Gurdeep Jaswant

Biography

Gurdeep is pursuing a Ph.D. in Tropical and Infectious Diseases at the University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases. Her Ph.D. study is focused on developing and optimizing methods for genomic surveillance of the rabies virus in East Africa with the aim of addressing timely applied questions about the transmission, spread, and persistence, and diversity of the rabies virus in East Africa. Her Ph.D. is jointly supervised by Prof Katie Hampson and Dr. Kirstyn Brunker from the University of Glasgow and is funded through the Wellcome Trust and the NIHR Application of Genomics and Modelling to the Control of Virus Pathogens (GeMVi) project.

Research Interests

COVID 19| Human Rabies | Epidemiology | Data Science

Recent Publications

2024
Molecular characterisation of human rabies in Tanzania and Kenya: a case series report and phylogenetic investigation
Molecular characterisation of human rabies in Tanzania and Kenya: a case series report and phylogenetic investigation
2023
Whole Genome Sequencing for Rapid Characterization of Rabies Virus Using Nanopore Technology
2020
Rapid in-country sequencing of whole virus genomes to inform rabies elimination programmes.