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SUMMARY:nanoBio&Med2024
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe call for abstracts is currently open (deadline: September 13\, 2024) and abstracts can be submitted online through the website. \nUpcoming Deadlines\nAbstract Submission (Oral request): September 13\, 2024\nStudent Grant (Travel bursary) Request: September 13\, 2024\nAuthor Submission Acceptance Notification: September 16\, 2024\nStudent Grant Notification: September 16\, 2024 \nEarly Bird Registration Fee: September 20\, 2024 \nAbstract Submission (Poster request): September 20\, 2024 \n  \nThe conference will offer during this week an impressive list of Invited\, Keynote & Plenary speakers.
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/nanobiomed2024/
LOCATION:Auditori Antoni Caparrós\, PCB\, Tower D\, c/Baldiri Reixac 4-8\, Barcelona\, Spain
CATEGORIES:IBEC Symposium / Conference / Congress / Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241107T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241107T163000
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SUMMARY:News\, Updates and opportunities for funding at the European Research Council (ERC)
DESCRIPTION:News\, Updates and opportunities for funding at the European Research Council (ERC) \nAndrás Badacsonyi\, Scientific Officer European Research Council Executive Agency \nThe 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 ERC’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields\, based on scientific excellence. \nThrough its long-term grants\, it provides scientific freedom and financial stability to its grantees and the reputation of excellent research. ERC projects have led to more than 200’000 articles published in scientific journals\, over 2’200 patents and other IPR applications\, and ERC grantees founded or co-founded over 400 start-ups so far. \nThe presentation will introduce ERC\, its grants and the evaluation process. I will explain the recently introduced changes in the evaluation and I will try to give some pragmatic advice to those who intend to apply for ERC funding. At the same time\, I will also clarify some misunderstandings and incorrect information about ERC evaluations. \n\nAGENDA \n15:00-15:05 – Welcome\nCommercialization & Communications Director PCB & Samuel Sánchez ICREA Professor and Group Leader Deputy Director for the Internationalization and Institutional relations IBEC. \n15:05 – 16:00 – Seminar\nNews\, updates and opportunities for funding at the ERC\, Dr. András Badacsonyi\, ERC Scientific Officer at the European Research Council Executive Agency. \n16:00 – 16:20 Q&A session \nClick here to register 
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/news-updates-and-opportunities-for-funding-at-the-european-research-council-erc/
LOCATION:Sala Félix Serratosa – PCB\, c/ Baldiri i reixac 10-12\, Barcelona\, Spain\, 08028\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Joint seminar / workshop / symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241108T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T092946
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SUMMARY:Thematic Network Workshop:  “AI for Bioengineering”
DESCRIPTION:Thematic Network Workshop: “AI for Bioengineering” \nToday\, 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 advancing biological understanding and disease management. \nIBEC “Artificial Intelligence for Bioengineering” Thematic Network (NET-AI) aims to equip IBEC researchers with knowledge about the latest machine learning (ML) techniques for bioengineering and create a specialized ML toolkit tailored for IBEC’s needs. Through a series of designed workshops\, NET-AI aims to address common challenges and integrate machine learning at IBEC. \nThe aim of this first workshop is to explore and share AI use cases and needs within IBEC groups. Each group will have the opportunity to present its AI use cases and needs. Groups willing to participate should prepare a brief presentation (10-15 min max). After the presentations\, we will engage in an open discussion to exchange ideas and identify future opportunities for collaboration and workshops. \n\nJoin us to shape the next steps in AI for bioengineering together!\nWorkshop held in the framework of the IBEC Thematic Networks. \n  \nProgramme \n09:00   –   Welcome and introduction \n09:15   –   Presentations by the network groups \n10:30   –   Coffee break \n10:50   –   Presentations by other IBEC groups \n11:45   –   Roundtable discussion \n13:00   –   Closure \n  \nRegistrer here (mandatory)\n 
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/thematic-network-workshop-ai-for-bioengineering/
LOCATION:Sala Dolors Aleu\, Cluster II\, IBEC\, Baldiri i Reixac\, Barcelona
CATEGORIES:IBEC Symposium / Conference / Congress / Workshop
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SUMMARY:IBEC Seminar: Slav Bagriantsev
DESCRIPTION:3D architecture and mechanism of touch detection in the Pacinian corpuscle \nSlav Bagriantsev\, Associate Professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology\, Yale School of Medicine\, USA \nPacinian 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 mechanoreceptor afferent surrounded by lamellar Schwann cells (LSCs) and several layers of outer core cells. How these components contribute to the sensory tuning of Pacinian corpuscles is unclear. We used Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) to determine the detailed 3D architecture of an entire Pacinian corpuscle\, including all corpuscular components\, and utilized electrophysiology to reveal the contribution of each component to touch detection. In the prevailing model\, the multilayered outer core serves as a mechanical filter that limits static and low-frequency stimuli from reaching the afferent terminal—the presumed sole site of touch detection in corpuscles. We show that the outer core is dispensable for the sensory tuning of Pacinian corpuscles to transient touch and high-frequency vibration; instead\, these properties arise from the inner core. We show that LSCs express mechanically gated ion channels and form a gap junction-coupled syncytium around the afferent terminal. By acting as additional touch sensors\, LSCs potentiate mechanosensitivity of the terminal\, which detects touch via fast inactivating ion channels. We present a new model\, in which the functional tuning of Pacinian corpuscles is enabled by an interplay between mechanosensitive LSCs and the afferent terminal in the inner core.
