TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING

KRISP trains the next generation of scientists in Global Health, Epidemiology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Epigenetics & Fast Advancing Technologies.

Number of training and capacity building events organised/presented: 143

SPOTLIGHT




Grant Writing Workshop, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), Tygerberg Medical School Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-24 October, 2023


Public Lecture VEME 2023: Redefining the Virosphere by Prof Edward Holmes & Getting the most out of imperfect data by Prof. Marion Koopmans, At Jan Mouton Learning Centre, Stellenbosch Univesity, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 23 August, 2023


International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME2023), CERI campus at STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 20-26 August, 2023


CERI & KRISP Talks: Investigating bat-borne viruses in Southern Africa following a One Health approach by Prof. Wanda Markotter, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 26 July, 2023


CERI & KRISP Talks: The rise (and fall?) of South Africa's HIV epidemic by Prof Frank Tanser, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 31 May, 2023


CERI & Humanities Talks: Will climate change fuel the next pandemics? By Prof Tulio De Oliveira, Faculty of Medicine, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 16 May, 2023


CERI & KRISP Talks: Design and Function of Molecular Machines in Microbial Pathogenesis by Prof Thomas C. Marlovits, Room 3073, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 March, 2023


CERI & KRISP Talks: The ARTIST trial and the expanding role of Tenofovir/Lamivudine/Dolutegravir in ART programmes by Prof Graeme Meintjes, Room 3073, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 March, 2023


CERI & KRISP Talks: Computational and experimental approaches to evaluating the evolution of virus virulence over decades-long timeframes, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 February, 2023


NGS-BRICS Viral Sequencing and Phylogenetics Workshop, STIAS, Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch & virtually, South Africa and BRICS countries, 26-30 September, 2022


Workshop: Exploratory Data Analysis and Modelling in R with Microbiome Applications, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 22-26 August , 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Un-RESOLVE-d questions for management of HIV in the dolutegravir era. By Prof. Dr.Suzanne McCluskey, Harvard Medical School., KRITH seminar Room (K2), University of KwaZulu-Natal , Durban, South Africa, 10 August, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Too many TB biomarkers for too many applications? What now? By Prof. Gerhard Walzl., JN De Villiers Auditorium, Tygerberg Campus, Cape Town, South Africa, 13 July, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Digital Health Computing, Information Systems and Machine Learning for Public Health , STIAS Manor House Library, Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch and Virtually, South Africa, 22 June, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Context-specific emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages , STIAS, Manor House Library, Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 25 May, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Using next generation sequencing methods to enhance understanding of the epidemiology and treatment of drug resistant TB , JN De Villiers Auditorium, Clinical Building, Tygerberg Campus, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 May, 2022


ABBOTT - CERI & KRISP Fellowships in Genomics 2022, University of Stellenbosch and University of KwaZulu-Natal, Stellenbosch and Durban, South Africa, Deadline 31 May, start date July, 2022


26th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME2022), Ciudad del Saber , Panama City, Panama, August 21 - 26, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Planning for research impact: lessons from a decade as director of the IDM at UCT by Prof Valerie Mizrahi, STIAS, Manor House Library, Stellenbosch (in-person) & Zoom, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 30 March, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Host genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases by Prof Marlo Moller, JN de Villiers auditorium, Stellenbosch Tygerberg Campus , Cape Town, South Africa, 9 March, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Embracing novel technologies in a pandemic: Experience of real?time genomics and big data analysis in Africa over the past 2 years, STIAS, Breakaway Room, Wallenberg Centre, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 23 February, 2022


CERI & KRISP Talks: Collaboration in South Africa to lead the world on the discovery and characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 variants, In-person at Stellenbosch Tygerberg Campus & Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Cape Town and Durban, South Africa, 2 February, 2022


Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), Online and Ouro Minas Hotel, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August 30 - September 3, 2021


Training workshop on SARS-COV-2 Illumina sequencing, CERI-KRISP, Durban, South Africa, 23 August to 4 September , 2021


SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequencing training using Illumina for the Mozambican Instituto Nacional de Saude (INS), KRISP at Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 30 May to 12 July, 2021


Workshop on Transcriptomics, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 23-27 March , 2020


2020 International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting , University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 5-6 March, 2020


4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) UNIX/Linux Training, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 2-3 March, 2020


28th International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies, Misty Hills Country Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 16-18 October, 2019


24th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, 4-9 August, 2019


Opentrons Robotic Pipetting Hackatron, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 20 July to 3 August, 2019


PathRed 2019: Unlocking Informatics in Virology Workshop, Ekurhuleni International Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18-20 July, 2019


DNA Sequencing Electrophoresis (i.e. Sanger Sequencing) Training Workshop II, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 27-28 June, 2019


Capillary Electrophoresis (i.e. Sanger Sequencing) Training Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 24-25 June, 2019


Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Workshop II, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 21 June, 2019


