Other activities

Training Courses

2011

November 7-11

• Fourth International School on Production of Biologicals in Animal Cell Cultures, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mariela Bollati was Invited lecturer.

June 8-10

• Theoretical and practical intramural course: Flow cytometry, IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Organized by the Cell Biology Unit. Programme

2010

Nov 10-19

• Theoretical and practical course: Animal Cell Biotechnology: Product from cells, cells as product, Montevideo, Uruguay. Organized by the Cell Biology Unit, supported by: ICGEB, UNU-BIOLAC and Uruguay Innova. Programme

Nov 7-9

• IV Seminario Latinoamericano de Tecnología de Células Animales. Organized by the Cell Biology Unit, Hotel Ermitage, IP Montevideo, Montevideo. Programme

2009

October 15-16

• Theoretical and practical intramural course: Flow cytometry, IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Organized by the Cell Biology Unit

April 27-28

• Theoretical and practical intramural course: Introducción al Análisis de Imágenes (Olympus), IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Organized by the Cell Biology Unit

March 

• Basic aspects of Cell Culture. PEDECIBA – BIOLOGY, IIBCE and IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. The Cell Biology Unit participated in the Theoretical and practical activities.

2008

Nov 24-Dec 6

• EMBO course: Genetics of laboratory rodents, IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Mariela Bollati participated in the Theoretical and practical activities.

July 14-18

• Third International School on Production of Biopharmaceuticals in Animal Cell Cultures, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mariela Bollati was Invited lecturer.

April 7-13

• MidTerm HEVAR Conference on Viral vectors as genetic vaccines against pathogens, UdelaR and IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Mariela Bollati was part of the Organizer Committee.

March 

• Basic aspects of Cell Culture. PEDECIBA – BIOLOGY, IIBCE and IP Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. The Cell Biology Unit participated in the Theoretical and practical activities.

Visits of scientists and training of students

2011

• Ivanna Rolny (PhD student). 
  

  Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Criotecnología de Alimentos - CONICET, La Plata, Argentina. 

• Renzo Martino (PhD student). Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Laboratorio de Inmunología, San Luis, Argentina.
• Andrea Comba (PhD student). Facultad de Ciencias Médicas – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. AMSUD-Pasteur Fellowship.
• Javier Eliçabe (PhD student). Laboratorio de Inmunología-Area de Microbiología, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina. AMSUD-PASTEUR FELLOWSHIP, Title: “Estudio del impacto de la infección con Y. enterocolitica O:3 en la activación y función de CD humanas”

2010

• Dra. Ayelén Hugo (Post doctoral fellow). Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Criotecnología de Alimentos - CONICET, La Plata, Argentina. CONICET/IP Montevideo Fellowship, Title: “Interacción de lactobacilos probióticos in vitro con E. coli (EPEC) y (EHEC): efecto sobre las células epiteliales y dendríticas”

• Dr. Horacio Rodriguez (Research Associate). Laboratorio de Endocrinología y Tumores Hormonodependientes (LETH), Facultad de Bioquímica y Cs Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. CONICET/IP Montevideo Fellowship, Title: “Study of the effects and mechanisms of action of environmental estrogens on germinal cells using a model of transgenic mouse oct4-GFP”.

2009

• Dr. Silvia Racedo (Post doctoral fellow) CIDCA-Facultad de Ciencia Exactas, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina. Short term internship, Title: “Evaluación de cepas de B. cereus en modelos in vitro sobre células del sistema inmune”

• Milagros Burgi Fissolo (PhD student). Universidad Nacional del Litoral- Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Santa Fe, Argentina. Short term internship, Title “Compuestos Naturales y Sintéticos que modulen la actividad biológica de los Interferones humanos de tipo I”

• Dr. Horacio Rodriguez (Research Associate). Universidad Nacional del Litoral- Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Santa Fe, Argentina. Short term internship, Title: “Modelos in vitro de perturbación endócrina: determinación de la cantidad de células germinales en ovario de rata”

• Dr. Roberto Davicino (Post doctoral fellow). Instituto Iquimefa-CONICET, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. CONICET/IP Montevideo Fellowship, Title: “Estudio in vitro de la actividad inmunomoduladora de extractos de Larrea divaricada cav, Tilia X Viridis, Ilex Paraguariensis y compuestos aislados a partir de ellos”

2008

• Mónica Mattio (PhD student). Universidad Nacional del Litoral- Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Santa Fe, Argentina. AMSUD-PASTEUR FELLOWSHIP, Title: “Efecto anti-apoptótico de eritropoyetina humana recombinante sobre cultivos celulares”
• Fernando de S. F. Guimarães (MSc. Student). Laboratório de Pesquisa em Células Inflamatórias e Neoplásicas Depto de Biologia Celular, Federal University of Paraná. Short term internship, Title “In vitro anticancer properties of a Calcarea carbonica derivative complexes”

2007

• Marieke Overeijnder. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Degree Thesis, title: “Screening of natural compounds affecting type I Interferon Signaling”