KRISP TALKS
Time: 12h00 | Wednesday, 27 September 2023, Venue: Room 3073, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus or Online, Presenters: Prof. Alex Sigal, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion by world-leading experts on Insights in to viral discovery, One health & big data analysis. Stellenbosch University, 23 August 2023, 5:30pm-7pm. All Wellcome.
CERI & KRISP Talks: Investigating bat-borne viruses in Southern Africa following a One Health approach - 2023-07-26
Time: 12h00 | Wednesday, 26 July 2023, Venue: Room 3073, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus or Online, Presenters: Prof. Wanda Markotter, Director of the Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria.
CERI & KRISP Talks: The rise (and fall?) of South Africa's HIV epidemic - 2023-05-31
by Prof Frank Tanser, CERI, University of Stellenbosch, Wednesday 31 May 2023 @12h00, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University or virtually
CERI & Humanities Talks: Will climate change fuel the next pandemics? - 2023-05-16
by Prof Tulio de Oliveiea, CERI, University of Stellenbosch & KRISP, UKZN, Wednesday 16 May 2023 17h00-19h00, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University or virtually
CERI & KRISP Talks: Design and Function of Molecular Machines in Microbial Pathogenesis by Prof Thomas C. Marlovits - 2023-03-27
Thomas C. Marlovits is a full Professor and Director of the Institute of Structural and Systems Biology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. He is resenting at CERI on the 27 March 2023 a talk entitled: Design and Function of Molecular Machines in Microbial Pathogenesis,
Prof Graeme Meintjes is the Second Chair and Deputy Head of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, and alsoholds the SARChIChair of Poverty-related Infections. He is presenting at CERI on the 22 March 2023 a talk entitled: The ARTIST trial and the expanding role of Tenofovir/Lamivudine/Dolutegravir in ART programmes.
CERI & KRISP Talks: The ARTIST trial and the expanding role of Tenofovir/Lamivudine/Dolutegravir in ART programmes - 2023-03-22
Time: 12h00 | Wednesday, 22 March 2023, Venue: Room 3073, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus or Online, Presenters: Prof. Graeme Meintjes, University of Cape Town (UCT)
Presenter: Prof Darren Martin, University of Cape Town, Date: Wednesday, 22 February 2023, BMRI, Tygerberg Campus, Stellenbosch University
Time: 12h00 | Wednesday, 25 January 2023,Venue: STIAS, Stellenbosch Campus or virtually,Presenters: Prof James R. Carey, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
CERI & KRISP Talks: Climate change and health: predicting and adapting to climate-related health risks - 2022-11-30
Time: 12h00 | Wednesday, 30 November 2022, Venue: STIAS, Stellenbosch Campus or Online, Presenters: Dr Christopher Trisos, directs the Climate Risk Lab for the African Climate and Development Initiative at University of Cape Town.
NGS-BRICS Viral Sequencing and Phylogenetics Workshop, 26-30 Sept 2022 - 2022-09-26
The BRICS Network for Genome Surveillance (NGS-BRICS) was established in 2021 and generates and investigates sequence data of viral pathogens of public health importance, such as COVID-19. In the interest of increasing bioinformatics and experimental expertise within BRICS countries. Applications close on 1st of August 2022.
CERI and KRISP Seminar: Bad vibrations: Quantum tunnelling and SARS?CoV?2 infections - 2022-08-24
Presenter: Professor Francesco Petruccione, Professor of Quantum Computing, Stellenbosch University, Date: 24 Aug 2022, Locations: STIAS, Stellenbosch or virtually
This intensive, hands-on workshop will use microbiome data as a backdrop to learn R. The workshop will feature morning & afternoon sessions taught by expert faculty and technical assistants. All participants will acquire fundamental computational skills, bioinformatics best practices, exploratory data analysis, and modeling techniques. Deadline for application - 7 Aug 2022.
