Molecular mechanisms that regulate the migration of Cajal-Retzius cells during brain development shown for the first time
Search Results for:
“Democratizar la ciencia, acercar la nanotecnología” (Eng)
On 16 June El Mundo published an article about Barcelona’s Festa al Parc de la Ciutadella, specifically about the NanOpinion Mobile Station which was co-organised by IBEC and IrsiCaixa, as well as the nanotechnology workshop held at IBEC the following day.
Alícia Casals on ‘Illa Robinson’, El Punt Avui TV
On Tuesday, Robotics group leader Alícia Casals was interviewed about her field of research in the programme ‘Illa Robinson’ on the TV channel El Punt Avui.
IBEC and the municipality of Sant Feliu de Guíxols join forces to create health exhibition
On Monday 16th June IBEC signed an agreement with the council of Sant Feliu de Guíxols to work together on a new museum exhibit on the history of health and medicine in Catalunya, “Curar-se en salut”.
Sant Feliu de Guíxols’ Museu d’Història will host the exhibition, which will begin with a journey through the past to the present and future of medicine.
“Ingenieros en ciencias de la vida”
In its Innovadores supplement, El Mundo devotes an article to IBEC and its three areas of application: Bioengineering for future medicine, Bioengineering for regenerative therapies, and Bioengineering for active ageing.
Marie Curie IOF for IBEC researcher
Andrea Malandrino, a postdoc in IBEC’s Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group, will spend two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship.
Andrea will work in new SAB member Roger Kamm’s Mechanobiology lab developing the “Coordination And Migration of Cells during 3D vasculogenesis” (CAMVAS) project, in which existing 3D microfluidic techniques are combined with a computational model of vasculogenesis.
IBEC’s science on show
IBEC is taking part in this year’s Festival Ciència, Tecnologia i Innovació – formerly known as the Festa de la Ciència – with several activities during the ‘Festa al Parc’ part on 14th-15th June.
From 11:00 each day, Elisabet Martí from the Nanomalaria group and Rosa Letizia Zaffino from Nanobioengineering will be teaming up with IrsiCaixa, coordinators of the EU project NanOpinion, to man the Mobile Station (pictured left) in the Espai Glorieta of the Parc de la Ciutadella.
“El físico que innova en biología”
Integrative cell and tissue dynamics group leader Xavier Trepat is profiled in El Mundo’s ‘Innovadores’ supplement today.
Josep Samitier selected as Spanish expert in bio- and nanotechnology for OECD
IBEC Director Josep Samitier is one of the four delegates for Spain nominated to take part in the new Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies (BNCT) of the OECD, which will start work in January 2015.
IBEC receives national stamp for diffusion of science
IBEC has been accepted into FECYT’s Red de Unidades de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación (UCC+i), a network of centres which have been accredited for their contribution to scientific culture.