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Expressions of interest are invited from established researchers and subject-matter experts to join a proposed scholarly book for Springer. The project will integrate chemical biology, microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, natural-product research, systems biology and translational applications.
We invite PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, early-career scientists and Principal Investigators across sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to the manuscript “Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics for ESKAPE Pathogens in Africa: Linking Antimicrobial-Resistance Detection, Laboratory Capacity and Stewardship Implementation.” Expression-of-interest deadline: Friday, 28 August 2026.
We are pleased to share an external postgraduate research and capacity-building opportunity for continuing MSc and PhD students across Tanzania. The Tanzanian Postgraduate AMR Genomics and Plate-Sweep Metagenomics Capacity-Building Initiative is organised by the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology at St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, in collaboration with Professor Lesley Hoyles of Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. Led by Dr Reuben S. Maghembe, the initiative will select one or two postgraduate researchers for mentorship and collaborative training in antimicrobial-resistance genomics, priority Enterobacterales, plate-sweep metagenomics, bioinformatics and scientific data analysis. Application deadline: Thursday, 20 August 2026
African researchers are invited to express interest in a multidisciplinary collaboration examining chemoimmunotherapy response in non-small-cell lung cancer through transcriptomics, drug-transport biophysics and mathematical modeling. Core analyses and an initial manuscript have been completed. The current phase seeks specialist scholarly input for biological interpretation, clinical framing, methodological refinement and critical review. No major new primary analysis is currently anticipated.
Expressions of interest are invited from suitably qualified Tanzanian professionals to collaborate on the development and possible implementation of a One Health grant proposal focused on community-level surveillance, zoonotic disease risk reduction, environmental health, food-system safety and practical molecular capacity building in Tanzania. Interested professionals should submit their expression of interest within 7 days from the announcement date.
Dr. Maghembe is engaged in tuberculosis and malnutrition research through the Kibongoto Infectious Disease Hospital–University of Virginia NIH-funded programme.
Omics workflows for identifying molecular-grade DNA polymerase and DNA-binding protein isoforms from African thermophilic microbiomes published in Scientific African.
Work on Tanzanian clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae pangenomics and high genome plasticity published in Microbiology Spectrum.
Attended the ISAC/ESCMID educational webinar on antimicrobial resistance in low-resource settings and displaced populations.
Selected for the ICGEB-sponsored Proteomics: From Theory to Practice workshop at the University of Venda, South Africa.
Invited to the Latest Advances in Genome Editing and ART Technologies course at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Completed Training on Data Analysis Using R Programming Language, supported under the World Bank ACE II AF.
Completed Introduction to Bioinformatics, 10 credits, through the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Participated in Partnerships for Sustainable Solutions with Sub-Saharan Africa: Bioeconomy at Egerton University, Kenya.