The second edition of the Emerging Leaders in Biomedicine Symposium will take place on September 26th, 2024 at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology. This exceptional event is a collaborative effort between: Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB) Centre ... Read more
Investigating therapeutic targeting to intercellular adhesion molecule 1 through epitope, isoform, and cross-reactivity selection Author: Marco Vigo, Targeted Therapeutics and Nanodevices and Nanobioengineering group Reading date: 26/09/2024 Reading time: 10:00 Reading place: Facultat de Medicina de la Universitat de Barcelona – Aula 4.1 If you want to join online, you can connect via Teams here. ... Read more
The 17th IBEC annual Symposium brings together high-profile international experts for an open forum for interdisciplinary discussions and networking. This year the symposium is dedicated to Bioengineering for emergent and advanced therapies, one of IBEC’s three major application areas. Scientific community is invited to participate. Attendees from IBEC and abroad are welcome to present their research or projects ... Read more
Please mark your calendars! The next BMBC meeting will be held on Thursday 24th of October 2024, from 4-6:30pm at PRBB, Ramon y Cajal Room. When: Thursday, October 24th, 2024 at 16.00h Where: PRBB, "Ramon y Cajal" Room (inner square) Program (abstracts of the talks at the end this email) 16h – 16h30 Anna Aragay (Group Leader, IBMB-CSIC, Signaling Transduction Group, IBMB-CSIC) ... Read more
The nanoBio&Med2024 International Conference (www.nanobiomedconf.com) will take place in-person in Barcelona (Nov 05-07, 2024). This event is going to present again the most recent international developments in the field of Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine and will provide a platform for multidisciplinary communication, new cooperations and projects to participants from both science and industry. The call for ... Read more
News, Updates and opportunities for funding at the European Research Council (ERC) András Badacsonyi, Scientific Officer European Research Council Executive Agency The European Research Council (ERC is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. I was set up by the European Commission responding to a demand from the scientific community in 2007. The ... Read more
Thematic Network Workshop: “AI for Bioengineering” Today, healthcare technology collects a huge amount of raw data whose interpretation and analysis are beyond human capabilities. AI integration into bioengineering and personalized medicine is crucial to allow complex data analysis, to enhance predictive models, to integrate multiscale data, and to automate tasks. These capabilities are vital for ... Read more
3D architecture and mechanism of touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle Slav Bagriantsev, Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, USA Pacinian corpuscles are specialized mechanoreceptor end-organs that detect transient touch and high-frequency vibration in the skin and viscera of many vertebrates. Corpuscles have a complex cellular organization, which includes a ... Read more
Mechanical imprints of cell fate and cell competition Benoît Ladoux, Institut Jacques Monot (IJM) Paris Epithelia are communities of cells with close intercellular communications and of highly ordered coordination in their motion. Mechanical properties of epithelial tissues are important for our understanding of many vital biological processes, including homeostasis, morphogenesis, and metastasis and are tightly ... Read more
Translating fear mechanisms between humans and mice Raül Andero Galí, PhD, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Neurosciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona Sex-specific mechanisms in fear memory and extinction may explain certain neuropsychiatric disorders like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In male mice, chemogenetic silencing of centromedial amygdala (CeM)-Tac2 fibers in the lateral ... Read more