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Schmidt Science Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Associate

Research Associate

Research Associate (Industry)

Research Assistant (Industry)

Research Assistant

Research Assistant

PhD in Pathogen Genomics & Epidemiology

• Awarded with no corrections
• Supervisors: Professor Stephen Bentley & Professor Henrik Salje
• Thesis Title: Geographic Migration and Evolution of *Streptococcus pneumoniae*

MSc. in Medical Microbiology with Distinction

• Supervisors: Professor Martin Antonio & Dr. Madikay Senghore
• Dissertation Title: Towards understanding genomic drivers of antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes from Ghana and Togo

Bachelors in Biology (minor in neuroscience)

Plenary

• Advances in Pneumococcal Genomics and Patterns of Geographical Migration of Pneumococcal Strains

Oral Presentation

• Estimating Between Country Migration of the Global Opportunistic Pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae

Poster

• Estimating Between Country Pneumococcal Migration
• (As a conference host I was ineligible for an oral presentation)

Poster

• Estimating Between Country Pneumococcal Migration

Seminar

• Using genomic and human mobility data to elucidate the long-range migration of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Poster

• Elucidating pneumococcal spatiotemporal dynamics in South Africa using genetic and human mobility data

Seminar

• Migration of the pneumococcus: Using genomic and human mobility data to elucidate the long-range migration of Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Invited by Professor Sen Pei at the Mailman School of Public Health

Oral Presentation

• Geographic Migration and Fitness Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Oral Presentation

• Geographic Migration and Fitness Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Poster

• Elucidating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae in South Africa

Oral Presentation

• 8th International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics, Epidemics 8.
• Pneumococcal Spatiotemporal Dynamics in South Africa

Poster

• Delineating the Perturbation by PCV13 in Composition of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage isolates in Cambodia
• International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases, 2020

Scientific Committee Member | Europneumo 2024

Travel Bursary Initiation and Management for Europneumo 16

Conference Host for the 16th European Meeting on the Pneumococcus

Symposium Organiser for Microbial Genomics Symposium

Course Organiser - MPhil Population Health Sciences

Supervisor - Pre-Doctoral Internship

• Project: Using Mutational Spectra to identify historical niche of the pneumococcus

Instructor - Bioinformatics Workshop

Lecturer - MPhil Population Health Sciences

Instructor - Pathogen Genomics Advanced Courses

• Week intensive course introducing Latin American microbiologists to computational tools to enable analysis of their genomic and transcriptomic data

Instructor - Pathogen Genomics

• MPhil in Genomic Medicine

Instructor - Pathogen Genomics

• MSc Module

Supervisor - PhD Project

• Project: Using Genome Variation Data to Measure Spatial Spread of Streptococcus Pneumoniae in Israel. Output: Presented Abstract, ISPPD 2022. Toronto, Canada; Paper in Preparation

Lecturer - Phylodynamics Masterclass

• Presented a phylodynamics masterclass to high-school students interested in studying biology at the University of Cambridge.

Probabilistic Inference Laboratory, University of Oslo

• I visited the Probabilistic Inference Laboratory led by Professor Jukka Corander at the University of Oslo for 5 weeks in Autumn 2022. I undertook training on developing likelihood-free inference methods with the developers of the Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference.

Medical Research Council, The Gambia

• I undertook my MSc dissertation

Robert Austrian Research Award in Pneumococcal Vaccinology 2024

• Awarded to Investiage the compound effects of air quality, meteorology, and pathogen population genetics on pneumococcal disease in a Bayesian Hierarchical Framework.

Doctoral Thesis Awarded with no corrections

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Conference Support Travel Bursary Grant

• Award: $50,000 I was awarded this grant to provide funding for registration and travel for 20 early career researchers from GAVI eligible countries to attend Europneumo 16. Link to Europneumo 16

Young Investigator Award Nominee for Oral Presentation

• 12th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases. Geographic Migration and Fitness Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Wellcome Sanger Institute 4 Year PhD Studentship

MSc Dissertation awarded with Distinction

Miller Internship Award

• Award: $4600. Underwrites expenses of students at Lewis & Clark College who are engaged in scientific research internships in the mathematical and natural sciences. Sponsoring Institution: Oregon Health and Sciences University.