On May 6th, Roser Cussó, the artist in residence at IBEC, will be offering a scientific illustration workshop designed for participants of all ages (starting from 7 years old). This is an open session available to everyone, where you will have the chance to explore the creative process that Roser followed during her project "Laboratori ... Read more
This event is open to all undergraduate and master students interested in a research career. The day is a chance for you to talk to our researchers and ask them questions about their day-to-day work in the lab, career paths, work-life balance, mobility etc. In 2022 IBEC signed more than 165 internship agreements for Undergraduate ... 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
30 DE MAYO DE 2023 · INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III La jornada «Innovación multidisciplinar en medicina personalizada» es un evento organizado en el marco del Plan Complementario de Biotecnología aplicada a la Salud. Durante el evento se presentarán las principales líneas de trabajo del Plan, que abarcan temas que van desde el uso y ... 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
On 6th of June we will celebrate that we are the first research center in Spain to certify its laboratories as sustainable by My Green Labs. Since the publication of the IBEC Strategy to promote sustainability in research in 2021, IBEC has been working to make the work in the labs and in the institute more sustainable. ... Read more
The purpose of the AFPM conference series is to strengthen the interactions within the community of chemists, material engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians in the development of Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine. The current status, challenges and requirements for future developments of polymers for medicine are presented by leading experts. The conference provides an outstanding opportunity ... Read more
From Lab to Clinic: An Overview of IBEC's Clinical Mentoring Programme Do you know what IBEC’s Clinical Mentoring Programme is about? Have you considered participating in it? In this Complementary Skills session, Anna Gassol and Georgina Sorrosal from Col·legi official de Metges (COMB) together with Cristina Arimany from the Strategic Initiatives department at IBEC will ... Read more
Natural Strategies for Solar Light Harvesting Professor of Biophysics, Photosynthesis and Energy at Department of Physics of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In this presentation I will introduce the fundamental processes of light harvesting in photosynthetic organisms and discuss their remarkable abilities to adapt and acclimate to diverse light conditions. Photosynthetic organisms have evolved sophisticated ... Read more