Scientific Sessions

Internal seminar series and invited speaker events open to the CTB community and partner institutions.

The CTB holds regular scientific sessions featuring internal lab presentations and invited talks by external researchers. Sessions are held at the CTB seminar room, Campus Montegancedo, and are open to researchers from partner institutions. To be added to the mailing list contact dirección.ctb@ctb.upm.es.

Seminar — Digital Health 2025-02-13

SEMINARIO: Mobile and wearable technologies for health research

Dario Salvi, PhD, Associate Professor at Malmö University · ICT for Personalized Medicine

Ubiquitous smartphones and wearable devices offer an excellent opportunity for health research, including distributed recruitment, data collection and interventions. Presentation of Mobistudy, a mobile-based platform for health research.

Event — Brain Science 2024-04-01

Presentación del Premio de la Cátedra Cajal

Dra. Nahla Jemni, Laboratorio de Biomateriales del CTB · Cajal Cortical Circuits

Presentación del Premio de la Cátedra Cajal, otorgado a la investigadora del laboratorio de Biomateriales del CTB. Evento con presencia del Presidente del comité científico de la Cátedra Cajal de la Universidad de Zaragoza.

Seminar — Bioengineering 2023-03-01

«Lab-in-a-cell analysis enabled by SPAchip® Technology»

Dr. Antonio Quílez-Álvarez, Head of Applications at A4Cell · Bioinstrumentation and Nanomedicine

SPAchip® devices (Suspended-Planar Arrays) based on inert silicon oxide, on which multiple fluorescent probes can be deposited to provide intracellular readouts over long culture periods for living single-cell analysis.

Seminar — Personalized Medicine 2023-02-01

«The end of medicine as we know it — And why our health has a future»

Dr. Harald Schmidt · ICT for Personalized Medicine

We do not understand the causality of almost any human disease and thus declare them as chronic and complex. Instead of treating causes we must treat symptoms, which is highly ineffective. New paradigm for network medicine.

Seminar — Bioengineering 2022-11-01

«Training-on-a-Chip: a multi-organ device to study the effect of muscle exercise on insulin secretion in vitro»

Dr. Javier Ramón Azcón, IBEC Barcelona · Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering

Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) devices for type 2 diabetes disease modeling and drug discovery, providing biologically relevant models of tissues and organs that mimic the in vivo micro-environment.

Seminar — COVID-19 Research 2021-06-01

«Specific immunoglobulins against SARS-CoV-2 and validation with ELISA technique»

A.M.M. Murillo et al., CTB-UPM · CBGP · Optics, Photonics and Biophotonics

Validation of ELISA-based detection of specific immunoglobulins against SARS-CoV-2 in human samples. Fast, cheap, and reliable testing methodology for pandemic surveillance.

Seminar — COVID-19 Research 2021-04-01

«La Pandemia por SARS-CoV-2 desde el Laboratorio Regional de Salud Pública»

Prof. Pablo Barreiro García, Universidad Europea de Madrid · CTB General

Estudios realizados desde el Laboratorio Regional de Salud Pública ante la infección por SARS-CoV-2: retos médicos, políticos, económicos y sociales de la pandemia.

Seminar — Nanomedicine 2020-11-01

«Nanoactuators for Therapy and Diagnosis»

Dr. Jesús Martínez de la Fuente, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón (ICMA-CSIC) · Bioinstrumentation and Nanomedicine

Synthesis and functionalization of magnetic and gold nanoparticles as therapeutic and diagnosis tools against cancer. Gold nanoprisms functionalized with PEG, glucose, cell penetrating peptides and antibodies.

Seminar — Biomaterials 2020-02-01

«Microgeles como entorno 3D en cultivos celulares en Ingeniería Tisular»

Dr. Jose Luis Gómez Ribelles, Centro de Biomateriales e Ingeniería Tisular, UPV · Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering

Microgel dispersions as three-dimensional environments for cell culture in tissue engineering — applications including chondrocyte culture, mesenchymal stem cells and multiple myeloma disease models.

Seminar — Bioengineering 2019-11-01

«Development of biomimetic models of intestinal tissue»

Dra. Elena Martínez Fraiz, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) · Biomaterials and Regenerative Engineering

Strategies to promote cell self-organization in crypt-villus domains on 2D monolayers and 3D architectures, mimicking native intestinal tissue for drug testing and disease modeling.

Seminar — Neuroscience 2019-09-01

«Interpreting the mechanisms and meaning of MEG/EEG signals with the human neocortical neurosolver software»

Prof. Stephanie Jones, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, USA · Clinical Neuroscience

Understanding brain mechanisms underlying loss of homeostasis in Alzheimer's Disease continuum. Integration of human brain imaging and computational neuroscience to develop data-constrained neural models.

Seminar — Brain Science 2019-05-01

The morphospace of language networks

Luíño Seoane, Department of Physics, MIT, USA · Biological Networks

Language described using networks of semantically and syntactically interacting objects. General information theory approach incorporating a speaker, a hearer and a noisy channel for multi-objective language evolution.

Seminar — Digital Health 2018-11-01

Current state of telehealth projects for diabetes and cardiac telemonitoring

Dieter Hayn, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology · ICT for Personalized Medicine

Current state of AIT's telehealth projects for diabetes (DiabMemory) and cardiac (HerzMobil) telemonitoring running in routine care in Austria, plus the Predictive Analytics Toolset for Healthcare (PATH).

Seminar Series — Neuroscience 2018-03-01

SEMINARS: Introduction to the study of Cortical Microanatomy

Javier deFelipe, Cajal Cortical Circuits Lab, CTB-UPM · Cajal Cortical Circuits

Series of seminars introducing the study of cortical microanatomy, with talks including "Nuevas tecnologías para el estudio del cerebro: Human Brain Project".

Seminar — Network Science 2017-03-02

«Assessing the observability of complex networks: a nonlinear theory»

Christophe Letellier, CORIA — Université de Rouen Normandie · Biological Networks

The observability of a complex system: inferring its whole state by measuring a limited set of variables. Applications to neuronal networks and biological system analysis.

Seminar — Nanomedicine 2016-10-27

«Romantic Surface (functionalization of biomolecules on surfaces)»

Sidharam P. Pujari, Wageningen University · Bioinstrumentation and Nanomedicine

Chemical functionalization of biomolecules on surfaces for biosensing and nanomedicine applications. New strategies for covalent surface modification with biomolecular probes.