• Biosafety for containment and handling of mosquitoes and other biting insects
  Working with biting arthropods requires laboratories with special design to prevent their escape. Not least, infected arthropods must be handled in special infrastructures for pathogen containment (biocontainment) to protect the users and the environment (biosafety). This online course will provide you a deep understanding on best practices, and methodologies required for working under biocontainment laboratories with biosafety level from 1 to 3 (CL 1-3/BSL 1-3). The course includes also waste management, risk assessment as well as accident response bound to safely run activities.
  This course takes place from 30 May to 24 June 2022. Applications are closed.
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• Secure insectary experimental methods (Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, UK)
  A course on secure insectary methods for experimental infection of vectors with CL2/CL3 pathogens. The course includes assessment and certification. The first course took place in summer 2019. The second course will be online and will take place from 20 to 30 June 2022. Applications are closed. Information about the course.
• Introduction to bioinformatics resources for vector genomics studies
  A course on the principles and practices of vector genomics and bioinformatics. The course took place in autumn 2018.

Both courses prioritized the participation of junior scientists (students and postdocs), and/or applicants with a research capacity strengthening component. Courses do not require prior experience. Researchers may also find the e-learning content helpful as supporting information in designing their proposals to request Infravec2 products.

• Safe insectary methods for experimental infections with CL2 and CL3 arboviruses (Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Catalonia, Spain)
  A personalized (1-2 persons) 5-day theoretical and practical laboratory-based training will provide a necessary background to successfully plan, design, and conduct insect infection studies with Risk Group (RG) 2 and RG3 pathogens.
• Safe insectary methods for experimental infections of Aedes with CL3 arboviruses (Institut de recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France)
  A personalized (1-3 persons) 5-day theoretical and practical laboratory-based course will provide a necessary background to successfully plan, design, and conduct insect infection studies with Risk Group (RG) 3 pathogens.
• Secure insectary methods for experimental infections with Plasmodium falciparum (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB), Berlin, Germany)
  A personalized (1-2 persons) 5-day theoretical and practical laboratory-based course will provide a necessary background to plan, design and conduct P. falciparum infection studies in Anopheles mosquitoes.
• Sand fly rearing (Insectary of the Laboratory for vector biology (Charles University (CUNI), Prague, Czech Republic)
  A personalized training to establish and maintain sand fly colonies (mass rearing of sand flies, larval diet production etc.).
• Soft tick or tsetse fly rearing and/or experimental infection with CL2 pathogens (Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Déveoppement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France)
  Three 5-day theoretical and practical laboratory-based Personalized Training programmes are offered on tse-tse flies rearing, soft ticks rearing and experimental infections.
• Standardized Mosquito Mass Rearing methods (Centro Agricoltura Ambiente “G. Nicoli” (CAA),  Italy)
  A personalized (1-2 persons) 5-day laboratory-based course will enable trainees to learn methods for standardized mass rearing of mosquitoes such as: (i) the digital counting of the mosquito eggs, (ii) standard protocol for eggs hatching, (iii) preparation of the liquid larval diets and method for dose calculation use of the large IAEA trays for larval rearing, (iv) sex separation of the pupae through mechanical sieving, (v) management of the egg mass production cages, (vi) blood preparation and females blood feeding by a thermostated device.
• New Caledonian Aedes aegypti rearing and insecticide resistance testing and/or infections with dengue virus (Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Calédonie (IPNC), New Caledonia)
  A personalized (1-2 persons) 5-day theoretical and practical laboratory-based course will provide a necessary background to successfully establish and maintain Aedes agypti in insectaries including rearing of mosquitoes, larval diet production and to realize and interpret insecticides resistance tests following WHO recommendations.
• Insecticide testing experiments (CL1) (Institut de recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France)
  A personalized (1-4 persons) 5-day theoretical and laboratory-based course to provide a background to plan and conduct standardized insecticide assays. The training will consist of technical presentations on WHO procedures for testing insecticide products, demonstrations of the calculation and preparation of insecticide materials, use of the WHO test kits, larval bioassay and bottle assay tests, data analysis and depository…
• Personalized training in vector behaviour studies (CL1) (WU insectary, Wageniningen University, Wageningen, Holland)
  A personalized (1-4 persons) 2-day laboratory-based course will provide a necessary background to learn methods for behaviour experiments. The training will include: (i) mosquito rearing procedures, (ii) the use of olfactometer and windtunnel set-ups, (iii) basics of 3-D reconstruction of insect flight, and (iv) development of surveillance tools exploiting host-seeking behaviour.
• Personalized training in Medical entomology in the lab and on the field (CL1) (Vectopole Amazonien, Institut Pasteur de Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana)
  A personalized (1-3 persons) 3-week theoretical and hands-on course on medical entomology, which will allow participants to widen and update their knowledge on vector biology while being trained on field work methods, notably via a participation in the Amazonian Course on Medical Entomology. Fieldwork will be performed via a week of immersion in the rainforest, working on a research project.

Registration for Personalized Trainings is currently closed, see the online store for more information.