CERI & KRISP Talks: Un-RESOLVE-d questions for management of HIV in the dolutegravir era - 2022-08-10
Presenter: Dr.Suzanne McCluskey, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Date: 10 Aug 2022, Locations: KRITH seminar Room (K2), University of KwaZulu-Natal or virtually
CERI & KRISP Talks: Too many TB biomarkers for too many applications? What now? - 2022-07-13
Presenter: Professor Gerhard Walzl, Stellenbosch University Medical School, Date: 13 Jul 2022, Locations: JN De Villiers Auditorium, Tygerberg Campus or virtually
Africa CDC Virtual Conference: 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: A Milestone for Pathogen Genomics in Africa - 2022-06-10
Virtual conference on the lessons learned from Africa on the production of over 100,000 genomes of SARS-CoV-2. Participants from CERI, KRISP, ACEGID, NICD, Africa CDC, Pasteur Insitute Dakar.
CERI & KRISP Talks: Context-specific emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages - 2022-05-25
Presenter: Professor Moritz Kraemer, Oxford University, Date: 25 May 2022, Locations: STIAS, Manor House Library, Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch or *VIRTUALLY
Presenter: Professor Rob Warren, 11 May 2022, Locations: JN De Villiers Auditorium, Clinical Building, Tygerberg Campus, University of Stellenbosch or *VIRTUALLY
CERI & KRISP Talks: Planning for research impact: lessons from a decade as director of the IDM at UCT - 2022-03-30
Presenter: Prof Valerie Mizrahi, 30 March 2022, Locations: STIAS, Breakaway Room, Wallenberg Centre, University of Stellenbosch or *VIRTUALLY
CERI & KRISP Talks: Host genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases - 2022-03-09
Presenter: Professor Marlo Moller, 9 March 2022, 12:00-1:00pm Locations: JN DE Villiers Auditorium, Clinical Building, Tygerberg Campus, University of Stellenbosch or *VIRTUALLY
Africa CDC - PUBLIC HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS: Omicron and other COVID-19 variants of concern – where are we now? - 2022-03-01
Join the next African Union and Africa CDC 2022 Lecture and Discussion Series of Omicron and other COVID-19 variants of concern –where are we now?, "A New Public Health Order in the 21st Century ", Tuesday, 1 March 2022 at 3:00 pm EAT.
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Giandhari and PhD Candidate, Houriiyah Tegally, 23 February 2022, Locations: STIAS, Breakaway Room, Wallenberg Centre, University of Stellenbosch or *VIRTUALLY
In this webinar, we will hear about the setting up of sequencing and bioinformatic pipelines for SARS-CoV-2, timeliness of data generated and the overall system coordination to inform public health action, with experiences and lessons learned from Denmark, South Africa and Argentina.
Presenter: Prof Tulio de Oliveira, Date: 2 February 2022, Locations: JN de Villiers Auditorium, Clinical Building, University of Stellenbosch Tygerberg Campus & K-RITH Tower Building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN.
Webinar Series on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in Africa - In collaboration with Africa CDC and African Union - 2021-06-16
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI have started a Webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data in Africa.
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI have started a Webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data in Africa.
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: How to make publication-ready professional-looking figures Part II.
7th Webinar Series on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in Africa - NGS genome assembly and quality control - 2021-05-18
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: NGS genome assembly and quality control.
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: Ancestral state reconstruction and import/export analysis of viral lineages.
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: How to make publication-ready professional-looking figures Part I.
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: Main Routes of Entry and Genomic Diversity of SARS-CoV-2 in Uganda .
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing and quality control .
2nd Webinar Series on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in Africa - PHA4GE and Public Health - 2020-07-29
The Africa Union and Africa CDC, in partnership with KRISP, H3AbioNet, ACEGID and SANBI present a webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Webinar: Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE): Strengthening Bioinformatics in Public Health .
Webinar Series on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in Africa #1 - 2020-07-22
The Africa Union and AfricaCDC, in partnership with SANBI, KRISP, H3AbioNet and the Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases have started a weekly Webinar series to capacitate African researchers on the generation and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data in Africa.
