Today we highlight…
Sugar Detected in Interstellar Space for the First Time
An international research team, with participation from the Biofisika Institute (CSIC, EHU), has detected a sugar in the interstellar medium for the first time.
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BBDG Seminar: "Cellular Mechanisms of Oropouche Virus Replication, Egress, and Immune Evasion"
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EuroBioImaging Bilbao Node Seminars: July 6, 2026, 11:00h & 12.15h - Julia Fernández-Rodríguez
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BBDG Seminar: "Lipid control of mitochondrial fission"
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Biofisika Institute strengthens its European leadership with an ERC Advanced Grant for researcher David Albesa
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IWDS'26 – International Workshop on Dynamical Systems 2026
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EuroBioImaging Bilbao Node Seminar: "Strategies in light sheet microscopy for imaging fast dynamics in biomedical samples"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Structural and biophysical characterization of the ToSS-dependent pore forming toxins Tse4 and Tke5 from Pseudomonas"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Extending the Role of Calmodulin in KV7 channels, Folding, Redox Modulation and PIP2-dependent Gating"
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A key discovery reveals how neurons recycle a nutrient essential for brain communication
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BBDG Seminar: "Embryo size control"
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May 24: National Epilepsy Day. A molecular key that protects the brain: how the Biofisika Institute is researching neonatal epilepsy
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BBDG Seminar: "Portrait of a diseased protein: pathogenic variants in the multienzymatic CAD complex"
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Researcher Ignacio Arganda-Carreras Wins the Data Analysis in Imaging (DAIM) Award
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Unveiling the Structure and Mechanism of Action of Pseudomonas Effector Tse5"
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Two researchers from the Biofisika Institute among Spain’s most influential female scientists
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural biology of virus-host interactions"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cell membrane tension dynamics and cellular processes: from bacteria to B-cells"
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BBDG Seminar: "A minimal human ESCRT-Ill system to mimic HIV-1 detachment"
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IBF welcomes Sergi Padilla-Parra as a new Ikerbasque professor
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The space between neurons also “thinks”. A study reveals how its shape influences brain communication
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BBDG Seminar: "Structure-Guided Design of Artificial Glycopeptides for Cancer Immunotherapy and Diagnostics"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative structural biology of a T=219 marine giant virus"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cardiomyocyte dynamics: from low dimensional to realistic models"
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The Biofisika Institute will investigate how certain viruses turn our cells into “viral factories” thanks to a European project funded by the Wellcome
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BBDG Seminar: "Phase-Separating Peptides as a Universal Platform for Intracellular Delivery of Macromolecular Therapeutics"
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A Basque consortium of researchers is studying why mutations in a certain protein alter brain development in children with a rare disease
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BioForo Seminar: "Genomics revolution: insights into the role of plasmids as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance and virulence"
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Biofisika Institute takes part in the launch of EuroBioImaging Spain
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Bilbao to Host International Bunyavirus 2026 meeting from July 8–10
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2026: Students Visit the Instituto Biofisika
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Protein ring discovered that coordinates “conversation” between cells
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The Spanish Biophysical Society highlights a study by the Molecular Microwave Spectroscopy Group of the IBF
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A bacteria ally of crops reveals its “secret weapon” against plant pathogens
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BioForo Seminar: “Magnetic Resonance Imaging applications for the study of the CNS”
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BBDG Seminar: "Scaling laws in cancer and some clinical applications"
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BioForo Seminar: "Divergent Effects of APOE3 and APOE4 Human Astrocytes on Key Alzheimer's Disease Hallmarks in Chimeric Mice"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Design and Development of Engineered Antibody Formats for Targeted Cancer Therapy"
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BBDG Seminar: "Avidity and multi-specificity combined for antibodies against infectious diseases"
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**Cancelled** BBDG Seminar: “How to publish in the Nature Portfolio: tips and tricks for a successful publication”
