How mu ch do you know about neuroscience? Did you know that neurons are not the most abundant cells in the brain? Let?s talk about glia

ALEJANDRO VILLARREAL; MARÍA BELÉN CIERI; PAULA SARCHI; VERONICA MURTA

Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba

Congreso; XXXIV Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias; 2019

Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias

Neuroscience is a rapidly expanding field of biology and medicine; however latest findings are not immediately available to the lay public. This project aimed to reach the community from Santa Rosa, La Pampa (where neuroscience is not a major research topic) to communicate and update them about glial cells.The grant obtained from the Argentinean Society for Neuroscience Research (SAN) in the context of Brain Awareness Week allowed us to travel from our laboratory in Buenos Aires to Santa Rosa. There, we conducted several activities related to science popularization in three major groups of the non-scientific community: high school students, university students (nursery and biology) and lay public.Day 1: Activities directed to high school students in Colegio Universidad de Santa Rosa involved practical activities interspersed with a minimum of theoretical concepts. Day 2: Lecture at the School of Biology and Agronomy of University of La Pampa (UNLPam), included research findings and experimental models followed by practical work using microscopes and histological brain samples (Nissl and immunohistochemistry). Day 3: In the main lecture hall of UNLPam, we conducted a lecture entitled ?What are glial cells and why did Einstein´s brain have more of them??.A very satisfactory outcome was achieved throughout all activities due to enthusiastic participation and interest from the very different audiences. In this poster, we will share our experiences with graphs and photographs.