Organizers

•  Andrew Oleinikov, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, USA 
•  Patrick Duffy, National Institutes of Health/Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, USA
•  Michal Fried, National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA
•  Paul Gwakisa, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
•  Hamisi Malebo, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania

Sponsors

•  Malaria Research Training Program of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, with support from Fogarty International Center/NIH  
• Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
•  National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Tanzania

The Program

Sokoine University, Seattle BioMed and NIMR will convene a special workshop focusing on Drugs & Drug Resistance.  An international faculty will lead a two-week workshop to train graduate students and young scientists from Africa in basic and applied research on protozoan pathogens, including malaria parasites and trypanosomes. 

Areas to be covered include:

•  Drugs
• Drug Resistance
• Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Host Immunity
• Research Ethics
• Biostatistics and Epidemiology
• Molecular Biology
• Developing Research Proposals

The workshop will emphasize student participation through symposia, poster sessions, roundtable discussions, hands-on laboratory sessions and informal interactions. The workshop organizers hope to generate interest in parasitic diseases research, to promote networks of East African and international scientists and students, and to identify graduate students and young scientists who may be interested in graduate or postdoctoral training at research facilities in East Africa or overseas.

Senior Faculty

• Andrew Oleinikov, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, USA
• Joe Bressler, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Alassane Dicko, University of Bamako, Mali
• Patrick Duffy, National Institutes of Health/Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, USA
• Michal Fried, National Institutes of Health, USA
• Paul Gwakisa, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
• Edward Kabyemela, Muhimbili University, Tanzania 
• Ursula Kryzch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, USA
• Jean Langhorne, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
• Hamisi Malebo, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
• Mwele Malecela, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
• Collen Masimirembwa, African Institute of Biomedical Science & Technology, Zimbabwe
• Lucas Matemba, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania
• Marilyn Parsons, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, USA
• Jason Wendler, Oxford University/National Institutes of Health, USA 

Especially outstanding students selected to participate will receive support for their travel, room and board. Applications should be received no later than 17 April 2011. Applicants should include an abstract (1 page only) describing research that the student has performed or would like to perform in the future on some aspect of protozoan pathogens.

Applications may be downloaded as a PDF file or Word document (see files attached below). After completing the application, please email it, along with your CV and abstract, to workshop organizers at workshop2011@seattlebiomed.org.