LSHTM Call for Applications: Infectious Disease ‘Omics (Online Short Course)

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is offering an online short course on “Infectious Disease ‘Omics” from the 5 to the 8 of December. Infectious diseases, such as HIV-AIDS, malaria, pneumonia and tuberculosis, account for 25% of global mortality and more than half of all deaths in children under the age of five years. The genetic epidemiology of these diseases can be complex, especially as they may involve several genomes, including the host, pathogen(s) and a vector. There is also a need to look beyond the genome to consider other ‘omes, such as the transcriptome, in a more systems biology framework.

Prerequisites:

This course focuses on bioinformatic, population genetic, statistical and genetic epidemiological methods for analysing large genetic datasets.  Participants would be expected have some familiarity with molecular biology, and relevant statistical concepts such as a linear regression.

Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Process raw sequence into a set of informative variants, through mapping to a reference genome or using de novo or reference-free assembly approaches;
• Conduct transcriptomic and proteomic analysis, in an integrated systems biology approach
• Perform downstream population genetic and association analysis

Course Fee:

• £550

Read more here.

Application deadline November 30, 2022.