General Virology Course
This General Virology Course equips biological sciences professionals with essential skills in genomic sequencing, virus isolation, molecular diagnostics, and biosafety protocols. Participants learn to detect, characterise, and control enveloped respiratory viruses through practical workflows including NGS pipelines, qRT-PCR assay design, in vitro culturing, and ethical considerations for rapid decision-making in clinical and research settings.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on expertise in detecting, characterising, and controlling enveloped respiratory viruses. Master genomic sequencing, bioinformatic analysis, assay design, virus isolation, in vitro testing, differential identification, diagnostics development, biosafety measures, ethics, pathogenesis, and clinical features for effective responses.
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Develop skills
- Run viral NGS workflows and metagenomic pipelines for unknown respiratory viruses.
- Design qRT-PCR assays for molecular diagnostics and confirm with Sanger sequencing.
- Isolate and culture respiratory viruses, quantifying infectivity in vitro.
- Apply BSL-2/3 biosafety practices, ethics, consent rules, and data sharing.
- Understand viral pathogenesis linking traits to clinical severity and transmission.
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