Mag. Natalia Coirolo del Río

Training and dance in turns: Non-photic modulation of the circadian phase.

An intersection between science and dance. The course was structured around the reading and discussion of scientific articles on biological rhythms, cognition and exercise. We proposed a novel methodology that combined expository classes on biological concepts with their integration through movement practices. It was an invitation to “dance the papers”, in accordance with what the scientific literature itself suggests about the beneficial effects of exercise on cognition.

Participation of Ana Silva in the Session "Right to time to sleep and rest better" of the II Ibero-American Forum of Timetables and Time
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Battina Tassino

"Sleeping adequately is far from being a waste of time: sleep is fundamental to our education."
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Valentina Paz

Associations of sleep polygenic risk scores with a lifestyle sleep index and clinical phenotypes in the Mass General Brigham Biobank

Choreographic action based on the research process of the Chronobiology group (CSIC, UdelaR) coordinated by the Faculty of Sciences, on the biological rhythms in dancers of the Artistic Training Schools of SODRE. This piece is based on biological data from Natalia Coriolo and Mariana Marchesano's Master's theses in Cognitive Sciences, projects that explore the effects of the training shift on biological clocks, sleep and cognitive performance in dancers. The process began with the translation into movement of actimetry data, a technique that records activity / rest rhythms throughout the day and of chronobiological concepts such as synchrony, disruption, chronotype and circadian phase. With this work an inspirational circle between art and science is completed, which from genuine interaction, becomes a new form of communication.

Talk at the NEG Florida Foundation on behalf of the SNU (Oct, 2022) by Valentina Paz.
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Battina Tassino
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Valentina Paz.

Guidelines for Selection of Sleep Genetic Instruments in Mendelian randomisation.

Bettina Tassino and Andrés Olivera presented the animated video series made in collaboration with specialists on visual communication design. The broadcast was made live from the Faculty of Science library and involved the participation of Dean Monica Marin. The series is composed of 4 educational videos with independent and complementary contents, in a short animated format, with a suitable message for a wide and diverse audience. In each of them, a theoretical concept is presented, a problem is identified and simple and easy-to-adopt recommendations are proposed.

Ignacio Estevan was invited to an exchange on the results of the research project "Virtual rest", performed by 6th year students of School 178, on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic over children and teenagers' sleep. The activity was very interesting and the students achieved a qualitative description, compatible with consolidated international research groups results and unpublished results of the Chronobiology Research Group. Excellent teacher's initiative and the Social Education teacher Gabriela Pérez.

Ignacio Estevan was invited to a workshop with the School Nº 113's teachers team about the relevance of rhythms and sleep in young people. In addition to addressing the impact areas, work was done on the current research lines of the Chronobiology Research Group as well as its main results.

Bettina Tassino and Ana Silva were invited by the Society of Biological Psychiatry of Uruguay to the first working breakfast in 2020. At this meeting they presented the general aspects of the biological clock function in humans, and explained in depth the studies carried out by the research group in our country's adolescent population.

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science has been celebrated on 11 February. This date symbolizes the fundamental role that women and girls have played in the scientific community. The research group Cronobiología participated in the open-doors event at Facultad de Ciencias, showing the population the main interests of study in human chronobiology in Uruguay.

Two workshops were given by Ignacio Estevan and Andrés Olivera to teachers and students of high school 63, as part of the institutional cycle called " Lectures of scientific dissemination". In this workshop were discussed: general aspects of human circadian preferences and the relationship between sleep habits and academic performance, especially in adolescents. In a practical and simplified way, it was demonstrated how we obtain and analyze data in our research studies with adolescents.