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Hi there 🧬🔬

🎓 DAAD PhD Scholar in Microbiology & Genomic Epidemiology at the University of Hamburg and the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM);
👨🏾‍🏫 Assistant Lecturer at Accra Technical University, teaching microbiology, molecular biology, and applied bioinformatics;
🧫 I study the genomic epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in WHO priority pathogens across West Africa — with a focus on Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the wider ESKAPEE group;
🌍 I run wastewater surveillance projects in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, coupling short-read + long-read sequencing with phylogeography (BEAST) and LC-MS/MS antibiotic-residue data;
🧪 I work in R, Python, and the command line — pyseer for bacterial GWAS, Snippy / Prokka / Roary for genome assembly and pan-genomics, IQ-TREE and BEAST for phylogenetics;
✍️ I write about graduate-school applications, scholarships, and bioinformatics for beginners — I mentor applicants to DAAD, ANSO, and Commonwealth programmes.

🌐 Personal website: https://abubakari-abdulwasid.com

📚 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=q6IraqkAAAAJ

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abubakari-abdul-wasid/

🎙 YouTube (coming soon): https://www.youtube.com/@abubakariabdulwasid5055

📬 Get in touch: through the consultation form on my website — I offer mentorship for scholarship applicants and early-career researchers in microbial genomics.

🔬 What I'm working on

🧬 PhD project: Genomic Surveillance of AMR WHO Priority Pathogens in the Ashanti Region (2026–2029);
📖 Published: Genomic epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Ghana (Scientific Reports);
📖 Published: Pan-African genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (BMC Genomics);
🎥 Coming soon: a YouTube channel with lectures on WGS, SPAdes / Unicycler assembly, and scholarship-application walkthroughs.

🛠 Tools I use every day

_{Bacterial genomics · pyseer · BEAST · IQ-TREE · Snippy · Prokka · Roary · Kraken2 · Nextflow · tidyverse · ggplot2 · Quarto}

"Tracking pathogens through genomes, one lineage at a time."

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Unix, R and python tools for genomics and data science

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The biggest collection of R books (and maybe later some other resources too)

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