Irene Anton

Anna Roig receives the Albus Award for her project on “Albumin iron-oxide nanocages”

Written by Irene Anton on October 10, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Projects News, Uncategorized.

On Tuesday 3rd October, Anna Roig received the Albus Award 2017, by Grifols, to develop a project on “Albumin iron-oxide nanocages”. The Awards Ceremony took place at the Grifols Museum, which is located in the same building where the Grifols company started their activities, in 1940. Every year, the Albus Program gives two Albus Awards of 50,000 € to the best two innovative ideas related to albumin and its role as a therapeutic product. The project proposals are assessed by independent reviewers. In this year’s edition, the two award recipients were Anna Roig and Dr. Karl Oettl, from the Medical University of Graz (Austria).
Good job Anna! We wish you good luck with this new project!

N&N membres working at ALBA synchrothron

Written by Irene Anton on October 9, 2017. Posted in General News, Group activities, Projects News.

Last week, our group members Luo Zhongrui, Genís Rabost and Anna Laromaine worked on the beam line MIRAS at the synchrothron ALBA in collaboration with Núria Benseny. We visualized C. elegans by FTIR and analyzed their tissues. They also had the visit of a former group member Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, who started this research line.

Journal clubs arrive at the N&N group

Written by Irene Anton on September 22, 2017. Posted in General News, Group activities.

In the weekly meeting of the N&N group we have incorporated a new activity: Journal Club!

A journal club is a group of individuals that meet regularly to critically evaluate literature, generally about a branch of science in which they are involved. The first person to formally establish a journal club was sir William Osler (a medical doctor) in 1875 who stated that his journal clubs were “for the purchase and distribution of periodicals to which we could not afford to subscribe”. Now journal clubs have evolved and extended to others disciplines and there are also on line journal clubs. So, what can we learn from journal clubs? The main objective is to learn to be critical with the papers that we read and to exchange our opinions with our colleagues. Journal clubs also help us to be up to date in the scientific development.

So far, Qianzhe and Irene have presented two different papers (on the above image). The presentations of the papers have been followed by very enriching debates.

Welcome to Michaela and Gustavo!

Written by Irene Anton on September 21, 2017. Posted in Welcome and farewell.

As the new academic course starts, we have new members in the N&N group: We welcome Michaela and Gustavo!

Michaela comes from the Czech Republic and she is going to work with Marti Gich for a short period:

I am going to study study epsilon-Fe2O3 in detail: its synthesis, properties, and applications. In the laboratory, I am going to study sol-gel process for preparation of iron oxide nanoparticles. Afterwards, the nanoparticles will be characterized by different techniques to examine their composition, structure and magnetic properties.

Gustavo is a permanent researcher of CONICET, Argentina. He will be at the ICMAB for a year in N&N group thanks to a grant from the Argentine government.

My current scientific interests are focused on magnetic colloids, dipolar interactions between particles and effects of liquid matrix solidification on the final distribution of nanoparticles as well as distribution of their anisotropy orientations. I am also interested on magnetic systems relevant to potential applications in medicine. In particular, heat dissipation for magnetic hyperthermia and magnetic induced transport for magnetofection gene therapy. At the N&N group, I will work on the synthesis and characterization of anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles as generators of magnetomechanical stimuli inside cancer cells as a new way to induce apoptotic cell death. We will work in performing insitu observation by optical microscopy of magnetic-microparticles movements induced by rotating magnetic fields.

We hope you enjoy your time at the N&N group!

Jordi Floriach-Clark awarded excellent with distinction for his Bachelor’s thesis

Written by Irene Anton on September 18, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Group activities, Welcome and farewell.

Congratulations to the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology student Jordi Floriach-Clark and his supervisor Dr. Anna Laromaine Sagué for the excellent Treball de Final de Grau (Bachelor Degree Thesis). The work was on the use of bacterial cellulose for treatments in plants: “Bacterial Cellulose and its Nanocomposites for Applications in Regeneration and Infection Control in Plants.” and was awarded with excellent and distinction by the jury.

Good job Jordi and Anna!

The video “A story on Bacterial Cellulose” among the 15 jury favourites videos in the JoVe contest

Written by Irene Anton on September 16, 2017. Posted in General News, Group activities, Science outreach.

Last June 2017, Anna May and Sole Roig filmed a video for the JoVe contest: Film your research. Although the video on entitled “A Story on Bacterial Cellulose” didn’t make it to the final, we have just received the notice that it is one of the Top 15 critically acclaimed videos by the jury!

Anna Laromaine inaugura el curs a l’INS Cassà de la Selva

Written by Irene Anton on September 15, 2017. Posted in Conferences, Group activities, Science outreach.

Aquest dijous dia 14 de setembre de 2017, l’Anna Laromaine ha donat la conferència inaugural a l’Institut de Cassà de la Selva donant el tret de sortida al nou curs. Com a antiga alumna de l’institut, ha presentat la investigació del grup N&N. També els ha animat a treballar per ser el que vulguin ser i fer realitat el títol de la xerrada: De l’INS Cassà to the world!

Irene Anton was at the 31st Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society

Written by Irene Anton on September 13, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, Group activities.

From the 3rd to the 8th of September of 2017 Irene Anton, a Ph.D. student from the N&N group, attended a big meeting of Colloids and Interfaces in Madrid (ECIS2017). The event was hosted by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Irene participated with two posters and was awarded with one of the two prizes sponsored by the journal Polymers.

Testing nanocellulose as biomaterial for epithelial regeneration

Encapsulating endothelial progenitor cells’ secretome into magnetic nanocapsules for targeted angiogenic therapies

Laura Gonzalez

Written by Irene Anton on August 31, 2017. Posted in Former Members, Uncategorized.

Ph.D. student
2013 – 2017
Thesis: Evaluating inorganic nanoparticles in the living organism Caenorhabditis elegans
Current position: Laboratoris Vinyes, Barcelona

Anna May

Written by Irene Anton on August 31, 2017. Posted in Former Members.

Postdoctoral fellow (Juan de la Cierva Researcher)
November 2015 – April 2017
Topic: Photocatalysis for hydrogen production.
Current position: Communication Officer at ICMAB

Author: Irene Anton

We hope you enjoy your time at the N&N group!

Good job Jordi and Anna!