Thirteenth H3Africa Consortium Meeting
VENUE: Laico Tunis Hotel, Tunisia
| Sunday 7th April 2019 (Arrival / Registration) | ||
| IFGeneRA Meeting (by invitation) | H3Africa Fellows Professional Development Session | AAS/AESA Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop |
| Monday 8th April 2019 | ||
| Grants Writing Workshop (NIH/Wellcome/AAS) | ||
| Lunch | ||
| Grants Writing Workshop (Breakout sessions) | Fellows Professional Development Sessions | |
| Opening | ||
| Tuesday 9th April 2019 | ||
| Principal Investigators & Fellows Presentations | ||
| Wednesday 10th April 2019 | ||
| Principal Investigators & Fellows Presentations, WG Sessions | ||
| Thursday 11th April 2019 | ||
| Working Group Sessions, Professional Development, Report Back and Closing | ||
| Friday 12th April 2019 | ||
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Sunday 7th April 2019 Arrivals/Registration Carthage Foyer |
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| Carthage | Institute Pasteur Tunis | Dhyafa |
| IFGeneRA Meeting (by invitation) | H3Africa Fellows Professional Development | AAS/AESA Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) |
Monday 8th April 2019 Registration (Carthage Foyer) |
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| Grants Writing Workshop Venue: Carthage | |||
| 08:00-08:10 | Opening/Welcome | ||
| 08:10-08:50 | AAS overview presentation- Jennifer Maroa Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 08:50-09:30 | NIH overview presentation-Sudah Srinivasan Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 09:30-09:50 | Tea/Coffee | ||
| 09:50-10:30 | Wellcome overview presentation- Audrey Duncanson Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 10:30-11:10 | Scientific Peer Review- Dan Gerendasy Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 11:10-11:40 | Alash’le Abimiku Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 11:50-12:30 | My grant writing experience – David Kateete Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| 12:30-12:50 | Lunch, launch survey of possible follow-up webinar topics (Carthage Foyer) | ||
| 12:50-13:30 | Ambroise Wonkam Presentation: 30min Q&A: 10min | ||
| Funding Agency Personnel | |||
| Carthage | Escale | Cyrene | |
| 13:30-15:30 | Grants Writing (Breakout Sessions) | Fellows career stage appropriate grant writing | Precision Medicine Task Force Rapporteur: Nicki Tiffin |
| 15:30-16:00 | Results of a survey of possible follow-up webinar topics | ||
| Tea/Coffee | |||
| 16:30-18:30 | H3Africa PI Meeting (Dhyafa) Rapporteur: Michelle Skelton | IEC & Funder Meeting (Limes) Rapporteur: Harry Wedel & Rosalyn Wamuyu | |
| 19:00 | Opening of the 13th Meeting of the H3Africa Consortium Venue: Oya | ||
| Institute Pasteur: Prof Alia Benkahla | |||
| Director General Institue Pasteur: Dr. Hechmi Louzir | |||
| Ministry of Health | |||
| TBA | |||
| Secretary of State of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Tunisia Hon. Khalil Amiri | |||
| Director of AESA Dr. Thomas Kariuki | |||
| H3Africa Steering Committee Chair & Co-Chairs: Prof Nicky Mulder & Mogomotsi Matshaba | |||
| 19:30-20:30 | Cocktail | ||
| 20:30 | Entertainment | ||
Tuesday 9th April, 2019 |
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| 07:00-08:00 | Registration -Carthage Foyer |
| Chair: Charmaine Royal
Principal Investigator & Fellow’s Presentations Ethics, Legal & Societal Issues Venue: Carthage |
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| 08:00-08:20 | Project: Developing best practices of Community Engagement for Genomics and BioBanking in Africa (CEBioGen)Title: Developing Best Practices of Community Engagement in Genomics and Biobanking in Africa CEBioGen ProjectPresenter:Anita Ghansah & Paulina Tindana Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
| 08:20-08:40 | Project: Genetics and genomic research in Uganda: Towards context specific ethics guidelines
Title: Genetics and genomic research in Uganda: Towards context specific ethics guidelines Presenter:Joseph Ochieng Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
| 08:40-09:00 | Project: African Neurobiobank for precision Stroke Medicine
Title: African Neurobiobank for precision Stroke Medicine Presenter:Rufus Olusola Akinyemi Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
| 09:00-09:30 | Project: Individual Findings in Genetic Research in Africa (IFGeneRA)
Title: Individual Findings in Genetic Research in Africa (IFGeneRA) Presenter:Jantina de Vries Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
| 09:30-09:50 | Tea/Poster Session Dhyafa Foyer |
| Chair: Rex Chisholm
PI & Fellow’s Presentations Infectious Disease |
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| 09:50-10:20 | Project: Genomic Characterzation and Surveillance of Microbial Threats in West Africa
Title: African Center of Excellence For Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) Presenter:Christian Happi Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
