Last Friday all the group was involved in the lab cleaning day! That means that we also changed lab manager. Sole Roig is from now on the lab manager, instead of Qianzhe Zhang. Good luck!
After the lab cleaning we had some nice pizzas all together. Team building!
Valentin is a Master Student in Chemistry at the Chemistry Faculty of Belarusian State University (BSU). His Master thesis is devoted to the development of composite materials based on oxide ferrimagnetic nanoparticles and functionalized silicon dioxide for magnetic bioseparation.
He will be with us for an internship of 2 months, funded by the Ministry for Education of the Republic of Belarus, working on the synthesis and characterization of bismuth oxide/iron oxide/silica nanocomposites for biomedical applications, under the supervision of Anna Roig and Marti Gich.
Christmas Card: gold nanotriangle surrounded by titanium oxide nanoparticles. Photo credit: Judith Oró (TEM), Miquel Torras, Pol Sallés, Anna May.
This week we celebrated Christmas with all the ICMAB at La Masia Can Portell, in Collserola (on Wednesday) and with the NN Group (on Thursday’s Group Meeting).
ICMAB Christmas lunch at Masia Can Portell
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas Group Meeting
See you all next year, with new and exciting science and activities!
Today was the lab cleaning day! Everybody collaborated and we managed to clean all the lab and update all the chemicals database =)
We also wish good luck toQianzhe Zhangas new lab manager for the next months!
Thanks all!
And thank you Deyaa and Ma for the photos!
The lab was crowded for the lab cleaningDani, Luo and Irene cleaning the hoods and ovenMiquel updating the security cupboard chemical listMa and Anna with the chemical cupboard, and Ignasi and Jordi with the common material“Is that thermometer working?” Jordi asks himself.Ma and Ignasi, and outside, Monica, Aml and Deyaa.Working on updating the common material list.Lab cleaning: everybody with labcoat, gloves and goggles. Good laboratory practices!
CosmoCaixa Barcelona hosts on September 27th and 28th a meeting of international researchers in basic and applied plant research focused on the development of new sustainable materials: “Plant proteostasis: towards a green based industry”.
Jordi Floriach, student from the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology degree at UAB and intern in our group under the supervison of Anna Laromaine, is attending this meeting, whose scientific leaders areL. Maria Lois and Núria Sànchez Coll, from CRAGand collaborators of the N&N Group.
The purpose of these debates is to bring together multidisciplinary biotechnology experts to create synergies that would facilitate the transition from a fossil-dependent economy to a sustainable bioeconomy, but also to gain acceptance and support from the general public to carry out this transition.
Today during the group meeting we said goodbye toIván, who is leaving to continue his Ph.D. thesis in Colombia. Iván is a great chemist, who works with magnetic graphene for water decontamination. We wish him a lot of success in his thesis and in his future endeavours!
On the other hand, Esther Dalfo gave us a nice talk on biomedical applications of C. elegans “Investigating neurodegeneration by using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans”. Esther is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the UAB, specialized in neurodegeneration and human genetics. Thank you!