Great to see PHA4GE members at GMI16 in Tunis. 🧬🌍
@torstenseemann.bsky.social, @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy, @firefoxx66.bsky.social, @ruthtimme.bsky.social and Heather Carleton-Romer shared work on genomic surveillance, metadata and data sharing.
#PHA4GE #GMI16
@torstenseemann.bsky.social, @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy, @firefoxx66.bsky.social, @ruthtimme.bsky.social and Heather Carleton-Romer shared work on genomic surveillance, metadata and data sharing.
#PHA4GE #GMI16
September 25, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Great to see PHA4GE members at GMI16 in Tunis. 🧬🌍
@torstenseemann.bsky.social, @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy, @firefoxx66.bsky.social, @ruthtimme.bsky.social and Heather Carleton-Romer shared work on genomic surveillance, metadata and data sharing.
#PHA4GE #GMI16
@torstenseemann.bsky.social, @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy, @firefoxx66.bsky.social, @ruthtimme.bsky.social and Heather Carleton-Romer shared work on genomic surveillance, metadata and data sharing.
#PHA4GE #GMI16
🧬 Last time, #GenomicsExplained explored AMR. This week, we’re widening the lens with metagenomics — studying genetic material from multiple organisms within a sample.
Explore wastewater metagenomics in Africa: bit.ly/4hzkz3c
#PHA4GE #Metagenomics
Explore wastewater metagenomics in Africa: bit.ly/4hzkz3c
#PHA4GE #Metagenomics
September 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
🧬 Last time, #GenomicsExplained explored AMR. This week, we’re widening the lens with metagenomics — studying genetic material from multiple organisms within a sample.
Explore wastewater metagenomics in Africa: bit.ly/4hzkz3c
#PHA4GE #Metagenomics
Explore wastewater metagenomics in Africa: bit.ly/4hzkz3c
#PHA4GE #Metagenomics
This is a community-led initiative, under the umbrella of the PHA4GE consortium and anyone can join the working-group pha4ge.org/membership/ to be part of the community.
PHA4GE Membership
Apply for PHA4GE Membership to participate in the development of a rapid global genomic-driven public health response to disease outbreaks.
pha4ge.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is a community-led initiative, under the umbrella of the PHA4GE consortium and anyone can join the working-group pha4ge.org/membership/ to be part of the community.
New preprint alert from the PHA4GE Wastewater Subgroup:
Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance. 💧
Read the full work:
zenodo.org/records/1778...
Share feedback via GitHub:
github.com/pha4ge/waste...
#PHA4GE #WastewaterSurveillance
Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance. 💧
Read the full work:
zenodo.org/records/1778...
Share feedback via GitHub:
github.com/pha4ge/waste...
#PHA4GE #WastewaterSurveillance
Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated global adoption of wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) and revealed its value as a complement to case-based monitoring. However, practical scientific, eth...
zenodo.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New preprint alert from the PHA4GE Wastewater Subgroup:
Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance. 💧
Read the full work:
zenodo.org/records/1778...
Share feedback via GitHub:
github.com/pha4ge/waste...
#PHA4GE #WastewaterSurveillance
Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance. 💧
Read the full work:
zenodo.org/records/1778...
Share feedback via GitHub:
github.com/pha4ge/waste...
#PHA4GE #WastewaterSurveillance
Congrats to Dylan Pilz, a research programmer in Kristian G. Andersen's lab, who received the best poster presentation award at the Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 in Ghana! A @pha4ge.bsky.social member, Pilz was recognized for his work on wastewater genomic surveillance.
PHA4GE Member Leaves Ghana Conference With Great Memories, And An Award
PHA4GE member Dylan Pilz won best poster presentation at the Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 in Ghana for work on rapid detection of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 variants in South African wastewater.
ow.ly
June 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Congrats to Dylan Pilz, a research programmer in Kristian G. Andersen's lab, who received the best poster presentation award at the Wastewater & Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 in Ghana! A @pha4ge.bsky.social member, Pilz was recognized for his work on wastewater genomic surveillance.
