16th IBEC SYMPOSIUM
Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine
October 3rd · Auditori Axa, Barcelona
The 16th IBEC annual Symposium brings together high-profile international experts for an open forum for interdisciplinary discussions and networking. This year the symposium is dedicated to Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine, one of IBEC’s three major application areas.
Scientific community is invited to participate. Attendees from IBEC and abroad are welcome to present their research or projects in poster format. Moreover, some of these contributions will be selected by the scientific committee for an oral flash presentation.
Important deadlines 2023:
Abstracts submission deadline:
Registration deadline:
venue:
Auditori AXA
Av. Diagonal, 547, Barcelona
INVITED speakers
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening ceremony |
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Director’s presentation IBEC’s Evolution and Scientific highlights. Josep Samitier, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) |
| 09:45 – 10:20 | Keynote speaker (chair: César Rodriguez-Emmenegger) How to activate drugs, proteins and genes by ultrasound employing principles of mechanochemistry Andreas Herrmann, Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Flash poster presentation (chair: César Rodriguez-Emmenegger and Elena Garreta) |
| 11:45 – 12:20 | Keynote speaker (chair: Giuseppe Battaglia) Targeting Protein Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases Michele Vendruscolo, University of Cambridge |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | Technology Transfer session (chair: Eduardo Salas) Laia Arnal Arasa, Business development director, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) Damià Tormo, Columbus Venture Partners |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch and poster session |
| 14:30 – 15:25 | Flash poster presentation (chair: Iris Batalha and Jordi Alcaraz) |
| 15:25 – 16:00 | Keynote speaker (chair: Samuel Sánchez) Low-modulus bone cement – from vertebroplasty to discoplasty Cecilia Persson, Uppsala University |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Alumni session (chair: Elisabeth Engel) A Journey through Emerging Scaffold-based Strategies for Neural Regeneration Zaida Álvarez, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) |
| 16:20 – 17:20 | Poster session |
| 17:20 – 17:55 | Keynote speaker (chair: Josep Samitier) Integrating in vivo and in vitro data provides insights into dynamic regulation of human epidermal differentiation Fiona M. Watt, EMBL Heidelberg |
| 17:55 – 18:10 | Time for PhD Committee Miquel Bosch |
| 18:10 – 18:20 | Time for Postdoc Committee Denitza Denkova, Aurora Dols, Juanma Fernández |
| 18:20 – 18:30 | Awards and closing ceremony |
| 18:30 – 18:45 | Toast to celebrate IBEC’s 15th anniversary |