HAPPY SANT JORDI!!!
Girls from the group had a wonderful surprise when receiving each one a nice red rose.
THANK YOU GUYS!!!!
Winter Storm 2nd in the ranking of the ICMAB Photo contest
The image taken by Siming and tunned by Anna L was voted as the 2nd best one in the category of scientific images.
TV3 talks about our endothelial cells project!
We are thrilled that the Catalan channel, TV3, has highlighted our experiment to visualize full human endothelial cells labeled with iron oxide nanoparticles carried out at the synchrotron ALBA.
You can see the video here.
WELCOME TO LAURA GONZALEZ!
Laura has joined the group to pursue a PhD in nanomedicine under the supervision of Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig. She has been granted a FPU scholarship thanks to an excellent academic record. Laura obtained a degree in Pharmacy from the Universitat de Barcelona in July 2012.
Welcome to Elena Taboada!
Elena is a former group member that has just initiated a professional career in a private sector with a young high-tech company. Prior to that, she will spend a two month visiting internship in our group. Very nice to have you back!
Anna Roig attended the scientific kick-off meeting of the COST ACTION on Hybrid Interfaces (HINT)
The meeting took place in Bordeaux on the 2nd and 3rd of April 2013. It was the first opportunity that the participants could exchange information on their competences and running projects.
To know more on the action you can visit: http://www.cost-hint.cnrs.fr
Congratulations to OsmoBlue!
Anna Laromaine, member of our group, is one of the founders of OsmoBlue. This start- up company based in Lausanne is one of the winners of the Fondo de Emprendedores de la Fundación Repsol 2012. Fondo de Emprendedores helps economically and provides mentorship to young companies in energy efficiency topics. This week the Prince of Asturias joined and congratulated all the winners in Madrid.
We wish luck to OsmoBlue!
We welcome Maria as a new group member
Maria is a biochemist that obtained a Phd in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB. She joints us to be our expert in cell culture studies. She will work in several group projects but very directly in the European Commission funded project “Interactions in Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro environments of Nanoparticles and Cells” lead by Anna Laromaine.
Anna Roig attended the Hybrid Materials 2013 Conference
The conference was held in Sorrento, Italy, from 3rd to 7th March 2013. Each day started will a Plenary Lecture followed by 3 parallel symposia:
Symposium A: Biohybrids and biomaterials;
Symposium B: Functional hybrid nanomaterials, nanocomposites and their applications;
Symposium C: Functional porous materials.
Plenary speakers:
Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
C. Jeffrey Brinker, University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USAPeter Fratzl, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung (MPIKG), Gölm, Germany
Clément Sanchez, Collège de France, Paris, France
Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nortwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
First images of human endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) obtained at synchrotron ALBA
Researchers from the VHIR and our group obtained first images of human endothelial progenitor cells by Transmission Soft X-ray Microscopy at ALBA Synchrotron.
The experiment, performed at the MISTRAL beamline leaded by Dr. Eva Pereiro, allowed us to image whole Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPC) containing iron oxide nanoparticles by perfoming X-ray cryo-tomography.
The experiment was undertaken by Estela Serra, Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig from our group and Anna Rosell from the Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Institut de Recerca Hospital Vall d’Hebron (VHIR).
Read more:
http://www.vhir.org/salapremsa/mitjans/mitjans_detall.asp?any=2013&num=52&mv1=5&mv2=1&Idioma=ca
