It was Sant Jordi yesterday, and even we couldn’t have a normal celebration, giving roses and books to our beloved ones, it is always a special day. The communication area of the Institute organized a Science dissemination contest, in which participants had to create a comic talking about a neuroscientific topic, and guess what! Mel […]
Last Tuesday was the Women in Science Day, a day to put the focus on female researchers, whose contributions in Science have been silenced across the History. Even today, male scientists occupy higher positions, receive more funding and have more visibility. One of the consequences is the lack of referees for girls, who might be […]
The UAB communications team made a super cool video about our research in Leigh Syndrome (thank you very much!). Yay! Albert is almost a star! We will never be tired of spreading the word in mitochondrial diseases and explain the research we are carrying out in the lab:
Elisenda and I (Roser) went to L’Olivera School, in Sant Cugat, yesterday, to talk about neuroscience to 8-year-old children. They celebrate the Science Week this week and bring researchers to the school to explain what they do in their labs. We talked about the brain, about neurons and glial cells, about neurotransmitters and about emotions. […]
Last week three research centers at UAB celebrated an Elevator Pitch contest. Students and researchers had 2 minutes to explain their research projects to the audience, in a fun and understandable way. There were 20 participants from the IBB, the ICTA-UAB and INc (our institute), and all of them talked about what they are doing […]
Last Thursday 15th was the Open Doors day at the institute. 90 students from the Institut Torras i Bages and the Lycée Français de Barcelone visited the facilities of the center and learned about what we do in the laboratories. We had the opportunnity to talk to them about how our research can help understand […]
We know it has been a while since April, but let us tell you about La Fira de la Recerca en Directe, an amazing Science Fair in which we were involved (yes, in April… these have been very busy months!). During 4 days, we were at the CosmoCaixa Science museum, showing our research and doing […]
As part of our Outreach activities, last week, together with other researchers at Institut de Neurociències (INc), the QuintanaLab participated in the INc-Open Doors Day 2017. 20 high school students aged 15-17 visited our laboratory and learned firsthand what a scientific research laboratory is like and how the research is carried out. We explained them […]
Last week, the Quintana lab attended the 1st European PhD and Postdoc Symposium held in the beautiful, Pompeian Style, Palauet Casades in Barcelona, Spain. The international event was possible through the ENABLE (European Academy for Biomedical Science) initiative, part of the European Union Horizon 2020, for young researchers in Life Sciences. It was a very successful initiative with […]
LIGHT UP FOR MITO!!! During this week, please help Raise Awareness for Mitochondrial disease. Light a green light, wear green, share your experience, learn about mitochondrial disease, take part in the different activities! Just a little green light can go very far!!! For more information on mitochondrial disease and mito actions!: Mito Awareness Week UMDF […]