The role of inhibition in hippocampal coding Manuel Valero, PhD NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University (US) The fundamental computation a single neuron performs is to integrate incoming excitatory and inhibitory inputs to decide whether to fire an action potential and feedback its activity into the network. Investigation of this synaptic computation requires access to ... Read more
Presentation of Open Research Europe publishing plataform Sam Hall, from Open Research Euorpe Open Research Europe is the European Commission’s open access publishing platform for research stemming from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding. In this webinar Senior Content Acquisition Editor Sam Hall will show how the platform enables the rapid dissemination of results and ... Read more
Alexandre Esteban, Programme Manager at ”la Caixa” Foundation During the event, all the details of the new Innovation programme will be presented, with which the "la Caixa" Foundation reinforces its commitment to innovation and knowledge transfer in Spain and Portugal. This new programme will fund breakthrough technologies with high market potential.
Engineering the cancer: from biomaterials to on-chip solutions David Caballero; Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal. Cancer is a complex and multifaceted pathology, which is influenced by numerous factors, including the tumor microenvironment (TME). This environment is ... Read more
Foregrounding justice, equity and inclusion as determinants of access to precision medicine: an ethical case study of patient-derived tissue organoids. Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu, Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law from the University of Alberta, Canada. Ubaka Ogbogu is a Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law. ... Read more
Modeling immune-cancer interactions using a microfluidic 3D culture approach Charles Baroud, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France Lab head at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Cancer immunotherapy is emerging as a transformative approach for treating cancer patients. This approach, which has shown some remarkable successes, leverages the patient's own immune cells to locate and attack the tumor ... Read more
Cellular footprints : examples of emergent memory effects in cell migration. Raphael Voituriez, Laboratoire Jean Perrin / Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée CNRS / Sorbonne Université Living cells actively migrate in their environment to perform key biological functions—from unicellular organisms looking for food to single cells such as fibroblasts, leukocytes or cancer ... Read more
Making Science Work for Refugees and Refugees Work for Science Prof Anthony J. Ryan, OBE, University of Sheffield, UK At Zaatari refugee camp, 80,000 people face daily struggles that many of us cannot imagine are squeezed into six square kilometres. With highly qualified jobs at home, they are forcibly unemployed at the camp but embody ... Read more
Protein interactions gone awry in neurodegenerative disease Danny Hatters, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences The University of Melbourne, Australia The Hatters lab studies impacts of protein misfolding and aggregation in cultured cell models of neurodegenerative diseases. We have developed approaches to examine principles governing how proteins inappropriately ... 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