Anna May

Anna May Masnou is the new Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB

Written by Anna May on March 28, 2017. Posted in Group activities, News.

Anna May, postdoc in our group, is from now on the new Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB. Anna holds a PhD in Materials Science and Technology and is currently studying a postgraduate course in Science Communication.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations. — Anne Roe (The Making of a Scientist (1953), 17)

We wish her all the luck in this new endeavour!

News at ICMAB webpage here.

Lab cleaning day in the lab!

Written by Anna May on March 27, 2017. Posted in Group activities, News.

Last Friday all the group was involved in the lab cleaning day! That means that we also changed lab manager. Sole Roig is from now on the lab manager, instead of Qianzhe Zhang. Good luck!

After the lab cleaning we had some nice pizzas all together. Team building!

Miquel Torras multipremiat per les Societats Catalanes de Química i de Física pel seu treball final de grau

Written by Anna May on March 24, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

Miquel Torras, membre del N&N Group, ha guanyat el Premi de la Societat Catalana de Química (per a estudiants) de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) a la Convocatòria dels Premis Sant Jordi 2017, i una menció honorífica al Premi Jordi Porta i Jué de la Societat Catalana de Física (per a estudiants).

El treball d’investigació presentat va ser el seu treball final de grau (TFG) “Nanomaterials amb propietats magnètiques i plasmòniques: nanotriangles d’or decorats amb nanopartícules d’òxid de ferro superparamagnètiques” supervisat per Anna Roig.

Els premis seran lliurats a la Sala Prat de la Riba de l’IEC el dia 21 d’abril a les 12 hores.

En Miquel Torras va realitzar el seu TFG durant el primer semestre del 2016. Actualment està cursant el màster a la UB en “Química de Materials Aplicada” i ha tornat al N&N Group per realitzar el treball de màster.

Estem molt contents per aquests premis! Esperem que els gaudeixis, Miquel!

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The languages of the N&N Group

Written by Anna May on March 21, 2017. Posted in Group activities, News.

Our group is multilingual! Look what appeared this morning in our whiteboard!

Catalan, Spanish, Euskera, English, Arabic, Polish and Chinese!

Apply now for the Scientific Summer School on Materials for Biomedical Applications – June 19-22, 2017

Written by Anna May on March 17, 2017. Posted in Conferences, News.

ICMAB organizes the summer school “Materials for Biomedical Applications”, which will present the design, development and application of new materials for a wide range of biomedical applications. The summer school is addressed to last year undergraduate, master and PhD students.

The school includes lectures from international and local speakers, hands on and management activities. As a consequence, this scientific school is an optimal opportunity to discover, learn and practise on material science focusing on fundamental science and applied research in the field of biomedicine.

The local organizing committee is formed by Arantzazu González, Anna Laromaine, Rosario Núñez, Jose Vidal-Gancedo and Gerard Tobias.

Application deadline: May 21, 2017
Places available: 50
Registration fee: 100 € (Scholarships available! Send your CV and motivation letter to matbio2017@icmab.es)
Flyer here
Webpage here

Zhongrui Luo presented a poster and Anna Laromaine gave a talk at the VI Spanish Worm Meeting in Valencia

Written by Anna May on March 13, 2017. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Laromaine and Zhongrui Luo attended last week the VI Spanish Worm Meeting in Valencia (Spain), a biennial gathering of the scientific communitiy working with C. elegans. This meeting covers a wide range of topics, including development, neurobiology, aging and disease, metabolism and new technologies applied to C. elegans.

Anna gave the talk on “Evaluation of albumin pre-coated SPIONS in cell culture and C. elegans“ (Laura González-Moragas, Si-Ming Yu, Maria Milla, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine) on Friday 10th March.

Luo presented the poster “Evaluation of the nano-bio interactions between Au-NPs and Caenorhabditis elegans“ (Laura González-Moragas, Zhongrui Luo, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine). It was his first time in Valencia and he really enjoyed the meeting!

Anna Roig will participate in a PhD Thesis Committee at Universitat Jaume I (Castelló de la Plana)

Written by Anna May on March 10, 2017. Posted in Group activities, News.

Anna Roig will participate this Monday 13th March in a Ph.D. Thesis Committee at Universiat Jaume I in Castelló de la Plana (País Valencià).

The thesis, written by Francisco Gonell Gómez, is entitled “Design of new nanomaterials for their use in catalysis and photochemistry”.

The Ph.D. Supervisors are Beatriz Julián López, Tenure Professore of Inorganic Chemistry at Universitat Jaume I, and Avelino Corma Canós, Research Professor at Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ-CSIC).

Anna Laromaine and Zhongrui Luo participate in the VI Spanish Worm Meeting in Valencia

Written by Anna May on March 8, 2017. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna and Luo will attend on 9th-10th March the VI Spanish Worm Meeting in Valencia (Spain).

Anna will give the talk on “Evaluation of albumin pre-coated SPIONS in cell culture and C. elegans“ on Friday, 10th March, at 9 am.

Luo will present the poster on “Evaluation of the nano-bio interactions between Au-NPs and Caenorhabditis elegans“ (Laura González-Moragas, Zhongrui Luo, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine).

The Spanish Worm Meeting (SWM) is a biennial gathering of the scientific communitiy working with C. elegans. It covers a wide range of topics, including development, neurobiology, aging and disease, metabolism and new technologies applied to C. elegans.

In the website www.gusano.info you can find information about previous Spanish Worm Meetings and resources related to C. elegans (research groups, wormbase, wormbook, etc.).

We hope they enjoy the meeting!

ICMAB news: Anna Laromaine representing the CSIC at NanoTech 2017 in Tokyo

Written by Anna May on March 7, 2017. Posted in Conferences, News.

**Anna Laromaine** (*NN Group, ICMAB-CSIC*), **Pedro Serena** (*Delegate of the CSIC in the Community of Madrid)* and **Javier Maira** (*Head of the Technology Marketing Unit of the CSIC*)

The participation of Anna Laromaine at NanoTech 2017 (International Nanotechnology Exhibition and Conference) in Tokyo has appeared at the ICMAB website.

Anna could present there the patent “Method for the regeneration of plant tissues” developed by ICMAB-CSIC and CRAG (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics) to several companies.