4th African Microbiome Day: Exploring Africa’s Microbiome: Where Data Science Sparks Discovery

4th African Microbiome Day
Exploring Africa’s Microbiome: Where Data Science Sparks Discovery
(Hybrid Event)

Date: 24th August 2025

16:00 – 20:00 CAT / 14:00 – 18:00 GMT (see your time here)

Venue: CEDI Conference Centre, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana & Virtual. Zoom (Call details will be shared with registered online participants)

Abstract submissions due: 18th July 2025

Organizing Team

H3Africa Coordinating Centre
H3Africa Microbiome Task Force/African Microbiome Special Interest Group
- Dr. Edward Wampande
- Prof. Jo-Ann Passmore
- Prof. Morenike Ukpong-Folayan
- Dr. Soumaya Kouidhi
- Dr. Brian Kullin
- Dr. Ovokeraye Oduaran
- Prof. Lamech Mwapagha

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Agenda

	4th African Microbiome Day (Hybrid Event) Tentative Agenda
	Exploring Africa’s Microbiome: Where Data Science Sparks Discovery
GMT	August 24, 2025 (14:00 - 18:00 GMT/16:00 - 20:00 CAT)	Moderator
14:00 - 14:05	*Welcome/Introduction*	Dr. Ovokeraye Oduaran
	*Session 1 - Microbiome Research Across Africa: Ecosystems, Health, and Innovation*
14:05 - 14:25	Invited Speaker talk: Dr. Luicer Olubayo Talk title: Microbiome at the crossroads of data, discovery, and health: an AWI-Gen2 perspective
14:25 - 15:05	*Selected abstracts for flash talks presentation (in-person wih combined live Q&A session)*
	Alexander Kwarteng: Identification and Clinical Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterobacter Spp. Among Filarial Lymphedema Patients in the Ahanta West District, Ghana.
	Yonas Mekonnen: Fecal Carriage of Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacterales and Associated Factors Among Admitted Patients in Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
	John Paul Makumbi: Environmental compartmentalisation and physicochemical gradients shape AMR distribution across WWTP-river networks
	Mary Wilson: Community-Associated Carbapenem-Resistant E. coli in Lymphatic Filariasis: A Genomic Perspective.
	Arnold Abakah: Immunoinformatics approach for developing a multi-epitope vaccine against Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
	Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu: The association between submicroscopic Plasmodium infections and gut microbiota among children in Ahanta West, Ghana.
	Jane Mutua: Urbanization is linked to a shift in gut microbiota among the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya.
	Combined Q&A
	*Session 2: Virtual Presentations*	Prof. Soumaya Koudhi
15:05 - 15:25	Invited Speaker talk: Prof. Thulani Makhalanyane Talk title: Exploring ecology and evolution through the African Microbiome Project
15:25 - 16:25 [Break: 15:50 - 16:00]	*Selected abstracts for flash talks presentation (pre-recorded with combined real-time Q&A session)*
	Adijat Jimoh: Descriptive patterns of vaginal phage-bacterial host dynamics in pregnant women.
	Wafa Bouglita: Characterization of the Vaginal Mycobiota: Prevalence and Antifungal Resistance Markers of Candida spp. in Asymptomatic Pregnant Tunisian Women.
	Sophia Nyasore: Vaginal Microbiome Profiles Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis in the First Trimester of Pregnancy in Kenyan Women.
	Khoudia Cisse: Gut microbiota in normal pregnancy: A characterization of Senegalese women microbiota by 16S rRNA sequencing analysis.
	Caroline Jackline Musiime: Investigating gut microbiome diversity among children infected with schistosomiasis in the endemic region of Albert Nile, Pakwach district.
	Zelalem Mekuria: Host Clustering of Campylobacter Species and Enteric Pathogens in a Longitudinal Cohort of Infants, Family Members and Livestock in Rural Eastern Ethiopia.
	Evariste Tshibangu-Kabamba: Developing a culture-free point-of-care testing system to embrace antibiotic stewardship in Helicobacter pylori therapies in African settings.
	Oumaima Zidi: Investigation of Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Signatures as Predictive Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Development and Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Response.
	Nisrine Souai: Integrating Gut Microbiome and Metabolome Insights to Improve Outcomes in Kidney Disease and Transplantation.
	Khadija Ait Si Mhand: Characterizing the Microbiome of Citrullus colocynthis using Metabarcoding and Whole-Genome Sequencing.
	Sheylle Green: Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity in Wild Mammals from the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
	Combined Q&A
16:25 - 17:10	Session 3 - Keynote Speaker: Prof. Curtis Huttenhower Talk title: Microbiome alphabet soup: The HVP, OHMR, and HCMPH

17:10 - 17:58	Session 4 - Panel Discussion	Dr. Ovokeraye Oduaran
	*Panelists*
	Prof. Alexander Kwarteng
	Prof. Nicola Mulder
	Prof. Soumaya Kouidhi
	Prof. David Kateete
	Prof. Scott Hazelhurst
17:58 - 18:00	*Closing/Thanks*

Moderators

Dr. Ovokeraye Oduaran

Honorary researcher at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a research fellow at the SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada. She is the current chair of the H3Africa’s Microbiome Task Force.

Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of the Witwatersrand

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