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Biofisika Institute contributes to uncovering the dynamic inner workings of nuclear pore complexes
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Structural insights into a conserved mechanism of choline translocation and a distinct chaperonin-mediated protein folding cycle"
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The IBF participates in the CSIC's Second Conference on Large Researching Infrastructures
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Epithelial response to stretch during Drosophila dorsal closure: Emergence and control of deformation and polarization patterns"
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IBF joins Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka
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BBDG Seminar: "Revealing Native Cellular Landscapes through Correlative Cryo- 3DSIM, Cryo-SXT, and Cryo-ET"
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New strategies against HIV through antibody engineering
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BBDG Seminar: "Thinking about group transfer potential at the emergence of metabolism"
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BioForo Seminar: "Neurogenesis and transcriptomics provide a new understanding on brain evolution"
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BBDG Seminar: "Molecular mechanism of lipid droplet biogenesis"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative visual proteomics: Bridging cryoET with physics-based simulations for biological discovery"
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BioForo Seminar: "Spatio-temporal dynamics of secretory protein export"
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BioForo Seminar: "Unconventional strategies to inactivate oncogenic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase fusions"
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BioForo Seminar: "The Dance of Division: Coordinated Reassembly of NE and ER for a Stable Genome"
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BBDG Seminar: "Nanopipette robotics for multiparametric imaging and manipulation of living cells"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Mecanismo de retrotransporte del virus del papiloma humano mediado por Retrómero"
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New Preprint Reveals Mitochondrial Proteostasis Mechanisms Using Cryo-EM Data from BREM
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BBDG Seminar: "Nuclear Transport and mRNA Maturation & Export"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Computational developments for cryoelectron tomography applied on membrane proteins"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Rotational spectroscopy as a powerful chemical tool in the study of bioactive molecules"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "From Ancestral GTPases to Modern Membrane Scission: Evolutionary and Regulatory Insights into Dynamins Function"
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural insights into mitochondrial membrane shaping"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-electron tomography for comprehensive visual proteomics"
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BioForo Seminar: "Evolution of epithelial states in development, fibrosis and cancer"
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Prof. Félix M. Goñi, a Pioneer in Membrane Biophysics, retires
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BioForo Seminar: "Filling gaps in ether lipid biosynthesis and its evolution in eukaryotes from studying a bacterial response to light"
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BBDG Seminar: "Intersystem signaling, regulation, and synergistic antiviral activity in a CBASS-CRISPR-Cas antiviral defense island"
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BBDG Seminar: "From Molecular Motors to Mycobacterial Mechanisms"
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BioForo Seminar: "The Fusion of Quantitative Molecular Proteomics and Immune oncology: A Step towards Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapeutics"
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Edurne Rujas receives the "Enrique Pérez-Payá–Prospera Biotech & BCN Peptides" award for young researchers in biophysics
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BBDG Seminar: "Enzymatic Mechanisms of Peptide Hydrolysis Revealed by QM/MM Simulations: Insights from Mucinases and Toxins"
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"Processes & Materials for Life" symposium
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BBDG Seminar: "Biophysical Alterations of Organelle Membranes in Rare Lysosomal Storage Diseases"
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BBDG Seminar: "3D animation for integrative modeling of complex molecular mechanisms"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative Imaging to Understand HIV-1 Env dynamics"
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BioForo: "Focus on glial cells: New gene therapy approaches for retinal diseases"
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Workshop: “Diffusion in biological systems”
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Daniel Castaño talks about "Electrons to visualize cells" on the podcast "Oscilador Armónico"
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BioForo: "Is brain myelin an energy source/store?"
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IBF Seminar: "NMR across Phases: Tracking Amyloid Assembly from Liquid to Solid States"
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Marité Cárdenas talks about the Physics of Colloids on the podcast "Oscilador Armónico".
