by TReND | May 26, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
We are excited to promote a new Computational Neuroscience course taking place at the University of Cape Town, South Africa on Jan 9th-29th 2017. The IBRO- and SIMONS- sponsored course is being organised by TReND’s Joe Raimondo together with Tim Vogels, Peter...
by TReND | Apr 25, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Training, Volunteering
Towards the end of last year, TReND’s Lukas von Tobel spent a month at KIU Ishaka, Uganda to teach a course on the genetics and neurobiology of the nematode C.elegans, a powerful model system in modern Neuroscience. Read about his experiences here! “In...
by TReND | Mar 7, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Publications, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Last September, TReND welcomed 15 students to the first Scientific Writing and Communication Course. These scientists, selected from a very large number of applications came from six African countries including Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic...
by TReND | Jan 19, 2016 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Publications, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
We are delighted to see Jelena’s report of our bioinformatics courses up on the Planet Earth Institute (PEI) website. The PEI part-funded our recent course at icipe, Nairobi, Kenya which had received over 400 applicants for only 40 spaces. See the full...
by TReND | Dec 22, 2015 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Training, Uncategorized, Volunteering
Last week, we welcomed 22 students from 4 African countries to the TReND/FLiACT fly neuroscience workshop at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. These students were selected from a highly competitive process involving applications...
by TReND | Nov 25, 2015 | Announcements, Blog Posts, Equipment, Open science, Training, Uncategorized
You may have been following our efforts to design and promote Open Source Hardware projects that come in useful in a laboratory setting. To centralise these efforts we just launched a spinoff portal: “Open-labware.net”. Here we provide an overview...
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