This month, we focused our newsletter on the new services and technologies available at KRISP. The newsletter also highlights our educational events (Talks, Wet-Lab and Dry-Lab workshops) and publications, including a paper on the increase of HIV-1 drug resistance in South Africa and another on the use of deep-sequence phylogenies to infer HIV-1 transmission networks
This issue's highlights are:
KRISP Services: KRISP provide access to high-throughput Sanger sequencers
KRISP Services: KRISP provide access to high-throughput Illumina sequencers
KRISP Services: New qPCR & TaqMan Arrays microbial panels (Gastrointestinal, Pulmonary and STIs)
Workshop: KRISP & Thermo Fisher Scientific complete their 5th STEM training workshop!
Workshop: Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), 4 April 2019
Talks: Opening up data for social well-being research in South Africa, 11 April 2019
Publication: Trends in Pre-treatment HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Adults in South Africa, 20002016, EClinicalMedicine (Lancet), 2019
Social Media: YouTube: New technologies transforming biology available at KRISP
News date: 2019-04-01
Links:
http://www.krisp.org.za/manuscripts/KRISPnewsletter_3_2019.pdf
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