On Saturday, November 10, IBioBA participated in the initiative that takes place every year in the City of Buenos Aires,
with the aim of bringing science closer to the community.
On Saturday night, more than 4,000 people visited the proposals of the Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires (IBioBA, CONICET – Max Planck Partner) in a new edition of La Noche de los Museos at the Centro Cultural de la Ciencia (C3).
Together with the Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION) and the Centro de Simulación Computacional (CSC), institutes with which IBioBA shares the building, they set up several stands with exhibits related to their research topics.
IBioBA had three stands to answer questions such as: Why do we sleep? How does information travel from the outside world to the brain? How are our neurons connected? How is all this studied? And what is the use of knowing it?
At the stand “The path of discovery: Why is biomedicine important?”, the different research models that exist and those used at IBioBA for its basic science research were shown. Cells, bacteria, neurons and organoids were observed through microscopes, the advantages of the different research models were analyzed, and it was explained what biomedicine is for and why it is important.
At the second table, entitled “The fascinating journey of stimuli between neurons”, visitors were able to observe how electrical impulses are transmitted between neurons, and through their own experience, understand how the brain processes the information we receive from the outside through the senses.
Finally, the third proposal, called “Everything you should know about genetics and sleep: do flies look like their parents?”, it was possible to observe different mutant Drosophila melanogaster flies through the use of magnifying glasses, and to understand how the fruit fly can help to understand how our own neurons are born, function and die. In addition, they talked about how genetic information is transmitted and visitors had the opportunity to take a test to find out their chronotype.
In addition, IBioBA provided a workshop space so that those who dared could draw what they imagined cells or bacteria would look like inside a petri dish.
It was a great space for meeting and dialogue with people of different ages, but with a lot of interest in knowing what is being done at the Institute.