Would it be great to have a tool that harmonises all the different AMR prediction tool outputs? We agree and outline it in this paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
hAMRonization: Enhancing antimicrobial resistance prediction using the PHA4GE AMR detection specification and tooling
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
March 11, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Would it be great to have a tool that harmonises all the different AMR prediction tool outputs? We agree and outline it in this paper!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨 Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology: Has it been smooth sailing?
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
📍 Zoom
Register: bit.ly/4ulwHKm
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
📍 Zoom
Register: bit.ly/4ulwHKm
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
May 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
🚨 Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology: Has it been smooth sailing?
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
📍 Zoom
Register: bit.ly/4ulwHKm
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
Join a special PHA4GE & IPSN webinar exploring how genomics supported the response to the Hantavirus outbreak.
📅 20 May 2026
🕒 14:00 CEST
📍 Zoom
Register: bit.ly/4ulwHKm
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
Love to see this. Alan's leadership at SANBI and PHA4GE has been essential to expanding and supporting the use of genomics for public health, both in Africa and across the globe.
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Alan Christoffels: Building bioinformatics in Africa
The leader of SANBI on efforts to address skills shortages and the lack of diversity
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Love to see this. Alan's leadership at SANBI and PHA4GE has been essential to expanding and supporting the use of genomics for public health, both in Africa and across the globe.
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
www.nature.com/articles/d44...
A week to go until the 2023 PHA4GE conference seems like a good time to encourage all genomic epi bioinformaticians to get involved and help develop standards and methods for open source, reproducible bioinformatics for global public health. pha4ge.org
October 21, 2023 at 8:42 AM
A week to go until the 2023 PHA4GE conference seems like a good time to encourage all genomic epi bioinformaticians to get involved and help develop standards and methods for open source, reproducible bioinformatics for global public health. pha4ge.org
Big congrats to the @who.int IPSN for coordinating a substantial collection of tools for enhancing the development of pathogen surveillance & organising a great Global Partners Forum. This complements the work of PHA4GE & of course many others. Lots of "homework" for us all & see you next year!!
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Big congrats to the @who.int IPSN for coordinating a substantial collection of tools for enhancing the development of pathogen surveillance & organising a great Global Partners Forum. This complements the work of PHA4GE & of course many others. Lots of "homework" for us all & see you next year!!
Alan Christoffels kicks off the first PHA4GE conference in beautiful Stellenbosch, with a wonderful opening keynote from Anita Ghansah #PHA4GEcon
October 30, 2023 at 8:02 AM
Alan Christoffels kicks off the first PHA4GE conference in beautiful Stellenbosch, with a wonderful opening keynote from Anita Ghansah #PHA4GEcon
🚨 The PHA4GE AI Working Group is conducting a short survey on AI readiness in public health pathogen genomics.
Help identify gaps, priorities and support needs across regions.
⏱️ The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete.
Survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PHA4GE #AI
Help identify gaps, priorities and support needs across regions.
⏱️ The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete.
Survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PHA4GE #AI
PHA4GE AI Working Group – AI Landscape & Readiness Survey
This short survey (5 minutes) aims to better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being used, or planned for use, in public health pathogen genomics and related health contexts.
T...
docs.google.com
May 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🚨 The PHA4GE AI Working Group is conducting a short survey on AI readiness in public health pathogen genomics.
Help identify gaps, priorities and support needs across regions.
⏱️ The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete.
Survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PHA4GE #AI
Help identify gaps, priorities and support needs across regions.
⏱️ The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete.
Survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PHA4GE #AI
8/ 🎤 Talks & media:
We’ve been on the road!
• A 2-part Pathoplexus feature on the MicroBinfie Podcast
• Tutorials at BC2, presentations at the IMMEM conference & the PHA4GE Conference & pre-workshop
Next up: See us at the Viruses in Silico (@evbc.bsky.social ) lecture series (27 Nov 16:00 CET)
We’ve been on the road!
