Molecular basis for the use of light in medicine Wiktor Szymanski, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen Light is a unique control element in chemistry and biology, because it can be safely delivered with very high precision to modulate processes in space and time. In this educational lecture, aimed at Master students but hopefully ... Read more
Molecular basis for the use of light in medicine Wiktor Szymanski, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen Light is a unique control element in chemistry and biology, because it can be safely delivered with very high precision to modulate processes in space and time. In this educational lecture, aimed at Master students but hopefully ... Read more
EMBL and IBEC aim to contribute to the discussion on challenges and opportunities in the expanding field of engineered multicellular systems Recent breakthroughs in stem cell biology, organ-on-chip assays, 3-D bioprinting, and cell mechanobiology have revolutionized our ability to design and assemble multicellular living systems, from organoids to embryos. This biennial series of will focus on how engineering ... Read more
10:00Institutional WelcomeJosep SamitierIBEC10:10Presentation by IFIBYNE directorAdali PecciIFIBYNE10:30Training-on-a-Chip: a multi-organ device to study the effect of muscle exercise on insulin secretion in vitroJavier RamónIBEC10:50Coffee Break11:20Genomic regulation in pancreatic beta cell development and regenerationSantiago RodríguezIFIBYNE11:40TBDRomén RodríguezIBEC12:00Closing The seminar will be held at Tower I, 11th floor Baobab room, at 10:00am.
Aberrant phase separation is a widespread killing mechanism of bioactive peptides in health and diseas Steven Boeynaems, Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Investigator at the Texas Children’s Hospital Cationic repeat peptides are increasingly implicated in the pathophysiology of age-related neurodegenerative disease. These peptides are highly toxic in all tested disease models, and ... Read more
Date: Wednesday 18 January 2023, 12:00h Place: Audiorium Room, PCB Speaker: Jolanda van Leeuwen, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Title: Systematic analysis of genetic suppression interactions Host: Patrick Aloy (IRB) & Benedetta Bolognesi (IBEC) Abstract: Recent genome sequencing efforts have identified people that are healthy despite carrying mutations that have been directly associated with severe early-onset Mendelian diseases. ... Read more
Date: Thursday 19 January 2023, 9:30h Place: Felix Serratosa Hall, PCB Speaker: Nunilo Cremades, PhD - Associate Professor at Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology and Group Leader at Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, Spain Title: Liquid-liquid phase separation and co-aggregation of neurodegenerative disease-related alpha-synuclein and Tau proteins Host: Xavier Salvatella ... Read more
On May 6th, Roser Cussó, the artist in residence at IBEC, will be offering a scientific illustration workshop designed for participants of all ages (starting from 7 years old). This is an open session available to everyone, where you will have the chance to explore the creative process that Roser followed during her project "Laboratori ... Read more
Dear all, It is our pleasure to invite you to the ICMS-IBEC symposium on 14 March from 13.00 – 17.00 (Ceres 0.31, coffee starts at 12.45). Colleagues from both IBEC and ICMS will pitch their research domains with the intent to get better acquainted with each other’s science. We have fostered a successful collaboration ... Read more
Please mark your calendars! The next BMBC meeting will be held on Friday 12th of April 2024, from 3-6pm at PRBB, Marie Curie Room. For this edition we will have an external speaker, Michael Healy from Queensland University, Australia. Michael is a postdoc in the group of Brett Collins, and he has recently published the structure of the whole Commander ... Read more