EVENT ORGANIZERS

Argentina. Andres Rossi, Co-Chair of the Training Working Group at LABI and Manager of the Core Imaging Facility at Leloir Institute; Victoria Repetto, Co-Chair of the Training Working Group at LABI and Imaging Scientist, University of Buenos Aires, Lia Pietrasanta, Chair of the LABI Steering Committee, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires.

Uruguay. Marcela Diaz, Co-Chair of the Training Working Group at LABI and Imaging Scientist and Manager, Advanced BioImaging Unit, Institut Pasteur, Montevideo; Leonel Malacrida, Member of the LABI Steering Committee, Associate Professor and Director of the  Advanced Bioimaging Unit, University of the Republic and Institut Pasteur Montevideo; Andres Olivera, LABI Network Manager. 

Canada. Claire M. Brown, BioImaging North America Co-Chair, Canada BioImaging President and Professor & Director, Advanced BioImaging Facility at McGill University.

EVENT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS

From June 3-7, 2024, a team of highly motivated image scientists organized the Latin America Light Microscopy Fundamentals Train-the-Trainer (LatLM-TtT) course at the Leloir Institute Foundation and University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires. During this event, twenty-three imaging scientists and researchers from across Latin America and Africa received training on how to run a fundamentals light microscopy course in their home regions.

The overall goals of the course were to:

1. Train a community of imaging scientists how to run a fundamentals microscopy course.
2. Provide resources to trainers, including presentation slides, course logistics guidelines, and hands-on activities.
3. Build a community of trainers that will continue to work together and build capacity in light microscopy by implementing fundamentals microscopy courses across Latin America and Africa.
4. Work as a team to continue building the trainers’ community by planning and running future training-the-trainer optical microscopy fundamentals course editions.

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