• A 2-part Pathoplexus feature on the MicroBinfie Podcast
• Tutorials at BC2, presentations at the IMMEM conference & the PHA4GE Conference & pre-workshop
Next up: See us at the Viruses in Silico (@evbc.bsky.social ) lecture series (27 Nov 16:00 CET)
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
8/ 🎤 Talks & media:
We’ve been on the road!
• A 2-part Pathoplexus feature on the MicroBinfie Podcast
• Tutorials at BC2, presentations at the IMMEM conference & the PHA4GE Conference & pre-workshop
Next up: See us at the Viruses in Silico (@evbc.bsky.social ) lecture series (27 Nov 16:00 CET)
We’ve been on the road!
• A 2-part Pathoplexus feature on the MicroBinfie Podcast
• Tutorials at BC2, presentations at the IMMEM conference & the PHA4GE Conference & pre-workshop
Next up: See us at the Viruses in Silico (@evbc.bsky.social ) lecture series (27 Nov 16:00 CET)
Seq data of varying quality can be used for different public health applications (analysis, training, more). @pha4ge standardized QC tags help users share, triage, and identify a wider array of data in public repos. For more info, see: shorturl.at/1yaCw hot off the presses!
PHA4GE quality control contextual data tags: standardized annotations for sharing public health sequence datasets with known quality issues to facilitate testing and training
As public health laboratories expand their genomic sequencing and bioinformatics capacity for the surveillance of different pathogens, labs must carry out robust validation, training, and optimization...
shorturl.at
June 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Seq data of varying quality can be used for different public health applications (analysis, training, more). @pha4ge standardized QC tags help users share, triage, and identify a wider array of data in public repos. For more info, see: shorturl.at/1yaCw hot off the presses!
Facilitators Emma Griffiths, Charlie Barclay & Finlay Maguire (Simon Fraser University, Dalhousie University & PHA4GE) will guide participants through building metadata standards for emerging pathogens. Hands-on, collaborative & practical!
#PHA4GECon2025
#PHA4GECon2025
September 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Facilitators Emma Griffiths, Charlie Barclay & Finlay Maguire (Simon Fraser University, Dalhousie University & PHA4GE) will guide participants through building metadata standards for emerging pathogens. Hands-on, collaborative & practical!
#PHA4GECon2025
#PHA4GECon2025
Our June Monthly Update is here!
Catch up on the latest community news, project highlights, working group updates, events and more.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/pha4ge/june-...
#PHA4GE
Catch up on the latest community news, project highlights, working group updates, events and more.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/pha4ge/june-...
#PHA4GE
PHA4GE Monthly Update - January 2025
Updates from around the organisation
mailchi.mp
July 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Our June Monthly Update is here!
Catch up on the latest community news, project highlights, working group updates, events and more.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/pha4ge/june-...
#PHA4GE
Catch up on the latest community news, project highlights, working group updates, events and more.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/pha4ge/june-...
#PHA4GE
Unfortunately I wont make the first PHA4GE conference next week in Cape Town, hope its a good meeting.
Bonus points if you can guess the conference venue from this Dall-E image
Bonus points if you can guess the conference venue from this Dall-E image
October 25, 2023 at 9:47 AM
Unfortunately I wont make the first PHA4GE conference next week in Cape Town, hope its a good meeting.
Bonus points if you can guess the conference venue from this Dall-E image
Bonus points if you can guess the conference venue from this Dall-E image
📢 PHA4GE is conducting a survey on cholera surveillance and genomics to help shape practical public health guidance for Vibrio cholerae genomic analysis.
⏱️ The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
Take the survey: bit.ly/4dA7Lro
#PHA4GE #Cholera
⏱️ The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
Take the survey: bit.ly/4dA7Lro
#PHA4GE #Cholera
Survey: Cholera Surveillance and Genomics
Community Input to PHA4GE Cholera Genomics Guidance
The Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) is developing a community-consulted guidance document for cholera genomics for public ...
docs.google.com
May 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
📢 PHA4GE is conducting a survey on cholera surveillance and genomics to help shape practical public health guidance for Vibrio cholerae genomic analysis.
