Advanced Courses programme celebrates 50th training course
12 April 2006
This week the Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses (WTAC) programme at the Genome Campus in Hinxton completed its 50th Advanced Course – 'Microarrays and the Transcriptome'. The course represents a milestone for the WTAC programme, which has trained over 1200 scientists from around the world in its 18-year history.
Advanced Courses target scientists studying for PhD degrees as well as more experienced postdoctoral researchers, drawing on scientific expertise and experience from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and investigators from research institutions around the world to provide course content, instructors and guest speakers. The aim is to provide both young and established scientists with practical training in the latest biomedical research techniques and computer-based data analysis tools – many pioneered by Wellcome Trust scientists.
Popular courses, such as 'Microarrays and the Transcriptome', run annually, with new courses added each year. For 2006, new course topics include the molecular basis of infection and the use of the latest statistical methods and software available for disease studies.
The programme also runs training courses abroad, such as those held in Brazil and Mexico earlier this year, and plans are well underway for computer-based courses in Uruguay later in the year.
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Participants in 'Microarrays and the Transcriptome', the Wellcome Trust's 50th Advanced Course. |
