Famous for five minutes: TV3
IBEC Project manager Juan Fran Sangüesa made the news on 22 September when he was interviewed for the midday bulletin on TV3, the Catalan television channel.
Àngels López
IBEC signs agreement with Biopol’H
On Friday 17 September the directorate of IBEC attended the official signing of a Framework Agreement between the institute and the Biolpol’H consortium, a biomedical and biotechnology cluster of health care facilities, institutions, research centres and companies.
(PNAS paper for IBEC researchers)
Maria Garcia-Parajo’s group has the first major paper to appear after the summer break with their 31 August publication in PNAS of ‘Direct mapping of nanoscale compositional connectivity on intact cell membranes’.
In their research into the cell membrane, where preorganised components give rise to strategic advantages for protein function and signaling, Maria and her Single Molecule Bionanophotonics team have been looking at lipid rafts – free-floating membrane regions of proteins and lipids – and have now demonstrated their cholesterol-mediated selective connectivity at the nanoscale.
Top US researcher to deliver IBEC Seminar
The University of Pennsylvania’s Dennis Discher will be the distinguished speaker at Monday’s IBEC seminar, the first to take place after the summer break.
Collaboration between Warwick University and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Warwick University (Centre for Cognitive & Neural systems) and IBEC covering the field of Bioengineering.
Dr. Damien Lacroix elected president of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
Dr. Damien Lacroix, head of the research line Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of IBEC, has been elected president of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB). Damien Lacroix has belonged to the ESB since 1999, and been part of the council since 2004. He is author of 27 articles in specialized journals and has participated in more than 80 conferences.
Workshop ITREN-IBEC-UPC
In the framework of the collaboration agreement between IBEC and ITREN (Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering of the Dankook University in Korea) to promote joint research projects and the exchange of researchers, a group of researchers from ITREN is visiting IBEC this week.
IBEC at ESOF2010
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is holding its 2010 edition in Torino (Italy) from 2nd to 7th July. ESOF is an open platform for debate and communication for the science community and it aims at presenting Europe’s leading research trends in science.
Science Careers: Designing a Career in Biomedical Engineering
IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alícia Casals features in an online article in Science Careers magazine, the careers component of the journal Science.
Público interview with Prof. Stupp: «Soy un domador de moléculas; les encomiendo misiones»
Interview with Samuel Stupp, known worldwide for his contributions to tissue regeneration. Prof. Stupp participated with a keynote talk about this subject at the 3rd IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine. He is the director of the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine, Northwestern University, USA.