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Interview with Iban Ubarretxena in "El Diario Vasco" newspaper
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Manuel Fanega, General Manager of the Biofisika Institute, interviewed by Spanish National Radio (RNE)
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BBDG Seminar: "Mapping the endosomal proximity proteome reveals Retromer as a hub for RAB GTPase regulation"
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BioForo: "Cell of origin and molecular drivers of non-small cell lung cancer"
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BioPhyzza Connection 2025 at Instituto Biofisika
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Prof. Félix Goñi awarded by the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bilbao
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BBDG Seminar: "Understanding the mitochondrial DNA replication machinery"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-EM Unveils the Structural Dynamics of a Replicative Helicase"
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BBDG Seminar: "Biophysical insights into the problem of origins of life"
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Three researchers from the Instituto Biofisika ranked among the most prominent female researchers in the CSIC ranking
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Instituto Biofisika awarded with the CSIC ASPIRA-MaX Sagrario Martínez-Carrera seal of excellence
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BioPhyzza Connection 2025
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BBDG Seminar: "CHEM.IFPTML: Chemoinformatics Information Fusion & Perturbation-Theory Machine Learning"
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2025
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BBDG Seminar: "Sorting with Retromer: Molecular Insights into Endosomal Cargo Transport"
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Eurobioimaging Virtual Pub: "cryo-EM as a magnifying glass into cell biology"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-EM architecture of a near-native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain"
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural characterization of model lung surfactant films on the approach to zero surface tension and tuned by soft nanoparticles"
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IBF Seminar: "cryoEM reveals that Retron-Eco1 assembles NAD+-hydrolyzing filaments providing immunity against bacteriophages"
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BioForo: "The universe of lipid-protein interactions. A scientific meeting in honor of Prof. Alicia Alonso"
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BBDG Seminar: "Unveiling the Busy Social Network of a Cell"
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BBDG Seminar: "Dynamical systems in biophysics and not only"
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Ceremony in memory of Professor Arturo Muga, pioneer of Biophysics and Molecular Biology of proteins in the Basque Country
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BioForo seminar: "Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotrasduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation"
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Theoretical Biophysics seminar: A theoretical basis for cell deaths
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BBDG Seminar: "The molecular gymnastics of autophagy and lysosomes"
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AI Spots Cancer and Viral Infections at Nanoscale Precision
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"The molecular architecture of the nuclear basket" published in Cell
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural Mechanisms and Drug Discovery in Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Molecular recognition between cholesterol and Bordetella CyaA toxin"
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BBDG Seminars: "Protofilament-specific nano-patterns of tubulin post-translational modilications regulate the mechanics of ciliary beating"
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BBDG Seminars: "Sodium alginate/chitosan scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering: the influence of its three-dimensional material preparation and the use of gold nanoparticles"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Viroporin-like activity of ASFV structural proteins B117L and B169L"
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Workshop: "Phase Separation in Biophysical Systems"
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BBDG Seminars: "Active surfaces and biological morphogenesis"
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Instituto Biofisika awarded with the ASPIRA-MaX Josefa Barba seal of excellence
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EUROPEAN SOUTH ATLANTIC BIOPHYSICS CONGRESS, 5th-7th June 2024
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Pint of Science 2024
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IBF Seminars: "Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Bridging conformational preferences and non-covalent interactions across diverse cyclic structures"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Membrane interactions of the ATG8 protein LC3C and its role in autophagy"
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Professor Arturo Muga passes away
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-- CANCELLED -- BioForo Seminar: “Structural and regulatory basis for pharmacological correction of inherited dopamine deficiencies and Parkinson’s disease”
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BioForo Seminar: "Collagen deposition in physiology and scarred-fibrotic tissue"
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BioForo seminar: “Unveiling and Leveraging the Neuroprotective Potential of Tetracyclines: A Journey from Biophysics to Pharmacology”
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BioForo Seminar: “Impact of chromatin remodeling defects in cellular plasticity, lung cancer progression and treatment sensitivity”
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BioForo Seminar: “Impact of chromatin remodeling defects in cellular plasticity, lung cancer progression and treatment sensitivity”
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural analysis and inhibition of human LINE-1 ORF2 protein reveals novel adaptations and functions"
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BBDG Seminar: "The strange things that papillomavirus proteins do"
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Emakumeak Zientzian Seminar: "The successful trajectory of a female scientist: Mª Luisa Fdez-Gubieda Ruiz" (ES)
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BREM provided high-resolution imaging for the First atomic-scale 'movie' of microtubules under construction
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The Advanced Light Microscopy Node Bilbao (ALM@BIO) is one of the five new Spanish Nodes approved by Euro-BioImaging
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2024
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BioForo seminar: "The role of inflammation in breast cancer progression"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: “Development and integration of In Silico and In Vitro tools for comprehensive prediction and characterization of genetic variants in Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Hyperlipidemias”
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Instituto Biofisika recognized by the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU
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The Advanced Light Microscopy Node Bilbao to join Euro-Bioimaging
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BBDG Seminars: "Advancing Membrane Biophysical Imaging: from Bulk Measurements to Single-Molecule Trafficking"
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Annual BioForo Meeting: “7th Alumni Research Meeting”
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POSTPONED - BBDG Seminars: "Recruiting antibody-membrane interactions to combat HIV infection (and cancer?)"
