From the 19th to the 23rd of April 2021, the ESRs took part in the second NanoCarb Spring Workshop. Initially planned in Belgium, it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel limitations. During the first day, the ESRs attended a career workshop organised by Horizons Unleashed Ltd. where ESRs gained career … Read more
Daniela Tomasino (ESR 1, RCSI), Ruth Mateu Ferrando (ESR 4, UNIMI) and Patricia Perez Schmidt (ESR 5, CNR) had the opportunity to present their work at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) Spring 2021 event. In the track of Polymer Chemistry, Daniela presented her poster “Glycosylated nanoparticles by SET-LR-PISA”. While in the track related to Carbohydrate Chemistry, Patricia discussed the use … Read more
Gizem Erol (ESR 13) from the Mario Negri Institute will participate in the annual meeting of the Milan Center for Neuroscience (NeuroMI), to be held online on Friday 18 December 2020 in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience. The event will cover six research areas, namely Biotechnologies and Nanomedicine, Clinical … Read more
The NanoCarb Autumn Workshop held last week was also the occasion for the consortium members and ESRs to discuss the progress of the project. On Wednesday and Thursday, each ESR presented the status of his/her research before receiving questions from the audience and exploring further synergies for the upcoming months. To get a taste of … Read more
This week, the ESRs, PIs and all consortium members are taking part in the second NanoCarb Autumn Workshop. Initially planned in San Sebastian, Spain, it is being held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Autumn Workshop has started with a two-day training on imaging, organised by CIC biomaGUNE and with invited speakers from the … Read more
Panagiotis Georgiou (ESR 3) from the Gibson Group at the Warwick University has received the Ottewill International Travel Scholarship from the Macro Group UK. This travel grant assists, each year, one outstanding UK-based PhD researcher in presenting their work related to polymer colloids at an international conference outside the UK. He will be attending the … Read more
On the 3rd and 4th September, NanoCarb ESRs attended an online training on paper and PhD thesis writing together with NANOSTEM ESRs. Currently in its third year, the NANOSTEM ETN project, coordinated by the Queen Mary University London, trains 14 ESRs in polymer chemistry and materials science, cell biology, pharmacology, neuroscience, nanobiotechnology and clinical sciences … Read more
During April-July 2020 Ashfaq and Panos from Warwick University have been in involved in “I’m a Scientist, Stay at home”, a UK programme for chatting with UK students and teachers. This is an online activity that helps school students stay connected with science, their teachers, and their classmates during the school summer term. The activity gets young … Read more
Panagiotis G. Georgiou (ESR 3) has been awarded a prize at the Macro group UK’s Young Researchers Meeting for his poster presentation titled “New Nanomaterial Design Principles for Biomimics“. Panagiotis is an Early Stage Researcher from the Gibson Group at the University of Warwick. His research work at NanoCarb focuses on the development of Glyco-Nanoparticle Libraries based … Read more
Last March I started my PhD on the development of a biosensing platform for lectin detection related to cerebrovascular disease using nanoplasmonics in the unit Health at VITO. In the last period I have been overwhelmed by COVID-19, just like everyone else. It came suddenly, and we had to face several challenges. Within a few … Read more