Specialists from all over the world on open and free access knowledge participating in the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) will meet at the UAB from 20 to 22 November to debate the challenges of a growing number of journals and the open access world in recent years. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
A team of scientists from the UAB and the CRG have created the BacFITBase database, which characterises bacterial genes relevant to the infection process in live organisms. The new database will make it easier to identify new therapeutic targets for the creation of antibiotics.
Researchers from the CIBER-BBN and the UAB have designed non-toxic drug-release granules to be administered locally and with prolonged therapeutic effects The results pave the way for a new therapeutic technology based on bacterial products which have not been clinically explored yet.
Starting this week and until June, the UAB and the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) will play host to the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD), a worldwide leader in demographic studies. Students from 14 different nationalities will attend lectures offered by renowned professors from different European research centres who will be visiting the on-campus CED headquarters.
A new protocol created by researchers at the UAB sorts and classifies quantum data by the state in which they were prepared, with more efficiency than the equivalent classical algorithm. The research was published in Physical Review X.
The UAB will award an honorary doctorate to French Sinologist Anne Cheng on 28 November. Cheng, author of a reference work on the history of Chinese thought, is one of the main experts worldwide in Confucianism and Chinese philosophy. To attend, please fill out this form. The event will also be offered live on the UAB's You Tube channel.
Green light for the creation of an Equality Commission, delegated by the Governing Council, which will be in charge of coordinating the university's Equality Plans, and of promoting and supervising prevention and action policies in possible discriminatory situations, attitudes, etc.
The new Joint Research Unit is born with the aim of fostering research into the diagnosis, physiopathology and therapeutics of genetic diseases and tumour predisposition syndromes. The unit is directed by UAB Professor Jordi Surrallés.
Tàbara, researcher from the ICTA-UAB, is one of the high-level experts selected by the European Commission to form part of the mission boards to work on five major European missions of Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027).
Interview
Interview with political scientist Bruno Dente, professor in the analysis of public policies at the Politecnico di Milano and the UAB's most recent honorary doctor, in which he talks about the discredit of politics, migration of people in Europe and populist parties.
13:00 h
UAB Cinema
UAB Cinema
18:00 h
Hotel Exe Campus (Vila Universitària)
Hotel Exe Campus (Vila Universitària)
12:00 h
Hall of the School of Engineering
Hall of the School of Engineering
Newsroom
University Social Responsibility
UAB Guidance Action Plan
