{"id":129460,"global_id":"ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/?id=129460","global_id_lineage":["ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/?id=129460"],"author":"54","status":"publish","date":"2025-10-29 13:01:41","date_utc":"2025-10-29 12:01:41","modified":"2025-11-12 12:09:30","modified_utc":"2025-11-12 11:09:30","url":"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/event\/thematic-network-net-quasi-workshop-3-designing-life-like-function\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/ibecbarcelona.eu\/ca\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/129460","title":"Thematic Network. NET-QUASI Workshop 3: Designing Life-like Function","description":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part of the <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IBEC Thematic Network \u201cQuasi-living systems: Merge and Emerge\u201d (NET-QUASI)<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, this third workshop explores how life-like function can be designed into synthetic and hybrid systems. By merging molecular, material, and biological approaches, researchers are uncovering how responsiveness, adaptability, and collective behavior emerge across scales\u2014from molecular assemblies and delivery systems to tissues that sense and reorganize.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This session gathers leading voices in synthetic biology, materials science, and mechanobiology to discuss how bridging the living and synthetic worlds can inspire a new generation of functional, adaptive systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Agenda<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:200,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">09:30 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Opening Remarks. Nina Kostina (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">09:40 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keynote Lecture<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ru.nl\/en\/people\/huck-w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Towards Molecular Networks that Learn<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10:35 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Invited Lecture: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iqs.edu\/es\/iqs\/equipo-humano\/dr-benjami-oller-salvia\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dr. Benjam\u00ed Oller<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (IQS, Barcelona), \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Engineering conditionally active proteins and synthetic receptors for precision delivery<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">11:20 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IBEC Lecture: Dr. Subhadip Ghosh, \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Motility of Enzyme-Powered Protocells<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">11:55 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coffee Break<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">12:25 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keynote Lecture: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goepfrichgroup.de\/kerstin-gopfrich\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Prof. Kerstin G\u00f6pfrich<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany), \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RNA design for quasi-living cellular systems<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">13:10 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IBEC Lecture: Prof. C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez-Emmenegger, \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Phagocytic Synthetic Cells: Non-Living Predators to Fight Bacteria<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">14:00 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lunch Break<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">14:50 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Early Career IBEC Lecture: M.Sc. Aina Albajar, \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Studying the mechanical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport using Single Molecule Tracking<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">15:25 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">IBEC Lecture: Prof. Xavier Trepat, \u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Synthetic mechanobiology of epithelial shape and migration<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16:10 \u2013 <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Closing Remarks. 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