Center for Integrative Biology presented advances in its research on Alzheimer's and ELA
05-29-2019
05-29-2019
The activity, carried out in the Huechuraba campus, sought to disseminate results and obtain complementary information that provides new perspectives for the studies that are under development.
The research seminars are a platform and, at the same time, an opportunity for the scientific community of the U. Mayor to communicate the progress and results of their research. In this context, on May 23 and 24, the Center for Integrative Biology (CIB) brought together, on the Huechuraba campus, students, academics and the general public to approach two issues in the field of health.
Dr. Ute Woehlbier, associate professor at the Center for Integrative Biology and organizer of the activity, explained that this type of initiative provides an opportunity for discussion among scientists, offering them a space for reflection on research and new points of view that will allow them to nurture their works and generate new collaborations.
Regarding the relevance of students getting involved in the field of research, the academic added that "it is important that the university students of scientific careers participate in the investigation as soon as possible, since the bases of how research is carried out from the Formulating a question, planning the experiment and interpreting the result, and how to communicate the results responsibly, should be a central objective of these careers. "
Scientific seminars
The first seminar was entitled "Mitophagia as a link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease", which was in charge of Wileidy Gómez, who presented three hypotheses about this relationship: generic overdose, oxidative stress and dysfunction mitochondrial, this last characteristic of aging.
The second instance was led by Luis Labrador, who referred to the link between autophagy and cell death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons of the brain and spinal cord.
