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SUMMARY:The Elusive Lab: Scientific Infrastructure in Africa - David Dunne
 \, Ferdinand Okwaro\, Branwyn Poleykett\, James Wood (Cambridge) Chaired b
 y Wenzel Geissler (Oslo and Cambridge)
DTSTART:20131120T143000Z
DTEND:20131120T163000Z
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CONTACT:Noemi Tousignant
DESCRIPTION:Today’s panel brings together leading life-scientists with e
 xtensive experience from health research and laboratory work\, and the mak
 ing of laboratories in Africa\, and anthropologists and historians of Afri
 can science\, to address questions of the past and future of labs as scien
 tific infrastructure in Africa: What have been the obstacles to building u
 p lab infrastructures in Africa\, and how might these change? What has mot
 ivated the creation of labs in Africa? How have developments in scientific
  and health technology\, from scientific miniaturisation (test kits\, mobi
 le phone diagnostics…) to networked extension of science (data pooling\,
  multi-site research consortia…)\, changed what counts as an effective l
 ab in Africa? What futures do African laboratories hold\, what labs  will 
 be needed in the future\, and how does one build\, a century or more into 
 the ‘African laboratory’\, laboratory infrastructure that is relevant 
 to African needs and materially and scientifically sustainable?
LOCATION:SG2 at CRASSH Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\,
  CB3 9DT
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