IBEC Seminar

Biomaterials for cancer study and accelerate wound healing Dr. Andy Tay , Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Magnetic hydrogels are materials containing magnetic microparticles which help transduce magnetic fields into mechanical forces. In the presence of a static magnet, the stiffness of magnetic hydrogels can be altered to investigate the reversible ... Read more

Supercomputer-based virtual humans: the future of medicine NOW Mariano Vázquez, ELEM Biotech & Barcelona Supercomputing Center In this talk we are going to address the potential of supercomputer-based virtual humans for the biomedical realm. Virtual Humans are computational "avatars" of a patient, which combines data with a mathematical model which are used to predict (as opposed ... Read more

New technologies for accelerating drug discovery and preclinical testing Maria Majellaro, Chief Scientific Officer of Celtarys. Abi J Vazquez. Co-founder and COO of DIVERSA Technologies SL. Bruno K Rodiño-Janeiro, Chief Scientific Officer of BFlow.   Celtarys, DIVERSA and BFlow belong to the Galician biotechnology ecosystem and are dedicated to provide cutting-edge technologies applied in different ... Read more

Conserved nucleocytoplasmic density homeostasis drives cellular organization across eukaryotes Simone Reber, Max Planck Institut for Infection Biology, Berlin (invited by Pere Roca-Cusachs) The packing and confinement of macromolecules in the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm has profound implications for cellular biochemistry. How intracellular density distributions vary and affect cellular physiology remains largely unknown. We show that the ... Read more

Microfluidic technology enabling biomedical applications Jaap den Toonder, Microsystems Research Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology. Currently, visiting professor at IBEC, Barcelona Microfluidics is the science and technology of manipulating and analyzing fluid flow at small scales, typically from millimeters down to micrometers. At these scales, ... Read more

What can microfluidic technologies offer during self-assembly processes? Josep Puigmartí-Luis, Departament de Ciència dels Materials i Química Física, Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (invited by César Rodriguez-Emmenegger) Self-assembly has long being used to control covalent and non-covalent interactions where molecular design has been the major driving force to achieve a desired outcome. Like in ... Read more

Toward the next generation of 3D optical microscopes: faster, deeper, and label-free Martí Duocastella, Departament de Fisica Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona Three-dimensional (3D) optical microscopy is the tool of choice for characterizing the structure and dynamics of biological systems at sub-cellular resolution. However, most microscope architectures are tailored to capture two-dimensional (2D) information from moderately ... Read more

Epithelial Cell Variability is Governed by Physics Principles and Has Mechanobiology Impacts Dr. Neil Lin,  Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Biological systems inherently exhibit variability, seen in diverse cell shapes, sizes, and mechanical properties. Despite its prevalence, our understanding of the role of phenotypic heterogeneity in ... Read more

Smart artificial microcompartments: motility and communication Pavan Kumar Bosukonda, Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee   Nature is a continuous source of inspiration for the design of smart and intelligent materials. In particular, cells which are the building blocks of life display a complex symphony of various chemical/physical processes ... Read more

Reverse engineering human heart  development with pluripotent stem cells Prof. Aitor Aguirre, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering (IQ) and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University  During development, an exquisitely orchestrated series of biological processes lay down the map for the entirety of our bodies and carry it out to perfection. ... Read more