The ibs.GRANADA inaugurates its 2024 Science Weeks with proteins and plastics as protagonists
This first Monday in November, the Granada Biosanitary Research Institute has inaugurated its Science Weeks 2024 with the activity entitled “Microbiota and Plastics: Discover their Influence on your Health”, taught by Ana Lopez Moreno, Alicia Ruiz Rodriguez, Victoria Romero Gomez, Gracia Luque Aguilera and Pilar Ortiz Sandoval researchers of the group E15-EXPODIET: Food exposure to environmental contaminants of the ibs.GRANADA. In this workshop, the students of the intermediate level training cycle of Laboratory Operations of the CES Ramón y Cajal They have had the opportunity to explore how not all microorganisms are bad, the benefits of good microorganisms for human health, their influence on our well-being and how plastics can negatively affect our intestinal microbiota and, consequently, our health. In addition, they have learned the different techniques for the analysis of the intestinal microbiota and carried out an experiment to observe the diversity of the skin microbiota.
In addition, today we had a Coffee with Science with the students of 1st and 2nd year of high school of the CES Ramón y Cajal in which Maria Hernandez Valladares, researcher of the group TEC16-Advanced Therapies: Differentiation, Regeneration and Cancer from ibs.GRANADA has spoken to them about the need to know our proteins, essential molecules of our organism. They have also had the opportunity to talk about proteomics through mass spectrometry as a leading technology in the characterization of the human proteome.
Café con Ciencia is an initiative organized by the Fundación Descubre, in collaboration with the main research and dissemination entities in Andalusia. It is part of the activities of the Science Week and is funded by the Ministry of University, Research and Innovation and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – FECYT.
