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Scientific life
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![Joana Porcel, research manager at ISGlobal.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Joana-Porcel-ISGlobal-2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
Joana Porcel (ISGlobal): “My scientific and admin experiences help me link two worlds that tend to go separately”
![The last week of October is Open Access Awareness week. We discuss the role of preprints in making science available. Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Photo-by-Artem-Beliaikin-on-Unsplash-PREPRINT-398x224.jpg)
Preprints and the long and winding road to Open Access
![The 'Severo Ochoa' Center of Excellence distinctive aims to fund and accredit highly competitive research centers worldwide. | Picture by Ibrahim Boran from Unsplash.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ISGlobal_SeveroOchoa-398x224.jpg)
ISGlobal is the third PRBB centre to receive an accreditation of excellence
![The next Rladies Barcelona meet up (a community of support for women interested in R) will be on October 15 at the PRBB. Image by Mireia Ramos.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Rladies-2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
The Rladies meet up at the PRBB
![Elena Casacuberta is a group leader at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE: CSIC-UPF).](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Elena-Casacuberta-2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
Elena Casacuberta (IBE:UPF-CSIC): “Teams are essential in science”
![The ERC is the major European research funding agency.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/EU-flag-for-erc-398x224.jpg)
Young researchers attract prestigious funding from the European Research Council
![The participants of the first edition of the "Dance your Science - Kinaesthesics for cognitive agility" workshop, organized by the PRBB Intervals Programme.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DYS_2000x1125-398x224.jpg)
Dancing to be better researchers
![Four researchers from the PRBB centres discussed their scientific careers during the outreach event Biojunior, aimed at high school students. Photo by Jordi Casañas/PRBB.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/TaulaRodonaBJ-2-398x224.png)
Roundtable on the scientific career
![Isabelle Thierry Chef](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Isabelle-Thierry-Chef-398x224.jpg)
Isabelle Thierry Chef (ISGlobal): “My major concern is medical radiation exposure in children”
![The CRG organised a course on how to make computational research more reproducible, transparent and collaborative. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/coding-Photo-by-Markus-Spiske-on-Unsplash-398x224.jpg)
For a more reproducible, transparent and collaborative computational biology
![Quorum sensing, a type of bacterial communication, is the regulation of gene expression in response to fluctuations in cell-population density (Picture by qimono at Pixabay).](https://ellipse.prbb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bacteria2000x1125_play-398x224.png)