Coming up at The Union Conference 2025 next week: where to find the #CIDRITeam

Your weekend read from the #CIDRITeam: "A human YEATS4 variant confers resistance to TST and IGRA conversion despite Mycobacterium tuberculosis exposure" at Genome Medicine genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #CIDRIPapers

News from our colleagues at the Africa Microscopy Initiative: www.nature.com/articles/d44... 👏

New resource: the NICD's End TB Campaign Dashboard is now live - view data for your area here www.nicd.ac.za/tb-naat-dash...

New 📃 from members of the #CIDRITeam concludes that "ART-exposed individuals with advanced HIV disease contribute substantially to ongoing HIV-related mortality in South Africa". Read the paper at journals.lww.com/jaids/abstra... #CIDRIPapers

Funding cuts for tuberculosis (TB) programmes and research are threatening to reverse recent gains made. Disrupted funding could mean up to 2 million additional TB deaths and 10 million extra people falling ill with TB between 2025 and 2035.

Ending this ancient disease, tuberculosis, is only possible if we double-down to achieve #EndTB targets. WHO calls for bold action: political will, domestic investment, and research to drive progress. 🔗 bit.ly/4qT5ihk

#Tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable. Yet, it remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming 1.23 million lives in 2024. The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 talks about the gains made so far and the challenges ahead due to severe funding cuts: bit.ly/4qT5ihk

So, @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @kindrachukjason.bsky.social and other #ViroSky folks, Virology Africa 2026 is going to be INSIDE the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2026!! It will be awesome 😁

Publication of our protocol to test the safety of valganciclovir in patients with advanced HIV, CMV viraemia and no end organ disease. First Patient First Visit is imminent. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The #CIDRITeam recently participated in the Nkqubela TB Hospital Research Day in East London during which they presented the team's findings alongside researchers from other institutions and the EC Department of Health. cc. @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social

📅 Join us for the two (con)Founders Journal Club events happening this week. Wednesday 12-1pm we’ll be learning about the ZAMSA TB Study and Thursday 1-2pm to hear about the latest findings from the TOPOWA Cohort Study @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social

Gain an understanding of how to use online data tools and resources for strengthening fungal genome analysis. #Fungal26 Fungal Pathogen Genomics will run virtually from 1-5 June 2026, UK time zone Financial assistance is available 💰 📩 Deadline to apply: 16 March 2026 📎 bit.ly/4oucSxq#Fungal26 🖥️🧬🧫

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Prof. Anna-Lise Williamson. Research interests: #HIV vaccine development especially via the development of live poxvirus vectors.

We had the great pleasure of hosting @CAMO_Net1 fellows from India, Uganda, Bangladesh, the UK, Brazil, and Malawi at our offices in Khayelitsha for a reflective session on community engagement around Antimicrobial Resistance.

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Katalin Wilkinson. Her research interests include T cell immunology, human #TB, HIV, and TB-IRIS.

Just a few weeks left to apply for our clinical PhD programme. We're looking for clinicians who are passionate about research to join the 3-year fully funded programme. Learn more and see what positions are available ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria #AMR or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sharing #BeatNTDs

Meet the team: New #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Kurt Wibmer is PI of the Venom & Vaccine Immunotherapeutics & Immunogens Protein Engineering Research Group. His research integrates monoclonal antibody discovery with structural biology to develop broad, potent, and thermostable biologics.

Last call! 🧫🎨 Show us how “Microbes Make the World Go Round” in ASM’s Agar Art Contest. 🕛 Deadline: Oct. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 👉 Enter here: asm.social/2Es

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Muki Shey. His research interests include: HIV and TB; and understanding the reasons for high mortality in severe HIV-associated TB patients.

Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫 🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 Submit abstract by 1 December 📩 Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field. 📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm#AMR#genomics#MicroSky #AMR2026

[TODAY AT 2.00PM] Superbugs are thriving in a warmer, wetter world. If you're covering #climatechange or health, this is a story you need to tell. Learn more in our expert webinar. #AMR forms.gle/V9thwRfUspyr...

[ONE MORE DAY] Covering sanitation, urban health, or infectious disease? Climate extremes are letting antimicrobial resistance spread further. Health experts from UCT and UKZN explain how. #AMR #climate #climatejournalism forms.gle/V9thwRfUspyr...

