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And the final exchange of the series where UAVR visited our Advanced partner CSIC (see posts for exchange I and II if you are curious) has come to an end! It happened in the week the 22nd to the 26th of July 2024, dedicated to training in ex-vivo exposure of fish gonads for molecular studies.…

The exchanges from UAVR to our Advanced partner CSIC continue! A second week (see the previous post for the first) happened from the 15th to the 19th of July 2024, dedicated to the work with the seabass. Joana Pereira (EPIBOOST UAVR coordinator) and the early-career researchers João Raio (MSc student) and Fátima Brandão (PhD students)…

Three EPIBOOST early-career researchers – Albano Pinto (PhD student), Joana Santos and João Raio (MSc student) – visited IDAEA-CSIC in Barcelona from the 8th to the 12th of July 2024. The main aim of this visit was to participate in a training course on untargeted methods for gene expression assessment, including theoretical and hands-on training…

The EPIBOOST project manager, Ana Sofia Santiago, was in Barcelona, Spain, during the last week of June 2024 in a staff exchange visiting CSIC – the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Advanced Partners of the project. She had the opportunity to gain diverse professional experience…

The end of May and June were busy to Beatriz, the EPIBOOST MSc student developing research with marine copepods (Acartia tonsa) to understand the effects of cadmium in DNA methylation, gene expression, oxidative stress, DNA damage and behaviour. Beatriz was with our advanced partners at UGent for five weeks. She learned on how to efficiently…

Introducing epigenetics and EPIBOOST to secondary school students and teachers We are aware that epigenetics is a field of science that is largely unknown by non-specialists and that our biology education in schools is still attached to classical views on the deterministic role of genetics in development, local adaptation and evolution. In this way, an…

A joint effort to UAVR by the UAVR widening projects From the 13th to the 15th of March 2024, the second edition of the soft skills training programme was held at UAVR following a joint organizational effort by the widening projects coordinated herein: the Twinnings Supralife, EPIBOOST, Fonda, Epiviral and the ERA-Chair BESIDE. This programme…

EPIBOOST short course and advanced course 2024 And a few weeks ago, EPIBOOST organised specialized training courses targeting the EU early-career research community: one short course, fully held online and open to everyone registering to attend, and one advanced course, held online and in-person, limited to 20 trainees competitively registering in advance.The short course was…

CSIC and UGent visit UAVR As planned in EPIBOOST workpackages 2 and 4, CSIC and UGent already started the visits to UAVR for hands-on training in different project tasks.During November 2023, the CSIC researcher Dr. Janan Gawra was at UAVR for a medium-term visit. As initially planned, the specific objective of this visit was to…

on the 27th of October 2023, online It was about one month after the first annual meeting of the project that the EPIBOOST External Advisory Board (EAB), composed currently by Drs. Csaba Komlo, Eduarda Santos, Jan Mennigen and You Song, met with the project management team to provide recommendations that can improve the implementation of…