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Announcement
Next Course: “Microbes for food security 2025-A RELAR-PGPRLat joint workshop”, December 2025
Apply for a scholarship to participate in the workshop coordinated by Dr. Claudio Valverde at Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.
News
Gabriela Ramos is helping save cocoa plantations from an aggresive fungus
By using computers to model its pathogenic effector proteins and their interactions with possible blockers
Announcement
Next Course: “Production and Mass Spectrometry-Based Quality Control of Biotherapeutics”, November 2025
Apply for a scholarship to participate in the course coordinated by Dr. Germán Rosano at IBR in Rosario, Argentina.
News
Next Course: “Synthetic Microbiology Symposium (SMS) 3.0: Whole-cell biosensors development ”, October 2025
Apply for a scholarship to participate in the course coordinated by Drs. Raul Platero and Vanessa Amarelle at IIBCE in Montevideo, Uruguay
News
Candela Bayon is studying G-quadruplexes looking for answers to the onset of genetic diseases
Non-canonical DNA structures like these may hold the key to understanding how some types of cancer are triggered.
News
Elizabeth Monroy is studying frogs to find ways to decrease application of post-harvest fungicides in citrus crops
The frog's skin microbiome holds the keys to controlling at least some of the most feared harvest-attacking fungi
Feature
Ines Sananez learnt to apply deep genomic analysis to conservation biology
Next Generation Sequencing is here, and Inés Sananez trains to better study parasites and their interactions with endangered species
Press Release
UNU-BIOLAC and UNAM renewed their Agreement of Cooperation
UNU-BIOLAC and UNAM-IBt Extend and Amend Strategic Agreement, boosting biotechnology in Latin America and the Caribbean for five more years
