Events


Current events



We have our weekly journal club and tea on Fridays at 0900. Wits colleagues and students are welcome. 


Past events




  • H3ABionet Cloud Hackathon, 22-24 August, hosted at the University of Pretoria. Registration is closed.
  • One day workshop on Ensembl, Dr Ben Moore from EBI, 2 June 2016
  • The Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), in conjunction with the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (Basel, Switzerland) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) (Barcelona, Spain) are hosting a three day workshop, Genomics on the Move, at Wits from the 7th to the 9th September 2015.
  • SAHGP Courses Co-hosted at Wits and UWC in July and September 2014.
  • Introduction to Genome Wide Association Studies and Population Structure. 14-17 April 2014. 
  • March 2013: Introduction to NCBI Databases. David Landsman
  • May 2013: Professor Philip Machanick, Rhodes University. MEME Suite Workshop
  • 27 May 2013: Introduction to the Linux and the command line
  • 28-30 May 2013: Genome-wide Analysis course with Matt McQueen, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Tuesday, 27 August. One day Perl conversion course for programmers
  • Wednesday 28 August. The Ensembl Genome Browser, with Dr Bert Overduin, European Biotechnology Institute.
  • Thursday/Friday 29-30 August. The Ensembl API, with Dr Bert Overduin, European Biotechnology Institute