Himal Shrestha

Very happy to see Wasm gaining traction as a low barrier to entry alternative for programming thanks to the massive efforts by @quantstack.bsky.social 🎉 We're collecting Wasm resources for bioinformatics and beyond at wasmodic.github.io

🏆 Highlight of the day.. channeling my inner curiosity! 😄 Thanks #MicroSeq2025 for an awesome conference! 🧬🙌

Gateful for the opportunity to present and connect with so many talented professionals in microbial genomics and bioinformatics community! 🙏😊 Huge shoutout to the organisers for this great event. #MicroSeq2025🧬 #bioinformatics #publichealth

MicroSeq starts tomorrow! MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics. Registration open until 11:59pm, September 2nd, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com.

✨🥳🎉MICROSEQ STARTS TOMORROW!!🎉🥳✨

It’s finally here! #MicroSeq2025 officially kicks off tomorrow at 10:30am AEST.

Registration is open until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT so this is your last chance to get involved! Don't miss out! 👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Model-Based Geostatistical Mapping of the Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Cameroon between 1971 and 2020 Author summary Onchocerciasis (‘river blindness’) is a severely debilitating neglected tropical disease proposed for elimination of transmission by the World Health Organization. The main intervention...

Utilising nearly five decades of data, our recent study maps the prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Cameroon from 1971 to 2020 🗺️. Grateful to be part of this collaborative work. 😊
Paper link 🔗: journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
#riverblindness #cameroon #NTDs #geospatial #mapping #elimination

Kudos to the @parasitelab.bsky.social at @latrobeuni.bsky.social for championing open access! Ensuring unrestricted access to research is vital for advancing elimination efforts of these NTDs. 📖🌐
#researchforall #openaccess

A case report of Herbaspirillum infection in rural Australia | ASM Case Reports Herbaspirillum species are Gram-negative, oxidase-positive nonfermenting bacilli that are ubiquitously present in the natural environment including water, soil, and plants (1). Human infections have b...

🦠🧬 Very happy to share a case study on Herbaspirillum infections, which are often difficult to diagnose/misdiagnosed, leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS) for accurate identification. Grateful to have contributed to this work alongside an incredible team.
🔗: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Home A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes - rrwick/Autocycler

New year, new assemblies!
I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes!
It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention.
Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc...
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Pathoplexus| Home Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

📢 We're excited to introduce Pathoplexus, a specialized sequence database for human viral pathogens! 🌍 🧬
Launching with 4 viruses, Pathoplexus.org combines modern open-source software with transparent governance to improve global pathogen sequence sharing.

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Thank you for your guidance and supervision, Shannon. This is the best research project I have done so far 🙏😇😊

A massive thank you to my supervisors Warwick, Shannon @shaaznerd.bsky.social, Bec, and Karen, and my fantastic colleagues at Grant lab and in Ghana 🇬🇭 for their support! 🙏😇

Synthesizing environmental, epidemiological and vector and parasite genetic data to assist decision making for disease elimination Molecular Ecology is an international journal for research using molecular genetic techniques to address questions in ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation.

My 2nd #PhD paper 📝 is now out which focuses on synthesising environmental, epidemiological, and genetic data 🧬 to help make decisions on disease elimination. #Epidemiology #Genetics #Ecology #PublicHealth 🌍
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...