GENOMICS AFRICA FELLOW: ALEX ANSAYE MWANYONGO

Alex Ansaye Mwanyongo is a researcher at the Public Health Institute of Malawi

Alex Ansaye Mwanyongo came to this fellowship at KRISP in University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI at University of Stellenbosch to receive training on SARS-CoV-2, HIV, TB and other pathogen sequencing in order to improve genomic surveillance in Malawi by producing more genomic data and analytical information.

Duration of the fellowship:  10 April 2023 to 21 April 2023.

Trained received: Hands-on sequencing on Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and Illumina COVID-seq sequencing and bioinformatics analysis.

Fellowship sponsors: Rockefeller Foundation.