IBEC Seminar

Mechanical control of cell division Martijn Gloerich, UMC Utrecth, Center for Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cancer Research During development and adult tissue homeostasis, cellular behavior is controlled by signals that cells receive from their local environment. This is not limited to biochemical signals, as cell behavior can be instructed by mechanical forces exerted by neighbouring cells ... Read more

Theoretical and practical aspects of biophysiotherapy Josep Pous, Medical Director at Cematec-Teknon de Barcelona In this clinical colloquia, the different treatment methods used in Biophysiotherapy such as Multifrequency Laser Therapy, Shock Waves, Modular Electromagnetic Waves, Mechanotherapy, Growth Factors, Stem Cells, will be exposed. The different mechanisms of action will be discussed at the cellular level ... Read more

Theoretical and practical aspects of biophysiotherapy Josep Pous, Medical Director at Cematec-Teknon de Barcelona In this clinical colloquia, the different treatment methods used in Biophysiotherapy such as Multifrequency Laser Therapy, Shock Waves, Modular Electromagnetic Waves, Mechanotherapy, Growth Factors, Stem Cells, will be exposed. The different mechanisms of action will be discussed at the cellular level ... Read more

Emergent living machines Taher Saif , Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Industrial revolution of the 19th century marked the onset of the era of machines that transformed societies. However, these machines cannot self assemble or heal themselves. On the other hand, since the discovery of genes, there is a considerable ... Read more

Emergent living machines Taher Saif , Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Industrial revolution of the 19th century marked the onset of the era of machines that transformed societies. However, these machines cannot self assemble or heal themselves. On the other hand, since the discovery of genes, there is a considerable ... Read more

Drugging the undruggable: towards the development of selective modulators of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion Emilio Parisi, Italian Institute of Technology (Milano) and Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (Riga) Cadherins are transmembrane calcium-dependent cell adhesion proteins that mediate cellular adherens junction formation and tissue morphogenesis. Loss of cadherin-mediated adhesion has been implicated in many different steps of ... Read more

Drugging the undruggable: towards the development of selective modulators of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion Emilio Parisi, Italian Institute of Technology (Milano) and Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (Riga) Cadherins are transmembrane calcium-dependent cell adhesion proteins that mediate cellular adherens junction formation and tissue morphogenesis. Loss of cadherin-mediated adhesion has been implicated in many different steps of ... Read more

Cochlear optical stimulation of the auditory pathway Antoine Huet , Institut für Auditorische Neurowissenschaften, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Optical stimulation of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in the ear for coding sound information provides an interesting alternative to electrical stimulation that is used in current cochlear implants for hearing restoration. As light can be conveniently confined in space, ... Read more