On 6th of June we will celebrate that we are the first research center in Spain to certify its laboratories as sustainable by My Green Labs. Since the publication of the IBEC Strategy to promote sustainability in research in 2021, IBEC has been working to make the work in the labs and in the institute more sustainable. ... Read more
The purpose of the AFPM conference series is to strengthen the interactions within the community of chemists, material engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians in the development of Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine. The current status, challenges and requirements for future developments of polymers for medicine are presented by leading experts. The conference provides an outstanding opportunity ... Read more
From Lab to Clinic: An Overview of IBEC's Clinical Mentoring Programme Do you know what IBEC’s Clinical Mentoring Programme is about? Have you considered participating in it? In this Complementary Skills session, Anna Gassol and Georgina Sorrosal from Col·legi official de Metges (COMB) together with Cristina Arimany from the Strategic Initiatives department at IBEC will ... Read more
Natural Strategies for Solar Light Harvesting Professor of Biophysics, Photosynthesis and Energy at Department of Physics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In this presentation I will introduce the fundamental processes of light harvesting in photosynthetic organisms and discuss their remarkable abilities to adapt and acclimate to diverse light conditions. Photosynthetic organisms have evolved sophisticated ... Read more
How does ageing-related stiffening of brain tissue microenvironments affect the regenerative capacity of cns progenitor cells Professor of biology and bioengineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Ageing-related stiffening of neuronal microenvironments in the brain generates potent signals that attenuate the regenerative capacity of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) to proliferate and differentiate. We find that ... Read more
Mechanical impact of cell delamination on tissue dynamics, in developmental and tumoral contexts Centre de Biologie Intégrative, CNRS/UMR 5088, Université Toulouse III, Toulouse, France How mechanical forces drive morphogenesis is a fundamental question in the field of biomechanics. Combining imaging, genetics, biophysical and modeling approaches, we found that apoptotic cells, far from being eliminated passively, ... Read more
Mechanics of Epithelial tissue subjected to controlled pressure Author: Nimesh Ramesh Chahare, Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group Biography: Nimesh Ramesh Chahare earned his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in 2014. He further pursued a master's degree at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, completing it in 2016. ... Read more
Development of chemical and synthetic biology tools to generate biotherapeutics and to tackle brain diseases Dr. Benjami Oller-Salvia, IQS In our group we develop chemical and synthetic biology tools to generate biotherapeutics and to tackle brain diseases. In the first part of the talk, I will report our efforts toward developing strategies to construct conditionally-active ... Read more
Cell migration up and down fibronectin gradients Isabela Fortunato, Integrative cell and tissue dynamics group The ability of cells to perform directed migration is essential for biological processes, such as tissue morphogenesis, immune function, and cancer invasion. Directed cell migration is often triggered by spatial gradients in the cellular environment (e.g., chemical gradients, called chemotaxis, ... Read more
Spatial single-cell metabolomics reveals metabolic cell states EMBL Recent discoveries put metabolism into the spotlight. Metabolism not only fuels cells but also plays key roles in health and disease. In parallel, emerging single-cell technologies opened a new world of cell types and states previously hidden beneath population averages. Yet, methods for discovering links between metabolism, ... Read more