Description The whole event Practical course Participating Institutions Project: MICRODIV2 Bioprospecting of Amazonian Microorganisms and Plant Secondary Metabolites Practical course UNIT 1 ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIA FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING SITES & SCREENING FOR PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING ACTIVITIES By: Guenther Ellersdorfer Austrian Center of Biological Resources and Applied Mycology (ACBR), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Vienna Austria UNIT 2 MOLECULAR APPROACHES FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYTOPATHOGENIC FUNGI By: Mauricio Marin Montoja Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin, Medellin, Colombia UNIT 3 CHARACTERIZATION OF MYCORRHIZA By: Alicia Caceres Instituto Biologia Experimental (IBE), Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela UNIT 4 COMPARATIVE AND ECOLOGICAL PHYTOCHEMISTRY & INSECTICIDAL AND ANTIFUNGAL BIOASSAYS By: Elisabeth Kaltenegger Department of Comparative and Ecological Phytochemistry (DCEP), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria UNIT 5 LEGAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA By: Birgit Zehetmayer Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Contemporary Research on Latin America (LBICRLA), Vienna, Austria Description The whole event Practical course Participating Institutions