Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

Biennal Ciutat i Ciència
2019-02-07 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Madrid) | Fossat Mercat de Sant Antoni, Comte d'Urgell, 1, Barcelona, 08011, Spain
VINE A BALLAR SWING!

Perquè el millor que pots fer per viure més i millor és cuidar-te i tenir hàbits saludables, aquí tens una proposta fantàstica per passar-t’ho bé i escoltar swing fet a casa nostra. T’animes també a ballar?
La banda Swing Flamingos ens oferirà un repertori amb aquell ritme que se’ns fica a dins, ens posa la pell de gallina i ens arrossega a ballar mentre perdem el món de vista. Acompanyats de ballarins de les associacions BallaSwing, SwingCat, Swingmaniacs, Bcnswing i Skankthebaby, podràs gaudir de bona música mentre balles a ritme de swing!

JIPI VII - the Conference of Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Researchers
2019-02-04 08:00 - 21:00 | Edificio Histórico, UB, c/Diputació 228, Barcelona, Spain
The 7th edition of the Conference of Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Researchers (known by its Spanish acronym as JIPI) has extended its abstract submission deadline to next Friday, 11th of January, 2019 and its attendance registration deadline to Saturday, 19th of January, 2019.
This conference has become a meeting point for all predoctoral researchers in Catalonia. It offers the possibility to meet researchers of many other fields, learn about their interests and put ideas in common. The conference consists on a series of short talks (flash talks) divided in various sessions along the event. The fields addressed go from Physics or Engineering to Medicine, Sociology or Philology, as in the previous editions, and we welcome all fields of knowledge! You can also present your research as a poster during one of our coffee breaks. You can find all the information in our website. Additionally, some debates, networking activities and workshops will take place during the day.
The 7th JIPI will be held on Monday February the 4th at the Paranymph of the historical building of the University of Barcelona at Universitat Square (Metro stop: Universitat L1/L2). Attendance to the meeting is free and open to any PhD candidate and registration is required either for just attending to the event or if you want to contribute with a flash talk or present a poster.
More information, including the registration form and selection criteria can be found at our website (www.jipi.cat/en).
For any doubts or comments, please contact us at jipi@jipi.cat or through our twitter account @jipi_bcn.

JIPI VII - the Conference of Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Researchers
2019-02-04 08:00 - 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, c/Diputació 228, Barcelona, Spain

IBEc Seminar: Dr Ben Goult
2019-02-01 10:00 - 23:00 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Title to be confirmed
Dr Ben Goult
More information soon

HealthTECH World Cancer day
2019-02-01 10:00 | Espacio AECC Barcelona, Travessera de les Corts, 268 , Barcelona, Spain
HealthTECH World Cancer day es un evento organizado en el marco del Día Mundial del Cáncer donde se darán a conocer las últimas innovaciones en materia de NANOMEDICINA contra el CÁNCER, con temas que van desde el diagnóstico precoz, la liberación controlada de fármacos o la radioterapia con nanopartículas.
Durante esta jornada, expertos en NANOMEDICINA de diferentes campos -investigadores, empresarios, médicos oncólogos, autoridades sanitarias, pacientes, etc.-, expondrán los últimos avances y nos darán la oportunidad de descubrir el generador de progreso que la NANOMEDICINA significa para la salud como creador de nuevas oportunidades en el diagnóstico y el tratamiento del cáncer.
Programa del evento
Más información y registro

IBEC Seminar: Dominque Martínez, Lorraine Laboratory of Research in Informatics and its Applications - CNRS
2019-01-11 10:00 - 11:00 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Neural computations of olfactory navigation
Dominque Martínez, Lorraine Laboratory of Research in Informatics and its Applications – CNRS
I will present my work in computational neuroscience and neuro-robotics aiming at understanding the odour-guided behaviour of animals, especially insects. At the application level, the challenge is to create innovative olfactory sensors and robots that reproduce certain aspects of animal behaviour. A virtuous circle is created where biological models benefit from robotic experiments and inspire them in return. The most demonstrative result concerns a hybrid robot with insect antennae as biosensors for the detection and localization of chemical sources. If time allows, I will also present another project carried out at our laboratory about modelling the brain oscillatory activity in Parkinson’s disease.

