Nearly 350 people gathered at the Blanes Theater to attend the conference "Is Our Body Fat Really a Problem?" presented by Dr. Marta Giralt, as part of the introductory cycle of the Blanes University Extension Program, affiliated with the University of Girona. In this informative session, Dr. Marta Giralt shared the latest advancements in the pathophysiology of adipose tissue, aimed at the general public. A successful achievement in disseminating our research to the general public!.
On the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on February 11, the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) released its ranked list of the top 10,000 women scientists in Spain. We are proud to announce that Dr. Marta Giralt, co-leader of our research team, is ranked among the top 2% of the most influential Spanish scientists.
Marta Giralt delivered the lecture "Obesity and Climate Change" at the SEEDO/EASO Joint Conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The presentation highlighted the increasing recognition of global warming's contribution to the obesogenic environment, as well as the role of suppressed adaptive thermogenesis and reduced energy expenditure.
On January 16 and 17, 2025, the ADIPOBROAD meeting took place in Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona. ADIPOBROAD is a thematic research network supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities in Spain. This network is coordinated by our research group and brings together 12 research groups from Spain involved in various aspects of research on adipose tissue plasticity and its impact on health. The meeting included participation from all the network's groups and international guests, with more than 60 attendees. Multiple interdisciplinary and collaborative research areas in adipobiology were identified during the meeting.
Stanford University has created a publicly available database of highly cited scientists, providing separate data for career-long impact and for single-year impact. Prof. Francesc Villarroya is ranked among the top 2% of influential researchers in both metrics, while Prof. Marta Giralt is recognized in the recent impact ranking.
On September 10th, our research group met in a retreat at the Pedro i Pons Foundation facilities, a 16th century building owned by the University of Barcelona thanks to a donation from Dr. Agustí Pedro i Pons in the last century. There, the current research projects and the organizational programming of the laboratory for the next academic year were planned.
Dr. Joan Villarroya, member of our team and recently appointed associate professor in our University, was selected to present his recent research in the CIBERobn symposium held in Zaragoza the 11-12 June. Disturbances in adipose tissue autophagy were highlighted in relation to obesity-related pathology.
We proudly contributed (a selected presentation by Albert Mestres, PhD student at our team, participation of the lecturer Ruben Cereijo in a round table) in the successful first edition of Early Career Day organized by IBUB, with a fruitful participation of close to one hundred young researchers.
That meeting, held in Copenhagen the 27-31 May gathered worldwide international experts in adipose tissue plasticity. Albert Mestres, PhD, and Marion Peyrou, recently appointed with the prestigious "Ramon y Cajal" researcher position at the University of Barcelona, presented, together with the PI researcher Dr Marta Giralt, the last results of our team on brown adipose tissue signaling properties.
Francesc Villarroya was invited to present our novel findings on human brown adipose tissue adipokines (batokines) recently identified in our laboratory. ENDO2024 was the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in USA, held in Boston the 1-4 June, 2024.
