IBEC Seminar

This third workshop will focus on overcoming therapeutic barriers in CNS disorders, with particular emphasis on delivery strategies, biological interfaces, and translational challenges. Schedule 09:00 – Registration 09:20 – Welcome from Network Coordinator 09:30 – IBEC speaker: Daniel Gonzalez-Carter, Molecular Bionics group Group. “Exploiting the physiology of the BBB to target therapies to the brain.”Daniel ... Read more

Targeting RhoA mechanoactivity rejuvenates aged hematopoietic stem cells   M. Carolina Florian, Stem Cell Aging Group, Regenerative Medicine Program, The Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.  Program for advancing the Clinical Translation of Regenerative Medicine of Catalonia, P-CMR, Barcelona, Spain The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain Mechanical ... Read more

Join us for the fourth NET-CNS Workshop on April 10th! This fourth NET-CNS workshop will focus on innovative experimental platforms and technologies to model central nervous system (CNS) processes and diseases. Particular emphasis will be placed on advanced in vitro systems, translational research tools, and emerging technologies that enable more physiologically relevant models for studying ... Read more

Developing Nanomedicines Using the Zebrafish Embryo Dr. Federico Fenaroli,  University of Stavanger, Norwey Our research focuses on the development of nanomedicines to combat bacterial infections and cancer. We investigate the dynamic in vivo interactions between nanoparticles, immune cells, and pathogenic bacteria or cancer cells. Thanks to their natural transparency, zebrafish embryos enable high-resolution imaging and ... Read more

Engineering Macrophages with Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine Kara L. Spiller, PhD, URBN Professor of Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA The inflammatory response, orchestrated primarily by macrophages, plays a major role in the body’s response to injury, disease, or implantation of a biomaterial. When macrophages function ... Read more

Polymer-Nanoparticle Hydrogels Enabling Innovations in Cell and Drug Deliver Eric A. Appel, Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University Dynamic biomaterials exhibit highly useful properties that are impossible with traditional materials but crucial for a wide variety of emerging applications in biomedicine. These materials typically employ enthalpy-dominated crosslinking interactions that become weaker ... Read more

Decision-making during cell migration Pablo J. Sáez, PhD Cell Communication and Migration Laboratory, UKE, Hamburg Moving cells navigate inside living tissues often encountering obstacles and junctions, where their path branches into alternative directions of migration. This is the case of cells moving on top or within blood vessels, which often bifurcate into branches. Cells have diverse migratory ... Read more

Bioinspired soft-matter systems: engineering life-like behaviors Assoc. Prof. Laura Alvarez, Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux and leads the Soft BioColloids group at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP, CNRS) Cells, even in their simplest forms, exhibit adaptive motion and task execution, capabilities underpinned by their complex and hierarchized architecture, and their ability ... Read more

Neuronal infra-slow rhythm in the thalamic nucleus reuniens orchestrate hippocampo-prefrontal information flow during sleep Dr Pascale Quilichini, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University The consolidation of episodic memory during sleep relies on coordinated interactions between the hippocampus (HPC) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC), although these regions lack direct reciprocal connections. The thalamic nucleus ... Read more

Studying the mechanical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport using Single Molecule Tracking Aina Albajar-Sigalé, Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology Group Cellular function relies on the precise regulation of macromolecular transport between the cytoplasm and the nucleus, a process governed by Nuclear Pore Complexes (NPCs). While traditional understanding held that transport through NPCs was mainly dictated by the ... Read more