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BioForo seminar: "Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in hormone-driven cancers"
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BioForo seminar: "Unravelling animal-microbiota interactions through novel technologies: holo-omics, micro-scale 3D metagenomics and gut-on-a-chip"
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BBDG Seminars: "Resolving the kinetics of Hsp70 chaperone activity by stochastic, single-molecule sampling of substrates"
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BioForo seminar: "When the start matters: biological relevance of protein N-terminal acetylation"
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IBF seminar: "Tools to image and cross membranes"
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BioForo seminar: "The Lipotype Hypothesis"
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BBDG Seminar: "Unravelling the structure of toxic protein aggregates in situ"
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Mini-workshop: 'Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and biology'
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BioForo seminar: "The fusion of quantitative molecular proteomics and immune-oncology: a step towards precision medicine in cancer therapeutic"
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BioForo seminar: "Role of mitochondrial fusion proteins in the transfer of phospholipids from the endoplasmic reticulum to the mitochondria"
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BioForo seminar: "Coupling sterol and ceramide synthesis and transport at ER-endocytic contact sites"
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Talking lipids. Special Meeting 100th anniversary of LIPID
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Alicia Alonso recognized with a Basque Women Researcher Award in recognition of her distinguished research career
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CartoCell, an open-source tool capable of detecting hidden patterns in cellular tissues
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "EXPLORING 'MINIMAL METABOLISM' AS A CENTRAL CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE AND DEVELOPING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY"
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BBDG Seminars: "The long journey of an insect virus: from the field to the pharmaceutical pipeline"
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BBDG Seminars: "Synthetic gene circuits & their applications: Programming cells in space, time, and more"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Interaction of the LC3/GABARAP autophagy proteins with membranes: Exploring the effects of ceramide"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "NOVEL FUNCTIONS OF CALMODULIN IN Kv7.2 REGULATION AND CO-TRANSLATIONAL FOLDING"
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Advanced Workshop in Ion Channels: “Exploring novel conformational states in a K+ channel using weak-binding antibodies and FRET” | “Regulatory subunits controlling the voltage gated Kv1.3 channel”
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Jorge Pedro López Alonso winner of the 'José Tormo' award
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Dr. Israel S. Fernandez will join the IBF as Ikerbasque Research Professor
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BioForo seminar: "Role of ceramide in protein sorting”
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The president of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) visits the Instituto Biofisika
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BBDG Seminars: "Single molecule sensing of annexing and dynaming"
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BioForo seminar: "BBB opening in neurodegenerative diseases: Possibilities and hurdles"
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IBF Seminars: "Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force-velocity relation for collective cell migration"
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BioForo seminar: "Role of lipids and membrane mechanics in the early secretory pathway"
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A century of lipids, from Biological Chemistry to Lipidomics
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The Biofisika Bizkaia Foundation (FBB) has affiliated to i2basque
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OLDM'23 - Origins of Life Donostia Meeting
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Pint of Science Bilbao 2023
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Seminar: "Advances in Lightsheet Microscopy: Imaging the Unseen"
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BBDG Seminars: "Lipids: 100 years, and 50 years"
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BioForo seminar: "Immunological mechanisms of resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer"
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BBDG Seminars: "New 3D human biomodels to study the neurodegenerative diseases"
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IBF Seminars: "Drug Discovery based on Biophysical Analysis"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Medidas de afinidad de anticuerpos VIH anti-MPER por su epitopo reconstituido en membranas modelo. Correlación con su polirreactividad y potencia de neutralización"
