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Establishing a new course in Science Communication
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...
Article about Bioinformatics course now online
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 report...
Bringing Drosophila Neuroscience to Ghana!
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...
Now running: Bioinformatics School at icipe, Nairobi
We have the pleasure of welcoming as many as 35 students to the TReND/icipe Bioinformatics School this year. The students were selected after a highly competitive process, from a total of 430 applicants. This week they are learning R and Unix programming basics, as...
Open-Labware.net launched
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 of some of...
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