Conserved nucleocytoplasmic density homeostasis drives cellular organization across eukaryotes Simone Reber, Max Planck Institut for Infection Biology, Berlin (invited by Pere Roca-Cusachs) The packing and confinement of macromolecules in the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm has profound implications for cellular biochemistry. How intracellular density distributions vary and affect cellular physiology remains largely unknown. We show that the ... Read more

Microfluidic technology enabling biomedical applications Jaap den Toonder, Microsystems Research Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology. Currently, visiting professor at IBEC, Barcelona Microfluidics is the science and technology of manipulating and analyzing fluid flow at small scales, typically from millimeters down to micrometers. At these scales, ... Read more

What can microfluidic technologies offer during self-assembly processes? Josep Puigmartí-Luis, Departament de Ciència dels Materials i Química Física, Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (invited by César Rodriguez-Emmenegger) Self-assembly has long being used to control covalent and non-covalent interactions where molecular design has been the major driving force to achieve a desired outcome. Like in ... Read more

Toward the next generation of 3D optical microscopes: faster, deeper, and label-free Martí Duocastella, Departament de Fisica Aplicada, Universitat de Barcelona Three-dimensional (3D) optical microscopy is the tool of choice for characterizing the structure and dynamics of biological systems at sub-cellular resolution. However, most microscope architectures are tailored to capture two-dimensional (2D) information from moderately ... Read more