⏱️ The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
Take the survey: bit.ly/4dA7Lro
#PHA4GE #Cholera
⏱️ The survey takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
Take the survey: bit.ly/4dA7Lro
#PHA4GE #Cholera
🚨 In case you missed it…
The special PHA4GE x WHO IPSN webinar on Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology is now available on YouTube.
Watch the full discussion on outbreak response, surveillance preparedness and genomic epidemiology here:
📹 www.youtube.com/live/iRTz_Qc...
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
The special PHA4GE x WHO IPSN webinar on Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology is now available on YouTube.
Watch the full discussion on outbreak response, surveillance preparedness and genomic epidemiology here:
📹 www.youtube.com/live/iRTz_Qc...
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology: Has it been smooth sailing?
YouTube video by PHA4GE
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🚨 In case you missed it…
The special PHA4GE x WHO IPSN webinar on Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology is now available on YouTube.
Watch the full discussion on outbreak response, surveillance preparedness and genomic epidemiology here:
📹 www.youtube.com/live/iRTz_Qc...
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
The special PHA4GE x WHO IPSN webinar on Hantavirus and genomic epidemiology is now available on YouTube.
Watch the full discussion on outbreak response, surveillance preparedness and genomic epidemiology here:
📹 www.youtube.com/live/iRTz_Qc...
#PHA4GE #Hantavirus
🧬 In this edition of #GenomicsExplained, we explore phylogenetics and how comparing pathogen genomes can help us investigate relationships and patterns of spread.
Explore the topic further in Episode 13 of the PHA4GE #GenomicHorizons with Dr. Zoe A. Dyson.
🎥: www.youtube.com/live/4yZEERA...
Explore the topic further in Episode 13 of the PHA4GE #GenomicHorizons with Dr. Zoe A. Dyson.
🎥: www.youtube.com/live/4yZEERA...
September 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🧬 In this edition of #GenomicsExplained, we explore phylogenetics and how comparing pathogen genomes can help us investigate relationships and patterns of spread.
Explore the topic further in Episode 13 of the PHA4GE #GenomicHorizons with Dr. Zoe A. Dyson.
🎥: www.youtube.com/live/4yZEERA...
Explore the topic further in Episode 13 of the PHA4GE #GenomicHorizons with Dr. Zoe A. Dyson.
🎥: www.youtube.com/live/4yZEERA...
Meet Dr Rekha Sathyan in our latest PHA4GE #MemberSpotlight as she shares her journey, motivations and work within the PHA4GE Secretariat.
Read more: pha4ge.org/articles/mem...
Read more: pha4ge.org/articles/mem...
Member Spotlight: Dr Rekha Sathyan On Genomics, Public Health And Purpose
PHA4GE postdoctoral research fellow Dr Rekha Sathyan discusses her journey into bioinformatics, her work across scientific, training and project initiatives, and her ambition to use genomics, research...
pha4ge.org
August 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Meet Dr Rekha Sathyan in our latest PHA4GE #MemberSpotlight as she shares her journey, motivations and work within the PHA4GE Secretariat.
Read more: pha4ge.org/articles/mem...
Read more: pha4ge.org/articles/mem...
Thanks to @pha4ge for tweeting about the Colab : x.com/pha4ge/status/…
and to @MicrobioSoc (our blog post on this will come soon!)
The AMRColab is integral to our project on understandin#AMRMR carriage in the community sponsored by @MOHEOfficial TRGS. - 6/n
and to @MicrobioSoc (our blog post on this will come soon!)
The AMRColab is integral to our project on understandin#AMRMR carriage in the community sponsored by @MOHEOfficial TRGS. - 6/n
x.com
https://x.com/pha4ge/status/…
November 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Thanks to @pha4ge for tweeting about the Colab : x.com/pha4ge/status/…
and to @MicrobioSoc (our blog post on this will come soon!)
The AMRColab is integral to our project on understandin#AMRMR carriage in the community sponsored by @MOHEOfficial TRGS. - 6/n
and to @MicrobioSoc (our blog post on this will come soon!)
The AMRColab is integral to our project on understandin#AMRMR carriage in the community sponsored by @MOHEOfficial TRGS. - 6/n