UPCOMING EVENTS
SHARING IDEAS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS



UPCOMING EVENTS
SHARING IDEAS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS
OUR UPCOMING
EVENTS
We are working towards becoming a reference center for knowledge, education, and scientific training in Valencia. One way we are achieving this is by regularly holding public events and strengthening our connections with local educational and civic entities. Hence, we offer an ample calendar of specific events designed both for the general public and for the wider scientific community.
this
month
February 2025
06feb09:0017:15Women Lead: Shaking Science
Time
06.02.2025 09:00 - 17:15(GMT+01:00)
Location
UNIVERSIDAD DE VALENCIA - FACULTAD DE MEDICINA
Organizer
07feb11:0012:00Dr. Alfredo Quijano AI-based design of proteins for health applications
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S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y F O R T H E N E X T
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S C I E N C E A N D T E C H N O L O G Y F O R T H E N E X T D E C A D E 2 0 2 5
AI-based design of proteins for health applications
Dr. Alfredo Quijano
February 7 – 11:00h
Salón Forteza, CIPF
Dr. Alfredo Quijano is a young Valencian scientist who performed his PhD in the USA via a fellowship from La Caixa. The director of his thesis at the University of Washington (Seattle) is none other than Dr. David Baker, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024! (The Baker Lab develops protein design software to create molecules that solve challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability.) After completing his PhD, Alfredo and a colleague started the biotech Monod (see link below) in 2022 dedicated to using AI to design proteins for both research and clinical applications. Their technology is being used, for example, to make improvements to luciferase assays and to develop molecular biosensors that light up when they bind their target. The potential for this use of AI is enormous, particularly for disease applications.
Time
07.02.2025 11:00 - 12:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3 Valencia Spain
10feb09:3013:30IX Edición Jornada de Investigadoras en Enfermedades Raras
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IX Edición Jornada de Investigadoras en Enfermedades Raras INSCRIPCIONES
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Time
10.02.2025 09:30 - 13:30(GMT+01:00)
Location
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3 Valencia Spain
13feb12:0013:00Xavier TrepatBottom-up mechanobiology: from cell sheets to organoids
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BOTTOM-UP MECHANOBIOLOGY: FROM CELL SHEETS TO ORGANOIDS Xavier Trepat, ICREA Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain February 13 – 12:00h Salón Forteza, CIPF Abstract: Epithelial sheets form specialized 3D structures
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BOTTOM-UP MECHANOBIOLOGY: FROM CELL SHEETS TO ORGANOIDS
Xavier Trepat, ICREA Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
February 13 – 12:00h
Salón Forteza, CIPF
Abstract: Epithelial sheets form specialized 3D structures suited to their physiological roles, such as branched alveoli in the lungs, tubes in the kidney, and villi in the intestine. To generate and maintain these structures, epithelia must undergo complex 3D deformations across length and time scales. How epithelial shape arises from active stresses, viscoelasticity and luminal pressure remains poorly understood. I will present different approaches to study the mechanobiology of epithelial shape from the bottom up. I will discuss new technologies to design epithelia of arbitrary size and geometry and to subject them to controlled mechanical deformations in 3D. I will show that monolayers exhibit superelastic behavior when stretch is applied and that they readily buckle when compressed. We use this phenomenology and a 3D vertex model to rationally direct spontaneous pattern formation, and hence engineer tissue folding. I will also present our recent advances to understand the mechanobiology of intestinal organoids. We show that these organoids exhibit a non-monotonic stress distribution that defines mechanical and functional compartments. Finally, I will discuss how intestinal mechanobiology is derailed in patient-derived colorectal cancer organoids.
Time
13.02.2025 12:00 - 13:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3 Valencia Spain
next
month
March 2025
Event Details
Why do some individuals live longer? Mapping and controlling the stochastic dynamics of aging systems. Nicholas Stroustrup, Centre for Genomic Regulation & the Barcelona Collaboratorium for Modelling and Predictive Biology March 10
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Why do some individuals live longer? Mapping and controlling the stochastic dynamics of aging systems.
Nicholas Stroustrup, Centre for Genomic Regulation & the Barcelona Collaboratorium for Modelling and Predictive Biology
March 10 – 12:00h
Salón Forteza, CIPF
Abstract:
Time
10.03.2025 12:00 - 13:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3 Valencia Spain
Time
31.03.2025 19:30 - 20:30(GMT+01:00)
Location
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe
Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 3 Valencia Spain