Southern African Human Genome Programme Workshops
These workshops are aimed at building capacity for human genome research in South Africa. As you will see from the note below, there is space for a limited number of participants, but we would like to give people the opportunity to apply, especially those from institutions that were not part of the original collaboration (UP, Wits, UCT, US, UL, UWC, ARC).
Please find attached the outlines for the two workshops providing information on the objectives and outcomes.
Workshop 1 – Training in NGS analysis
Date and venue: 21 to 25 July (5 days) at UWC
Lead organisers: Alan Christoffels & Scott Hazelhurst
Format: Lectures and hands on data analysis
Workshop 2 – Understanding and characterising Southern African genomes
Date and venue: 28-31 July (4 days) at SBIMB, Wits
Lead organisers: Michèle Ramsay & Kate Theron
Format: Lectures/Tutorials and discussion groups (computers not required)
The workshop participants are limited to 20 individuals for each of the workshops. They will be chosen to represent geographical and institutional distribution.
One to two people may be nominated from each of the 7 participating Institutions and 6 or more individuals from other institutions will be included to total not more than 20 people.
Please complete the application form.
For assistance you may contact Freedom Mukomana (freedom.mukomana@wits.ac.za)
Deadline for applications: Monday 7 July, 2014 at 12 noon.
Notification of acceptance will follow later that week.
Accommodation and travel will be funded by the SAHGP and arrangements will be made by Martie Madgwick ( martie.madgwick@up.ac.za) from Michael Pepper’s Office.