Àngels López 
Application Deadline: 31/12/2015
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The Bacterial Infections and antimicrobial therapies group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral candidate to participate in chemistry synthesis of RNRbiotics family.
Application Deadline: 15/01/2016 before 03:00 pm (Spanish time)
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral candidates to apply for the 2015 of the calls of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Juan de la Cierva.
Researchers at IBEC and their collaborators from the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, The University of Manchester and the company Keysight Technologies have now achieved an elusive goal: to measure the electromagnetic properties of biological materials at the level of a single bacterial cell and at very high frequencies (gigahertz).
Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have revealed that, counter to previous understanding, the living cells in our bodies behave like solids rather than the liquids they are made of.IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Xavier Trepat, who led the research, describes the discovery as ‘truly counter-intuitive’. “It means we need brand new laws of physics to understand what ingredients a fluid needs to behave as a solid,” he says.
An IBEC researcher and his collaborators have taken the next step in their quest to achieve safe micromotors for medical drug and cargo delivery by developing a version that is powered by bacteria.Samuel Sánchez, who recently published some work about similar micro-sized drug carriers that are powered by enzymes that consume biological fuels, such as glucose, worked with the part of his group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems on this latest finding, highlighted on the inside cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces, which elaborates an even more promising ‘microswimmer’ that is powered by Escherichia coli.
The life and career of IBEC Director Josep Samitier is one of the “28 Historias de Ciencia e Innovación Biomédica en España/28 Stories of Science and Biomedical Innovation in Spain” in a book launched yesterday by the Fundación Botin in Madrid.The book celebrates the foundation’s ten years of close collaboration with some of the top scientists in Spain in the field of biomedicine under its Technology Transfer programme, working together to develop products or services that improve quality of life and provide business and investment opportunities. IBEC’s partnership with the foundation has been in regard to the technology transfer of results obtained by the Nanobioengineering group within the project ‘Desarrollo de Tecnologías en Bionanomedicina para diagnóstico y terapia’.
IBEC was one of the subjects of the La 2 programme “Fábrica de Ideas” on Saturday 5th December.
Application Deadline: 15/12/2015 before 15:00h (Spanish time)
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Pre-doctoral candidates to apply for the 2015 of the “Ayudas para la Formación de Pofesorado Universitario (FPU)” from the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD).(FPU-2015).
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.