On 6 December 2018 Prof Junaid Gamieldien attended the product launch of the UniQ Typer™ Y10 Genotyping Kit Product developed by Prof Eugenia D’amato at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in partnership with Inqaba Biotec. Gamieldien was as present as the team-lead for development of UniQTyper Reference Database (http://ystr.sanbi.ac.za/), which was co-developed […]
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Roux-Cil Ferreira, a PhD student in the group of Prof Simon Travers, has recently published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33390-2). In this paper she explored how sugar molecules bound to the surface proteins of HIV are in a constant state of flux in order to protect the virion from attack by the host
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Galaxy (https://galaxyproject.org/) is a widely used web-based bioinformatics analysis environment that SANBI has been contributing to since 2012. The Galaxy Africa conference (attended by 44 participants from 7 countries) (http://galaxyafrica.sanbi.ac.za/), was held at SANBI at the University of the Western Cape between 3 and 5 April 2018. It aimed to inform, educate, and bring together
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The Pregnancy care Integrating Translational Science, everywhere (PRECISE) network (https://precisenetwork.org) was held 3-6 February 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This multinational collaborative research project focuses on placental disorders includes field sites (and biobank facilities) in Mozambique, Kenya, and The Gambia. The Baobab LIMS team in collaboration with the PRECISE network has customized the LIMS for
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