Dominque is a visiting researcher in the Signal and information processing for sensing systems group at IBEC

PhD Thesis Defence: Gizem Altay
2018-12-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2018-12-03 08:00 - 17:00 | 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

Scanning Tiny Biology
2018-12-12 09:30 - 15:30 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Scanning Tiny Biology is a workshop dedicated to life sciences and nanomedicine applications of Scanning Probe Microscopies (SPM).
These techniques provide quantitative information from local and single-molecule measurements, unveiling signatures that are normally obscured by the ensemble average in bulk experiments. With SPM, specific biological mechanisms can be elucidated, providing novel solutions for healthcare.
This meeting will give an overview on advances in the field through keynote presentations and discussions, joining national and international experts. Topics include the study of biophysics of molecules, membranes and cells combining imaging and spectroscopy measurements.
Who should attend? Chemists, physicists, biologists, biophysicists, nanotechnologists and any other curious scientists.
Organizing committee:
Marina Inés Giannotti, IBEC
Anna Lagunas, IBEC
For more details and to register, visit http://events.ibecbarcelona.eu/scanning-tiny-biology/

Scanning Tiny Biology
2018-12-12 08:00 - 17:00 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Scanning Tiny Biology is a workshop dedicated to life sciences and nanomedicine applications of Scanning Probe Microscopies (SPM).
These techniques provide quantitative information from local and single-molecule measurements, unveiling signatures that are normally obscured by the ensemble average in bulk experiments. With SPM, specific biological mechanisms can be elucidated, providing novel solutions for healthcare.
This meeting will give an overview on advances in the field through keynote presentations and discussions, joining national and international experts. Topics include the study of biophysics of molecules, membranes and cells combining imaging and spectroscopy measurements.
Who should attend? Chemists, physicists, biologists, biophysicists and nanotechnologists and any other curious scientist.
Organizing committee:
Marina Inés Giannotti, IBEC
Anna Lagunas, IBEC

PhD Discussions Sessions: Martí Checa and Javier Rodríguez
2018-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Nanoscale Dielectric Imaging by 3D-Electrostatic Force Microscopy
Martí Checa, Nanoscale bioelectrical characterization
We present Electrostatic Force Volume Microscopy (EFVM) for nanoscale dielectric imaging. EFVM is a new 3D-SPM technique, based in the acquisition of electrostatic force approach curves at each point of a sample and its post-processing and quantification to obtain both Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM) images and dielectric constant maps. We show that with a single set of EFVM data one can obtain EFM images in all currently available EFM imaging modes (e.g. constant height, lift mode, constant electric force, etc.) and at any desired tip-sample distance or electric force set point. EFVM enables, in addition, obtaining EFM images under acquisition settings that cannot be implemented in any existing EFM instrument. Finally, EFVM allows obtaining maps of the dielectric constant of the sample with unparalleled accuracy and spatial resolution, irrespectively of the sample topography. We report applications of EFVM to thin oxide films, silver nanowires and single bacterial cells to show the broad applicability of the technique. EFVM is expected to have an important impact in the nanoscale dielectric mapping of topographically complex samples in Materials and Life Sciences.

Sudden cardiac death risk stratification of idiopathic cardiomyopathy patients by the application of cardiovascular coupling analysis
Javier Rodríguez, Biomedical signal processing and interpretation
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most common cause of death. Early detection of patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is still an issue. The aim of this study was to analyze the cardio-vascular couplings based on heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) analysis in order to introduce new indices that allow noninvasive risk stratification in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy patients (IDC).
High-resolution electrocardiogram (ECG) and continuous noninvasive blood pressure (BP) signals were recorded from 91 IDC patients and 49 healthy subjects (CON) for 30 minutes. During a follow-up period of 2 years, 14 patients either died or suffered life-threatening complications due to their cardiac condition. From the ECG and BP signals, the beat-to-beat interval, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure values were extracted. All this new information was analyzed, in univariate and bivariate ways, using the segmented Poincaré plot analysis, the high resolution joint symbolic dynamics and the normalized short time partial directed coherence methods. Indices with statistical significance between different SCD risk levels were selected. Support vector machine (SVM) models were built in order to classify these patients by their level of SCD risk. Patients at high risk of SCD (IDCHR) presented lowered HRV and increased BPV compared to both the low risk patients (IDCLR) and the control subjects, suggesting a depression in their vagal activity and a compensation from the sympathetic activity. The coupling strength from both, the systolic and diastolic blood pressure to the cardiac activity were stronger in high risk patients. Additionally, the cardio-systolic coupling analysis revealed that the systolic influence over the heart rate gets weaker as the risk increases. The SVM IDCLR vs IDCHR model achieved 98.9% accuracy with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.96. When comparing IDC vs CON groups, 93.6% and 0.94 accuracy and AUC were obtained, respectively. In order to simulate the case were the original status of the subject is unknown, a cascade model was built fusing the aforementioned models, achieving 94.4% accuracy.
In conclusion, this study introduced a novel method of SCD risk stratification of IDC patients based on new indices from coupling analysis and non-linear HRV and BPV. We uncovered some of the complex interactions within the autonomic regulation in this type of patients.

Product development in the industry: How they think, how they work
2018-11-29 09:00 - 11:00 | IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Technology and science advance exponentially, to keep being innovative, the pharmaceutical industry opens the walls of the laboratories to enter into collaboration models with other companies and research centers to bring new treatments to market. To be more efficient, sharing risks and benefits.
Dates:
29th November. In person class sessions: 2 hours
(timetible to be determined)
Target group:
All IBEC members. Maximum 20 participants.
Trainer:
Isabel Amat
