Liver and Kidney: 3D-in vitro systems for disease modelling and biomarker discovery Prof. Laura Suter-Dick FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Life Sciences, Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics a Basel.
Imaging metabolism in neurological disorders Associate Professor in Residence, Departments of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science & Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSFInvestigator, Quantitative Bioscience Institutes (QBI)Lab website : Chaumeil Lab, UCSF Our lab works on developing and biologically validating magnetic resonance (MR)-based metabolic imaging approaches using animal models of neurological diseases (such as genetically-engineered or toxin-induced). In ... Read more
Differential migration mechanics and immune response of glioblastoma subtypes David Odde, Dept. of Biomedical Eng., U. Minnesota Glioblastoma remains a deadly cancer driven by invasion of tumor cells into the brain. Transcriptomic analyses have revealed distinct molecular subtypes, but mechanistic and targetable differences that explain clinical differences are not clear. Using a state-of-the-art immunocompetent mouse ... Read more
Peptides and bioinstructive polymers on surfaces for prevention of oral infections Conrado Aparicio, Faculty of Odontology, UIC Barcelona and Associated Researcher – IBEC Oral infections are the most prevalent infectious diseases worldwide. We have explored bioinspired modification of surfaces of restorative/regenerative materials and implants as well as dental tissues to address oral infections by harnessing ... Read more
Multicellular coordination in context Takashi Hiiragi, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands A defining feature of living systems is the capacity to break symmetry and generate well-defined forms and patterns through self-organisation. Our group aims to understand the design principle of multicellular living systems using early mouse embryos as a model system. We developed an experimental framework ... Read more
Is the price of pharmaceutical drugs justified? Astrid Viciano, IBEC 10 euros, 1000 euros, or rather 1 million? Many new medicines that have recently reached the market are prohibitively expensive. But are these prices justified? Science reporter Astrid Viciano has investigated the high prices of innovative therapies. For these investigations, she received a number of ... Read more
Epitope barcoding and subcellular high-plex imaging reveal clonal tumor patch behaviors Xavier Rovira-Clavé, PhD Intratumoral heterogeneity is a seminal feature of human tumors contributing to tumor progression and response to treatment. Current technologies are still largely unsuitable to accurately track phenotypes and clonal evolution within tumors, especially in response to genetic manipulations. In this seminar ... Read more
The role of inhibition in hippocampal coding Manuel Valero, PhD NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York University (US) The fundamental computation a single neuron performs is to integrate incoming excitatory and inhibitory inputs to decide whether to fire an action potential and feedback its activity into the network. Investigation of this synaptic computation requires access to ... Read more
Presentation of Open Research Europe publishing plataform Sam Hall, from Open Research Euorpe Open Research Europe is the European Commission’s open access publishing platform for research stemming from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding. In this webinar Senior Content Acquisition Editor Sam Hall will show how the platform enables the rapid dissemination of results and ... Read more