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BBDG Seminars: "Molecular mechanisms of BCL2 proteins, the master apoptosis regulators"
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Prof. Alicia Alonso Izquierdo appointed Vice President of the Governing Board of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE)
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Félix M. Goñi Urcelay at Humboldt Research Award Ceremony
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BBDG Seminars: "ONE DNA repair protein in action"
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BBDG Seminars: "Emprender: impulso y dinamización de la ciencia, clave para llegar al paciente"
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BBDG Seminars: "The long and winding road... to autophagy"
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BBDG Seminars: "Nanoparticle surface tuning for in vivo applications with a focus on fluorine"
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BioForo seminar: “Chromatin regulators in stem cell differentiation and cancer processes”
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Emakumeak Zientzian (Women in Science)
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BBDG Seminars: "Understanding cellular mechanotransduction: from mechanical stimuli to biochemical signaling"
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Brain organoids Summer School 2023
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BioForo seminar: "Microenvironmental control of chromosomal stability during development and tissue homeostasis"
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IBF Seminars: "Bringing insights into the characterization of 3D cell motility through bioimage analysis"
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BBDG Seminars: "Pushing the limits in atomic-resolution electros cryo-microscopy of biological specimenes"
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BBDG Seminars: "Using Cryo-EM to unveil the structure and function of DNA-associated macrocomplexes"
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BioForo seminar: "Integrating population-scale sequencing with epigenomics and transcriptomics to identify the genetic basis of adaptive evolution"
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BBDG Seminars: "Model celular membranes: From flat to strongly curved structures"
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Félix M. Goñi, entre los más influyentes del mundo, según la Universidad de Stanford (California)
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Félix M. Goñi at the World's Top 2% Scientists
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Workshop: "Dynamic modeling and statistical inference in the life sciences: philosophical and practical perspectives"
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BioForo seminar: "One Ring to Rule Them All? Comprehensive Structure and Functional Adaptations of the Nuclear Pore Complex"
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IBF Seminars: "Viral Fusion Peptide Interactions with Biomimetic Lipid Cubic Phases"
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BioForo seminars: Wed 2, Thu 3 & Fri 4 NOV 2022
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BBDG Seminars: "The P. aeruginosa efector Tse5 forms membrane pores disrupting the membrane potential of intoxicated bacteria"
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BBDG Seminars: "Microwave and laser spectroscopies for structural elucidation and as chemical tools"
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EMBO Workshop: Birth and fission of cellular compartments
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*POSTPONED* - BBDG Seminars: "Using Cryo-EM to unveil the structure and function of DNA-associated macrocomplexes"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Lipid-protein interactions in autophagy: Exploring the role of LC3/GABARAP-family members"
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The registration for the 8th International Iberian Biophysics Congress is open
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IKUR 2030: Instituto Biofisika hosts the Catalan Secretary of Education
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BREM has been featured in Teknopolis
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The inauguration of BREM has featured in "El Correo"
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BREM is officially launched by the Lehendakari
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Deia, local newspaper, featuring our centre
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New Titan Krios Cryo-EM at the FBB-IBF
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Conversation with Félix M. Goñi
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Programa IKUR. El Gobierno Vasco destina 100 millones para reforzar el tejido científico en 9 años
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Diario Deia: Entrevista al catedrático Félix M. Goñi.
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Félix M. Goñi Urcelay awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award