Open call: 9th Edition of "Science by Women" program
- 26 Spanish Research Institutes will host Senior African researchers during 2023
The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA), in line with its mission of contributing to the development of Africa through the drive of its women, is launching the 8th Edition of SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme, with the aim to promote African women’s leadership in scientific research and technology transfer and to foster the capacity of the research centres in their home countries. The main goal is to enable African women researchers and scientists to tackle the great challenges faced by Africa through research in health and biomedicine, sustainable agriculture and food security, water, energy and climate change.
The programme´s ultimate goal is to enable African women researchers to play a leading role in the transition of Africa to a knowledge-based and innovation-led economy through research that can be transferred into products, processes, services and technologies having impact on people´s lives. To achieve this ambitious goal, FMxA collaborates with 26 Spanish Centres of Excellence, whose prestige is unanimously recognized throughout Spain and internationally, thereby ensuring excellence in scientific research in various fields.
Desarrollan un dispositivo para conocer rápidamente qué microorganismos habitan en lugares remotos
Pilar Cubas, new member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO)
- Pilar Cubas is among the 60 new EMBO members announced today.
- This distinction is awarded annually to the world's leading scientists in recognition of the excellence of their research in the life sciences.
Madrid 4 July 2023. EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) announces today the appointment of 60 new members of its organization, which includes Pilar Cubas, CNB-CSIC researcher. The new EMBO members are elected annually in recognition of their research achievements and for their contribution to scientific excellence in the field of life sciences.
This year's awardees have been recognised for contributions spanning the spectrum of life science research, including work that has demystified the immune system, advanced understanding of our senses, and facilitated innovative approaches to vaccine development.
This year sees 60 members and nine associate members elected to the EMBO Membership, of which 35 are women (51%) and 34 are men (49%). The newly elected members and associate members reside in more than 20 countries. These new additions also include Marco Milán, researcher from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Barcelona (IRB).
El Premio “Manuel Rico” – BRUKER de la Sociedad de Biofísica de España reconoce el trabajo desarrollado por el investigador Fernando Moreno-Herrero
- El jurado destaca sus estudios biofísicos pioneros sobre la maquinaria molecular implicada en la reparación, organización y replicación del ADN
- El premio de este año ha sido concedido de manera conjunta al investigador del CNB y a Teresa Giráldez Fernández, profesora de la Universidad de la Laguna
Fernando Moreno-Herrero, investigador del Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), recibe este año el Premio “Manuel Rico” Bruker de la Sociedad de Biofísica de España como reconocimiento a su trabajo pionero en el desarrollo de la biofísica molecular usando la Microscopía de Fuerzas Atómicas y las Pinzas Magnéticas.
Investigador del CNB-CSIC desde septiembre de 2009, Moreno-Herrero lidera el grupo de Biofísica Molecular de Proteínas Reparadoras de ADN. El interés principal del grupo es el desarrollo y uso de técnicas biofísicas de molécula única para estudiar propiedades mecánicas y estructura de ácidos nucleicos, así como los mecanismos de acción de máquinas moleculares de proteína involucradas en la reparación, replicación y mantenimiento del ADN.
9th CNB INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH COURSE
Becas de introducción a la Investigación JAE Intro 2023
Investigadores del CNB-CSIC y la USC determinan el tamaño en el que la complejidad social de los grupos humanos implica un salto cualitativo
- Su investigación concluye que el comportamento colectivo humano se ve alterado de forma notoria al llegar a grupos de 180 e 5.000 personas
Las dinámicas sociales son moldeadas tanto por las acciones individuales como por las tendencias colectivas que emergen cuando las personas se juntan. Con todo, el comportamiento de los sistemas sociales cambia cuando su tamaño cruza ciertos umbrales, lo que implica que los comportamientos emergentes comiencen a dar forma al destino del conjunto, anulando la dinámica más directa de cada una de las partes. Este es el punto de partida del trabajo desarrollado por investigadores de la USC y del Centro Nacional de Biotecnología del CSIC en el artículo titulado ‘A spectrum of complexity uncovers Dunbar’s number and other leaps in social structure’. A través de un novedoso análisis matemático, la investigación publicada en Chaos, Solitons & Fractals determina escalas (números de personas) en las que la complejidad de un grupo social se ve incrementada de manera especialmente intensa. Los resultados son de potencial aplicación en economía o política, por ejemplo, a la hora de comprender como cambiará la complejidad de una empresa o una región al crecer por encima de un cierto tamaño.
Identifican una nueva estrategia para combatir la resistencia bacteriana a los antibióticos
- Investigadores del CSIC mejoran la respuesta terapéutica de antibióticos ya existentes al inducir, por primera vez de forma temporal, un tipo de sensibilidad colateral
- La sensibilidad colateral transitoria, es decir, la inducción temporal del proceso por el que la resistencia a un antibiótico genera mayor sensibilidad a otro, podría utilizarse en forma de nuevas terapias
La resistencia de las bacterias a los antibióticos es una de las principales amenazas globales de salud pública. Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), esta pandemia silenciosa causa aproximadamente 700.000 muertes al año y, si no se revierte la tendencia, podría convertirse en 2050 en la primera causa de mortalidad con 10 millones de muertes anuales. Ahora, investigadores del Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) del CSIC publican en la revista Nature Communications un estudio que muestra cómo la sensibilidad colateral puede inducirse de forma temporal, algo no descrito hasta la fecha, para evitar la aparición de cepas bacterianas resistentes a los antibióticos y para mejorar la respuesta terapéutica de fármacos antibacterianos ya existentes.
Se trata de la “sensibilidad colateral transitoria”, llamada así por los investigadores del CNB-CSIC firmantes del estudio Sara Hernando-Amado, Pablo Laborda y José Luis Martínez. Si la sensibilidad colateral es la compensación evolutiva por la que la adquisición de una mutación de resistencia a un antibiótico por parte de una bacteria conlleva mayor sensibilidad a otro, el tipo de sensibilidad colateral descrita por los investigadores destaca por ser inducible de forma temporal, por evitar la aparición de mutaciones de resistencia a los antibióticos en las bacterias tratadas y por proporcionar una mejora terapéutica en el uso de antibióticos ya comercializados.
El CNB-CSIC lidera uno de los cinco proyectos de I+D en biomedicina de la Comunidad de Madrid
El CNB inaugura las visitas a centros del CSIC dentro del programa CICERON
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