What is CABANA?

  • CABANA is a capacity strengthening project for bioinformatics in Latin America. 
  • It aims to accelerate the implementation of data-driven biology in the region by creating a sustainable capacity-building programme focusing on three challenge areas – communicable disease, sustainable food production and protection of biodiversity.
  • CABANA is orchestrated by an international consortium of ten organisations - nine in Latin America and one in the UK.
  • CABANA is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) - part of the UK Aid Budget – from October 2017 to December 2021.

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CABANA challenges

The project will enable research and deliver training to address three challenges:

  Workshops

Our consortium is delivering bioinformatics workshops throughout Latin America, initially in our partner institutions

  Research Secondments

Scientists from Latin America join an EMBL-EBI group for 6 months to develop their bioinformatics skills

  Train the Trainer

Small group of scientists from the network will EMBL-EBI for two weeks to receive tailor made training

  eLearning Resources

We are creating eLearning courses on the topic of our three challenge areas to ensure the scalability & sustainability

News

Interview: From Secondee to Scientific Training Officer

From SECONDEE TO SCIENTIFIC TRAINING OFFICER, Interview with Patricia Carvajal Lopez

 

Patricia Carvajal-López joined EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2019 for her CABANA secondment where she worked on analysing the status of bioinformatics training in Latin America. She has now progressed to working as a Scientific Training Officer where she focuses on the delivery of training courses in life sciences. We sat down with Patricia to talk about CABANA and its impact on her journey so far.

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