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“Puerto de Ideas” is a Festival that seeks to contribute to the democratization and decentralization of knowledge of excellence in our country. This Festival also promotes in our educational area to generate meaningful learning experiences for girls, boys, and young people.

In the last version of the Festival, carried out in Valparaiso, on November 8 – 14, Dr. Soledad Matus interviewed Dr. David J. Anderson, who is a Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, where he has his laboratory. The current focus of his research is on the neurobiology of emotion, studying the neural circuits underlying innate behaviors and associated emotional states, such as fear and defensive behaviors. In this activity, Anderson will describe a new approach to this problem, which makes it possible to study the neurobiology of emotional states in various species of animals without referring to subjective feelings. The interview addressed questions like, How can we study the internal states of an animal if we do not know if they have subjective feelings?

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Within the framework of the Science Festival (FECI) 2021, on October 21, Dr. Soledad Matus gave a talk entitled “How do we learn and how do we forget?: Exploring the Function of the Brain”. With simple and attractive language, she presented the biological bases of memory and learning. FECI is a national, public, and free Festival designed to bring Science Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation related issues to society. Check the talk at the following link: https://fb.watch/9cYpx4Ch5B/

This month the children’s series Los Fantásticos Viajes de Ruka was selected at the ComKids Festival – Prix Jeunesse Iberoamericano 2021 with its chapter Pez Luna, in the category fiction for children up to 6 years old. This festival recognizes quality productions made in Spanish and Portuguese for children and adolescents.

The sixth season of Explorers, from the Atom to the Cosmos was premiered on the screens of Canal 24 hours. The series that tells viewers about the work of Chilean Centers of Excellence returned to the TV screens with more science and innovation, establishing itself as the most watched program on Chilean television dedicated to science. Don’t miss it every Wednesday at 4.30pm.

What do Space and the Deep Ocean have in common? You can answer this and other questions by reading the fascinating book Travesía al Inframundo, which was launched online on June 8. This book seeks to go into and explore the deepest and most inhospitable habitat of Chilean deep ocean: La Fosa de Atacama. Travesía al Inframundo is inspired in the exploration carried out in 2018 by a group of Chilean scientists to the Atacama Trench, one of the deepest in the world and the Pacific Ocean, with up to 8 kilometers deep and from which the successful documentary Atacamex was born: Exploring the Unknown, co-produced by Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and the Millennium Institute of Oceanography. The book is available at Buscalibre.com.

On May 6, the prominent scientist Humberto Maturana passed away and in honor to his memory, Canal Eureka of Fundacion Ciencia & Vida, through its YouTube channel, made available to the public the documentary El Maestro Humberto Maturana, one of the chapters of the TV series Bright Minds. Dr. Maturana was inspiring mind that managed to clearly extrapolate biological concepts such as “autopoiesis” to all areas of knowledge and society, revolutionizing the way we understand the world.

Fundación Ciencia & Vida and Universidad San Sebastian announce the opening of three Ph.D. Programs: Doctorado en Biologia Computacional, Doctorado en Biotecnologia y Bioemprendimiento y Doctorado en Inmunologia y Microbiologia. These three new Ph.D. Programs are part of the recent alliance between Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and Universidad San Sebastian. Applications for these Ph.D. Programs end on October 15, 2020.

 

 

DOCTORATE IN IMMUNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
Alliance between Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and Universidad San Sebastián
Program Director: Dr. Mario Rosemblatt

Description:
The PhD program in Immunology and Microbiology is based on the need to generate new knowledge that contributes to advancing in the search for answers to understand the complex problems of the biology of virus infection with emphasis on its entry into cells; the factors that lead to human virus-induced pathogenesis and the development of therapeutic and preventive antiviral strategies; the interrelationships between neuroimmunology and neurophysiology, including the role of the microbiota in the brain-gut axis, in the regulation of immune function; and the process of immune regulation focused on the processes that allow homeostasis or loss of regulation that leads to autoimmune pathologies or the development of tumors, in other areas of relevance and impact for today and the future.

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DOCTORATE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENTREPRENEURSHIP
Alliance between Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and Universidad San Sebastián
Program Director: Dr. Pablo Valenzuela

Description:
The program seeks to train students in the fundamental stages and characteristics of a scientifically based biotechnology venture. For this, it includes entrepreneurship models and financing mechanisms for startups that consider financiers, venture capital groups, capital increases, series A, B, etc. It also considers concepts of intellectual property and technology transfer. The requirements for obtaining a patent and the processes for filing patent applications in the USA, Europe and Chile will be studied. The contents of patents will be studied, and different examples will be analyzed. Patents and applications will be searched in various databases, in Chile and in the world, and the different types of licenses used in business agreements will be discussed. Finally, students will work on the formulation of an application for a particular biotechnological invention including claims and its submission strategy to world patent offices. The program includes training in the product registration process in the health area in the USA, Europe, and Chile.

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DOCTORATE IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Alliance between Fundacion Ciencia & Vida and Universidad San Sebastián
Program Director: Dr. Tomás Pérez-Acle

Description:
The Program places special emphasis on transdisciplinary and from this approach seeks to study and solve problems in both the life sciences, the social sciences, and the exact sciences. In addition to the laboratories of the Fundacion Ciencia & Vida, it offers the possibility of interacting and carrying out theses in the research laboratories of one of the biotechnology companies located on our Campus. During their passage through the Program, students will acquire skills that will allow them to identify important questions both in the most basic aspects of the disciplines and in their medical and environmental applications, formulate and develop research projects, critically read scientific literature, communicate their own findings and ideas, and insert themselves in academia, as well as in the private and public sector.

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