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Testing for COVID-19 at Johannesburg s airport in January. A variant of concern that arose in South Africa has spread around the world.
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Last month, Gytis Dudas was tracking a concerning new coronavirus variant that had triggered an outbreak of COVID-19 in his native Lithuania and appeared sporadically elsewhere in Europe and in the United States. Exploring an international database of coronavirus genomes, Dudas found a crucial clue: One sample of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant came from a person who had recently flown to France from Cameroon. A collaborator, Guy Baele of KU Leuven, soon identified six more viral sequences from people in Europe who had traveled there from Cameroon. But then their quest to pinpoint the variant s origins hit a wall: Cameroon had only uploaded 48 viral genomes to the global sequence repository called GISAID. None included the variant.
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Application Deadline: May 15th 2021
The Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) is engaging participants from all parts of the world at what will be the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability.
Recognizing that global discussions on sustainability often exclude voices from low- and middle-income countries, and acknowledging the difficulty of many scholars and practitioners in these countries to participate in international gatherings, SRI2021 is partnering with the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) to establish a mechanism for greater inclusivity and accessibility.
IRD SRI2021 Scholarships are now available for sustainability professionals from select low- and middle- income countries. For successful applicants, scholarships will cover the fees for online participation at SRI2021, and will include all Pre-Congress activities in the lead up to the event.