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 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…

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…

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 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…

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…