All CIBIO laboratories moved from Mattarello to Povo in the end of October. Our group is now working temporary in Blue 5 and we are looking forward to the new lab Orange 5 that we will share with Mansy group.
Evobliss meeting in Bristol
Martin, Jitka and Silvia participated in the fourth EVOBLISS consortium meeting that took place from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th of November at University of Western England, Bristol.
Droplet video contest
Droplets 2015 conference (6-8 October 2015) at University of Twente (The Netherlands) hosted a video contest. Jitka Cejkova with Martin M. Hanczyc submitted this cool movie about chemotactic and shape changing decanol droplets. Jitka presented also her Evobliss work titled“Experimental study of decanol droplets behavior in the presence of decanoate and salt”.
UNITN-Trento iGEM
Martin is an instructor in the project UNITN-Trento iGEM. UNITN-Trento iGEM team 2015 has a wonderful idea to change the way people think about Microbial Fuel Cells. We attempted to improve the MFC platform by exploiting the power of the sun and the versatility of E. coli, so we added new interesting features to build a “Solar pMFC”.
Check out the UNITN-Trento iGEM web!
Welcome in the new academic year 2015/2016!
New semester started and Martin started to teach Biochemistry :-)
3oo,ooo youtube-views of our movie!
Summer high school students in our lab
From Monday 6th of July our lab hosted three high school students for two weeks. It was our pleasure to show them how lab research is conducted. Dennis Targa is a student in Istituto Tecnico e Tecnologico Buonarroti, Massimiliano is from Istituto Marie Curie, Pergine and Simone Ferrari is from Liceo Scientifico Da Vinci.
EMN Meeting on Droplets
Jitka presented the work titled “Chemo-taxi” – oil droplets for targeted cargo delivery in the EMN Meeting on Droplets in Phuket (Thailand).
New group members
A very warm welcome to Carlotta Porcelli and Alessandro Groaz that join our group as undergraduate students and start a project on Evobot.
Evobliss Annual Meeting in Copenhagen
Group members Martin, Silvia and Jitka participate in Evobliss Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. For more information of EVOBLISS project visit its webpages.
Lab Hike
The first lab hike! The occasion to gather past and present members of the lab to hike to the top of Monte Celva: fantastic views, great picknic, and a lot of fun! Thanks all!
Langmuir paper on chemotactic droplets
In collaboration with Chobotix group from University of Chemistry and Technology Prague we have published a paper on the chemotactic movement of droplets in the prestigious journal Langmuir. Our fascinating research was also featured on the phys.org website, among many other media.