The N&N Group at the Campus Gutenberg for scientific communication and culture

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gutenbAnna May and Irene Anton have attended the Campus Gutenberg for scientific communication and culture during September 12-13, at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) – Campus Mar and at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). 

The conference consisted of some interesting debates on “How to measure the excellence and the impact of science”, “Great discoveries and controversy in the media”, or “Science museums and schools: how to develop mutual relations”. The other sessions consisted of different workshops about science, education, communication, social media, etc. A special mention to the session by Ignacio Morgado (from the Institute of Neuroscience of the UAB) on “Perceptual illusions: is the world how we see it?“, in which he made the audience realize that a lot of what we see, smell, hear… is only in our brain. 

Fix the eye for one minute in the cross on the top-left side of the picture, and then move the eye to the right side. If everything works, you will see a greenish colour. Repeat for the bottom-left cross, and then you will see a yellow colour on the bottom-right. Does it work?

Also, a special mention for Escolab, a platform that organizes visits to Catalan research centers for secondary students, and Pendulum, an association that brings the kids to the nature for a scientific picnic in the middle of the Montseny Natural Park, among other scientific workshops and activities. 

Campus Gutenberg is organized by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)-Barcelona School of Management and Obra Social “la Caixa”. Collaborators of this edition are “Centro de Estudios de Ciencia, Comunicación y Sociedad” (CCS-UPF), the “Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica” (ACCC), the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), and the Department of Experimental and Health Science of the UPF. 

For more info follow: #CGutenberg16 @beerforscience @ACCC_ @ccupf

Download the program of the conference here. 

N&N Group trip at Paper Museum and Archaeological Site in Capellades

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Abric RomaníLast Friday, July 1st, the N&N Group did a Group Trip to visit the Paper Museum in Capellades (Museu Molí Paperer), and the Archaeological Site nearby (Abric Romaní).

As the Group is working with bacterial cellulose, we wanted to see how another type of paper was made and learn about the history of paper makers in Capellades. Victòria Rabal, director of the museum, guided us around the museum and taught us how to make some paper. And we did some!

On the other hand, the archaeologist Raül Bartrolí, explained us many things about the Neanderthals, and showed us some of the objects found in this unique archaeological site (see image), full of animal bones and flint tools (sílex).

We finished the trip with a picnic in the park, and a farewell to Sebastià Parets, as it was his last day with us!

All in all, a very nice and fruitful trip!

Poster session of the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting)

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Poster Session

The Poster Session of the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting) was a success. Here some members of the N&N group showing their posters at the Hall of the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències of the UAB: Iván, Adrià and Miquel, Irene, Deyaa and Qianzhe.

  • Iván Gómez: Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto magnetic graphene oxide
  • Iván Gómez Adrià Gordillo and Miquel Torras: Magneto-plasmonic multimaterial nanoparticles
     Adrià Gordillo and Miquel Torras
  • Irene Anton: Encapsulating endothelial progenitor cell’s secretome for vascular remodeling therapiesIrene Anton
  • Deyaa Youssef: Production of bacterial nano-cellulose as a terrific natural polymerDeyaa Youssef
  • Qianzhe Zhang: Stabilization of epitaxial quartz on Si from amorphous silica filmsqianzhe

Large participation of the N&N Group at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting)

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JPHD2016-PhD meetingJune 29th-30th are devoted to the “2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students”, which will take place at the Sala d’Actes of the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències (UAB). The meeting is aimed to present the work done by the PhD students of the Barcelona Nanotechnology Cluster – Bellaterra (ICMAB, ICN2, IMB-CNM, UAB, ALBA), promoting networking among all the students in an academic and scientific environment. 

The N&N group will have a large participation in the event, both from PhD students and Master and Undergraduate students: 

  • Laura González (PhD student) will give a talk on “Evaluation of Inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans” (Session 2, June 29th, 12.15 h).
  • The following posters will be presented (Poster sessions: June 29th 10.45-12.00 h; June 30th 10.30-11.15 h):
    • Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto magnetic graphene oxide (Iván Gómez, Visiting PhD student)
    • Encapsulating endothelial progenitor cell’s secretome for vascular remodeling therapies (Irene Anton, Master student)
    • Magneto-plasmonic multimaterial nanoparticles (Miquel Torras and Adrià Gordillo, Undergraduate students)
    • Production of bacterial nano-cellulose as a terrific natural polymer (Deyaa Youssef, Visiting PhD student)
    • Stabilization of epitaxial quartz on Si from amorphous silica films (Qianzhe Zhang, PhD student)

The program of the event can be downloaded here. 

For further information, please visit: http://congresses.icmab.es/jphd2016/

Anna Laromaine gives a seminar on Nanomedicine in the 10alamenos9 festival

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005_AL_modAnna Laromaine gave a seminar yesterday April 5th at the Facultat de Ciències-UAB, as part of the activities organized during the Festival of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (10alamenos9), in which the ICMAB collaborated. The topic of the seminar was Nanomedicine, which, according to Anna, is “the use of the nanotechnology for medical applications”, such as diagnosis, medical therapies, drug delivery, tissue regeneration, and the understanding of cellular systems. 

Other seminars during the festival included the following topics: Biosensors by Ma Isabel Pividori, Energy capture and thermoelectrics by Aitor Lopeandía (UAB), Nanoelectronics by Francesc Pérez-Murano (IMB-CNM), an Introduction to nanotechnology by Ma José Esplandiu (ICN2), and Nanotechnology and society by Jordi Pascual (UAB).

The N&N Group participates in the Nano Festival at the Campus UAB

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ICMAB workshopThe N&N Group has collaborated in the first science outreach festival of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. This festival, held between April 4th-8th 2016 in different locations of the Spanish geography (Zaragoza, Donostia, Barcelona, and Campus UAB) is full of different activities: seminars, exhibitions, workshops, nanodebates and competitions. 

Anna May and Pol Sallés participated in the workshop around “Nanomaterials at ICMAB“, in which different nanomaterials created by ICMAB were shown and the role of nanotechnology in our daily life products was discussed. The assistants were mainly students from the UAB (Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, etc.), but also high school students interested in pursuing a Nanoscience degree were present. Tomorrow, Tuesday 5th April, Anna Laromaine will give a talk on Nanomedicine (Sala d’Actes, Facultat de Ciències, 10.30 – 13 h) and the workshop will also be held at the C1 Hall of the Facultat de Ciències (13 – 15 h). 

The program of the different activities held at Campus UAB can be found here. 
 ICMAB workshop with Anna and Pol

ICMAB workshop

The news at the ICMAB webpage is found here. 

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16 Apr

The N&N group participates in the @NextGEM_eu project, for which we prepared this video explaining how we work with c.elegans. 🪱

👉 Dr. @PolAlonso1 explains how we use these nematodes and why they are useful for assessing biological effects.

#BioEM #5G

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15 Apr

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. @AnnaRoig8 from the @NNgroupICMAB research group (@icmabCSIC, Barcelona, Spain) will be offering a talk on "Opportunities of bacterial nanocellulose in healthcare". This Wednesday at 12.15h at the BBT Weekly Meetings, at @EEBE_UPC

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