Application Deadline: 15/12/2015
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The Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to participate in cell and tissue mechanics.
Elisabeth Engel’s CIBER-BNN project alongside IDIBELL on the regeneration of nerve tissue after brain injury, this project, is one of the focus points of the CIBER-BNN Ninth Annual Conference in Valencia this week. 
In a paper published in Nature Cell Biology, IBEC junior group leader Pere Roca Cusachs and his collaborators at Columbia University and Singapore’s Mechanobiology Institute reveal the potential of a protein found in cell cytoskeletons as a repressor of cancer.The ability of cells to sense the rigidity of the extracellular matrix – a collection of molecules that provides structural and biochemical support – affects the regulation of their activity in development, wound healing and other essential processes.
Application Deadline: 15/12/2015
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The Nanobioengineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) , coordinated by Prof. Josep Samitier, is looking for a Postdoctoral position to participate iin organ chip Technology projects that can mimic various human internal organs or systems. The main activities of the group involve the surface functionalization of materials integrated with microfluidics systems for the study of biomolecule and cell interactions to develop Organ on Chip or for the development of new biosensors that will be integrated in lab-on-a-chip devices. The goal is to fabricate microsystems containing living cells that recapitulate tissue and organ level functions in vitro and new portable diagnosis devices that can be used as Point-of-Care systems.
Pau Gorostiza’s work is included in a extensive article about the science of light in the magazine Muy Interesante this month. 
IBEC group leader Xavier Trepat was interviewed on science programme Lab 24 on RTVE’s 24-hour channel on Sunday at 22:00, explaining why it’s so important that we understand cell movement and the forces that act on our cells.
In some research conducted with his colleagues at the University of California San Diego, IBEC senior researcher Jordi Fonollosa has shed some light on the mechanisms behind how we memorize sequences – as well as how failures in these mechanisms can provide insight into neurological disorders.Previous behavioral experiments suggest that humans and some animals learn and recall sequences in smaller segments.
IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Pau Gorostiza was one of nine ERC Proof of Concept holders to take part in the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) Winter University this week in Copenhagen.Pau pitched his project, THERALIGHT: Therapeutic Applications of Light-Regulated Drugs, to the investors from all over the world at the event, which he attended alongside eight other awardees specially selected by the ERC. Together they made up nearly half of the 20 European start-ups hoping to catch the eye of an investor interested in exploring the innovation potential of their findings.
El País has published a “Ciencia en Español” video interview with Samuel Sanchez featuring footage of his nanorobots, which can be seen whizzing through through liquid using the expulsion of oxygen bubbles as propulsion.
Application Deadline: 15/11/2015
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The Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Laboratory Technician to work on the experimental aspects related to the ERC-funded project “Lab-in-a-tube and Nanorobotic Biosensors”.