This summer, the Centre for Research Informatics Training (formerly the Bioinformatics Training Facility) hosted 19 students from Saudi Arabia for a six-week residential bioinformatics summer school. The programme covered a broad range of topics, including bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, proteomics, bacterial genomics, and epidemiological modelling.
With weekly guest lectures and hands-on support from trainers across the department and wider university, the summer school received excellent feedback from both students and instructors. Its success marks a promising step forward for the department, and we hope to continue—and expand—this initiative in the coming years.
The original vision for the programme was developed by Paul Fannon, with the successful delivery made possible by the exceptional efforts of Hugo Tavares, supported by Paul Judge, Andries van Tonder, and the entire CRIT team.