Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School
Date:
1 - 7 February 2026
Location:
The Protea Hotel by Marriott® King George, George, Western Cape
Cost:
R11,000 - R13,000 excl. VAT • 700 - 800 EUR
Time:
TBC
About the Event
Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School
The Ubuntu Proteomics Summer School is designed to advance proteomics-driven research across Africa by equipping postgraduate scientists with essential conceptual and practical skills relevant to both academia and industry. The programme offers a rich environment for collaboration, bringing participants together through meet-the-experts sessions, roundtable discussions, and poster presentations. Certificates of attendance are provided for personal training records.
The curriculum follows a parallel-track lecture format:
Concepts Track – An introduction to the foundations of mass-spectrometry-based proteomics, covering experimental design, sample preparation, quantitative LC-MS workflows, data quality control, processing, and annotation.
Applications Track – A practical guide to the strengths and limitations of quantitative approaches, using instrument-specific datasets to teach set-up, extraction, processing, and quality-assessment workflows.
For industry partners, the school provides a platform to engage with emerging researchers and leverage Africa’s unique biodiversity for collaborative work in disease detection, personalised medicine, food safety, and food security.
How to register
Sorry you missed it! Registration is closed for February 2026 in George, but please register to be placed on the waiting list for the Summer School in the event a delegate is unable to attend. Waiting list registration: South African delegates click here; international delegates click here. We will also keep you up to date on the 2027 event!