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak: Genomics & Epidemiology - 2020-02-14
KRISP Talks by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira (KRISP UKZN & CAPRISA), Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak: Genomics & Epidemiology. This page summaries resources for coronavirus COVID-19 in KZN and South Africa and internationally. It also present our work on the creation of a genomics and bioinformatics pipeline for fast and accurate analysis of coronavirus genomes. KRISP is bases at K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.
KRISP Talks: Dr. Richard Lessells, Can we stop worrying about HIV drug resistance with the roll-out of dolutegravir? - 2019-11-26
UKZN African Health Flagship Talks by Dr. Richard Lessells (KRISP UKZN & CAPRISA), Can we stop worrying about HIV drug resistance with the roll-out of dolutegravir? Tuesday, 26 Nov 2019 (12:00pm - 1:00pm), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks: Dr. Benjamin Chimukangara, Increasing levels of HIV pretreatment drug resistance in South Africa - 2019-11-16
UKZN African Health Flagship and KRISP Talks by Dr. Benjamin Chimukangara (Phd Graduation Talk, Post-Fellow at KRISP, UKZN) - Increasing levels of HIV pretreatment drug resistance in South Africa. Tuesday, 19 Nov 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP and DIPLOMCIS Talks by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira (KRISP, UKZN) - Pharmacogenomics in Precision Medicine RFA by SAMRC with DIPLOMICS: 15 million rands of funding available! Monday, 28 Oct 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome and Talk can be remotely attended: https://zoom.us/j/360942224
LIFEBLOOD - Photography Exhibition by Samora Chapman, Community Art Gallery, Durban, 24 Oct 2019 - 2019-10-24
KRISP has partnered with a great photographer (Samora Chapman) to highlight the human and biodiversity life in South Africa. The photographic exhibition was curated by Tulio de Oliveira and highlight many of the genomics aspects that make us so similar and interesting at genotypic and phenotypic level.
UKZN African Health Flagship Talks by Dr. Helen Malherbe (Post-Doctoral Fellow at KRISP, UKZN) - Estimating the Burden of Congenital Disorders in South Africa: Recommendations for a Relevant Public Health Response. Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast presentation by Prof. Collen Masimirembwa, President and Chief Scientific Officer: African Institute of Biomedical Science & Technology, Tuesday, 30 July 2019(7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The potential for personalized microRNA therapeutics in cancer - KRISP & African Health Flagship Talk - 2019-07-30
KRISP & African Health Flagship Talk by Prof. Frank Slack, Shields Warren Mallinckrodt Professor & Director of the Institute for RNA Medicine, BIDMC, Harvard University, USA, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
SPARK GLOBAL Program & Its value Proposition in Africa - Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast, 27 June 2019 - 2019-06-27
Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast presentation by Professor Michael Wallach, KRISP Director SPARK Sydney and Regional Director of SPARK Oceania, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Thursday, 27 June 2019(7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks: Funding Opportunities: FLAIR Fellowship & SAMRC-NIH Calls 2019 - 2019-04-24
UKZN African Health Flagship Grants Support Unit discuss about new funding opportunities: AAS and Royal Society FLAIR Fellowship & SAMRC-NIH Calls 2019. Wednesday, 24 April 2019 (1:00pm - 2:00pm), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
UKZN African Health Flagship Talks by Prof. Michael Pepper (University of Pretoria & SAMRC Unit for Stem Cell Research & Therapy) - the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Consensus Study on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics & Genomics in South Africa. Tuesday, 7 May 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Research Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Workshop, Durban, South Africa, 1st April 2019 - 2019-03-30
UKZN African Health Flagship Postgraduate Training Program present the Research Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Workshop. Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa, 1 April 2019. Training is open to University Post-Graduate Students & Post-Doctoral Fellows.
