The University of Valencia celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on February 11, with several activities distributed among the various spaces of the institution. On Monday the 12th, the First Day of Gifts in Neuroscience will take place, with conferences at the faculties of Medicine and Dentistry and Pharmacy, a round table, a conference and the opening of an exhibition in the afternoon; while the Botanical Garden will host the 'Gifts and Science' cycle, between Tuesday and Friday, with conferences, debates and the screening of the film 'Hidden Figures'. On Wednesday, Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, will give the lecture 'What was first, the genetic code or its products?' in the Darwin Room.

The events scheduled for Monday the 12th are the conference Neurociència per a tothom, which will take place simultaneously at 12 noon in the Degree Room of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Blasco Ibáñez campus) and in the Darwin Room of the Burjassot-Paterna Campus. At 5:00 p.m., in the Degree Room of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, the conference Neurosexisme will take place, followed by talk about La Dona in (neuro)science (5:30 p.m.). At 7 p.m. a monologue will be offered and the prize for the Dones en Ciència contest will be awarded. The exhibition Creators: Gifts in Science will also be inaugurated at 7:30 p.m. in this same faculty.

In addition, with the idea of ​​making female neuroscientists visible, a contest has been organized aimed at first-year high school students from high schools in Valencia and its metropolitan area. The selected students will be able to visit the laboratories of the Neuroscience researchers of the University to learn about their workplace and their activity. These events are organized by the University of Valencia, coordinated by the Spanish Society of Neuroscience; and the Department of Human Anatomy and Embryology, the Unitat d'Egualtat and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia collaborate in them.

In the Jardí Botànic

The events planned in the Jardí Botànic on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science run from Tuesday, February 13 to Friday and They are conferences and a round table (the three events in the Huerto de Tramoyeres, at 7 p.m.) and the screening of the film Hidden Figures (VOSE), on Friday at the Joan Plaza Auditorium, at the same time. The conferences are by top-level scientists who will share the projects to which they dedicate their research.

The first conference will be offered by Ana Cros, Walking of a Physicist in Materials Science, with the interlude of a poem and then Isabel Cordero will talk about how to write the universe with gravitational waves. On Wednesday, Lucía Hipólito will speak with Sex, drugs and... pain and M. Carmen Fuentes with Marine awareness, research in animal reproduction as a conservation project. On Thursday the 15th, the round table Dones i ciència ficció will take place, with Maria Tordera, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Cruz Gabaldón and Sergio Mars, an event moderated by Elena Denia.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

On Wednesday, February 14, at 1:00 p.m., in the Darwin Room of the Burjassot-Paterna Campus, and within the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Darwin Day and the celebration of 50 years of university studies in Biology in Valencia, Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 2009, will give the conference What was first, the genetic code or its products?  

Day Dones, Salut i Treball

In addition, this Friday, the 9th February, within the framework of the Dones, Salut i Treball conference, organized with the aim of reflecting on women's health and prevention from a gender perspective, Carmen Valls, doctor and endocrinologist, expert in health and gender and member of the magazine Mujeres y Salud (MyS), has referred to the celebration of the Day of Women and Girls in Science, in addition to warning about the invisible risks to the health of women.