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Episode 5: Blurring the Lines – A Conversation with Luis Quijano.
Podcast caption: Luis Quijano is a pioneering designer-scientist and Fulbright scholar with one foot in the sciences and the other in the arts. We discuss his work with bacterial cellulose and other biological materials, which is rapidly redefini...
Post · October 06, 2025
Exploring level-p-complexity for subclasses of Boolean functions
In their MSc thesis [1], Arvid Rydberg and Selina Sand Engberg explored the complexity of Boolean functions (functions from n bits to one bit). Measuring their evaluation cost, especially using the probabilistic level-p-complexity (D_p(f)), is an...
Post · October 05, 2025
When 'You can do anything' shackles us
Positive psychology and new-age spiritualities have sold us a seductive fantasy: that desire alone can shape reality. "Visualize your goals", "believe in yourself", "the universe conspires in your favor". But this mantra of "you can do anything" i...
Post · October 03, 2025
My personal experience of having my scientifc research funded
There has been a lot of talk about funding science in recent months. As a scientist, I wanted to share the impact and my experience of having my research funded by the government. I completed all my post-secondary education in Canada. My PhD resea...
Post · October 02, 2025
The Astiz Lab hosts the Spielmann Lab for their group retreat in Bilbao 🧠🧬🤝
The Astiz Lab was very happy to welcome Dr. Malte Spielmann and his team for their lab retreat in Bilbao this September. Dr. Mariana Astiz started collaborating with Dr. Malte Spielmann in Lübeck (Germany) in 2020. This collaboration has resulted...
Post · October 02, 2025
Dr. Sylvia Newbold gives a talk at the 2nd EvoDevo Hub Meeting🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, gave the talk entitled “A journey into mouse SCN development” during the 2nd DevoHub Meeting in Leioa (Spain).
With the idea that “it takes more than one brain to understand how the b...
Post · October 02, 2025
Summer of conferences for Astiz Lab researchers: EBRS and SENC 2025 🧠📣
Our team has been very busy this summer season attending to two conferences back-to-back! And not only attending but also presenting these three fantastic posters showcasing our most recent results:
📢 Long-lasting changes induced by the circadia...
Post · October 02, 2025
Dr. Mariana Astiz presents at the 2025 Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 🧠📣
Dr. Mariana Astiz presented her poster entitled “Development of the central circadian clock sensitivity to glucocorticoids” at the 2025 Chronobiology Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Castelldefels, Barcelona. The focus of this year’s conference...
Post · October 02, 2025
Dr. Sylvia Newbold presents at the Brain Organoid Summer School (BOSS25) 🧠📣
Dr. Sylvia Newbold, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Astiz Lab, presented the poster entitled “Towards the generation and validation of a functional human organoid of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus” at the Brain Organoid Summer Scho...
Post · October 02, 2025
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