KRISP Newsletter June/July 2019: KRISP on the road. We are criss-crossing the country to showcase our new DNA sequencing and bioinformatics capacity.
This month, we focused our newsletter on KRISP on the road. We are criss-crossing the country to showcase our new DNA sequencing and bioinformatics capacity. . In the newsletter, we also cover our high-throughput Sanger and Illumina sequencing services, arapid, reliable and cost effective HIV-1 Drug Resistance Service in Africa and many of our publications on viral outbreaks, mental health and industrial biotechnology.
This issue's highlights are:
KRISP & DIPLOMICS Initiative: Genomics Africa: Bringing genomic technologies to africa to fight our great challenges: loss of biodiversity, famine, migration and diseases
Business Breakfast: Decoding the SA Indian Genome for Health Risk
Workshop: Unlocking Informatics in Virology
Mobile lab: KRISP mobile team tracking viral outbreaks in real-time in Brazil
Road Show: KRISP at Westville UKZN Campus, 29-30 July 2019
Road Show: KRISP at Pietermaritzburg Campus, 30-31 July 2019
Services: KRISP provides access to high-throughput Illumina sequencing in Africa
Services: KRISP provides access to high-throughput Sanger sequencing in Africa
Drug Resistance: A rapid, reliable and cost effective HIV-1 Drug Resistance Service in Africa
Papers: The clinical presentation caused by truncating CHD8 variants
Papers: High rate of occult HBV infection in hemodialysis units of KwaZulu-Natal
Papers: Circulation of chikungunya virus East/Central/South African lineage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
News date: 2019-06-30
Links:
http://www.krisp.org.za/manuscripts/KRISPnewsletter_6_2019.pdf