Abstract:
:The Latin American School of Human and Medical Genetics (ELAG) is the main course of its kind in the genetics field in Latin America. Here we describe the main challenges regarding the organization of such event, including how we obtain funding and how we proceed with student selection. Thus, we aim to share our experience with other groups that intend to follow this format to create similar events in other areas in this region of the world.
journal_name
Genet Mol Bioljournal_title
Genetics and molecular biologyauthors
Vairo F,López ML,Cruz CU,Corrêa PG,Baldo Gdoi
10.1590/s1415-47572014000200002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-03-01 00:00:00pages
149-50issue
1 Suppleissn
1415-4757issn
1678-4685journal_volume
37pub_type
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