From November 19-23, GINGER held its third on-site training of 2018 in Mthatha, South Africa in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry at Walter Sisulu University. The one-week course covered introductory biostatistics and epidemiology, as well as the basics of genomics research, and the ethics of conducting mental health research, and was led by GINGER’s […]

From November 15-19 2021, the GINGER Program was fortunate to be able to host its first in-person training workshop with the Cohort II Research Fellows, as well as three of our Senior Fellows from Cohort I, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The main focus of the training was Cloud Computing, led by Drs. Lori […]

From March 14-16, 2022, the GINGER Team hosted a Neuropsychiatric Genetics Symposium and Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) training for the NeuroMex team in Mexico City. This training was supported by a grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The one-day symposium took place on Monday, March 14th and was attended […]

The GINGER program recently returned from a week-long in-person training for the GINGER Cohort Two Research Fellows in Cape Town, South Africa. The training was held from April 4-8, 2022 and topics included command line coding and cloud computing, Plink, and running through a GWAS step-by-step. The GINGER program was fortunate to welcome guest speakers, […]