General Virology Course
This General Virology Course equips biological sciences professionals with essential skills in genomic sequencing, virus isolation, diagnostics, and biosafety. Participants gain practical expertise to detect, characterise, and control enveloped respiratory viruses, covering workflows from sequencing to clinical decision-making for rapid and reliable outcomes.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills in detecting, characterising, and controlling enveloped respiratory viruses through genomic sequencing, bioinformatic analysis, and assay design. Progress to virus isolation, in vitro testing, and differential identification, while exploring diagnostics, biosafety, ethics, pathogenesis, and clinical aspects for effective decision-making.
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Develop skills
- Run viral NGS workflows with metagenomic pipelines for unknown respiratory viruses.
- Design molecular diagnostics using qRT-PCR assays and confirm with Sanger sequencing.
- Isolate viruses by culturing respiratory viruses and measuring infectivity in vitro.
- Apply biosafety and ethics including BSL-2/3 practices, consent, and data sharing.
- Understand pathogenesis by linking viral traits to clinical severity and transmission.
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