Quantitative PCR (qPCR), KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 20 June, 2019


New Protection of Personal Information (POPIA) Act Workshop in South Africa , Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN , Durban, South Africa, 4 April, 2019


Research Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Workshop - UKZN African Health Flagship Postgraduate Training Program , Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 1 April, 2019


Workshop in Translational Research, Health Innovation & Commercialization, K-RITH Tower Building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa, 19-20 March, 2019


DNA Sequencing Fragment Analysis (i.e Microsatellite) Workshop, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 28-29 March, 2019


Capillary Electrophoresis (i.e. Sanger Sequencing) Training Workshop, KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 25-26 March, 2019


NextStrain & Genome Detective Workshop: From NGS data to real-time tracking of viruses' outbreaks., KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 24-25 January, 2019


H3Africa Introduction to Bioinformatics Course (IBT), KRISP, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 28 August to 14 of December, 2018


Workshop on Microbiome and Transcriptome Analysis, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 8-12 October, 2018


Quantitative PCR (qPCR), KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, KRISP-Thermo lab, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 4 October, 2018


Sample to PCR Training Workshop, KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop , KRISP-Thermo lab, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2 October, 2018


Data Carpentry Training, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 27 and 28 September, 2018


Carpentry Connect, Birchwood Hotel & Conference Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-7 September 2018, 2018


Sample to PCR Training Workshop, KRISP and ThermoScientific Workshop, KRISP-Thermo lab, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 6 July, 2018


23rd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), Technische Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 26-31 August, 2018


SFU-SANTHE Intensive Course: Inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the global burden of HIV and youth, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa , 30 April to 11 May, 2018


KRISP & CAPRISA HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop, , Durban, South Africa, 19-20 April, 2018


X-meeting - 13th International Conference of the AB3C , Hotel Fazenda Fonte Colina Verde, Sao Pedro, Brazil, October 4 - 6, 2017


11th Annual Workshop on Advanced Clinical Care - AIDS (AWACC), Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa, September 7 - 8, 2017


22nd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, August 27 - September 1, 2017


SFU-SANTHE Intensive Course: Inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the global burden of HIV and youth, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, May 1 - 12, 2017


Swiss South African Symposium on Pathogen Genomics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, February 23, 2017


SATuRN & CAPRISA 2017: HIV & TB Drug Resistance and Advanced Care Workshop, Drakensberg Gardens Golf and Spa Resort, Drakensberg, South Africa, March 30 - 31, 2017


Ethics and Viral Genomics: An Exploration of Ethical Issues Associated with HIV Phylogenetics, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, December 9, 2016


10th Annual Workshop on Advanced Clinical Care - AIDS (AWACC), International Conference Centre (ICC), Durban, South Africa, October 6 - 7, 2016


4th Joint Congress of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi) and the South African Genetics Society (SAGS), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, September 20 - 23, 2016


21st International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, August 14 - 19, 2016


SATuRN & CAPRISA HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop, Coastlands Hotel, Durban, South Africa, May 5 - 6, 2016


Annual Workshop on Advanced Clinical Care - AIDS (AWACC), Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa, November 19 - 20, 2015


20th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, August 9 - 14, 2015


Wellcome Trust Advanced Workshop: Genomic Epidemiology in Africa, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, June 21 - 26, 2015


Satellite Workshop on HIV Phylodynamics at 22nd HIV Dynamics and Evolution Workshop, artHotel Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, May 13 - 16, 2015


SATuRN & CAPRISA HIV & TB Advanced Clinical Care Workshop, Makaranga Garden Lodge, Durban, South Africa, March 12 - 13, 2015


19th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, National Institute for Infectious Diseases 'L Spallanzani', Rome, Italy, September 7 - 12, 2014


Bioinformatics in the Tropics Brazil 2014: 2nd International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, May 26 - 30, 2014


Satellite Workshop on HIV Phylodynamics at 21st HIV Dynamics and Evolution Workshop, Univesity of Arizona, Tucson, U.S.A., May 7 - 10, 2014


Bioinformatics in the Tropics Uganda 2014, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda, April 7 - 10, 2014


8th Southern African HIV & TB Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, November 20 - 22, 2013


Infectious Disease Genomics and Global Health Wellcome Trust Conference, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hixton, Cambridge, U.K., October 16 - 18, 2013


Annual Workshop on Advanced Clinical Care - AIDS (AWACC), Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa, September 26 - 27, 2013


Bioinformatics in the tropics II: Large data sets analysis workshop: HIV phylogenetics, molecular epidemiology and drug resistance, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, September 23 - 26, 2013


BROAD/MIT Bioinformatics of Infectious Disease: Comparative Genomics of M. tuberculosis, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, September 16 - 30, 2013


18th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, University of Florida - Gainsville, Gainesville, U.S.A., August 25 - 30, 2013


