{"id":1513,"date":"2025-11-12T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/?page_id=1513"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:35:46","slug":"short-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/short-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Courses and Technical Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1513\" class=\"elementor elementor-1513\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9fc1de7 ts-col-stretched-none ts-bg-color-over-image elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9fc1de7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-af6c73a ts-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"af6c73a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27b7b51 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27b7b51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IGH delivers targeted <\/span><b>short courses, workshops, summer boot camps and technical training programs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to enhance competencies in genomic technologies and data analysis.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><strong style=\"color: #cc9933;\">Upcoming Training in Bioinformatics \u2013 February 2026<\/strong><\/p><p><b>Genomics Bootcamp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The summer boot camps are intensive, residential, four-week-long genomics training courses aimed at foundation and advanced participants.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training modules cover foundational and advanced topics, including:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sequencing Technologies and Genomic Analysis<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bioinformatics and Computational Tools<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laboratory Quality Assurance and Biosafety<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Genomic Surveillance and Outbreak Response<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific Writing and Research Communication<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These programs are open to early-career researchers, laboratory professionals, and public health practitioners seeking to apply genomic tools in their work.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> IGH\u2019s hands-on approach ensures participants gain both technical proficiency and contextual understanding relevant to Africa\u2019s public health priorities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These Trainings are categorised into:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foundational Training Workshop<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced Genomics Training<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>The Foundation Training Workshop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Genomics is a full-immersion program designed for top-performing African graduates, postdoctoral trainees, faculty members and laboratory technicians. The one-month training covers a curriculum of best laboratory practices, reinforced by intensive coursework and hands-on practical applications in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Genomics. Training will be in a didactic format that gives trainees a rare opportunity for independent and real-time hands-on practical experience on the cutting-edge genomics tools. In addition, the boot camp will give trainees bonding time for interaction and collaboration.<\/span><\/p><p><b>The Advanced Genomics Training <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is designed for trainees to have hands-on experience in sequencing techniques especially Sanger sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing. The training is particularly suitable for Graduates students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty members with direct access to the sequencing equipment. In addition to target and whole genome sequence, trainees will also be exposed to Library prep, qPCR as well as tips on science communication, writing grants and manuscripts.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e077609 ts-col-stretched-none ts-bg-color-over-image elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e077609\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4674bcc ts-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"4674bcc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b8ae27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"4b8ae27\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=2ytTs7GfJqk&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGH delivers targeted short courses, workshops, summer boot camps and technical training programs designed to enhance competencies in genomic technologies and data analysis. Upcoming Training in Bioinformatics \u2013 February 2026 Genomics BootcampThe summer boot camps are intensive, residential, four-week-long genomics training courses aimed at foundation and advanced participants. Training modules cover foundational and advanced topics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/short-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short Courses and Technical Workshops<\/span>&#8220;>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short Courses and Technical Workshops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1513\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ighresearch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}