IBEC PhD Thesis Defence: Agata Mata
“Nuevas funciones de moléculas de remodelación vascular durante el desarrollo y modulación de la corteza cerebral de ratón”
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IBEC PhD Thesis Defence: Agata Mata
“Nuevas funciones de moléculas de remodelación vascular durante el desarrollo y modulación de la corteza cerebral de ratón”
Postdoc Position in Biomaterials for regenerative therapies group
Application Deadline: 22/12/2017
Ref: PD-EE
The Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoc position to work in in vivo models for biomaterials development. Research in the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group is devoted to the development and knowledge transfer to industry of innovative biomaterials and scaffolds for tissue regeneration.
“Un músculo en un chip”
Javier Ramon’s ‘muscle-on-a-chip’ that will use a patient’s own cells to study Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common form of muscular dystrophy, is the subject of an article in El Periodico today.
Cells feel their environment to explore it
The way cells find their way around is by ‘groping’ rather than seeing their surroundings: this is the main conclusion of a study published in Nature last week involving several IBEC groups and their collaborators.
“We determined how cells detect the position of molecules (or ligands) in their environment with nanometric accuracy,” explains Pere Roca-Cusachs, group leader at IBEC and assistant professor at the University of Barcelona, who led the study. “By adhering to the ligands, the cells apply a force they can detect. As this force depends on the spatial distribution of the ligands, this allows the cells to ‘feel’ their surroundings. It’s like recognizing somebody’s face in the dark by touching it with your hand, rather than seeing the person.”
Tècnic/a Innovació i Desenvolupament
Application Deadline: 19/12/2017
Ref: ID-MA
L’Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) requereix incorporar un/-a Tècnic/a d’Innovació i Desenvolupament per a la Unitat de Core Facilities per el desenvolupament d’un projecte de Caixaimpulse (3DBIOCORES: tissue-like structures for càncer diagnosis) en col·laboració amb l’Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. L’Institut està ubicat dins el Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), en un entorn en el qual convergeixen la recerca pública de primera qualitat i el sector privat en un estimulant ambient de primera línia científica.
Deciphering cell language
New insights into the intercellular communications mechanism that regulates cell repositioning leads the way towards the development of targeted therapies in regenerative medicine
Understanding the language of cells in order to redirect them when necessary: this is one possibility unveiled by researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Barcelona (CMR[B]), led by Dr. Samuel Ojosnegros, who describe in their latest paper the intercellular communications mechanism involved in cell relocation.
The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out in collaboration with the groups of Elena Martínez (IBEC) and Melike Lakadamyali (ICFO), among others. The fruitful collaboration also gave rise to the publication of work by Verónica Hortigüela, former PhD student in Elena’s group, who bioengineered a nanopatterning strategy that provides control over this communication mechanism.
PhD Position in Biosensing for Bioengineering
Application Deadline: 20/12/2017
Ref: PH-JR
The Biosensing for Bioengineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)is looking for a Predoctoral Researcher in order to participate in the project Diabetes Approach by Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip (DAMOC). This position will be funded by the “ERC Starting Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC).
IBEC researchers make an electrical contact out of a single protein
IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group have designed a single-protein electrical contact which can efficiently transfer an electrical charge.
Through a subtle mutation in a copper protein which is responsible for various metabolic redox processes in the bacterium Pseudomona aeruginosa, they managed to control the transport of electrons in the biomolecule.
“ERC: Getting into the lab with the latest winners”
