El 17 de septiembre a las 11.00h en el salón de actos se ha convocado una charla de presentación con la nueva empresa encargada de la gestión de residuos: Stericycle. Estáis todos invitados. Es importante que al menos una persona de cada laboratorio (o grupo) asista a esta charla. En ella podréis plantear todas las dudas que tengáis respecto a la gestión de residuos.

We are glad to announce an extraordinary seminar that will be given by Prof. Felix Telegin from Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology (Russia) and Wuhan Textile University (China), which is an invited scientist by Prof. Lluïsa Coderch.

Speaker: Prof. Felix Telegin from Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology (Russia) and Wuhan Textile University (China)
Title: Chemoinformatics analysis of high performance compounds for materials science and engineering

The Dermo-Cosmetic Service Department of the Institute of Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), directed by M Lluïsa Coderch, has been certified to work according to Good Laboratory Practices (BPL) in the percutaneous absorption assays. "It should be noted that it is the first CSIC Service that obtains it," says researcher M Lluïsa Coderch.

The Good Laboratory Practices (BPL / GLP), is a set of rules, operational procedures and practices established and promulgated by certain organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ), which are considered mandatory to ensure the quality and integrity of the data produced in certain types of research or studies.

PhD Thesis Defense by Elena Cerro Gálvez (IDAEA-CSIC) on 19th September at the ETS d'Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports of Barcelona.

Title: Analysis of the impact of organic pollutants on marine microbial communities
Speaker:  Elena Cerro Gálvez

We are glad to announce a IQAC seminar that we will have the opportunity to listen to Dr. Álex Perálvarez (Associate Professor and Group Leader at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), a colleague from Prof. Isabel Haro,

Speaker: Dr. Álex Perálvarez (Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Medicina - UAB)
Title: Peptide misfolding and neurodegeneration: structural and computational biology perspectives

La Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRi), conjuntament amb les entitats que formen part de la Comissió Organitzadora de la Setmana de la Ciència, convoquen un concurs de monòlegs científics que es farà en el marc de la Setmana de la Ciència 2019. L’objectiu del concurs es promoure la comunicació de la ciència d’una manera sintètica, amena i entenedora i utilitzant únicament les habilitats comunicatives personals, sense el suport d’eines per a presentacions.

We are seeking a pre-doctoral student to work in the area of behaviour and toxicogenomics. One of the goals of our current research is to study the mechanisms that regulated neuro-behavioral responses and the effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) in the aquatic and model organism Daphnia magna at different molecular levels using Systems Biology approaches. About 80% of the molecular targets of toxic chemicals are conserved in humans and Daphnia and the former species is not subject to ethical experimental animal regulations.

Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of particles emitted by multiple sources. Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) is a widely used receptor model to
perform PM source apportionment studies, identifying main sources of pollution and estimating their contributions to PM concentrations in ambient air.

International experts on receptor models and their applications to environmental sciences will offer a comprehensive training course on the use of USEPA PMF 5 program.

The ENFOCHEM research group offers a doctoral thesis within the CYCLIC Project of the National Plan.

The project proposes innovative tools to assess the environmental fate of polar organic pollutants and assess their risks to human health and to ecosystems in a climate change scenario. The project has a strong multidisciplinary nature and offers marked synergies in several scientific disciplines: environment, toxicology and natural resources management.

Announcement for IDAEA weekly seminar series taking place this Wednesday 31st at CID – Sala d'Actes room at 12 am.

Speaker: Alba Lozano Letellier
Title: Geochemistry of rare earth elements in acid mine drainage precipitates