Project description:Antiretroviral treatment is less effective at reducing gut microbiome-associated inflammation and T cell activation in people living with HIV in rural than urban Zimbabwe
Project description:Use of whole-genome sequencing of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates to assist the epidemiological investigation of a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, 2018
Project description:Population samples of Drosophila melanogaster were hybridized to a genomic tiling array: separetely from 2 US localities, 3 Caribbean localities, 1 West Africa (Cameroon) locality and 1 Zimbabwe locality. We replicated each locality 3 times by pooling individual flies for each hybridization experiment replicate.
Project description:We used RNA-seq to investigate gene expression variation in Malpighian tubules, which have a function analogous to that of human kidneys. In order to characterize population differentiation, we sequenced the Malpighian tubule transcriptomes of flies derived from two populations, one from sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe) and one from Europe (the Netherlands). Males and females were examined separately. Overall, we found a high amount of differential expression between sexes (2,308 genes) and populations (2,474 genes). Although most of the differentially expressed genes were consistent between sexes and populations, there were 615 genes showed sex-biased expression in only one population and 557 genes showed population-biased expression in only one sex.
