“Un robot tiene que portarse de forma agradable”
PhD student Xavier Giralt was interviewed for the ‘Gente corriente’ section on the back page of Saturday’s El Periódico.
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Severo Ochoa finalists gather in Madrid
The MICINN meeting in Madrid which invited the directors of the Severo Ochoa shortlist was featured on the lunchtime news bulletin Telediario on national TV channel 1 yesterday (pictured) and appeared in several newspapers.
“NEUROchem’s new avenues to chemical sensing”
The Neurochem project, Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing, has been featured in the July edition of the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies in Europe) newsletter which is published by the European Commission.
The power of AFM
The end of July is the abstract submission deadline for the International Meeting on AFM in Life Sciences and Medicine (AFM BioMed), to be held in Paris on 23-27 August, for which IBEC group leader Daniel Navajas is on the organizing committee.
Identifying an essential interaction for epilepsy
Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) describe a major step towards the understanding of epilepsy in a paper published in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
In the study, the researchers shed new light on the importance of a neuronal protein known as PrPc, which performs a number of physiological functions in many neural processes. When mutated or misfolded, the pathogenic form of the protein, PrPsc, induces progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and BSE, while in epilepsy it appears that the healthy protein plays a preventative role.
Save the date: fourth IBEC Symposium to take place on 18-19 October
IBEC’s fourth annual symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine will be held on 18 October 2011, and this year for the first time the proceedings will include a day-long workshop on 19 October, Nanomedicine for healthy ageing, which will be co-organized with Biopol’H.
“L’estudi de l’efecte biomecànic sobre el cos humà”
The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group’s work and Damien Lacroix’s recent ERC grant is the subject of an article in this month’s Teraflop, the magazine of the Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya (CESCA).
IBEC passes the first stage of Severo Ochoa
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has been selected to go through to the next phase of the Ministry of Science and Innovation’s ‘Apoyo a Centros y Unidades de Excelencia Severo Ochoa’ programme, it was announced today.
“Líders en recerca: Pau Gorostiza, aportant llum a l’activitat cel·lular” (Eng)
Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group leader and ICREA professor Pau Gorostiza is featured in an interview in Recercat, the online newsletter of the Commission for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge.
“Mejorar la vida y potenciar empresas” (Eng)
An article about BioNanoMed Cat appeared in La Vanguardia’s Dinero supplement on 19 June, in which Josep Samitier and the director general of Biocat, Montserrat Vendrell, explain the aim of the IBEC-led alliance.