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ERC Starting Grant concedida al Dr. Pau Gorostiza
El Dr. Pau Gorostiza, cap del grup de recerca en Nanosondes i nanocommutadors de l’IBEC, ha rebut una Starting Grant de l’ERC per estudiar la neurosecreció per control remot d’exocitosi i endocitosi amb llum.
The Nanobioengineering group’s research in El Periódico
Last Monday 14 January, the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya highlighted the importance of research into stem cells for therapeutic applications, and specifically the research carried out at IBEC by the research group led by Prof. Josep Samitier, which studies micro/nanosystems for biomedical applications.
Great success of the IBEC Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Symposium 2007
On November 7, 2007, the public presentation of the IBEC was held within the framework of the IBEC Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Symposium 2007. The event took place at the Antoni Caparrós Auditorium in the Parc Científic de Barcelona, with an excellent attendance of about 180 professionals.
Presentation of IBEC in La Vanguardia
Regarding the IBEC Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Symposium 2007 held last November 7, in which the Institute was presented in public, the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia published the following news in its printed edition on November 8.
IBEC in Spanish newspaper Expansión
Under the headline ‘El Institut de Bioenginyeria tendrá 150 investigadores’, the Spanish newspaper Expansión published an article on the IBEC presentation last November 7 in its printed edition on November 8.
Interview with Josep A. Planell in El Mundo
On 16 September, the newspaper El Mundo published an interview with IBEC director Josep A. Planell in its Biotechnology supplement.
IBEC’s group on Bionanophotonics publishes article on cover page of ChemPhysChem
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 textbook Molecular Cell Biology selects a figure from a nanobioengineering researcher at IBEC
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, best poster award at the ESF-EMBO Symposium in Sant Feliu de Guixols
Ruth Diez-Ahedo, PhD student at IBEC, has received the best poster award for her poster entitled “Tailored ICAM-1 patterned surfaces to study the nano-scale organisation of the adhesion receptor LFA-1”, granted by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Symposium on Biological Surfaces and interfaces that took place in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, from July 1-6, 2007.