Datathon 2023: Latin America
On November 8-10, 2023, the sIBTEDs (Illuminating Blindspots Through Equitable Data reuse practices in the global South) consortium organized a Latin America-wide Datathon.
Event summary: The 2023 Datathon brought together over 230 participants from across Latin America, and resulted in the consolidation of over 4,000 microbiome samples from the region as well as in the formation of working groups focused on data reanalysis and a monthly disciplinary newsletter. In 2024 and 2025, the sIBTEDs project will run a series of statistics and bioinformatics courses. In September 2025, sIBTEDs will hold a workshop on advanced data re-analyses.
Lectures:
- Dr. Stephanie Jurburg: Introducción a la Datatón
- Dr. Juan Carvajal Quintero: Degradación de las redes tróficas de peces en el Antropoceno
- Dr. Carlos Guerra: Cooperación internacional como base de la conservación global de la diversidad del suelo
- Dr. Anahita Kazem: Biodiversity data and open science
- Dr. Daniela Hoss: A synthesis of the impacts of species loss on ecosystem function
- Dr. Florencia Grattarola: el cuento del yaguarundí según los datos abiertos
- Dr. Adriana Alzate: Estudio de la distribución geográfica de las especies a través de la síntesis
Anouncement
Schedule
Samples archived and complied during the 2023 Datathon.
Since the 2023 Datathon, and with support from the sIBTEDs project, we have held virtual, hybrid, and in-person courses designed to support microbial ecologists through data reanalysis. Find our course archive here.
On September 1-5, 2025, members of four main sIBTEDs subprojects met for their final working group meeting, held at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. Participants were Clara Maria Arboleda Baena (iDiv), Gastón Azziz (Universidad de la República), Shane Blowes (iDiv), Cecilia Casas (Universidad de Buenos Aires), Santiago Castillo Rivadeneira (Leipzig University), Sabrina Festa (Center for Research and Development of Industrial Fermentations ), Eva Figuerola (University of Buenos Aires), Silvia Garaycochea (National Insitute of Agrocultural Research), Gaby Gnecco (Julius Kühn Institut), Francisco Maximiliano González Serrano (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Stephanie Jurburg (UFZ), Esteban Emanuel Nieto (University of Thessaly), María Victoria Quiroga (INTECH. CONICET-UNSAM), Benjamin Rosenbaum (iDiv), Analia Sannazzaro (INTECH. CONICET-UNSAM), Enrique Soto (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Kimberly Thompson (iDiv), Vanina Varni (Luján National University), and Patricia Vaz (Universidad de la República)
Photo of the sibted team at iDiv
