At our stand, visitors will discover the fascinating world of pollinators: how they live, why they are essential, what threatens them, how scientists study them, and how everyone can help protect them.
Participants will learn about the importance of circadian rhythms and how disruptions, such as light pollution, can affect the health and behaviour of both wildlife and humans.
Discover the results of the FungiVE citizen science project, where members of the public helped investigate fungi on solar panels and their detection using advanced molecular methods
An overview of the European project LongTREC (MSCA Doctoral Network), in which the National Institute of Biology (NIB) develops new bioinformatics workflows for the analysis of long-read RNA transcriptomes and applies them to studies of plant responses to various stressors.
Visitors will explore the hidden rhythms of communication among organisms through hands-on, interactive demonstrations, listening to the vibrational communication of insects and smelling chemical signals used by plants and insects, while discovering how these signals change over time and how human activities can disrupt such communication.
How does a researcher cope when there is no longer a laboratory, equipment or comforts – but only the wilderness, their own knowledge and survival skills? Žiga Ogorelec,…
At the Department of Genetic Toxicology, Biotechnology and Systems Biology (GEN), we research processes that are important for human health and the environment. Visitors will be able to…
