Spanning the Iberian Peninsula: joint IBEC/Porto summer school venture
Institutional news
IBEC has joined up with two Portuguese research institutes to organize a regular summer school under the general theme ‘Interrogations at the Biointerface.’
Lights, camera, action!
Spanish national TV channel RTVE are paying a visit to IBEC today to interview Ángel Raya, group leader of the Control of Stem Cell Potency group, on the subject of stem cell research for an episode of the science and technology programme ‘Tres14’.
All the fun of the fair
For the next three days IBEC scientists from the Control of Stem Cell Potency group will be introducing induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells to the people of Barcelona at the 9th “Live Research” Fair at La Pedrera.
“Keeping Catalonia’s research revolution on track”
IBEC features in a Nature Jobs advertising feature, Spotlight on Catalonia, which asks how the region is coping with Spain’s financial crisis, having fostered a successful research hub in a relatively short time.
Two papers for Nanoprobes group
IBEC researchers have found a way to measure the rate of electron transfer (ET) – an important process which is essential in many chemical and biological processes such as cellular respiration and photosynthesis – at the single-molecule level.
Kick-off meeting of MY SPINE
The kick-off meeting of one of IBEC’s EU projects, MySpine, is taking place at the institute this week. The consortium partners from the Netherlands, Austria, France, Spain and Hungary have gathered to outline the work packages for ‘Functional prognosis simulation of patient-specific spinal treatment’ and discuss the plans for the next six months.
Neurochem’s Workshop on Bioinspired Computation for Chemical Sensing
Last week the University of Barcelona, as a coordinator of the EU-FP7 Neurochem Project, joined with IBEC to organize the Workshop on Bioinspired Computation for Chemical Sensing, which was held on 9-11 March at the Hotel Senator in Barcelona. The focus of the workshop was on signal processing techniques inspired by the olfactory system and computational models of the biological olfactory pathway.
3rd BOND Consortium Meeting at IBEC
The members of the BOND consortium met at IBEC at the beginning of last week for the 3rd technical meeting of the EU-funded international project.
The Bioelectronic Olfactory Neuron Device Project (BOND) is coordinated by the University of Barcelona, and seven other well-established partners from France, Italy, Ireland and the UK are also involved.
Run for the hills!
On Sunday the two representatives of the IBEC running team to take part in the Barcelona Marathon, Gabriel Gomila and Miguel Angel Mateos, completed the race within half a minute of each other.
4th Annual Conference of the Biomedical Research Technology Platforms
This week more than 200 researchers from across the country are in Madrid for the 4th Annual Conference of the Biomedical Research Technology Platforms, which includes the IBEC-managed Spanish Platform for Nanomedicine (NanoMed Spain).
