A new doctor in the lab! Neus Sanfeliu successfully defended her thesis work with flying colors and we wish her all the best for her upcoming postdoctoral stay on our lab 🙂 We would also like to thank the committee, Felix Campelo, Meital Oren-Suissa and Susanne Wegmann for coming all the way to ICFO and participate in this important event.
Our artist in residence left and started a new adventure at Yale University! Good luck New, you, your science and your artworks will be missed heavily!
Happy to announce that Nawaphat’s paper is peer reviewed and proofed. If you have checked the preprint already, check this one put again – it has some minor additions. These include the use of an integrated Cas9 strain which has the same efficiency as the injection of the recombinant Cas9.
Congratulations, New and Montse!
https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad041
Also, check the detailed benchtop protocol here:
FLint – Guided Transgene integration using Fluorescence landmark interference
After a long while, we have the pleasure to post a few papers again. Montse’s paper on synaptic engineering with photons as neurotransmitters is finally out in Nature Methods. Congratulations Montse and team!! Worms will be submitted to CGC and plasmids are on the way to addgene. Check it out here:
and the research briefing:
The optical tweezer protocol is online on JoVE. The technique is constantly evolving, so keep an eye our onto our tweezer page for updated steps in the protocol http://livinglight.icfo.eu/?page_id=2151
Ravi, Lynn, New and Frede’s 70 page preprint got published in Science Advances – check it out now.
We wish a warm welcome to Malak and Carmen and a successful start into the NMSB world. Malak is going to explore mechanical stability and dendritic, axonal deformations under external constrainst, while Carmen will explore the mechanics of intracellular organelles. Check out their interests on our team pages.
Santiago Ortiz successfully defended his Master thesis about active rheology in zebrafish development. Congrats Santi and see you back for your PhD.
If you are looking for a place to stay and do science in the realm of cellular neuroscience and optogenetics with a beautiful genetic model organisms and/or mechanobiology with microfluidics, optical tweezers and genetically encoded tension sensors, do not look any further! ICFO is offering 18 fellowships and we have plenty of projects to choose from. More info under jobs.icfo.eu or simply write Michael an eMail to express your interest.
