GENOMICS AFRICA FELLOW: JULIUS SSERUYANGE

Julius Sseruyange is a researcher at the Uganda Nation Health Laboratory Service.

Julius Sseruyange 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 to combat disease outbreaks such as COVID-19, Ebola , Cholera and future outbreaks by enabling rapid and accurate pathogen detection, tracking, and characterization.

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.