Every other January, early-career scientists from across Latin America gather at a former whaling station in the coastal Chilean village of Quintay.
They’re flocking for an intensive course in Developmental Biology based on programming at the University of Chicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The Quintay sessions not only teach these researchers core precepts and techniques in the field, but also serve as an introduction to the global scientific community.
Nipam Patel, director of the MBL in Woods Hole, taught a section of the Chilean course this past January, as he has done for several years. In addition to teaching and meeting students, Patel said the time in Quintay also brought major value to his own studies.
“I find, just like the courses here [at Woods Hole], that it’s unbelievably beneficial to my own research. Because the students are willing to try all sorts of things that in the normal lab you wouldn’t do, and so many things that we work on in the lab really were based on discoveries that were made in the courses.” Read the rest of the story here.
Source: From Woods Hole to Chile, UChicago model goes global | UChicago News