KRISP Workshop: Neville Naidoo, Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), South Africa - 2019-03-30
UKZN African Health Flagship Workshop by Neville Naidoo (University of KwaZulu-Natal Legal Services) - Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), South Africa. Thursday, 4 April 2019 (9:00am - 12:30pm), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks: Lynn Woolfrey, Opening up data for social well-being research in South Africa - 2019-03-30
UKZN African Health Flagship Talks by Lynn Woolfrey (DataFirst, University of Cape Town) - Opening up data for social well-being research in South Africa. Thursday, 11 April 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Workshop in Translational Research, Health Innovation & Commercialization - 2019-03-20
KRISP is presenting at the UCL/UKZN workshop on translational research, Health Innovation and Commercialisation. The workshop starts 19th March, Tuesday, at 12pm, finishes 20th March, Wednesday, at 2pm in Durban, South Africa.
KRISP Talks: Dr. Maryam Fish, Cancer Genomics at KRISP, Friday, 15 March 2019 - 2019-03-15
UKZN African Health Flagship Talk by Dr. Maryam Fish - Cancer Genomics at KRISP will cover some of the genomics tests and bioinformatics pipelines for the analysis of whole exome sequencing (WES) and cancer panels from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Illumina and other sequencing methods. Friday, 15 March 2019 (8:30am - 9:30am), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
UKZN African Health Flagship Talks by Prof Tulio de Oliveira, Power of Diversity. Nature editorial covers a variety of studies that have tracked different types of diversity — ethnic, gender, nationality and scientific discipline — and suggest that particularly diverse groups publish a higher number of papers and receive more citations per paper than average. Thursday, 31 January 2019 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP & Thermo qPCR Solutions for Infectious Disease Seminar - 2018-12-11
KRISP & Thermo Seminar and Lab Tour qPCR Solutions for Infectious Disease Seminar, 11 December 2018 (9:30 - 11:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks by Dr Sikhulile Moyo & Dr Catherine Koofhethile, Harvard School of Public Health & Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), 10 December 2018 (11:00 - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), Funding Activities and Success, Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast, 7 Nov 2018 - 2018-11-07
Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast by Barlow Manilal, CEO TIA, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 (7:30am - 8:30), KRISP, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks by Prof. Caroline Tiemessen, Models for the study of HIV remission: elite and post-treatment controllers, UKZN, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
SPARK Innovation Breakfast: Disruptive Financial Instruments, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise, 3 October 2018 - 2018-10-03
SPARK Innovation Breakfast by Patrick Schofield, Uprise.Africa, Disruptive Financial Instruments, Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 (7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The necessity of good corporate governance principles on research projects - KRISP Talks, 19 Sept 2018 - 2018-09-19
KRISP Talks by Erick Nsikayezwe Sithole, Governance, Strategy and Innovation , UKZN, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Quasi-companies in Biotechnology - Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast, 5 Sept 2018 - 2018-09-05
Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast presentation by Fernando Albericio, KRISP Research Scientist, UKZN Professor, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 (7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Challenges & barriers to implement point-of-care diagnostics in resource-limited settings - KRISP Talks, 15 Aug 2018 - 2018-08-15
KRISP Talks by Dr Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, PhD, Academic Leader, School of Nursing and Public Health (SNPH), UKZN, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The event will give you insight into the exciting world of scientific research in the field of genetics but also give you a chance to visit the state of the art laboratory at the KRISP unit in Durban, South Africa
Boston, Berlin, Brazil & SPARK Global Successful model - Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast, 1 Aug 2018 - 2018-08-01
Durban SPARK Innovation Breakfast presentation by Tulio de Oliveira, KRISP Research Scientist, UKZN Professor, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 (7:30am - 8:30), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The hazards of unseen HIV: implications for statistical inference - KRISP Talks, 31 Jul 2018 - 2018-07-31
KRISP Talks by Dr. Alain Vandormael, PhD, KRISP Research Scientist, UKZN Lecture, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Durban Spark Innovation Breakfast Meeting - Fintech & Project UBU - 4 July 2018, Durban, South Africa - 2018-07-04
In partnership with Stanford University, KRISP will host its 6th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 4 July at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address focus on Fintech & Project UBU by Viroshan Naicker, Mathematician & Economist, North Quotient.
