The 2018 BIST Conference took place on June 27, 2018 at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona. It was a scientific meeting gathering the BIST research community to showcase and discuss the science carried out at the BIST centres and to offer a space for researchers to meet, get to know each other’s science, and spark new collaborations.
Specific objectives of the conference included:
• Showcasing the excellent science being carried out at the BIST centres, with an emphasis on transversal and multidisciplinary topics, giving all participants the opportunity to learn, to ask questions, and to discuss.
• Providing a consistent “BIST meeting point” where the feeling of belonging to the BIST community can deepen, the ignition of new collaborations between BIST researchers can take place, and the invaluable expertise of the members of the BIST board of trustees can be drawn upon.
• Building BIST visibility, both at the local level and at a more international level, through the participation of a wide variety of local and international speakers, including a prestigious Nobel Prize winner, and through the attraction of prominent media.
Programme
8:30
Registration opens
9:00
Welcome
9:30
Keynote speech
Gravitational Waves: From Einstein to a New Science
Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
10:30
Dialogues on the boundaries of knowledge
The energy re-evolution: To be clean or not to be
Chair:
Jose Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ)
Speakers:
Siglinda Perathoner (Università degli Studi di Messina)
Jordi Martorell (ICFO)
Pedro Gómez (ICN2)
11:45
Coffee break
12:15
Dialogues on the boundaries of knowledge
Biosensors for diagnostics
Chair:
Arben Merkoçi (ICREA Research Professor at ICN2)
Speakers:
Javier Ramón Azcón (IBEC)
Emilio Palomares (ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ)
Roger Gomis (ICREA Research Professor at IRB Barcelona)
13:30
Lunch
15:15
Dialogues on the boundaries of knowledge:
Tissue modelling and engineering
Chair:
Núria Montserrat (IBEC)
Speakers:
Bernhard Payer (CRG)
James Sharpe (EMBL)
Manuel Serrano (ICREA Research Professor at IRB Barcelona)
16:30
Ignite Programme Session
Speakers:
Q-SPET: Pau Gorostiza (ICREA Research Professor at IBEC) and Niek van Hulst (ICREA Research Professor at ICFO)
SOLHYCAT: Carolina Gimbert (Scientific Group Coordinator at ICIQ)
2DNANOHEAT: Marianna Sledzinska (ICN2)
ENGUT: Elena Martínez (IBEC)
THEIA: María Marsal (ICFO)
GENSTORM: Marie Victoire Neguembor (CRG)
INWOC: José Ramón Galán (ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ)
17:30
Closing speech
Building a Synthetic Cell
Marileen Dogterom, Technische Universiteit Delft
18:15
Closing remarks
18:30
Cocktail & networking
Speakers
Barry Barish
California Institute of Technology,
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
Jose Ramón Galán-Mascarós
ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ
Siglinda Perathoner
Università degli Studi di Messina
Jordi Martorell
ICFO
Pedro Gómez
ICN2
Arben Merkoçi
ICREA Research Professor at ICN2
Javier Ramón Azcón
IBEC
Emilio Palomares
ICREA Research Professor at ICIQ
Roger Gomis
ICREA Research Professor at IRB Barcelona
Núria Montserrat
IBEC
Berhard Payer
CRG
James Sharpe
EMBL
Manuel Serrano
ICREA Research Professor at IRB Barcelona
Pau Gorostiza
ICREA Research Professor at IBEC
Niek van Hulst
ICREA Research Professor at ICFO
Carolina Gimbert
ICIQ
Marianna Sledzinska
ICN2
Elena Martínez
IBEC
María Marsal
ICFO
Marileen Dogterom
Technische Universiteit Delft