| Title: Identification and Chartacterization of Yellow Fever Virus in VHF Suspected Samples by Genomics Deep Sequencing in Nigeria
Presenter:Fehintola Ajogbasile: 10min Q&A: 2min |
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| 10:20-10:50 | Project: Trypogen+: The Genetic Determinants of Two Neglected Tropical Diseases
Title: Trypogen+: The Genetic Determinants of Two Neglected Tropical Diseases Presenter:Enock Matovu Presentation: 25min Q&A: 2min |
| 10:50-11:20 | Project:
Center for Research on the Respiratory Microbiota of African Children (ReMAC) Presenter requested not to share
Title: Center for Research on the Respiratory Microbiota of African Children (ReMAC)Presenter:Mark Nicol Presentation: 16min Q&A: 2min |
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Prevalence and characterzation of haemophilus influenzae in the nasopharynx of young childre, South AfricaPresenter requested not to share
Presenter:Fadheela Patel Presentation: 10min Q&A: 2min |
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| 11:20-11:50 | Project: SickleGenAfrica: Sickle Cell Disease Genomics Network of Africa
Title: SickleGenAfrica Community Engagement: Preliminary Outcome from Focus Group Presenter:Kofi Anie Presentation: 25min Q&A: 2min |
| Lunch (El Maeda Resturant) | |
| Chair: Melek Chaouch
Fellow’s Presentations |
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| 12:50-13:50 | Title: Prevalence, risk factors and genetic associations for chronic kidney disease related variables in four sub-Saharan African countries: an AWI-Gen sub-study
Presenter: Jean Tristan Brandenburg |
| Title: The developmentally dynamic microRNA transcriptome of Glossina pallidipes tsetse flies, vectors of sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomiasis
Presenter: Careen Naitore |
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| Title: Sputum microbiome composition through treatment of TB patients in an endemic setting
Presenter: Monica Mbabazi |
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| Title: Bioinformatics analysis of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit (nAchra8) protein evolution in different higher and lower organisms
Presenter: Medhat Radi |
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| Title: Whole Exome Sequencing reveals differential frequencies in ancestral alleles in Hearing Impairment genes among patients compared controls in Cameroon
Presenter: Noluthando Manyisa |
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| 13:50-14:10 | Lunch |
| Chair: Rex Chisholm
PI & Fellow’s Presentations |
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| 14:10-14:40 | Project: Breast Milk Microbiota Influence on Infant Immunity and Growth (BEAMING)
Alash’le Abimiku Presentation:25min Q&A: 2min |
| 14:40-15:10 | Project: African Female Breast Cancer Epidemiology (AFBRECANE) Study
Clement Adebamowo Presentation:25min Q&A: 2min |
| 15:10-16:40 | Project:
Deciphering Developmental Disorders in Africa (DDD-Africa) – Evaluating Clinical Exome Squencing in an African SettingPresenter requested not to share
Title: Genetic aetiology of developmental disorders in Africa – DDD-Africa progress Presenter: Zane Lombard Presentation:25min Q&A: 2min |
| 16:40-17:10 | Project:
Immunoglobulin gene diversity in an African population and impact on antibody function in HIV infectionPresenter requested not to share
Presenter: Simone Richardson Project: Allelic variation in African immunoglobulin genes impacts on antibody function in HIV infection
Presenter requested not to share Presenter: Simone Richardson |
| 17:10-17:40 | Project:
Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Stressors: Investigating the Role of Infant Gene ExpressionPresenter requested not to share
Presenter: Dan Stein |
| 17:40-19:40 | H3Africa Steering Committee Meeting (Carthage) |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday 10th April, 2019
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| 08:00-08:50 | Dr Samantha Nicolson CRISPR Technology (Merck) | |||
| PI & Fellow’s Presentations | ||||
| 08:50-09:20 | Project: H3ABioNet: a sustainable African Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa
Title: H3ABioNet progress and updates Presenter:Nicola Mulder Presentation: 18min Q&A: 2min |
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| 09:20-09:30 | Project: GA4GH
Presenter:Nicola Mulder Presentation: 8min Q&A: 2min |
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| 09:30-09:40 | Project: Nurturing Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Capacity in Africa (BRecA)
Title: African Center of Excellence (ACE) in Bioinformatics in Uganda Presenter:Daudi Jjingo Presentation: 8min Q&A: 2min |
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| 09:40-09:52 | Title: Contribution of Germline Copy Number Variations to hereditary breast cancer in Tunisian Population
