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Miss Eunice Njuguna

Research Student - MPhil/PhD - Epidemiology & Population Health

United Kingdom

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I hold a BSc in Genomic Sciences and an MSc in Bioinformatics. Previously, I worked on the surveillance of the circulating rotavirus strains and assessed the effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccine among children under the age of 5 years in Kenya. Later during my MSc project, I developed a free web-based bioinformatics tool termed “PreProt” for pre-processing LC-MS/MS data. Currently, I am defining the pneumococcal population structure as well as evaluating the impact of PCV10(GSK) using disease and carriage isolates in the pre and post-PCV10 vaccination era in Kenya. Using the same dataset, I will also be determining the associations of genomic variants with disease and carriage using GWAS.

Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching
Bioinformatics Instructor – Volunteer
Software carpentries, March 2022 – Present
Development of bioinformatics curriculum, teaching techniques, introduction to Linux and R, version control with GitHub

Research
Passionate researcher with a strong interest in human diseases, bioinformatics, and data science. A proven track record in project management, bioinformatics tool development, pipeline automation in high-performance computing (HPC), database search and retrieval, as well as applying machine learning models to predict biological patterns in data. I look forward to opportunities that will help me showcase and utilize my acquired skills and academic knowledge to provide the solution to human diseases.

Selected Publications
Long-term impact of rotavirus vaccination on all-cause and rotavirus-specific gastroenteritis and strain distribution in Central Kenya: An 11-year interrupted time-series analysis
Wandera, EA; Kurokawa, N; Mutua, MM; Muriithi, B; Nyangao, J; Khamadi, SA; Kathiiko, C; Wachira, M; NJUGUNA, E; Mwaura, B; Golicha, RO; Njau, J; Morita, K; Kaneko, S; Komoto, S; Tsutsui, N; Ichinose, Y;
2024
Vaccine
Genomic characterization of an African G4P[6] human rotavirus strain identified in a diarrheic child in Kenya: Evidence for porcine-to-human interspecies transmission and reassortment.
Wandera, EA; Hatazawa, R; Tsutsui, N; Kurokawa, N; Kathiiko, C; Mumo, M; Waithira, E; Wachira, M; Mwaura, B; Nyangao, J; Khamadi, SA; Njau, J; Fukuda, S; Murata, T; Taniguchi, K; Ichinose, Y; Kaneko, S; Komoto, S;
2021
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases
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United Kingdom