"Researcher's Night 2025" will take place again this year at FORTH on Friday, September 26, 2025 (17:00-23:00). IMBB is actively participating with 14 groups. Visitors will have the opportunity to:
- Learn about the Ancient DNA Laboratory, Plant Physiology and Plant Resistance to Pathogens.
- How are tick-borne pathogens transmitted?
- Understand the mechanisms of insecticide resistance in disease vectors and agricultural pests, and learn how scientists at IMBB are exploring novel insecticide targets to control insects.
- Visitors will have the opportunity to attend a demonstration of portable diagnostic tools, developed in the Biosensors Laboratory, for the detection of viruses and microorganisms in humans, animals, and environmental samples (including water and plants)
- Furthermore, visitors will learn how fluorescent worms help unlock the secrets of ageing and disease.
- What type of cells is cancer comprised of?
- Using new technologies and Artificial Intelligence are exploited to find new biomarkers for cardiovascular Diseases?
- How nutritional and bioactive ingredients are defined in traditional Greek food?
- Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the developing brain and how scientists study Neurodegenerative Disorders in animal and human models.
- Finally, they will have the opportunity to find out how mice perceive objects and how scientists understand the process of learning and memory in the brain through experimental and computational models.
https://researchersnight.gr/