Integrating Computer-Aided Drug Design into Infectious Disease Drug Discovery - 2018-05-09
KRISP Talks by Prof. Joe Eyermann, Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) - UCT, University of Cape Town (UCT), 9 May 2018 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
4th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting - 2nd May, Durban, South Africa - 2018-05-02
In partnership with Stanford University, KRISP will host its 4th Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 2 May at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address focus on Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents and it is presented byTyron Grant, MSc (Genetics) & Patent Attorney, Partner, Spoor & Fisher.
Laboratory-free virology research: Computational approaches for evolutionary hypothesis testing - 2018-04-09
KRISP Talks by Prof. Darren P Martin, IDMM, University of Cape Town (UCT), 9 April 2018 (12:00 - 13:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
3rd Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting - 4th April at 7h30-8h30, Durban, South Africa - 2018-04-04
In partnership with Stanford University in the United States, UKZN's KZN Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) will host its 3rd Durban Spark Innovation breakfast meeting on the 4th April at 7h30-8h30 K-RITH Tower Building. The keynote address at the third breakfast is Professor Deresh Ramjugernath, UKZN's Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research.
2nd Durban Spark Innovation Breakfast Meeting - March Meeting Sparking Innovation on UKZN's Medical School Campus - 2018-03-15
By MaryAnn Francis, 15 March 2018, Durban. The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)-funded KZN Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) recently hosted its second Durban Spark Innovation breakfast featuring UKZN's A-rated scientist Professor Fernando Albericio as the keynote speaker.
Renewing Felsenstein's Phylogenetic Bootstrap in the Era of Big Data - 2018-03-06
KRISP Talks by Dr. Eduan Wilkinson, KRISP, UKZN, 6th March 2018 (15:00 - 16:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
The development of innovation, small businesses and entrepreneurship should be the cornerstones of development in order to alleviate poverty and improve health on the African continent. In order to respond to these challenges, KRISP and UKZN have partnered with some of the world's leading innovative organizations to learn from the successful innovation in the Silicon Valley.
Effect of DNA methylation on HIV disease - 2018-01-26
KRISP Talks by Dr. Veron Ramsuran, KRISP, UKZN & CAPRISA, 26 January 2018 (15:00 - 16:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Integrating Assisted Partner Services and Phylogenetics for HIV and Hepatitis C Prevention in Nairobi - 2017-11-17
KRISP Talks by Dr. Aliza Monroe-Wise, University of Washington, 16 November 2017 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Real-time genomic epidemiology for outbreak response: Lessons and insights from the 2014-2016 Ebola virus epidemic - 2017-11-16
KRISP Talks by Prof. Andrew Rambaut, Edinburgh University, 15 November 2017 (15:00 - 16:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
KRISP Talks by Dr. Wim Delva, SACEMA (Stellenbosch), 23 October 2017 (11:00am - 12:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Paediatric HIV Infection: Elite Control, Remission and Cure - 2017-09-20
KRISP Talks by Prof. Philip Goulder, Oxford University, 20 September 2017 (14:00 - 15:00), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
A multi-centre analysis of internal migration and AIDS/TB and NCD-related mortality in Kenya and South Africa - 2017-08-23
KRISP Talks by Dr Carren Ginsburg, SAMRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), 23 August 2017 (11am - midday), K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Seminar: Can the type of jeans you wear determine your treatment response? - 2017-06-23
KRISP Talks by Professor Bonga Chiliza, Discipline of Psychiatry: College of Health Sciences, UKZN, 23 June 2017, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa. All welcome!
