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IBEC’s Bionanophotonics research line, led by Prof. María García-Parajo, together with researchers from Mesa+ Institute for Technology of the University of Twente (The Netherlands), the Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences (The Netherlands) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona) have been given the cover page of the July 16 ChemPhysChem issue (Volume 8 Issue 10).

The prestigious reference textbook Molecular Cell Biology (Lodish et al.) has selected for its 6th edition (2008) a figure from the researcher at the nanobioengineering laboratory at the IBEC, Dr. Xavier Fernández-Busquets. Thanks to this important recognition of scientific excellence, the IBEC is the only Spanish institution appearing in the acknowledgements of the textbook, out of a total of 150 universitites and research centres.

Ruth Diez-Ahedo, doctoranda en el IBEC, ha recibido el premio al mejor póster titulado «Tailored ICAM-1 patterned surfaces to study the nano-scale organisation of the adhesion receptor LFA-1», concedido por el European Science Foundation (ESF) y European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Symposium on Biological Surfaces and Interfaces que se celebró en Sant Feliu de Guíxols del 1 al 6 de julio de 2007.

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia launches its new web site, a new communication tool for IBEC intended to open a door to knowledge regarding bioengineering and aiming to act as an international reference.

IBEC organises the  2nd European Meeting on Cell Mechanics on September 26-28, 2007 at Sala Agora in Cosmocaixa (Barcelona).

The 13th European Congress on Biotechnology will take place at Palau de Congressos in Barcelona from 16 to 19 September 2007.