Skip to main content
Event

Open Day at CiMUS

Banner CS25
8 November 2025 10:00–20:00

IX OPEN DAY EVENT – Singular Science 08/11/2025

 CiMUS Programme 2025

The event will take place in four sessions throughout the day at 10:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 18:00, each lasting approximately 90 minutes, with 55 participants per session upon prior registration. Registration will open on October 29 at 4:00 p.m. on the website https://cienciasingular.usc.es/

Upon arrival and after completing registration, participants will be divided as follows: children will go directly to the Ciencia Divertida children’s workshops located in the hall, while participants aged 12 and over will attend a science talk in the Theatre Room. Afterwards, they will split into two groups that will take turns visiting the Innopharma Platform laboratories and taking part in the various adult workshops held in the hall.

 

WELCOME TO CiMUS

Scientific Direction: María Isabel Loza & José Luis Labandeira

Workshops Ciencia Divertida – HALL

(suitable for children aged 6 to 11)

  1. Gummy molecules
  2. Hygiene: we make a personalized soap
  3. Observing like scientists: animal and plant cells
  4. Van de Graaff electrostatic generator. The human body as a fun circuit.

SCIENCE TALKS (in streaming via CiMUS Youtube channel)* – Theatre Room

10:00.   “Brain and menopause: when the orchestra conductor goes deaf.”. Ismael González García.

12:00.  "Cerebral cavernomas: when blood vessels form bubbles.”. Juan Zalvide Torrente. 

16:00.  “Beyond neurons: the brain’s barrier against neurodegeneration". Dolores Viña Castelao.

18:00.  “The liver: your silent guardian that knows how to be reborn”. Marta Varela Rey. 

LAB VISIT – Innopharma Platform and  Automated Compound Management Laboratory – PSS and P-1

SCIENCE OUTREACH WORKSHOPS – HALL

(recommended for teenagers and adults)

  1. Blood vessels: the highways of life
  2. The secrets of proteins
  3. Neuroscience in action: how we study Parkinson’s.
  4. Build and repair a gene with your own hands.
  5. Shedding light on brain plasticity.

Activity funded by the Collaboration Agreement between the Regional Ministry of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training of the Xunta de Galicia and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC):