Aula Magna: María del Carmen «Coca Maggi», Complejo Universitario Peña y Funes, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata Charlas en el marco del Curso de Posgrado de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata:
Posdoctoral position
Accelerating evolution: engineering invertase enzymes to enhance fructan metabolism in Musa spp. (banana) Profs W. Van den Ende (Science) and R. Swennen (Bioengineering), KU Leuven, Belgium are looking for a young postdoc (less than 3 years passed after PhD defence),
CRISPR–Cas9: Posición Europea
CRISPR–Cas9: A European position on genome editing F. Hirsch, Y. Lévy, H. Chneiweiss. Nature 541, 30(05 January 2017) «The ethics committee of the French national biomedical research agency (INSERM) has put forward recommendations to foster responsible use of genome-editing technologies
EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency) ha establecido niveles para dos cianotoxinas en aguas recreativas, para contacto de cuerpo completo
Fact Sheet: Draft Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria/Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin EPA has issued for public comment draft Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria (AWQC) and/or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin. These are the
Felices Fiestas y un muy buen Año 2017
les desean los miembros de la Fundación para Investigaciones Biológicas Aplicadas (FIBA) y del Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Biotecnología (INBIOTEC)
Nature’s 10 – Ten people who mattered 2016
Nature, December 19, 2016 More information Gabriela Gonzalez: Gravity spy | Demis Hassabis: Mind crafter | Terry Hughes: Reef sentinel | Guus Velders: Cooling agent | Celina M. Turchi: Zika detective | Alexandra Elbakyan: Paper pirate | John Zhang: Fertility
III Jornada INBIOTEC en Azul
El lunes 19 de diciembre, tendrá lugar en la sede del BIOLAB-Azul, Facultad de Agronomía de la UNICE, Azul, la III Jornada Institucional del INBIOTEC, en la que participarán todos sus miembros.
Monster-wheat grown by Oxford could revolutionise farming
What yield was increased by 20 per cent just by spraying crops with a sugar molecule (from The Telegraph) «A crop spray which can boost farmer’s wheat yields by one fifth, without the need for genetic modification, has been developed
Controversial impact factor
Elsevier’s CiteScore uses a larger database — and provides different results for the quality of journals Nature vol. 540 issue 7633 – by Richard Van Noorden One of science’s most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December,
Comienzo de temporada de floraciones en Salto Grande (Entre Ríos)
La Comisión Administradora del Río Uruguay l(CARU) hace llegar el Comunicado Semanal sobre el seguimiento de las Floraciones Algales en el río Uruguay (Monte Caseros-Nueva Palmira). Asimismo, se resalta que en el Embalse de Salto Grande, éste se realiza en