The auditorium of the Rectorat building was filled to full capacity in the investiture of Margarita Arboix as the new rector of the UAB. Among other issues, Dr Arboix, in her first speech as rector, asked for an end to the economic cutbacks and demanded that undergraduate and postgraduate credits have the same price. According to her, "there must be dialogue and participation" among all members of the university community.
A collaboration between the INc-UAB and Harvard University pioneers the increase of memory using optogenetics in mice in Spain. The study has been done on a group of neurons, Tac2, playing a key role in the memory of fear. Treated mice increased their long-term memory.
The film explains how for the first time ever a lawyer defends the right to Habeas Corpus for a chimpanzee.
On Monday 6 June, Margarita Arboix was sworn in as new Rector of the UAB in an event which took place at the Auditorium of the Rectorat building. Professor in Pharmacology, Dr Arboix was elected rector in the elections held this past 19 May.
A research led by CREAF and UAB researcher Mariona Ferrandiz reveals that the dominant female of a group chooses both the dominant male and the option to be unfaithful depending on genetic aspects.
Lasting from 6 to 9 June, the workshops have been organised by the departments of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology; Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Genetics and Microbiology.
On Thursday 2 June at noon, renowned French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet will give a conference on black holes at the Alberto Lobo Hall of the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC CSIC).
The director of IIIA recently received the most prestigious European award in the field of artificial intelligence.
A research with the involvement of the UAB reveals the existence of deposits and forms caused by two tsunamis which destroyed the shorelines of an ocean in northern Mars, with megawaves reaching heights of 120 metres. The study has been on the home page of Nature.