Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

IBEC PhD Defence: Marta Pozuelo
2017-07-18 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, Barcelona, 08028
“Bioengineering single-protein wires”
Marta Pozuelo, Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches Group
Marta will be defending her PhD thesis on Tuesday 18th July at 11:00 in the sala de graus Eduard Fontserè, Facultad de Física (UB).
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defence on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

IBEC PhD Thesis Defense: Montse López
2017-09-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, Barcelona, 08028
“Electrochemical tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of electron transfer proteins”
Montse López, Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, IBEC
Montse will be defending her PhD thesis on Tuesday September 26 at 11h in the Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Faculty of Physics.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defense on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

IBEC PhD Thesis Defence: Claudia Navarro
2017-11-20 10:15 - 12:15 | Sala d’Actes de la Facultat de Matemàtica i Estadística (FME), C. Pau Gargallo, 5, Barcelona, 08028
“Stimulation of Wound Healing and Vascularization with Calcium-Releasing Biomaterials”
Claudia Navarro, Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, IBEC
Claudia will be defending her PhD thesis on Monday November 20th at 10:15h in the Sala d’Actes, Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME).
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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IBEC PhD Thesis Defence: Agata Mata
2017-12-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Aula de Graus, Faculty of Biology, Diagonal, 643, Barcelona, Spain
“Nuevas funciones de moléculas de remodelación vascular durante el desarrollo y modulación de la corteza cerebral de ratón”
Agata Mata, Molecular and Cellular Neurobiotechnology group, IBEC
Agata will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday December 15th at 12h in the Aula de Graus in the UB’s Faculty of Biology.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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IBEC PhD thesis defence: Sergio Oller
2018-03-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, Barcelona, 08028
“Data processing for Life Sciences Measurements with Gas Chromatography – Ion Mobility Spectrometry”
Sergio Oller, Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group
Sergi will be defending his PhD thesis this Tuesday 6th March at 11h in the Sala Eduard Fontserè, Faculty of Physics, UB.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defence on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

IBEC PhD thesis defence: Laura Urrea
2018-03-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Aula de Graus, Faculty of Biology, Diagonal, 643, Barcelona, Spain
Funciones de la proteína priónica celular, a-sinucleína y Reelina en enfermedades neurodegenerativas
Laura Urrea, Molecular and cellular neurobiotechnology group
Laura will be defending her PhD thesis this Friday 16th March at 11h in the Aula de Graus, Faculty of Biology, UB.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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PhD thesis defence: Berta Gumí
2018-04-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Sala Antiga de Graus, Faculty of Physics, UB, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
“Structural organization of model membranes: a complementary approach combining atomic force microscopy and x-ray techniques”
Berta Gumí, Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group
Berta will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 27th April at 11:00 in the Sala Antiga de Graus, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defence on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD thesis defense: Marina Uroz
2018-07-05 15:00 - 17:00 | UB Faculty of Medicine, c/ Casanova 143, Barcelona, Spain
“Regulation of cell division and cell cycle progression by cell-cell and cell-matrix forces”
Marina Uroz, Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group
Marina will be defending her PhD thesis on Thursday 5th July at 15:00 at the UB’s Faculty of Medicine (Hospital Clinic), room 1.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defense on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD thesis defense: Diogo Pata Santos
2018-07-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Tànger building, UPF: Campus del Poblenou, Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona, 08018, Spain
“The dynamics of hippocampal coding: beyond the spatial metaphor”
Diogo Pata Santos, SPECS group
Diogo will be defending his PhD thesis on Tuesday 10th July at 16:00 in Sala 55.003 (planta baixa) of the Tànger building, UPF Campus del Poblenou.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defense on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD thesis defense: Jaideep Katuri
2018-09-20 11:30 - 13:30 | Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, Barcelona, 08028
Guiding active particles through surface interactions
Jaideep Katuri, Smart nano-bio-devices group
Jaideep will be defending his PhD thesis on Thursday 20th September at 11:30 in the Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré of the UB’s Faculty of Physics.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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PhD Thesis Defence: Jemish Parmar
2018-10-05 11:30 - 13:30 | Sala Antiga de Graus, Faculty of Physics, UB, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
Micromotors for Environmental Applications
Jemish Parmar, Smart nano-bio-devices group
Jemish will be defending his PhD thesis on Friday 5th October at 11:30 in the Sala Antiga de Graus of the UB’s Faculty of Physics.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defense on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD Thesis Defence: Joan Martí Muñoz
2018-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Sala d’Actes de la Facultat de Matemàtica i Estadística (FME), C. Pau Gargallo, 5, Barcelona, 08028
Chemical design and validation of Ca 2+ -releasing platforms to promote vascularization in tissue regeneration
Joan Martí Muñoz, Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group
Joan will be defending his PhD thesis on Wednesday 14th November at 12:00 in the Sala d’Actes of the UPC’s Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística, Campus Diagonal Sud, Carrer de Pau Gargallo.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defence on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD Thesis Defence: Gizem Altay
2018-12-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Aula Magna Enric Casassas, Facultat de Química, UB, Carrer Martí i Franquès, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Towards the development of biomimetic in vitro models of intestinal epithelium derived from intestinal organoids
Gizem Altay, Biomimetic systems for cell engineering group
Gizem will be defending her PhD thesis on Thursday 20th December at 11:00 in the Aula Magna Enric Casassas of the Facultat de Física i Química at the UB.
Everybody is welcome to attend.
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If you’re an IBEC PhD student and would like to advertise your PhD defence on the IBEC calendar, please contact vleigh@ibecbarcelona.eu

