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Mission
Mobilizing bioscience for Africa’s development, by providing a center for excellence in agricultural biosciences. This enables research, capacity building and product incubation, conducted by scientists in Africa and for Africa, and empowers African institutions to harness innovations for regional impact.
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Vision
To contribute towards improving the livelihoods of millions of resource poor people in Africa, through the use of bioscience-based technologies to improve agricultural productivity, increase incomes and improve food and nutritional security.
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RESEARCH
Research at the BecA-ILRI Hub brings together over 40 institutions, universities, government ministries, regional agencies and non-governmental organizations across countries in Africa, Europe, Australia and USA.
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Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF)
The Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund (ABCF) is a competitive fund that provides capacity building and research opportunities at the BecA-ILRI Hub for African scientists and students from African national research institutes and universities.
- Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and its applications to infectious diseases;
- metagenomics and microbiome analysis
- tools and computational approaches to studying viral and bacterial genomes.
- Participants also discuss the applications and challenges of implementing NGS technologies for pathogen discovery.
Advanced Genomics and Bioinformatics Training Workshop, 2017
Advanced Genomics and Bioinformatics Training Workshop, 2016
Advanced Genomics and Bioinformatics Training Workshop, 2015
Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop Metagenomics and Next generation sequencing, 2014
Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and Applications to Infectious Diseases JCVI/NIAID - 2013
Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop Metagenomics and Next generation sequencing, 2013
Advanced Genomics and Bioinformatics: Viral/Bacterial Metagenomics and Next generation sequencing, 2012
- Overview
- Introduction to Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics workshop
- Advanced Bioinformatics workshop
- Scientific writing workshop
- Lab Management and Equipment operation training workshop
- Regional Workshops
- Other Workshops
P.O Box 30709 - 00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 (20) 422 3805
Fax: +254 (20) 422 3001