BiSC at the ISEE annual conference in Santiago, Chile

This August, the 36th annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) was held in Chile, with the main theme being “Addressing challenges in environmental health, justice and development.” Among all the speakers, three researchers presented results related to the BiSC project.

On August 28, one of the project’s main researchers, Jordi Sunyer, spoke. During his presentation, he shared preliminary data on how exposure to air pollution can affect neurodevelopment and be associated with changes in the morphological development of the brain of children considering that this environmental influence can begin before birth, that is, during pregnancy.

Sofía Aguilar’s presentation was about exploring the association between exposure to green spaces during pregnancy and DNA methylation in the placenta. The hypothesis behind her research is that changes in the epigenome of the placenta could be one of the molecular mechanisms underlying the association between exposure to green spaces during pregnancy and a lower risk of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight.

Finally, Alan Domínguez presented results on the predictive models to assign exposure to air pollution in Barcelona in general, and in particular for the BiSC cohort, which will allow us to evaluate exposure to air pollution during critical stages of development during the prenatal and postnatal stages.

We would like to thank our colleagues who traveled to Chile for sharing the results that we are gradually obtaining in the project with the collaboration of all the volunteer families. Thank you very much!