KRISP Newsletter Jan 2020: Reversing brain drain and training the next generation of scientists in South Africa and abroad.
This month, we launch our bioinformatics training program for 2020 and highlight as one of our key researchers become affiliate to the African Academy of Science. We also join the international community to fight the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic, published a key paper on understanding HIV transmission hotspots and renewed our partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific to provide very affordable sequencing in Africa
This issue's highlights are:
- Talk: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak, Durban, 14 February 2020
- Science: UKZN College of Health Science Research Day for High-impact researchers, 24 February 2020
- Training: 4IR - UNIX/Linux Training, Durban, South Africa, 2-3 March 2020 - Application open
- African Academy of Science: KRISP, UKZN & CAPRISA scientists make it into the African Academy of Science's Top 40 List
- Publications: Current Affairs of Microbial Genome-Wide Association Studies: Approaches, Bottlenecks and Analytical Pitfalls
- Publications: Genome-wide Association Study Identifies HLA-DPB1 as a Significant Risk Factor for Severe Aplastic Anemia
- Publications: Quantifying HIV transmission flow between high-prevalence hotspots and surrounding communities: a population-based study in Rakai, Uganda
- Service: Sanger Sequencing Promotion extended in 2020!
News date: 2020-02-04
Links:
http://www.krisp.org.za/manuscripts/KRISPnewsletter_1_2020.pdf
