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Teaching Bioinformatics at Khartoum, Sudan
In March 2016 TReND volunteers Aled and Richard ran a week long whole exome and RNA sequencing data analysis course at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. The course was attended by 25 students, mostly from the University of Khartoum with a wide range of backgrounds,...
Making science-education in schools fun again!
TReND Alumni and Volunteers organised a hands-on outreach event at Maude International School, Zaria, Nigeria, to introduce teachers and students to simple and fun science experiments adoptable to the classroom. We are very excited that over 150 participants were...
First Neuroscience symposium upcoming in Ghana!
We are excited to annouce the first Neuroscience Symposium upcoming in Ghana in 2016, brought to us by TReND's Tommy Karikari and colleagues. For details, please see the poster!
Teach in Africa: Molecular biology in northern Ethiopia
One of our latest volunteers for our Teach in Africa programme is Susana. Following her PhD and postdoc in Europe, she is now in Mekelle, Ethiopia where she a practical-based set of courses in Molecular Biology to local staff and students. Read about her time below! ...
TReND in Nature News
Following our attendance at the GOSH2016 Open Hardware conference at CERN, Geneva last week we are pleased to see two of our Open Source lab equipment designs featured as the title image on Nature News’ conference Article. Link to Article here. Highlighted projects...
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