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Pamplona hosts from Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 Pint of Science, an international festival in which scientists from different disciplines bring their work to the public in bars. Arantxa González Miqueo, researcher at Cima, and Javier Novo, professor of Genetics, will participate in this edition, the fifth to be held in Spain. In addition, speakers from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA), the Planetarium of Pamplona, will address topics on health, space and genetics, in an informative way thanks to an understandable and close language. The sessions will take place from Monday 20 to Wednesday May 22, at 8 pm, with free admission, in three bars in the capital of Navarra: Chester Gastrobar, Bahía and Zentral. For more information, please visit the website of this initiative.

The Pint of Science program will open in Pamplona on Monday 20 at Chester Gastrobar (calle Olite, number 8) with a session entitled "Health, nutrition and exercise". Two researchers from the UPNA will participate: Professor Mikel Izquierdo Redín, who will address "How to die young as late as possible? The pending challenge of modern medicine?", and Professor Idoia Labayen Goñi, who has entitled her talk "Lifestyles in the prevention of health and diabetes. Early health programming".

On the following day, Tuesday 21, and at Bar Bahía (García Castañón Street, 3), the session "Galaxies and hearts" will be held. In it, Javier Armentia Fructuoso and Miren Karmele Gómez Garmedia, from the Pamplona Planetarium, will talk about colored galaxies and black holes, and Arantxa González Miqueo, researcher of the Cardiovascular Diseases Program of the Cima, about "The problems of having a hard heart".

Finally, on Wednesday 22 and in the Zentral of the Santo Domingo Market, Javier Novo Villaverde, researcher at the University of Navarra, will analyze the influence of gene mobility in the conformation and functioning of the brain, in a talk entitled "From jumping genes to the human brain".

Pint of Science, whose first worldwide edition took place in 2013, is a festival that aims to bring science closer to society through the presence in bars of researchers who explain their work. The event is held annually and simultaneously for three days; and, in this edition, bars in more than 400 cities in 24 countries on five continents are taking part. In Spain, the festival is held for three days (the nights of Monday, May 20 to Wednesday, May 22) in bars in 73 cities, with a record 387 events in 148 bars, with the participation of 784 scientists as speakers (41% of them women) and more than 400 volunteers in the organization. At the national level, this science outreach festival is sponsored by Precipita/FECYT, FMC and Vadillo Asesores.

In the case of the capital of Navarra, the Pint of Science festival is organized by the Friends of Science Club, with the collaboration of Javier Armentia, Nieves Gordón Arce (head of communication of the Planetarium) and Joaquín Sevilla Moróder (head of the Chair of Dissemination of Knowledge and Scientific Culture of the UPNA and researcher at the Smart Cities Institute-ISC). The complete program of Pint of Science in Pamplona can be consulted on the festival website.