PhD Thesis defence: Klaudia Grechuta
2019-07-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Campus Poblenou
“Grounding body ownership and language in action: evidence from Healthy and damaged brains”
Klaudia Grechuta, Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems (SPECS) group
Klaudia Grechuta be defending her PhD thesis in the Sala 55.309 (tercera planta) Edifici Tànger, Campus del Poblenou on Friday 5th July 2019 at 11:00am.
Everyone is warmly invited to attend.
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PhD Thesis defence: Javier Burgués
2019-07-09 11:30 - 13:30 | Sala de Graus Eduard Fontseré, Martí i Franquès, 1-11, Barcelona, 08028
“Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Gas Sensors: Gas Source Localization with a Nano-Drone”.
Javier Burgués, Signal and information processing for sensing systems group
Chemical source localization (CSL) by autonomous robots has been a topic of research since the early 1990s and still today remains elusive beyond simple scenarios. It has numerous potential applications, such as the localization of toxic emissions, malodors, gas leaks and hazardous substances in general, without risking human lives. An intuitive CSL approach is to mimic the known chemo-orientation behaviour of some flying insects, such as moths and mosquitos, which effectively use odor plumes for mating and foraging. However, terrestrial robots are too slow to perform insect-like movements and the response time and limit of detection (LOD) of current odor sensors for key compounds of biological relevance for plume navigation is orders of magnitude higher than in biological chemoreceptors. Instead of using a slow terrestrial robot equipped with complex instrumentation, in this thesis we address the CSL problem with a nano-drone, i.e. a miniaturized aerial robot, equipped with a simple metal oxide semiconductor (MOX) sensor. Improving key specifications of MOX sensors for this application is one of the core parts of this thesis. Specifically, we introduce novel signal processing methods for estimating and optimizing the LOD, reducing the power consumption and improving the response time. We propose a univariate LOD optimization method based on linearized calibration models and a multivariate approach based on orthogonal partial least squares (O-PLS). To improve the response time, we use high-frequency features extracted from the MOX signal derivative, which are optimized for changing wind conditions and real-time operation. A novel setup consisting on a 3D grid of MOX sensors is proposed for real-time visualization of the gas distribution. Two map-based CSL strategies are finally evaluated using the nano-drone in experiments performed in a large indoor environment (160 m2) where a chemical source is placed in challenging positions for the drone. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed nano-drone can quickly (< 3 min) build a rough gas distribution map (3D) of the environment and localize the main chemical source within it with small errors.
