Two members of our group–Postdoc Leo Campagna and PhD student Nick Mason–just returned from leading a special multi-day genomics course at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Their course, taught in Spanish to a large and enthusiastic cadre of students and researchers, was an “Introducción a los métodos de secuenciación de nueva generación y su aplicación a la Ecología Molecular,” which translates to “An introduction to next generation sequencing methods and their application to Molecular Ecology.” Leo and Nick were invited and hosted by Mexican colleagues Dr. Aldolfo Navarro-Sigüenza and Dr. Pilar Benites and the course was financially supported by UNAM.