French microbiologist and activist Marie-Paule Kieny was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB for, as Rector Margarita Arboix said in her speech, "her undeniable commitment to helping the underprivileged". Read more
Researchers at the UAB and the UMBC have described a new process capable of generating resistance to synthetic antibacterial drugs long before their invention and without the existence of any similar substance in nature. The study has established that sulfonamide-resistant genes appeared million years ago thanks to a mutation in the drug's target gene. Read more
On 17 and 18 January, the UAB hosted an international meeting with students and lecturers from the UAB, representatives of collaborating organisations and the ECIU work team consisting of 10 universities, to prepare their proposal for the new "European University", an important initiative organised by the European Commission aimed at building transnational university structures in upcomming years. Read more
Members of the UAB Molecular Microbiology group, led by Dr Montserrat Llagostera, participate in the European project PhagoVet, funded with 3.3 million euros, to develop three bacteriophage-based products to fight against Salmonella and Escherichia coli outbreaks which could affect these farms. Read more
A new study based on electron microscopy techniques at low temperatures demonstrates that, during mitosis, chromosome DNA is packed in stacked layers of chromatin. The research, published in EMBO Journal, confirms a surprising structure proposed by UAB researchers over a decade ago, but criticized due to the limitations of the technique used. Read more
The exhibition “Neuromarketing: science, business and advertising. I can't get it out of my head!”, commissioned by Professor Pere Navalles was inaugurated on Thursday 10 January. The exhibition can be visited until 15 February at the Exhibitions Hall of the Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives. Read more
Starting on 1 January 2019, travelling to the UAB from Barcelona and the metropolitan area will cost between 26% and 49% less thanks to a new ATM flat rate to be shared by all municipalities of the Barcelona metropolitan area.
The NanoEduca programme, with the involvement of the UAB, was awarded the 2018 National Prize for Scientific Communication, granted by the Government of Catalonia and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation for "introducing nanoscience and nanotechnology to upper secondary education students and teachers".
Writer and translator Ramon Folch i Camarasa died on 2 January in Mollet del Vallès. Author of more than a hundred novels and translator of over 200 works, Folch i Camarasa was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UAB in 2006.
Interview
Interview with Carla Sharp, professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, who has conducted pioneering research on borderline personality disorder in children and adolescents. Dr Sharp visited the UAB Faculty of Psychology.
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