week packed full of insightful lecture and practical sessions with our panel of experts from around the world

Join us in the Neeslie Cinema, Stellenbosch University, on Wednesday 19th November at 14:00GMT (16:00 SAST) for the MVD workshop keynote. We have two fantastic talks from Dr Maja Vukovikj from Uppsala university, Sweden and Dr Erik Karlsson from Insitut Pasteur, Cambodia
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Just over one month until we welcome our teachers and participants from all around the world to beautiful Stellenbosch, South Africa, for five days of hands on metagenomic virus discovery sessions

Just under 6 weeks until the metagenomic virus discovery workshop kicks off in Stellenbosch, South Africa. We're excited to be bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and teachers with expertise in all aspects of virus discovery from around the world.