The Group is devoted to the historical study of medical and scientific practices and knowledge production in urban settings, grounded in the solid tradition of the IMF in the field. Particular attention is paid to: 1. Knowledge and practices produced and enacted in specific spaces: museums, hospitals, etc., 2. Processes in which professional groups (physicians, naturalists) and communities of different sorts (patients, publics) interact. 3. Practices and knowledge using instruments, generating different representation devices (printed texts, maps, graphics). 4.

Cataloging and critical study of music sources, historical study of performance practices, editing and performance practice of Hispanic historical musical heritage, as a cultural value oriented towards social development.

HUMANE starts from a critical positioning towards the models of knowledge prevailing in Social Sciences research and the need to generate a research truly transdisciplinary that goes beyond the limitations of the single academic disciplines and historical trajectories. HUMANE mission is the development of an innovative theoretical-methodological framework for the study of social dynamics in a long-term perspective and within an environmental framework.

The keywords that best describe the group are: identity, memory, pluriculturality, migration, globalization, gender, body, ontologies and posthumanism. This research group focus on the issues of collective identities and multiculturalism as they manifest in current societies. As far as this subject is concerned, the present and powerful globalization processes offer to the researchers a huge field of observation and analysis.

Archaeology of Social Dynamics is devoted to the study of the social relations of the past human communities from an archaeological perspective. These relationships affect both intra-community (relationships between individuals) and inter-community behaviour (relationships established between different communities). In all cases the synchronic variability of these relations as well as their diachronic dynamics are emphasized.

Research group devoted to historical and philological studies concerning the territories of the former Crown of Aragon and their projection in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the Middle Ages. The investigations carried out by its members basically focus on the analysis of documentary and literary sources, taking particular advantage of the exceptional historical archives preserved in Catalonia for the medieval period.

Improve the plant growth by using rhizosphere fungi with biofertilizers and biorremediation capabilities.

This research Group carries out basic and strategic studies on the ecology, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, functional genomics and biotechnology of arbuscular mycorrhizas, in relation to nutrition and protection of plants against biotic and abiotic stresses, and their contribution, in interaction with other soil micro-organisms, to the recovery of degraded ecosystems and conservation of threatened flora, and as an alternative to the excessive use of agrochemicals in agriculture.

The group investigates soil microbiology from a systems biology perspective. Current research lines involve the study of the structure, function, plasticity, dinamics and evolution of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterial genomes as well as of metagenomes of the plants rhizosphere from agro-forestry ecosystems. Experimental approaches combine clasical microbiology, biochemistry and molecular-genetics methods with cutting edge next generation deep-sequencing technologies.

Molecular mechanisms driving mutualistic and pathogenic plant-bacteria interactions. Biotechnological solutions for sustainable agriculture and environment.