PhD Discussion sessions are open to all staff and researchers at all career stages, and are intended to help PhD students gain feedback from colleagues by presenting their research results and discussing them with each other, as well as with more experienced researchers.
Last weekend IBEC participated in Barcelona’s twelfth Festival de la Ciència with a host of activities.Kicking off IBEC’s proceedings on Saturday morning were some activities led by the SPECS group, starting with the workshop ‘Biomimetic Robots to Understand Our Behavior’, which offered a glimpse at the way robotics can help us study aspects of brain function, such as learning, and our behaviour. SPECS’ robot, Nao, was one of the volunteers helping to run the workshop.
Attendees could also try out the group’s Rehabilitation Gaming System, a virtual-reality tool that helps restore motor activity and cognition after a brain injury.
In a La Vanguardia feature by Josep Corbella, IBEC’s Xavier Trepat is interviewed along with IRB’s Salvador Aznar-Benitah about the important role music plays in their lives, how it has affected their careers as researchers, and about the relation and similarities between musical and scientific creativity.
Application Deadline: 06/07/2018
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The Signal and information processing for sensing systems group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Researcher candidate to work in a research project with the industry.
IBEC’s Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group has revealed the essential role played by a vitamin in the development of a common bacterial biofilm. This new knowledge could play a part in understanding the spread of these bacteria, which will help towards the better design of targeted antibacterial drugs.
P. aeruginosa bacteria cause chronic lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by forming a mature biofilm – in which cells stick to each other and can grow on many different surfaces – that lets them grow and adapt.
IBEC has launched its Master Programme to encourage students to begin a research career in our multidisciplinary research institute. The fellows will carry out research in one of IBEC’s research groups in Barcelona.
The IBEC Master Programme offers 4 fellowships with a monthly stipend of 450€ gross from January to June 2021 for fellows to perform their master thesis at IBEC. The minimum hours to be dedicated are 20h/week.
Application Deadline: 05/08/2018
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The Cellular and molecular mechanobiology group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Predoctoral candidate to work in nuclear mechanobiology
7th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
7th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
7th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems