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The Scientific and Technological Centers of the University of Barcelona (CCiTUB) participate annually in Escolab,
a programme of the Barcelona City Council through which research centres open their doors to students in the 5th and 6th years of primary education, secondary school, baccalaureate and vocational training.
In the 26–27 school year, schools will be able to visit the CCiTUB to participate in the following activities:
Analysing cells
The Cellular Analysis Unit offers 2 hour visits to the Cytometry and Advanced Optical Microscopy facilities located at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on the Bellvitge Campus of the University of Barcelona.
During the visit, students will discover how cells from a clinical sample or biomedical research samples can be maintained, viewed, quantified and classified. They will also understand how the equipment involved works: cytometers and advanced optical microscopes.
For more information, consult the following link.
From Biomacro to Biomicro
The Biomolecular Analysis, Cellular Analysis, In Vivo Experimentation and Electron Microscopy and Related Techniques Units offer a four and a half hour visit to the facilities located at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on the
Clínic Campus of the University of Barcelona.
During the visit, students will take a journey through the structures of life, from large structures such as living organisms to the smallest ones, such as proteins. They will go through organs, tissues and cells using microscopy, and analyse the structures of their components and the proteins within them.
They will also see how to study the basic components of chemical reactions and how this knowledge can be used to find markers of human diseases such as cancer, infertility, diabetes, etc.
For more information, consult the following link.
Discovering the Omics sciences: Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Interactomics
The Cellular Analysis and Biomolecular Analysis Units offer a visit to their Genomics, Separation Techniques and Proteomics facilities located at the
Barcelona Science Park.
During the visit, students will explore technologies related to the omics: from large molecules such as DNA to smaller ones such as metabolites. They will also see the instrumentation needed to find markers of diseases such as cancer or diabetes, and to deepen the development of drugs to treat them.
For more information, consult the following link.
Life through the microscope
The Cellular Analysis and Electron Microscopy and Related Techniques Units offer a two and a half hour visit to their Advanced Optical Microscopy and Electron Microscopy facilities located at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on the
Clínic Campus of the University of Barcelona.
During the visit, students will take a journey between science and technology through the interior of cells and tissues. From how the phenomenon of fluorescence is used to label and visualise cellular structures and observe phenomena such as mitosis in real time, to observing (not with light, but with electrons) the interior of a cell and its organelles.
For more information, consult the following link.
A walk through chemical analysis laboratories
The Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Applied Mass Spectrometry – Isotopic Analysis, and Resonance and Magnetism Units offer a 3 hour visit to their NMR, Infrared Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry and Raman Spectroscopy facilities located on the
Diagonal South Campus of the University of Barcelona.
The visit is designed to provide a first contact and understanding of the interaction between scientific and technological education and the University. Through the activity, students will see how different chemical laboratories operate, serving both the scientific community and companies, through explanations of the available instrumental techniques and demonstrations applied to different types of samples. During the activity, the same molecule will be characterised using four different techniques, to show the information each technique provides, as well as the advantages and limitations of each depending on the problem to be solved.
For more information, consult the following link.
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