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/ibec-seminar-slav-bagriantsev/
LOCATION:Sala Dolors Aleu\, Cluster II\, IBEC\, Baldiri i Reixac\, Barcelona
CATEGORIES:IBEC Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241119T143000
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SUMMARY:IBEC Seminar: Benoît Ladoux
DESCRIPTION:Mechanical imprints of cell fate and cell competition\nBenoît Ladoux\, Institut Jacques Monot (IJM) Paris \nEpithelia are communities of cells with close intercellular communications and of highly ordered coordination in their motion.\nMechanical properties of epithelial tissues are important for our understanding of many vital biological processes\, including homeostasis\, morphogenesis\, and metastasis and are tightly regulated by cell-cell interactions. I will present examples highlighting the importance of mechanical forces during cell extrusion and cell competition. In the first part\, I will focus on how cell extrusion and the fate of extruding cells from epithelial tissues can be determined by mechanical stresses. In the second part\, I will show how cell competition\, a mechanism by which the expansion of one cell population leads to the elimination of another\, can be governed by the transmission of intercellular forces. Throughout the talk\, I’ll discuss the close links between mechanics and cell biology\, as well as possible analogies between physical and biological systems.
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/ibec-seminar-benoit-ladoux/
LOCATION:Sala Dolors Aleu\, Cluster II\, IBEC\, Baldiri i Reixac\, Barcelona
CATEGORIES:IBEC Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241128T120000
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SUMMARY:IBEC Seminar: Raül Andero Galí
DESCRIPTION:Translating fear mechanisms between humans and mice\nRaül Andero Galí\, PhD\, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Neurosciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona \nSex-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 posterior part of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNSTpl) impaired fear memory\, while optogenetic excitation enhanced inhibitory postsynaptic currents. In vivo calcium imaging in freely moving mice revealed a sex-dimorphic fear memory engram in the BNSTpl. In humans\, the TAC3R single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs2765) reduced CeM-BNST connectivity and impaired fear memory in men but not women. In a different study\, female mice subjected to acute stress exhibited fear extinction impairments linked to hypothalamic Pacap and Pac1R upregulation. Similar fear extinction deficits were observed in women with PTSD carriers of the PAC1R SNP (rs2267735). Together\, these studies highlight sex-differences in neural circuits regulating fear memory\, which may influence vulnerability to PTSD. \nPlease contact Silvia Pittolo if you would like to meet the speaker: spittolo@ibecbarcelona.eu
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/ibec-seminar-raul-andero-gali/
LOCATION:Sala Dolors Aleu\, Cluster II\, IBEC\, Baldiri i Reixac\, Barcelona
CATEGORIES:IBEC Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241129T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20241129T110000
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SUMMARY:Complementary Skills Session: "Science: Comedy and Communication"
DESCRIPTION:Science: Comedy and Communication\nDr Matthew Murtha\, https://drmurtha.com/ \nDr Matthew Murtha earned his PhD at Ohio State University where his work contributed to several therapies that have passed clinical trials. He completed post-docs at NYU and IBIDELL where his pioneering functional genomics techniques were used to investigate molecular causes of autism. He has since left the lab to devote himself full time to science communication.\nIn his talk\, a combination of stand up and story telling\, he’ll talk about how he came to be a scientist and then communicator and will give some tips on how to communicate sciecne and make it more understandable and attractive for a non-scientific audience. \n 
URL:https://ibecbarcelona.eu/event/complementary-skills-session-science-comedy-and-communication/
LOCATION:Sala Dolors Aleu\, Cluster II\, IBEC\, Baldiri i Reixac\, Barcelona
CATEGORIES:PhD Discussions Complementary Skills Session
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