IRESSEF and UCAD in Senegal are organizing and hosting a bioinformatics workshop that will include one week of virtual sessions on October 3 - 7, 2022, and one week of in-person sessions in Senegal this October 10 - 15, 2022. Dr. Tulio de Oliveira of CERI and Dr. Luiz Alcantara Jr. of FIOCRUZ and their teams will assist in facilitating this training. They are at the forefront of capacity-building efforts in bioinformatics, with experience leading large-scale bioinformatics training programs. This workshop will be held with support from CREID research centers, UWARN, PICREID, WAC-EID, and WARN-ID. The training will cover wet and dry lab components of genomic sequencing and resulting bioinformatics, using SARS-CoV-2 as an example. Learners will gain skills in wet lab processes, genome assembly, quality control, submission to GISAID and NCBI, data interpretation, and discussion, among other skills. This workshop is available to laboratory technologists, post-doctoral research fellows, bioinformaticians, clinical infectious disease specialists, senior scientists, and other roles where training in bioinformatics would be helpful. The Workshop organizers gratefully acknowledge financial support from: NIAID (1U01AI151698) and the Office of Global Research, US National Institutes of Health, UWARN and the University of Washington, WAC-EID, University of Texas Medical Branch, CERI and The Rockefeller Foundation. For more information, please contact ws.bioinf22@iressef.org or Helene McOwen (UWARN Research Coordinator) at hmcowen@uw.edu.
