BioAfrica - Introduction to HIV Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis Workshop.

Action for Building Capacity (ABC) Fogarty Workshops:
Introduction to HIV Sequencing and Phylogenetic Analysis.

9 to 13 of February 2004, Durban, South Africa.

Workshop Director: Professor Sharon Cassol

Workshop Organizers: Karen Bishop and Donnie McGrath

Sponsors:Fogarty ABC Training program, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies ABC program, Tufts-New England
Medical Center, The Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, and the Wellcome Trust.

Evalutation Form:

Total of Participants: 12
Evaluation Form recieved: 7

Evaluation Results:

1. Did the overall course fulfill your expectations ?
Yes : 7
No : 0

2. Give your opinion about the theoretical part of the workshop:

	Clarity	Interest	Duration
Good to Excellent	97 %	89 %	48%
Adequate	1.5%	11%	39%
Poor:	1.5 %	0%	too short: 13%

3. Give your opinion about the practical part of the workshop:

	Clarity	Interest	Duration
Good to Excellent	96 %	96 %	55%
Adequate	4%	4%	33%
Poor	0%	0%	too short: 12 %

4. Give your opinion about the sequence analysis of the workshop:

	Clarity	Interest	Duration
Good to Excellent	80 %	87 %	52%
Adequate	20 %	13 %	16 %
Poor:	0%	0%	too short: 32 %

5. The overall Organization of the workshop was ?

Excellent: 4
Good: 3
Poor: 0

6. Suggestions ?
Phylogenetics more detailed.
Workshop uniquely on Bioinformatics
More on Bioinformatics of Protein (proteomics)
More on Resistance Genotyping

7. Comments ?
Great that the process goes from begining (from blood) to end (sequence analysis).

Sponsors:

Fogarty ABC Training program:

Tufts-New England
Medical Center

Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies ABC program

The Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine

The Wellcome Trust

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