Education and Training
 
Higher education and training is one of the priorities of our Institute. During the year 2002 in addition to our participation in the Ph.D. Programs in Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica members of the MIFAB initiated new Ph.D. Programs in Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the Universidad Andrés Bello. As a whole our Institute has increased the number of graduate students to a total of 50. In addition we have 56 students doing research at the Institute in order to complete their requirements for Master, professional and undergraduate degrees in several areas of biological sciences. These include Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Marine Biology, Aquaculture Engineering and Biotechnology Engineering. Our students come from programs of the main universities of the country including: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Andrés Bello, Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Santiago, Universidad de Concepción and Universidad Austral. Besides the regular advanced courses of our doctoral programs, during 2002 students from our Institute as well as from other Programs participated in several of the Courses and Simposia organized by our members. Which follows is a list of these activities carried out during the las period.
  
 
INTERNATIONAL COURSES SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS
  
 
"Structure and Function of the nucleous: The nucleolus": January 7-16, 2002, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dra. María Ines Vera. The International visiting professors included: Dr. Philippe Bouvet, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France; Dr. Marc Thiry, University of Liege, Belgium and Dr. Mark Olson, University of Mississippi Medical Center, USA.
  
 
"The Biology of the Immune System, International Mini-Course in Immunology". July 29 - August 9, 2002. Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dr. Mario Rosemblatt. The International visiting professors included Dr. Hidde Ploegh. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School. Boston, USA. Dr. Antonio Coutinho. Director and Senior Research Investigator. Gulbenkian Institute of Science. Portugal. Dr. Federica Sallusto. Research Scientist. Institute for Research in Biomedicine. Switzerland. Dr. Jan Anderson. Professor Department of Immunology, University of Uppsala, Biomedical Center. Sweden.
 
 
"International Workshop on Microbial Genomes, CEN", Universidad de Santiago (USACH), Santiago, Chile, November 29, 2002. Organized by Dr. David Holmes. The International visiting professors included Dr. Emilio García from the Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA and Dr. Patrick Chain also from the Livermore National Laboratory, USA.
 
 
"Inaugural Symposium. Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics", Pontificia Universidad Católica, November 21, 2002, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Drs. Federico Leighton, Bernardita Méndez and Pablo Valenzuela. Invited foreign speakers included Dr. Edward Penhoet, Dean School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Dr. Chris Sommerville, Carnegie Institution & Stanford University, USA; Dr. Shauna Sommerville, Carnegie Institution, Stanford University, USA; Dr. Andrej Sali, Rockefeller University, New York, USA.
  
 
"VII International Meeting of Cholinesterases". November 8-12, 2002, Pucón, Chile. Organized by Drs. Nibaldo Inestrosa and Eliseo Campos. This meeting included the participation of 56 foreign invited speakers from 11 different countries. The meeting included 59 invited oral presentations and 51 poster presentations.
  
 
Workshop "Skeletal Muscle Diseases: Basic and Clinical aspects". January 7-9. Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dr. Enrique Brandan. Included the participation of the following invited visiting professors: Dr. James Erwsti. University of Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Barent Lotz. University of Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Bradley Olwin. University of Colorado, USA.
 
 
Workshop "Nuclear Receptors in Pathology: The PPARs". April 2-3, 2002. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Organized by Dr. Miguel Bronfman. Included the participation of the following foreign visiting professors: Jacob Bar-Tana, The Hebrew University Medical School, Israel. Rachel Hertz, The Hebrew University Medical School, Israel. Frank J. Gonzalez, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA. Jan K. Reddy, Northwestern University Medical School, USA. Bart Staels, Institute Pasteur, Lille, France.
 
 
"Advance Course on Membrane Proteins". September 9-14, 2002. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Organized by Dr. Nibaldo Inestrosa. Included the participation of the following invited professors: Dr. Ehud Landau, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA. Dr. Bryan Sutton, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA. Dr. Javier Navarro, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA.
 
 
"Human genome, gene mapping and data bases". January 14-17, 2002, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dra. Pilar Carvallo. The International visiting professors included: Dr. David Munroe, SAIC, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA. Dr. Bert Gold, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA.
 
 
"Training course on DNA microarrays". January 21-25, 2002, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dra. Pilar Carvallo. The International visiting professors included: Dr. Lisa Gangi, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA. Dr. David Munroe, National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA.
 
 
"VINSALUD 2002, Wine and Health International Congress". October 20-23, 2002. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Organized by Dr. Federico Leighton. The International visiting professors included scientists from 27 countries.