Seminar: Microbial genome-wide association studies: lessons from human GWAS - 2017-03-17
KRISP Talks by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, College of Health Sciences, UKZN & CAPRISA Research Associate, 17 March 2017, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Differential HLA-A Expression Levels and the Effect on HIV - 2017-01-27
KRISP Talks by Dr Veron Ramsuran, Senior Lecturer: College of Health Sciences, UKZN, 27 January 2017, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: A phylodynamic view of the HIV epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal - 2016-03-11
KRISP Talks by Dr David Rasmussen, Postdoc Research Fellow, ETH Zurich, 11 March 2016, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Sources of HIV infection among men having sex with men and implications for prevention - 2016-02-05
KRISP Talks by Oliver Ratmann, Research Fellow, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College of London & UKZN MRC Research Fellow, 06 February 2016, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Is HIV-1 subtype C more pathogenic than other subtypes? - 2015-08-21
We cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof Thumbi Ndungu from K-RITH and HPP/UKZN, 21 August 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: The Molecular Epidemiology of HIV in Rakai Uganda - 2015-07-17
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics & Bioinformatics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Oliver Laeyendecker Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University,19 June 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Clinical Impressions of HIV Pathogenesis & Vaccine Research - 2015-06-19
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics & Bioinformatics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr Nigel Garrett from CAPRISA, 19 June 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Near Full Length Sequencing to Understand HIV & TB Epidemics In Africa In Real Time - 2015-04-30
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics & Bioinformatics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, 30 April 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Whole genome sequence interrogation of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis - 2015-03-20
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics & Bioinformatics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Samantha Sampson, 20 February 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: Virus and host genetics: where and how to look in big data for associations with infectious disease - 2015-02-13
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics & Bioinformatics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Paul Kellam, 13 February 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Seminar: An Unexpected Influence of Genome Secondary Structure on Recombination in HIV - 2015-01-09
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Darren Martin, 9 January 2015, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban
Seminar: Whole genome sequence interrogation of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis - 2014-11-21
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Samantha Sampson, 21 November 2014, Susser & Stein Seminar Room, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban
Seminar: Transcriptional profiling in human tuberculosis - 2014-10-10
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Robert J Wilkinson, 10 October 2014, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban
Seminar: ARV Therapy Initiated Before 2-Months-of-Age Reduces Transcriptionally Active HIV-1 DNA Persistence - 2014-09-19
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Gert Van Zyl, 19 September 2014, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban
Seminar: Nanotechnology and the Treatment of HIV Infection - 2014-08-22
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr. Louis Chonco Jimenez, 22 August 2014, K-RITH building, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Durban
Seminar: Genome-wide association study indicates two novel resistance loci for severe malaria - 2014-07-15
KRISP Talks by Prof. Andreas Ziegler, 1 August 2014, Council Chambers, Westville Campus, UKZN, Durban.
Seminar: Genomics & Bioinformatics: The need to engage biologists, mathematicians & computer scientists. - 2014-06-25
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme, the UKZN MRC Flagship project and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, UKZN, cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, 7 July 2014, UKZN, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Seminar: Cause-specific mortality: Standardised measurements and comparisons - 2014-04-09
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Deputy Director iShare Programme cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Peter Byass, 09 April 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: Old and new challenges for HIV control - 2014-04-01
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Peter Piot, 1 April 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: Next-generation sequencing for identifying drug resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis - 2014-03-28
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar, 28 March 2014, Durban
Seminar: Unlocking the potential of TB genomics - 2014-03-27
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr. Siva Danaviah, 26 March 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: Trends and causes of hospitalisation in adults receiving ART - 2014-03-19
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Population Epidemiology Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr. Portia Mutevedzi, 19 March 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: Multi-step inhibition explains HIV-1 protease inhibitor pharmacodynamics and resistance - 2014-03-12
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr. Justen Manasa, 12 March 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: HIV-1 Transmission during Early Infection in Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Phylodynamic Analysis - 2014-02-19
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Dr. Eduan Wilkinson, 19 February 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
Seminar: 30 years of HIV diversity research: a personal perspective - 2014-01-31
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Susan Engelbrecht, 31 January 2014, Durban
The Wellcome Trust Africa Centre Genomics Programme & UKZN MRC Flagship project cordially invites you to a seminar presented by Prof. Tulio de Oliveira, 15 January 2014, Africa Centre headquarters, Mtubatuba
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