Register to Upcoming Webinars
|
|
|
To register to a B3Africa webinar, follow the link and fill the quick form.
For ease of reference, please indicate your Last Name/Country in the "last name" field.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the webinar (including a personalized link to connect to the system on the webinar's day).
Do take the time to check your system’s compatibility before the actual session begins:
http://help.citrix.com/webinar/get-ready/
|
|
|
B3Africa Webinar 4 - The BiBBox
|
|
|
Date: 27 April 2017
Time: 13:00-14:30 CET/ French time
Trainers: Heimo Müller, Robert Reihs & Lucas Pessl (Medical University of Graz)
Target audience: This webinar is mostly IT-oriented and dedicated to IT professionals from B3Africa Use Case institutions. Other B3Africa biobank professionals or IT professionals from B3Africa networks interested in the topics may also join.
Main topics:
1) Discussion on the philosophy of APPs & demonstration of how an APP is built in the background and what happens inside the machine;
2) Demonstration of eB3Kit APPs' installation, including a brief presentation of experiment management & data integration APPs.
Please note that this webinar requires preliminary work. Before the webinar, participants should:
1) Watch B3Africa Webinar 1's presentations on "how to manage eB3Kit virtual machines" and "how to manage eB3Kit dockers and containers" on the B3Africa Learning Space: http://learning.iarc.fr/course/view.php?id=6
If it's your first visit to our Learning Space, you'll need to create an account.
AND
2) Consult the documentation and install the BiBBox on your computer: http://bibbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/
|
|
|
B3Africa Webinar 5 - Bioinformatics Part I
|
|
Date: 30 May 2017
Time: 13:00-14:30 CET/ France time
Trainer: Tomas Klingström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU)
Target audience: B3Africa Use Case participants and other participants from B3Africa networks: biobankers, researchers, bioinfomaticians.
Main topics:
1) Introduction to Bioinformatics;
2) Retrieving and Returning Data to the System;
3) Create reusable workflows on your own.
|
|
|
|
B3Africa Webinar 6 - Material/ Data Transfer Agreements
(MTA/ DTA)
|
|
|
Date: 27 June 2017
Time: 13:00-14:30 CET/ French time
Trainer: Elodie Caboux (International Agency for Research on Cancer)
Target audience: B3Africa Use Case participants and other participants from B3Africa networks: researchers/ scientists, biobank managers, administrative/ legal research assistants.
Main topics:
1) Explain the purpose of a MTA/ DTA;
2) Determine when a MTA/ DTA is necessary;
3) Integrate the appropriate information into a MTA/ DTA;
4) Determine who signs the MTA/ DTA;
5) Assign references to MTA/ DTA;
6) Follow the progress/end of the MTA/ DTA.
|
|
|
Interested to learn about the eB3Kit?
Visit our website and navigate through this new infographic! |
|
|
B3Africa under the Spotlight
|
|
|
- In the first 2017 issue of The Biobank perspectives newsletter, the B3Africa ELSI team reports on some of the key steps taken during the first 18 months of the project.
- The B3Africa project was presented at two international events during the month of March:
|
|
|
Visit our website for a regularly updated list of upcoming events.
|
|
Partners in B3Africa are:
Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), Sweden; Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC), Austria; Karolinska Institutet (KI), Sweden; Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University, Sweden; University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa; Makerere University (MAK), Uganda; Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa; International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), France; International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya; Medizinische Universität Graz (MUG), Austria; and Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), Nigeria.
|
|
 Project Coordinator
Dr Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Erik.bongcam@slu.se
+46-18672121
Website: www.b3africa.org
 B3Africa website & newsletter
Dominique Meunier
Project Assistant
MeunierD@iarc.fr
|
|
|
|
