On behalf of Native Scientist (https://www.nativescientist.com/), Soraia Silva (ESR 9) was part of an outreach activity last 25th of March at Walthamstow School for Girls, London. A group of five scientists from different fields planned a “speed dating a scientist” session with various games and experiments depending on the researcher’s background. Soraia pointed out the [...]
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA On November 27 and 28, 2018 USMI hosted the important CarBon midterm consortium meeting in Genova, Italy. On the first day of the meeting the EU project officer Julien Giordani evaluated the general progress of the project, together with the external expert Daria Julkowska. All the ESRs presented their research [...]
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, CarBon partner organization, is delighted to announce the launch of our Strategic Academic Recruitment (StAR) International PhD Programme, now recruiting 5 prestigious fully funded PhD scholarships. This programme aims to attract high-achieving international students to an efficient four-year structured PhD training programme at RCSI, where students choose their project [...]
To get to know our PIs better, they are invited to answer three at least three questions about CarBon, research in general and/or themselves. We start with Linda Kock, Head of Research at LifeTec and recently nominated Adjunct Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University. What does CarBon mean to you? CarBon has several meanings to me. First, it is [...]
On March 28 and 29, 2018 all CarBon ESRs and PIs met in Dublin for the second 2 day consortium meeting, hosted by the Trinity Biomedical Science Institute of Trinity College Dublin. ESRs were immediately involved in a full morning training programme on Commercialisation and IP, held by Surgacoll and EMBO Medical experts. The agenda continued with interesting [...]
CarBon ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre (EMC) won an award of 500 Euro for the best poster at the 22nd Molecular Medicine Day (MolMed Day). The poster was about "the important role that Collagen type X plays in mesenchymal stem cell mediated cartilage formation and subsequent endochondral ossification"". The MolMed day 2018 conference was held [...]
We are glad to announce that our CarBon ESR 7 Farhad Chariyev Prinz recently won a small award at the conference Bioengineering in Ireland (https://binirl.com) Farhad has been awarded "Best Mechanobiology Track Oral Presentation Early Researcher Category". Title and summary of Farhad's oral presentation: Identification of mechanical cues that promote chondrogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells Due to [...]
On behalf of The Bloomsbury Centre for Skeletal Research (https://bloomsbury-skeletal-research.org/), Astrid Novicky (ESR 14) and Soraia Silva (ESR 9) were part of the outreach activity "What are bones made of?". Last 14th of June, 2017 this activity took place at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College (London). For an entire morning the ESRs talked [...]
Secondment at UKK – E. Andres Sastre As part of my project, I performed a short stay with our CarBon partner at the University of Cologne (UKK) from the 24th to the 28th of April, 2017. The aim of this secondment was twofold. On the one hand, to gain more experience with the techniques that [...]
Prof. dr. Gerjo van Osch left last November for a challenging international experience. She is (temporarily) back to pipets and samples and she loves it. Here she tells us more about it: I am doing a secondment! In the framework and with support of the Rubicon project, a Marie Sklodowska Curie staff exchange network, I am [...]