GENOMICS AFRICA FELLOW: KASONDE MPANGA

Kasonde Mpanga is a researcher at the Zambia National Public Health Institute.

Kasonde Mpanga came to this fellowship at KRISP at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and CERI at the University of Stellenbosch to receive training on SARS-CoV-2, HIV, TB and another pathogen sequencing to improve his skills in genomic and bioinformatics to for him to support the Zambian wastewater project effectively.

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.