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The next Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria Conference will be held at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, from 11-13 June 2018.

Projects

• New insights into the effect of G6PD deficiency in P. falciparum malaria
• Genetic markers found for piperaquine resistance in Cambodia

Data releases

• Ag1000G makes incremental release
• Pf Community Project makes data release to partners
• P. vivax Genome Variation project makes data release to partners
• Association test summary statistics available for 3 populations

Community

• 60 seconds with... Dr Deus Ishengoma
• New Year's Honours 2017: Prof Sir Nicholas White appointed the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
• Professor Kevin Marsh recognised for contributions to health in Africa

Announcements

• WHO report 2016 online
• WHO publishes GMS malaria elimination strategy
• ASTMH announces new leadership team and medal winners
• The Global Health network: new eLearning course

Upcoming events

• Gordon Research Conference 2017
• 6th International Conference on P. vivax research
• International Summit in Human Genetics and Genomics

Recent publications

• Links to the latest malaria publications

Malaria in the media

• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – the blog: In search of the hidden reservoir of malaria. By Arthur Talman.
• BBC Health News: Malaria drugs fail for first time on patients in UK
• The Guardian: Progress on malaria deaths at risk without big boost in funding, UN warns
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: Prime Minister opened £42M Biodata Innovation Centre and new Sequencing Facility
• World Health Organization: WHO welcomes global health funding for malaria vaccine
• BBC News: Malaria drugs' complete failure tracked
• GatesNotes: No Mercy for the Mosquito (video)
• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – the blog: Companion: a new tool to generate and visualize annotation of parasite genomes. By Sascha Steinbiss & Thomas Otto.