Drs. Heike Sederoff and Marcela Rojas-Pierce led a workshop on Bioinformatics and Plant Molecular Biology at the National University of San Agustin (UNSA), in Arequipa, Peru. The workshop was divided into seminars in the morning, with topics ranging from modern molecular plant biology, an introduction bioinformatic tools and research talks from all five group members. In the afternoon, students and faculty members of UNSA gained hands-on experience doing DNA and RNA extraction, amplification and PCR as well as microscopy in the lab sessions led by two graduate students, Nathan Wilson and Eli Hornstein, and a Research Assistant, Cristina Salinas, from the Sederoff lab.