Teaching activities

Among the foundational priorities of the Institute, there was the creation of a teaching activity, aiming to provide the Latinamerican scientific community with high level courses in the modern domains of biology. These courses should include high level theoretical courses and practical courses training the student in the new technologies. During this period the Institute carried out various international courses; 1 in 2007, 5 in 2008, 2 in 2009 and as to this date 3 in 2010.

Students

303 students assisted to these courses, 233 from Uruguay, 34 from Argentina, 19 from Brazil, 8 from Chile, 3 from Peru, 2 from Cuba, 1 from Paraguay, 1 from Venezuela, 1 from United Kingdom and 1 from Portugal. According to their evaluation they were highly successful.

Invited Speakers

153 scientist participated as invited speakers in the courses; 78 from Uruguay, 19 from Argentina, 16 from Brazil, 16 from France, 6 from Sweden, 6 from United States of America, 5 from Spain, 2 from Chile, 2 from United Kingdom, 2 from Italy and 1 from Cuba.

On this basis, we are planning for the future to create Latinamerican schools in structural biology, proteomics, molecular oncology, biotechnology and bioinformatics, that will be hold each every two years.