We are pleased to congratulate the selected course coordinators for their outstanding proposals and commitment to advancing scientific development in Latin America and the Caribbean trough education and training. We also extend our sincere appreciation to the hosting institutions for their invaluable commintment, and to the external evaluators whose expertise and dedication were essential to the selection process.
Thank you all for contributing to the strengthening of biotechnology capacities across the region.
| Course title | Hosting institution | Country | Expected start date | Course Coordinators |
| Optics, Forces & Development | Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Universidad de Chile | Chile | 7/1/2026 | Miguel Concha |
| Genomics applied to One Health | Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Argentina | 16/2/2026 | Laura Kamenetzky |
| Bacterial Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria: Molecular Mechanisms and Biotechnological Applications | Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Argentina | 23/2/2026 | Julieta Fernández, Federico Sisti |
| Micro4Agro, Methods in Soil Microbial Biotechnology for Advancing Sustainable Agriculture | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes | Argentina | 9/3/2026 | Patricio Martín Sobrero, Betina Cecilia Agaras, Antonio Lagares Jr. |
| Advancing Sustainable Mining, Cultivation and Genomic Analysis of Acidophilic Microorganisms for Biomining and Bioremediation Innovation | Universidad de las Américas | Ecuador | 9/3/2026 | Diana Ayala-Muñoz |
| Innovative Biotechnological Approaches in Health: From Research to Application | Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biologicas (INSIBIO; CONICET-UNT) | Argentina | 16/3/2026 | Maria Guadalupe Vizoso Pinto |
| Open Chagas Building Capacity in Drug Discovery for Chagas Disease in Latin America | Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Latin America (DNDi LATAM) | Brazil | 16/3/2026 | Luiza R. Cruz, Jadel M Kratz |
| Scaling-Up of Bioprocesses and Training in Bioreactor Operation | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | Mexico | 23/3/2026 | Dr. Mauricio A. Trujillo-Roldán, Norma A. Valdez-Cruz |
| Development and applications of biosensors | Instituto Leloir | Argentina | 23/3/2026 | Daiana A Capdevila, Ana Sol Peinetti, Armando Hernandez Garcia |
| Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence Methods for the Study of Microbial Diversity: a One Health view | Universidad de El Salvador | El Salvador | 19/4/2026 | Amy Elieth Morán Rodríguez, Juan Pablo Cárdenas |
| Microbial biotechnology in extreme environments: from field sampling to functional metagenomics. | Universidad Mayor de San Simon | Bolivia | 4/5/2026 | Daniel Guzman, Claudia Hoepfner, Sonia Torrico |
| Hands-on molecular approaches for honey bee research in health and disease | Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable | Uruguay | 11/5/2026 | Karina Antunez |
| Applied Biotechnology for Amazonian Plants: From Biomass to Nutraceuticals | Universidad San Francisco de Quito | Ecuador | 20/5/2026 | Ery Odette Fukushima |
| Reverse Genetics of Viruses and its Applications in Virotherapy and Vaccine Development | Institut Pasteur Montevideo | Uruguay | 25/5/2026 | Pilar Moreno, Natalia Echeverria, Gonzalo Moratorio |
| Scientific update on techniques for delivering genetic constructs and their applications in gene editing and RNA interference in insects of agricultural and biomedical interest. | Universidad Nacional de San Antonio de Areco (UNSAdA), Av. Güiraldes 689, B2760 San Antonio de Areco, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina | Argentina | 8/6/2026 | Silvia Beatriz Lanzavecchia, María Inés Catalano |
| II Latin-American School on Cryo-Electron Microscopy: Structural Imaging for Microbial Biotechnology in Health and the Environment | Centro Integral de Microscopía Electrónica (CIME) –National University of Tucumán (UNT) and CONICET. | Argentina | 13/7/2026 | Virginia Helena Albarracín |
| Making Making Metabolomics Matter: Discovering Metabolomics Applications in Animal Science and Sustainable Meat Production | University of São Paulo, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (FMVZ-USP) | Brazil | 27/7/2026 | Nara Regina Brandão Cônsolo |
| Conservation Genomics of Natural Products: Biosynthetic Genes in Latin America | Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas CIMAT | Mexico | 10/8/2026 | Nelly Sélem Mojica, Cesar Aguilar, Llila Leticia Ramírez Ramírez |
| Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture: Bridging the Gap Between Lab and Field | Planta Piloto de Procesos Industriales Microbiológicos PROIMI-CONICET | Argentina | 10/8/2026 | Julián Rafael Dib |
| Biotechnology applied to the study of wild species | Veterinary Science Institute of the Littoral (ICiVet), National Scientific and Research Council (CONICET)/University of the Littoral (UNL) | Argentina | 30/11/2026 | Pablo Ariel Siroski, Gisela Laura Poletta |
