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Dr Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko

MSc PhD

Research Fellow

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am a Research Fellow in Professor Kathryn Holt's group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. My current research involves undertaking high-quality computational genomics-based research to elucidate the genetic determinants of AMR and virulence in Klebsiella pneumonia and contributing to research aimed at improving phenotype prediction from genotypic data to enhance genomic surveillance AMR and virulence in K. pneumoniae. I have a PhD in microbial genomics (Quadram Institute Bioscience and Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK). 

My publications are available here: https://bit.ly/3p2slam. Find me on Twitter @EFosterNyarko and LinkedIn, https://bit.ly/3wRyYPM.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Antimicrobial Resistance Centre (AMR)

Teaching

Assessor, 2021/22 MSc, PG Diploma and PG Certificate in Infectious Diseases

Research

Research Area
Bacteria
Drug resistance
Public health
Surveillance
Discipline
Genomics
Bacteriology
Microbiology
Bioinformatics
Disease and Health Conditions
Infectious disease

Selected Publications

The use of representative community samples to assess SARS-CoV-2 lineage competition: Alpha outcompetes Beta and wild-type in England from January to March 2021.
Eales O; Page AJ; Tang SN; Walters CE; Wang H; Haw D; Trotter AJ; Le Viet T; Foster-Nyarko E; Prosolek S
2023
Microbial genomics
Nanopore-only assemblies for genomic surveillance of the global priority drug-resistant pathogen, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>.
Foster-Nyarko E; Cottingham H; Wick RR; Judd LM; Lam MMC; Wyres KL; Stanton TD; Tsang KK; David S; Aanensen DM
2023
Microbial genomics
SARS-CoV-2 lineage dynamics in England from September to November 2021: high diversity of Delta sub-lineages and increased transmissibility of AY.4.2.
Eales O; Page AJ; de Oliveira Martins L; Wang H; Bodinier B; Haw D; Jonnerby J; Atchison C; COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium; Ashby D
2022
BMC Infectious Diseases
Emergence of a multidrug-resistant and virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage mediates serotype replacement after PCV13: an international whole-genome sequencing study.
Lo SW; Mellor K; Cohen R; Alonso AR; Belman S; Kumar N; Hawkins PA; Gladstone RA; von Gottberg A; Veeraraghavan B
2022
The Lancet Microbe
Acquisition of a large virulence plasmid (pINV) promoted temperature-dependent virulence and global dispersal of O96:H19 enteroinvasive<i>Escherichia coli</i>
Miles S; Torraca V; Dyson Z; López-Jiménez AT; Foster-Nyarko E; Jenkins C; Holt K; Mostowy S
2022
bioRxiv
Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in a university outbreak setting and implications for public health planning.
Nickbakhsh S; Hughes J; Christofidis N; Griffiths E; Shaaban S; Enright J; Smollett K; Nomikou K; Palmalux N; Tong L
2022
Scientific Reports
The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance.
Tegally H; San JE; Cotten M; Moir M; Tegomoh B; Mboowa G; Martin DP; Baxter C; Lambisia AW; Diallo A
2022
Science
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway.
Willett BJ; Grove J; MacLean OA; Wilkie C; De Lorenzo G; Furnon W; Cantoni D; Scott S; Logan N; Ashraf S
2022
Nature Microbiology
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