GENOMICS AFRICA FELLOW: DR ADEY FELEKE DESTA

Dr Adey Feleke Desta is a researcher at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.

Dr Adey Feleke Desta 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 so he can establish infrastructure to equip fellow researchers with hands-on training in genomic epidemiology, and underlying principles of predictive analysis .

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.