19 December 2024 Elena Casacuberta participates as invited speaker in Evolution panel in "Chateando con la Ciencia” organized by Real Zaragoza Club de Tenis in collaboration with Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, INMA (CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza).
5 October 2024 Vika Shabardina presents "Little organisms and big questions about evolution" at OpenPRBB2024 and Patricia Suárez participates as volunteer.
3 October 2024 Guifré Torruella is giving a talk entitled "Who are our unicellular relatives?" in Àngels Garriga school as part of "Matins de la recerca" (https://lanitdelarecerca.cat/).
21-26 September 2024 Rubén González participates in "Dynamo Academy" retreat in Italy organised by National Geographic presenting his project "THE BEAUTY OF THE SMALL, RESCUING LAKE SANABRIA USING TESTATE AMOEBA".
27 April 2024 Elena Casacuberta takes part reading the text of a play about Bárbara McClintock. The theatre premiere is scheduled by the end of the year in Córdoba and Barcelona.
29-30 March 2024 Vika Shabardina is volunteering with the outreach activities when the TREC expedition was in town.
26 March 2024 Vika Shabardina participates on an online panel for Lets Talk Science on the topic Sustainability at work place.
1 March 2024 Hallo Plankton book by illustrator Kristina Heldmann is out now! Iñaki, among other leading scientists in the field share their knowledge about plankton research.
13 February 2024 Supporting the International Day of Women and Girls Marta Álvarez gives a talk at primary school Patronat Domènec from Barcelona .
11 February 2024 Supporting the International Day of Women and Girls Rosana Garrido presents our work at Escola Cal Maiol (Barcelona) and Escola Ca n'Alzamora (Rubí).
29 November 2023 Gonzalo Bercedo, Mara Álvarez, Rubén González and Rosana Garrido present the Treescape to high school students from Les Carmelites (Tarragona) who are visiting us.
16-17 November 2023 Mara Álvarez, Gonzalo Bercedo and Rubén González participate in IBE’s Science Week showing high school students The World of Protists.
8 November 2023 Michelle Leger is interviewed on Absolutos y Relativos podcast.
7 October 2023 Vika Shabardina gives a talk at OpenPRBB2023 and Gonzalo Bercedo and Patricia Suárez participate as volunteers.
22-24 November 2021 Elena Casacuberta is organising Evoke conference to promote the correct understanding and communication of evolution. Koryu Kin, Patricia Suárez and Vika Shabardina also participating as a volunteers.
17 September-8 October 2022 Iñaki participates in ¡vamos, simbiosis!, an interdisciplinary project that brings together scientists, artists, and the public to discuss and develop ideas for developing a more balanced partnership with the oceans and marine life.
19 July 2021 During the next two weeks our lab will be part of Joves i Ciències program. Núria Ros, Patricia Suárez and Meritxell Antó will be showing secondary school students what protists can tell us about the origin of animals.
4 March 2020 Vika Shabardina and Patricia Suárez participated as a volunteers during the visit of Staffordshire University at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology.
5 February 2020 Núria Ros, Michelle Leger and Konstantina Mitsi win the first prize to the best 2019 scientific communication initiative from UPF. The project IBEtreescape, developed in collaboration with other IBE members is a game to teach evolution and the tree of life to general public.
13 November 2019 Konstantina presenting the importance of microbes to secondary school children as part of Bcninspiracy19.
26-27 October 2019 Aleksandra Kozyczkowska, Michelle Leger and Núria Ros participating in a science communication activity on Barcelona’s Festa de la Ciència.
5 September 2019 Listen to Iñaki’s interview at La RZ radio talking about Origins of Multicellularity. Audio
22 July 2019 Secondary-school students Aina, Marta and Jordi spent two weeks in the lab, being guided by Elena Casacuberta as part of Joves i Ciència program. Truly impressed by their knowledge, interest, and intelligence! ⠀
9-20 July 2018. Núria Ros, Alicia S. Arroyo, Alberto Pérez and Alfonso Mendaña trainers for the young scientists #BIYSC with the project “Unraveling the origin of animal multicellularity“.
6 June 2018. Alicia S. Arroyo wins “Explain your research in 4 min“, in which she competed against the winners of 12 Catalan universities. Once more, congratulations!
25 April 2018. Alicia S. Arroyo and Konstantina Mitsi win 1st and 2nd prize, as well as the audience’s prize, in the UPF’s Rin4 Competition. Congratulations!
7 October 2017. Maria Ferrer and Konstantina Mitsi participate as volunteers in the PRBB open day.
12-19 July 2017. Núria Ros, Alicia S. Arroyo and Alberto Pérez teaching molecular tools to understand marine diversity to young students from the Barcelona International Young Science Challenge (BIYSC).
3 March 2017. Konstantina Mitsi in the ITN ScienceSlam Barcelona final; talking about single cell genomics, diversity and protists.
22 February 2017. Núria Ros interviewed for BIYSC by youthscience.
2 December 2016. Alicia S. Arroyo, presents our outreach project of the tree of life in the International conference of Cinema and Scientific Images
21 July 2016. Núria Ros, David López and Xavi Grau trainers for the young scientists #BIYSC with the project “Uncovering the hidden diversity of the oceans“.
19 May 2016. Our work featured in El País.
6 May 2016. Canal Extremadura Radio features our work.
18 February 2016. Checking with digalix team the xTable with a game that reproduces some of the work we do in the lab. The xTable will be featured at CosmoCaixa.
3 October 2015. The lab participates in the PRBB Open Day.
