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Wednesday:

Virtually all ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human activities, and ecologists are now faced with the Herculean task of understanding and projecting the impacts of these threats at various scales. In this talk, Maria Paniw, a Marie Curie fellow at Doñana Biological Station, discusses the opportunities of using methods from population ecology as a toolbox to rigorously and holistically assess human impacts on natural systems. Her research focuses on how intrinsic (density) and extrinsic (environment) factors, biotic interactions, and individual traits (size or mass) interact to determine population structure and dynamics. Working with long-term data on animal and plant populations, she is particularly interested in how population projections under global change can be improved by accounting for trait dynamics, environmental and spatial patterning, and tradeoffs between survival and reproduction. Using empirical example across plants and animals, she will discuss how we can scale from phenotypes to populations to communities to gain a mechanistic understanding of key drivers of population and community dynamics. In particular, she will stress the importance of such mechanistic models for accurate forecasting and discuss the critical role of long-term studies that allow us to formulate mechanistic models in the first place.

Seminars will combine online and onsite formats but in all cases, talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so they can be followed online. For more information, click here.

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Friday 27, May de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat

Wednesday:

High-throughput sequencing has allowed scientists to improve the understanding of the structure, diversity, and functions of microbial communities. Most importantly, these communities play key roles for their host (human or plant) and at larger scales for ecosystems. Yet, few studies have provided an integrative cross-domain (e.g., bacteria-fungi) perspective of the microbiome. In this talk, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, a community ecologist specialized in microbial ecology focused on the questions at the intersection between ecology, microbiology, statistics, genomics, and bioinformatics, will present the results of his last 10 years of research on the plant and human microbiome. A journey that started as a Master student at CREAF and now continues as an assistant professor at Université de Sherbrooke and Canada Research Chair in Applied Microbial Ecology. She is interested by the host-microbe interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (mainly forest) but also on the human gut ecosystem. 
Seminars will combine online and onsite formats but in all cases, talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so they can be followed online. For more information, click here.

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat

Wednesday:

In 2015, scientists discovered gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime from the violent collision of two black holes. These gravitational waves are now detected at a rate of once per week by kilometre-scale detectors, giving scientists a rare insight into black holes and the Universe. Next-generation detectors, may observe up to a million gravitational-wave signals per year from various known and unknown types of sources. What have we learned from gravitational waves so far, and what can we expect going forward?

This colloquium by Tjonnie Li (KU Leuven) is part of the BIST Master of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences curriculum but is also open and free for anyone interested in participating.

Place: IFAE Seminar room

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 12:00h

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 13:00h

Promotor: IFAE

Wednesday:

Boys and girls from the Dosrius School in Camarasa will be presenting three audiovisual capsules that explain the archaeological site of Roca dels Bous to visitors.

The event willl mark the end of a project conducted throughout the school year in collaboration with the educational programme "Investiga.edu" and the UAB Archaeology and Palaeontology Campus. “Dosrius School Researchers Roca dels Bous” also included the support and scientific assessment of the UAB Centre for Archaeological Heritage Studies, which has been working at the site for over 20 years.

Place: Isard Car Park - Start of the Roca dels Bous route

Date: Tuesday 14, June de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: Investiga.edu Project - Association for the Research and Dissemination of Historical Heritage

UABDivulga2014.Agenda.Telf: +34 626915777

Email:: programainvestiga.edu@gmail.com/ardphistoric@gmail.com

Wednesday:

The objective of the conference, organized by the ALBA Synchrotron together with BIOCAT, is to show pharmaceutical companies the applications of synchrotron light, which includes critical stages for the sector such as the design of new drugs or the characterization of active ingredients in the final formulation, among others.

During the meeting, practical examples of the most appropriate ALBA techniques for this industrial sector will be shown, including success stories from ALBA client companies, a visit to the facilities and a networking lunch where consultations can also be made with specialized ALBA personnel.

More information here.

Place: ALBA Synchrotron

Date: Friday 17, June de 2022 - 09:30h

Promotor: Núria Valls

Email:: nvalls@cells.es

Wednesday:

You can vote for the best photo of FOTICMAB 2022! Voting is now open until Sunday, June 26 at midnight. Vote for the best photos!

Our FOTICMAB photo and video contest continues to strike back! The contest was open to all ICMAB members, from May 13 to June 19, 2022. And now it's time to vote, until June 26!

This year we have three categories, and we have participants in each:

- SCIENTISTS: 20 photos
- ARTISTIC: 28 photos
- FAUNA AND FLORA: 34 photos

Some of them are amazing!

The winners will be chosen by public vote from all ICMAB staff between 20 and 26 June. Please, even if you did not participate, your participation in the voting is important. You can give each photo a rating of 1 to 10 stars. The winner of each category will have the most stars.

There will be a single prize for each category and up to 2 finalists. Each winner will receive an ICMAB award: the new sweaters!

The winners will be announced at the ICMAB party on June 30.

See the TERMS AND CONDITIONS for more details.

Place: Online

Date: Tuesday 21, June de 2022 - 09:25h

Date: Sunday 26, June de 2022 - 23:59h

Promotor: ICMAB