Who We Are


Coordinating Committee (2014-2016):

Mónica Ryff Vianna, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil (Chair)
José Badano, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay
Nora Calcaterra, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Carmen Feijóo, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Enrique Salas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, México


PARTICIPANT LABS PIs:

Argentina:
Silvia Arranz
Daniel Barrio
Ramón Bernabeu
Nora Calcaterra
Víctor Casco
Paula Faillace
Javier Girardini
Marcelo Rubinstein
Sergio Simonetta
Valeria Zarelli

Colombia:
Verónica Akle
Zayra Garavito-Aguilar

Ecuador:
Fabián León Tamaríz
Andrés Romero-Carvajal

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS:
Alejandro Mechaly-García (Becker lab; Sidney, Australia)
Hernán López-Schier (Research Unit Director and Group Leader at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)




History:

LAZEN was created in 2010, as an AMSUD-Pasteur Network, in a first meeting of researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. This meeting took place at Institut Pasteur de Montevideo and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, on December 10-11.

Download the First Meeting Program
Download the First Meeting Poster



The main aims of the network are to promote the use of the experimental model, to facilitate the exchange 
of materials and to foster advanced training of young scientists in the region. 
A critical mass of laboratories in these countries has been reached and investigators are looking for ways in which to create synergy by combining efforts.




Access a report on the I Meeting, published in Zebrafish, here.