SATuRN satelitte workshop at 17th Annual Rural Health Conference, Saint Lucia Conference Centre, Saint Lucia, South Africa, August 8 - 10, 2013


Bioinformatics in the tropics I: 1st International Bioinformatics & Molecular Viral Evolution Workshop, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, July 22 - 26, 2013


Practical Course on Quality Assurance of HIV-1 Drug Resistance Interpretation in Sequence Editing and Data Management Processes, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Johannesburg, South Africa, April 22 - 26, 2013


HIV/TB Drug Resistance and Clinical Management Workshop & Book Launch, Ghost Mountain Inn, Mkuze, South Africa, March 7 - 8, 2013


7th South African HIV & TB Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop, Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC), Cape Town, South Africa, November 28 - 29, 2012


17th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Servia, August 27 - 31, 2012


1st Nurses and Health Care Workers HIV & TB Drug Resistance SATuRN Workshop, Africa Centre for Population Health, Mtubatuba, South Africa, May 22, 2012


6th Southern African HIV / TB Drug Resistance & Clinical Management Workshop, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, November 7 - 8, 2011


5th Annual Workshop on Advanced Clinical Care (AWACC), Southern Sun Elangeni Hotel, Durban, South Africa, October 6 - 7, 2011


2nd Brazilian Workshop on HIV & HTLV-1 Bioinformatics and Databases, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, September 5 - 7, 2011


HIV Drug Resistance Satellite Meeting at SA AIDS Conference, International Conference Centre (ICC), Durban, South Africa, June 7, 2011


Swiss Prot / South Africa Protein Bioinformatics Workshop II, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa, November 23, 2010


Swiss Prot / South Africa Protein Bioinformatics Workshop, South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Durban, South Africa, November 17 - 18, 2010


5th South African HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, October 27 - 29, 2010


16th International BioInformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., 29 August to 3 September, 2010


Oxford Virology Symposium: From Theory to Therapeutics, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., April 14 - 16, 2010


ISCB-Africa ASBCB Joint Conference on Bioinformatics of Infectious Diseases, International Conference Centre, Bamako, Mali, 30 November to 2 December, 2009


4th South African HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Monitoring Workshop, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, October 28 - 30, 2009


15th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, September 7 - 11, 2009


IRTG 1522 Summer School: From Bioinformatics to Rational Drug Design, University of Wurzburg, Wuzburg, Germany, July 24 - 26, 2009


14th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, South Africa National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1 - 5, 2008


HIV Drug Resistance in Clinical Practice Workshop, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, September 5, 2008


Advanced Viral Evolutionary Workshop, South Africa National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, September 17 - 18, 2007


Introduction to HIV Phylogenetics Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, August 13 - 15, 2007


The 13th International Virus Bioinformatics Workshop, Instituto Nacional de Saude Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Lisbon, Portugal, September 9 - 14, 2007


Bioinformatics of African Pathogens and Disease Vectors Workshop, ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya, 27 May to 2 June, 2007


The 12th International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Univeristy of Athens, National Retrovirus Reference Center, Athens, Greece, September 11 - 15, 2006


Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Training Program, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, September 19 - 22, 2005


HIV Databases HIVBase Workshop, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, September 13 - 16, 2005


The 11th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petropolis, Brazil, September 5 - 9, 2005


The WHO Advanced HIV Sequence Analysis Workshop, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, April 2 - 8, 2005


The HIV Data Management and Data Mining for Antiretroviral Drug Resistance Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, December 13 - 17, 2004


The Second Brazilian Workshop in Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, November 9 - 15, 2004


The 10th International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, The Finnish National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 30 August - 3 September, 2004


The Advanced Bioinformatics and Viral Evolution Workshop, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, June 12 - 19, 2004


Introduction to HIV Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, February 9 - 13, 2004


Molecular Epidemiology of Enteric Opportunistic Protozoa Workshop, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, February 16 - 20, 2004


The Bioinformatics and Viral Evolution Workshop, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, 29 January - 6 February, 2004


The Ninth International Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A., August 13 - 23, 2003


First African Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Durban, South Africa, July 2 - 5, 2003


The Seminar on Evolution, Phylogenetics and HIV, South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Cape Town, South Africa, July 11, 2003


The South African HIV/AIDS Treatment Management and Drug Resistance Workshop , Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, July 6, 2003


Eighth European Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, REGA institute, Leuven Catolic University, Leuven, Belgium, September 4 - 11, 2002


First Brazilian Workshop in Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology, Centro de Pesquisas Goncalo Moniz - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FioCruz), Salvador, Brazil, March 25 - 27, 2002


WHO and UNDP Regional Training Course on Bioinformatics Applied to Tropical Diseases In Africa, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 20 January - 2 February, 2002



KRISP has been created by the coordinated effort of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the South African Medical Research Countil (SAMRC).


Location: K-RITH Tower Building
Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN
719 Umbilo Road, Durban, South Africa.
Director: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira