{"id":116463,"date":"2026-10-08T07:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/health-and-heritage-will-be-some-of-the-key-topics-of-the-research-for-change-2026-micro-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:34:52","slug":"health-and-heritage-will-be-some-of-the-key-topics-of-the-research-for-change-2026-micro-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/health-and-heritage-will-be-some-of-the-key-topics-of-the-research-for-change-2026-micro-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and heritage will be some of the key topics of the &#8216;Research for Change&#8217; 2026 micro-talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span dir=\"auto\">Next Monday, September 21 at 6 p.m., the Castell del Cambrer in Reus will host a session of short and informative talks as part of the European Research Night<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"auto\">Each intervention will be led by researchers from the research centers IRB CatSud, ICIQ, ICAC, IPHES, as well as the URV<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">During menopause, significant biological changes occur that can influence cardiovascular health. Do you know what they are? And have you ever wondered if we could learn the trick that plants use to generate energy? These and other questions will be addressed by researchers from the four research centers in the region and the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) next Monday, September 21 at the Castell del Cambrer in Reus, starting at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">All of this will take place during another edition of the &#8216;Research for Change&#8217; micro-talks, one of the previous events for the European Research Night in 2026. This session of short interventions is organized by the Institute for Biomedical Research in Southern Catalonia (IRB CatSud) in collaboration with the URV and the Reus City Council. The speakers who will participate in the meeting represent the research centers IRB CatSud, ICIQ, IPHES and ICAC, and there will also be some from the URV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Cardiovascular health, nutrition, microbiota, nanoscience, archaeology and heritage will be the main topics of this year&#8217;s interventions. The talks, lasting around 10 minutes, have an agile format, and the speakers use plain, informative and accessible language. This approach gives the event a close, relaxed and participatory character, as the audience is encouraged to intervene, share opinions and ask questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The objective of the meeting is for the different participating research centers to bring the science they develop closer to the public, making their studies and projects known in a way that is more understandable and accessible to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The speakers and <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">topics of the talks<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> will be the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">1. <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Menopause and cardiovascular health: understanding the changes to gain health<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Olivia Burton (IRB CatSud).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a02. <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">The diet that made us human<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Marina Lozano Ruiz (IPHES-CERCA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a03. <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Reinventing photosynthesis with nanoscience<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Carla Casadevall Serrano (URV, ICIQ).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">4. <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Seeds that explain landscapes: agriculture and daily life in ancient Greece<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Marina Daniel Pena (ICAC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">5. <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The uses of memory and heritage: the heritage management of Francoist monuments<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Berta Pla Romero (URV).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">6.\u00a0 <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">An archaeologist sifting through the trash<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Maria Joana Gabucio Vilarrasa (URV).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">7.\u00a0 <\/span><strong><span dir=\"auto\">Metabolites, microbiota and circadian rhythms: the three vertices of a vicious circle that promotes health (or disease)<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\"> \u2013 Aleix Ribas Latre (IRB CatSud).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\">European Research Night events<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The European Research Night is an informative initiative that has its central activity with the scientific workshop fair, which will take place in Pla\u00e7a Corsini in Tarragona on the afternoon of <\/span><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/tarragona.nitdelarecerca.cat\/ca\/programacio\/tallers-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span dir=\"auto\">Friday 25<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\"> and <\/span><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/tarragona.nitdelarecerca.cat\/ca\/programacio\/tallers-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span dir=\"auto\">the morning of Saturday 26 September<\/span><\/a><span dir=\"auto\"> . Between the two days, 50 workshops will make available to attendees highly experimental proposals from different fields of knowledge, to bring science, in its variety of disciplines, closer to young and old in a fun and accessible way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">The European Research Night is a public scientific dissemination event that takes place simultaneously every year in 300 cities in 30 countries on the European continent. Since 2018, the URV has been organizing this initiative in the Tarragona region, which has been growing and consolidating over the past nine years and which in the previous edition had the participation of thousands of people throughout the region. The aim of the European Research Night is to bring research and its protagonists closer to audiences of all ages and to publicize research and innovation in plain and understandable language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Detailed information with all the activities of the European Research Night can be consulted on the website <\/span><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/tarragona.nitdelarecerca.cat\/ca\/programacio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span dir=\"auto\">tarragona.nitdelarecerca.cat<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Monday, September 21 at 6 p.m., the Castell del Cambrer in Reus will host a session of short and informative talks as part of the European Research Night Each intervention will be led by researchers from the research centers IRB CatSud, ICIQ, ICAC, IPHES, as well as the URV During menopause, significant biological changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":116208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1883,1026,1831,2092],"tags":[3289,2916,3287,3286,3288,2804,2610,2609,2413,2842,2293],"class_list":["post-116463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualitat-en","category-noticies-iispv-en","category-press-releases","category-temes-de-salut-en","tag-castell-del-cambrer-en","tag-cerca-en","tag-icac-en","tag-iciq-en","tag-iphes-en","tag-irb-catsud-en","tag-microtalks","tag-nit-europea-de-la-recerca-en","tag-reus-en","tag-reus-city-hall","tag-urv-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}