Our Laboratory Training Workshops
Through a 2-week, hands-on laboratory training course we teach scientists in developing countries how to isolate and characterize phages in their own regions
Teaching Staff include faculty from:
Yale University: Dr. Ben Chan (US)
University of Leicester: Drs. Martha Clokie & Janet Nale (UK)
Specific Workshops:
Past
July 2017: East Africa Workshop (Uganda)
June 2018: East Africa Workshop (Kenya)
July 2019: West Africa Workshop (Ghana)
Scheduled
January 2020: East Africa Workshop (Tanzania)
Additional Future Workshops
Southern Africa (Botswana)
Northern Africa (Egypt)
Southeast Asia (Malaysia)
Photos courtesy Dr. Martha Clokie
Partner Universities
Kenya
University of Nairobi
Technical University of Kenya
Institute of Primate Research
Pwani University
Rwanda
University of Rwanda
Tanzania
Sokoine University of Agriculture
National Health Laboratory
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Uganda
Makerere University
Kampala International University
Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Nigeria
National Veterinary Research Institute
University of Lagos
The Gambia
University of The Gambia
Indonesia
Primate Research Center at Bogor Agricultural University
Malaysia
Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology
Funding Provided by
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Conservation, Food & Health Foundation
Microbiology Society
Lions Club of Maarn
Individual Donors
Equipment Loaned by
Epibiome, Inc.
University of California, Berkeley
Bio-Link Depot