The young researchers Virgínia Teresa Plá and Ona Pascual, awarded in the 2012 Archimedes University Contest

This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest.
This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest.
Research
(03/12/2012)

The young researchers Virgínia Teresa Plá and Ona Pascual received two of the prizes conferred by the 11th Archimedes University Contest that awards those studies developed by young university students as a way to introduce them to research. It is an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Education by means of its General Directorate for University Policy in order to foster scientific and research activity among university students. This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest, and 41 awards were conferred. The award ceremony took place on Wednesday 21st November in the Paranymph of the Complutense University in Madrid. 

 
This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest.
This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest.
Research
03/12/2012

The young researchers Virgínia Teresa Plá and Ona Pascual received two of the prizes conferred by the 11th Archimedes University Contest that awards those studies developed by young university students as a way to introduce them to research. It is an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Education by means of its General Directorate for University Policy in order to foster scientific and research activity among university students. This year 371 research studies and a total of 648 participants from 49 Spanish universities entered in the contest, and 41 awards were conferred. The award ceremony took place on Wednesday 21st November in the Paranymph of the Complutense University in Madrid. 

 

 Virgínia Teresa Plá received the prize for her work Implicación de los receptores de direccionamiento de secreción regulada CPE y SGIII en la enfermedad de Alzheimer, led by the expert Fernando Aguado, professor at the Department of Cell Biology of the UB and member of the Consolidated Research Group on Physiology and Pathology of the Functional Glia-Neuron Relationship. “The regulated secretion of neuropeptides and neurotrophins is essential in the physiology of brain circuits. Through some in vitro and in vivo studies, this project analyses the implication of two proteins which mediate regulated secretion (secretogranin III and carboxypeptidase E) in Alzheimerʼs disease, one of the neurodegenerative diseases that has a higher impact on population”, explains Virgínia Teresa Plá.

 
The other awarded work developed by the student Ona Pascual Calmell is entitled En construcción. Redeficiones identitarias en el contexto migratorio. Una aproximación a la experiencia femenina, and was headed by the professor Maria Isabel Ponferrada, at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and the History of America and Africa at the Faculty of Geography and History. This approximation to feminine migration experience places special attention to the processes of construction and reconstruction of identities taking as a departure point the narratives of four Moroccan adult women who immigrated to Barcelona. Particularly, the study highlights identification and otherness related to the different groups which have been created according to gender and ethnicity.
 
The Archimedes University Contest is also supported by the National Research Council (CSIC), some enterprises involved in the Spanish R+D system (Fundación Astrazeneca and Fundación Repsol) and Spanish universities.
 
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