Presenter:Maroua Boujemaa |
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| 09:40-09:52 | Title: H3Africa Administrative Coordinating Center: Monitoring and evaluation survey review and update
Presenter:Rolanda Julius |
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| 10:10-11:00 | Tea/Poster | |||
| Chair: Franine Ntoumi
Outreach & Fellow’s Presentations |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Title: Science Shop as a tool for participatory research. The experience of Institut Pasteur de Tunis in the context of the H2020 InSPIRES
Presenter:Hichem Ben Hassine |
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| Title: Social and scientific engagement of young Tunisian researchers: the experience of AJC-IPT
Presenter:Maria Kabbage |
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| 11:30-11:42 | Title: Genomic characteristics of Invasive Streptocouccus pneumoniae serotype 1 in New Caledonia, patients in Tunisia
Presenter:Mariem Hanachi |
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| 11:45-11:54 | Title: Targeted Next Generation Sequencing applied for the molecular characterization of MODY patients in Tunisia
Presenter:Hamza Dalleli |
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| 11:45-11:54 | Title: TwinLabs initative and the UNSECO Chair Life on Land
Presenter:Prof Ferrand |
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| 12:10-12:25 | Title: Update to NIH Management of Genomic Summary Results Access
Presenter:Jennifer Troyer (NIH/NHGRI) |
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| 12:25-13:10 | Drama of DNA | |||
| 13:10-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| Working Group Sessions | ||||
| Carthage | Dhyafa | Limes | Cyrene | |
| 14:00-16:00 | Genome Analysis
Chair: Adebowale Adyemo & Zane Lombard Rapporteurs: Megan Hoffmann & Jennifer Troyer |
Biorepository
Chair: Alashle Abimiku Rapporteurs: Wedel & Sudha Srinivasan |
Fellows speed presentations
Rapporteurs: Barbara Sina & Laura Povlich |
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| Tea/coffee | ||||
| 16:00-18:00 | Sustainability
Chair: Dwomoa Adu Rapporteurs: Jenniffer Maroa & Audrey Duncanson |
Ethics & Community Engagement
Chair: Mary Kasule Rapporteurs: Barbara Sina & Rosalyn Wamuyu |
Environmental Health
Chair: Mark Nicol Rapporteurs: Kim McAllister, Ken Wiley |
Fellows Feedback session
Rapporteurs: Robin Mason & Laura Povlich |
| Dinner | ||||
Thursday 11th April 2019 |
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| Working Group Day | |||||
| Limes | Dhyafa | Carthage | Escale | ||
| 08:00-10:00 | Rare Disease
Chair: Guida Landoure Rapporteur: Jennifer Troyer & Harry Wedel |
Study Coordinators
Chair: Emmanuel Nashinge Rapporteurs: Robin Mason & Megan Hoffmann |
CVD
Chair: TBA Rapporteurs: Ken Wiley, Paul Kimmel & Pankaj Qasba |
Fellows Professional Development
Rapporteurs: Laura Povlich, Barbara Sina & Marie Nierras |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Tea/coffee | ||||
| 10:30-12:00 | Outreach & Commnunications
Chair: Michelle Skelton Rapporteurs: Barbara Sina & Harry Wedel |
Phenotype Harmonization
Chair: Alia Benkahla Rapporteurs: Robin Mason & Ken Wiley |
HIV/AIDS
Chair: Nicki Tiffin Rapporteurs: Megan Hoffmann & Jenifer Troyer |
Fellows Professional Development
Rapporteurs: Laura Povlich, Barbara Sina & Marie Nierras |
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| 13:00-14:45 | Education & Coordinated Training
Chair: Oumar Samassekou Rapporteurs: Laura Povlich & Megan Hoffman |
Joint Phenotype/CVD/HIV/Rare Disease
Chair: TBA Rapporteur: Harry Wedel & Ken Wiley |
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| Report Back Session I
Chair: Charmaine Royal Venue: Carthage |
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| 14:45-16:00 | Working Group | Presenter | |||
| Ethics & CE (20 mins) | Vincent Pius/Mary Kasule | ||||
| Genome Analysis | Adebowale Adeyemo | ||||
| Phenotype | Alia Benkahla | ||||
| CVD | Ken Wiley | ||||
| Rare Disease | Guida Landoure | ||||
| HIV/AIDS | Nicki Tiffin | ||||
| 16:00-16:15 | Tea/coffee | ||||
| 16:15-17:15 | Report Back Session II
Chair: Francine Ntoumi |
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| Working Group | Presenter | ||||
| BioRepository | Alash’le Abimiku | ||||
| Education & Coordinated WG | Oumar Samassekou | ||||
| Sustainability | Dwomoa Adu | ||||
| Outreach & Communications | Michelle Skelton | ||||
| Study Coordinators | Emmanuel Nasinghe | ||||
| Environmental Health | Mark Nicol | ||||
| 17:15-17:25 | H3Africa Chip Xavier David (Illumina) | ||||
| 17:25-17:40 | Science Communication- Deborah-Fay Ndlovu (AAS/AESA) | ||||
| 17:40-18:00 | Group Discussion | ||||
| 18:00-18:15 | IEC Feedback | ||||
| 18:15-18:35 | Closing | ||||
Friday 12th April 2019 |
| Excursions & Departures/H3Africa Project Site Meetings |
