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Centre Group Leaders visit WACCBIP, Ghana

The group leaders attended a research conference and presented workshops on the visit.

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Atlanta Cook (right) teaching the structural bioinformatics workshop.

At the end of July 2019, Robin Allshire, Patrick Heun and Atlanta Cook travelled to the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) in Ghana to attend the WACCBIP annual research conference.   The trip was funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund with the purpose of developing mutually beneficial collaborations between the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and the WACCBIP community.

In addition to attending the WACCBIP research conference, Patrick Heun and Atlanta Cook also presented two workshops that ran concurrently over two days.   Atlanta taught computer-based workshops on structural bioinformatics and Patrick led two laboratory-based practicals on immunofluorescence microscopy and live cell imaging.

 

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Patrick Heun (left) with a group of students on the second day of the microscopy workshop which focused on live imaging of cultured mammalian cells transfected with GFP- (centromeres) and RFP (chromatin)-fusion proteins.

 

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Robin Allshire (left) in discussion with students during the structural bioinformatics workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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