The School of Sciences of the University of Navarra organizes, for the eleventh consecutive year, the "Science Club", an informative activity aimed at students of 1st and 2nd year of high school diploma from different countries. The course will be held in a classroom format -although it can be followed by streaming for those students who live outside Navarra- and will be oriented towards the vocation of research.

"We want to increase the scientific knowledge of students from high school diploma and bring them closer to the research activity of young doctoral students, so that they can explain their day-to-day work, their publications, their objectives, tell them how they got there and clear up any doubts they may have", says José Manuel Trillo, director of development of the School of Sciences of the University of Navarra.

A total of 144 students have signed up so far for this edition, which has four sessions: 94 from Spain (54 from Navarre) and the rest from countries such as Ecuador, Guatemala, Colombia, USA, Holland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Mexico and Turkey, among others.

Testimonials from four young women researchers

The first session of the activity organized by the School of Sciences has counted with the participation of Luisa Chocarro de Erauso who spoke to the attendees about "development of smart lymphocytes against cancer". Luisa is a graduate in Biochemistry (2018) and Master's Degree in research, development and Drug Innovation (2019) by the University of Navarra and doctoral candidate in Navarrabiomed. 

The second session will take place on November 23 and will feature the testimony of Irene Marin to talk about "Understanding the response to cancer treatment through bioinformatics". Irene has a degree in Pharmacy (2020) and Master's Degree in Computational Methods in Science (2020) from the University of Navarra, and is currently doing the doctorate in the Cima. 

For her part, Amaia Alcalde will give on December 21 a lecture on "Evolution of the nervous system and behavior in Heliconius butterflies". Amaia has a degree in Biology (2020) from the School of Sciences and is currently doing her doctoral thesis at the University of Bristol.

Ane Martínez will be the keynote speaker of the fourth session on March 15, 2023 on "Using Simple Cell Technologies to decipher physiological and pathological environments". Ane is a graduate of Biochemistry (2020) and Master's Degree in Computational Methods (2021) from the University of Navarra. She is currently doing her research at Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute.

All sessions will be held at 7 p.m. at auditorium of Sciences Building of the University of Navarra. The edition is free of charge and registrations can be made through the website or email scaireta@unav.es.