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad: idm.uct.ac.za/media/739223

🌍 We’re proud to have hosted him in Vienna, where he shared his now–Nobel-winning insights with the IUIS community. 🎥 Watch Prof. Sakaguchi’s full keynote on #Immunohub: loom.ly/nhUTceE #GlobalImmunology #ImmunologyWithoutBorders #IUIS2025 #NobelPrize

Big news, #immunology community! #IUIS2025 keynote speaker Prof. Sakaguchi has been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries in regulatory T cells (Tregs) & immune tolerance — reshaping how we understand immune regulation https://loom.ly/QGT8oFk

Plague is a high-consequence infectious disease with epidemic potential. The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research evaluating ciprofloxacin versus aminoglycoside–ciprofloxacin for bubonic plague in Madagascar. 👉 nej.md/DrG27

📝 Join us on Wednesday and Thursday this week for two (con)Founders Journal clubs hosted by our division. Check out the adverts below for more details. #Epidemiology #Biostatistics #Research #Data #Science @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social

Xpert MTB/RIF® cycle threshold as a marker of TB disease severity; Implications for TB treatment stratification ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WbLI1G

Hypertension kills many South Africans. A new study shows how simply changing where people are treated — at home rather than in a clinic — improves their health and reduces the burden on the public health system. Read groundup.org.za/article/stud... by Liezl Human

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator A/Prof. Phumla Sinxadi is Head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in UCT's Department of Medicine. Her research interests include the pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics of ARVs; and gene-gene interactions between ARVs and antiTB drugs.

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Georgia Schäfer's research interests include host-pathogen interactions of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus and human papillomavirus, particularly in the context of HIV co-infection.

Worldwide, fungal diseases and antimicrobial-resistant fungi are increasing. In honor of Fungal Disease Awareness Week, learn about fungal diseases and raise awareness to help reduce the harmful effects of fungal diseases: https://bit.ly/4dyCy6u #FungalWeek25

Dr Fungus is my superhero name 😉 (In "the old days", yours truly studied seed pathology though, not human mycoses)

Meet the team: A/Prof. Ursula Rohlwink. Her research interests include: tuberculous meningitis, specifically brain biomarkers of disease severity and prognosis, and mechanisms of brain injury. #CIDRITeam

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Join Dr Adeniyi Olagunju, from the University of Liverpool's Perinatal Pharmacology group, for webinar 'Unlocking Access to Individual-Level Pharmacokinetic Data via PKRxiv'. 📆 30 September 2025 ⏰ 12-1pm (BST) 💻 Online Find out more and register via the link: www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-of-ex...

Learner Documentaries Coming Soon! 🎬🫣 We recently hosted a recruitment session for learners from Ikamvayouthsa, Masiphumelele in Fish Hoek. We look forward to working with the learners in creating health-related stories and documentaries within our communities.

Our September issue is now online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #SARS-CoV-2 #HIV #Pneumocystis #tuberculosis #TB #gonorrhoea #Citrobacter #AMR #Salmonella #IDSky #ClinMicro #OA

We have our line-up for our 24-hour AIDS research livestream on September 16/17th: saveaidsresearch.org Allison Agwu, MD, SCM • Ali Ahmed, PhD • Frederick Altice, MD • Annukka Antar, MD, PhD • Shashika Bandara, MSc • Katie Bar, MD • Joshua Barocas, MD • Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD, MPH 1/

CBS video and text: NIH whistleblower Jeanne Marrazzo details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient" 👉 cbsn.ws/3IcWNwc

📣 The IAS is proud to support #24hourstosaveAIDSresearch! Join us 16 September starting at 17:00 CEST to learn what #HIV research has achieved through US federal investments & what we stand to lose. ✅ Register: zurl.co/0U0kk ▶️ Or join us on YouTube: zurl.co/ZvTLg

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.

Meet the Team: #CIDRITeam member A/Prof. Joe Raimondo. His research interests include the pathophysiology of epilepsy; and the study of brain function and dysfunction using electrophysiological, optical imaging and computational approaches.

Your weekend reads from #CIDRIPapers: first up, "Population Pharmacokinetics of Rifampicin in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Adults With [TB] Meningitis" academic.oup.com/jid/article/...;

#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts. Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork

Epi & Biostats students, join us for a lively and educational Bingo Break Time! 🗓️ Date: Wednesday 3 September 🕑 Time: 12pm to 1h30pm 📍 Location: Frances Ames Lecture Theatre 📩 RSVP by 27 August to [email protected]

Meet the team: #CIDRITeam Contributing Investigator Dr Catherine Riou. Research interests: Infectious diseases (HIV/TB), immune memory, antigen-specific responses, T cell differentiation, cytokines, signal transduction and T cell lineage commitment.