Oct. 11, 2013, 12 p.m. - Applications of engineered metal nanoparticles for the treatment of allergic diseases by immunotherapy and for bioimaging (Xavier Le Guevel)

Nanotechnology and particularly nanoparticles (NPs) have received much attention over the last 10 years in the field of immunotherapy. One of the most successful strategies of using NPs for specific immunotherapy is based on targeting dendritic cells (DCs), which play a central role on the activation of the immune system. ...

Oct. 18, 2013, 12 p.m. - Microchip technology in drug metabolism research and mass spectrometry-based bioanalysis (Tiina Sikanen)

The main influential aim in our research is to develop inexpensive, high-throughput technology for screening of the thus far less explored (molecular level) metabolic interactions between environmental or household chemicals and clinically relevant drugs. The focus is primarily on human phase I metabolism (redox reactions) of common toxicants like agrochemicals, ...

Oct. 25, 2013, 12 p.m. - Gradient and uneven nano-patterns distributions for cell adhesion and differentiation studies (Josep Samitier)

Cell adhesion onto bioengineered surfaces is affected by a number of variables, including the former substrate derivatisation process. Cells can sense and respond to their immediate surroundings. The information arising from this environmental sensing is integrated into the cell machinery through receptor proteins located at the cell membrane. We have ...

Nov. 8, 2013, 12 p.m. - Watching Active Sites and Species in Catalytic Reactions: Boosting Sensitivity and Adding Selectivity by Modulation Excitation Spectroscopy (Atsushi Urakawa)

Selective detection of catalytic active sites and chemical transformation remains a great challenge despite the recent development of highly sensitive detectors and a variety of operando methodologies. This difficulty is particularly pronounced for the detection under in situ/operando conditions where gas/liquid species as well as spectator species and materials (such ...

Nov. 29, 2013, 12 p.m. - Some like it hot (Servé Kengen)

Life can have many forms, ranging from very small unicellular microbes to large multicellular organisms, from cold- to heat-loving, from acid- to base-loving, either autotrophic or heterotrophic. The focus of the current presentation is on those that like it hot. For more than 40 years we know that some microbes ...

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