On Wednesday March 24th. The 1rst Workshop was carried out between the Institute of Agricultural Researches (INIA) and the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the FCFM-Universidad de Chile, in the frame of an agreement signed between both institutions at the beginning of this year.
For Alejandro Maass, CMM associate researcher and one of the organizers of the meeting, this activity “had as a purpose establish the first contact between scientists of the INIA and the Center with the intention of advancing in the project detection of scientific interest jointly.”
The meeting took place in the Regional Center of Research La Platina of the INIA and congregated to researchers and professionals of different INIA Regional Centers throughout the country, as well as members of the CMM.
The workshop focused in Genomic/bioinformatic topics, environment and productive models or functions of production, all subject matters proposed by the INIA depending on its current needs trying to cover a wide spectrum of issues.
The Memorandum of Understanding
On January 29, 2010 the Institute of Agricultural Researches and the Universidad de Chile signed a Memorandum of Understanding where both institutions demonstrate the interest to develop joint projects of research and form human resources that take part in groups of research.
The areas proposed by the INIA and the Center for Mathematical Modeling show the development of informatic capacities for the storage and processing of “omic” information; bioinformatic analysis and mathematical modeling of “omic” information that bring out from projects effected by the INIA and its counterparts; and the development of mathematical models of climatic prediction or other one for the improvement of agricultural pymes.
From the date of the Memorandum of Understanding, and as the first joint project of the INIA and the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Mathematics of the genome from CMM, scientists of both insitutions are taking part in an initiative associated with the potatoe sequence.
