News by ByAxon 2019

II CONSORTIUM MEETING IN TRIESTE

ByAxon's Consortium has gathered in Trieste (Italy) for the 2nd Action-Check meeting. This meeting is very significant since the project is half-way through. All partners of the Consortium had the chance to discuss many interesting topics, exciting results and new ideas. 

The Action-Check meetings play an important role for the development of such an interdisciplinary project as ByAxon. Pleople from different areas of expertise -Physics, Biology, Medicine- compose our Consortium and are together in gear towards an active bypass for neural reconnection. 

BYAXON INVITED TO THE FET SEMINAR IN BRUSSELS

The project ByAxon was invited to the FET Seminar, that takes place periodically at the European Comission's premises at Covent Garden Building in Brussels. Prof. Rodolfo Miranda, researcher and PI of the project, gave an overview of the goals and progress of the project followed by a discussion and questions. 

BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK AT THE HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLEJICOS

Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos has opened its doors to the public during the Brain Awareness Week. In the image, our partner Ana Domínguez explains to the visitors what is ByAxon project and how can help the spinal cord injury patients. 

The Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign of the DANA Foundation to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Every March, the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos joins the campaign with multiple activities. 

STUDENTS GET TO KNOW BYAXON AT MADRID SCIENCE FAIR

  

More than 40.000 people have visited the Madrid Science Fair during four days (28^th-31^st March). This fair is organized jointly with AULA, the biggest education fair in Spain. The institute IMDEA Nanociencia, coordinator of the project ByAxon, has participated with a stand where the visitors have got to know the research activities of the institute and the importance of that research has in our lives. 

The fair was an excellent opportunity for ByAxon project to showcase its aims and goals. Our partners Beatriz, Sergio and Elena presented with an interactive poster the project to the visitors. It is estimated that over 100 visitors of all ages engaged actively with the poster, which constitutes a success of the dissemination activity. 

CSIC + IMDEA RESEARCHERS AT 2019 EMRS SPRING MEETING

  

Our partners Ana Domínguez (ICMM-CSIC) and Beatriz Rodilla (IMDEA) have contributed to the 2019 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Nice, France, to present their works on ByAxon project. The meeting is the 37th of the series and took place from May 27-31 with over 1000 international attendants. 

BYAXON AT THE EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS WORKSHOP

  



Our partners Ana Domínguez (ICMM-CSIC), Ana Arché and Beatriz Rodilla (IMDEA) have presented their research at the Early Stage Researchers Workshop in Nanoscience, held at IMDEA Nanociencia (Madrid) on the 26-27th June 2019. 

The worshop, aimed to young scientists, gathered 120 attendants from several research institutions in Spain. Our partners had the opportunity to present their works around the project ByAxon to a large audience and discuss with the scientific community about their results. Ana Domínguez contributed with an oral presentation, while Beatriz Rodilla and Ana Arché presented a poster. 

Our partner Beatriz Rodilla won the prize to the Best Poster Presentation, awarded with a voucher by the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale. Congratulations!

A NEW WAY OF COMMUNICATING FET RESEARCH

  
ByAxon project is committed to scientific communication and society's engagement with science. Therefore, we have proposed a novel way of interacting with the public through an interactive poster. The poster, which is permanent at the entrance of the buildings of the project's partners, intends to communicate in an attractive way the aims of our project, as well as provide contact information for interested public.


In the photos, they are our partners Arturo and Vicente (IMDEA) and Denis and Riccardo (SISSA). The poster is also available at the building halls of GREYC, Hospital of Paraplegics of Toledo, as well as at the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. 
 
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BYAXON PARTICIPATES IN FUTURE TECH WEEK

  

Future Tech Week is an initiative of the European Innovation Council Pathfinder in order to provide a snapshot of what is currently brewing in Europe's tech sphere and the science that creates tomorrow's technologies. 

The project ByAxon will participate with a a face-to-face open-lab activity. "Connect the neuron" will be hosted by the coordinator IMDEA Nanociencia and ICMM-CSIC. Scientists from both institutions will provide to people from all ages an insight to the scientific research and project outputs of our project ByAxon. 

The event is free and open to all public. Register to attend now.

 
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BYAXON AT THE NATIONAL MEETING OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY OF NEUROSCIENCE

  
Last week, partners from SESCAM -Francisco Ankor González and Elisa López- plus partners from CSIC -Ana Domínguez and M. Concepción Serrano- attended the biannual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience (SENC) to present their poster entitled "Metallic nanoelectrodes as biocompatible neural interfaces", being co-authors of the work partners from IMDEA (B. Rodilla, A. Arché, R. Miranda, T. González, J. Camarero, L. Pérez). 

The 18th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Neuroscience took place in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) from September 4th to 6th, 2019. It has been attended by about 500 clinicians, researchers and students. 
 
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II REVIEW MEETING: BYAXON IS HALF WAY THROUGH

ByAxon's Consortium gathered for the half-time review in Brussels. We thank to the reviewers and the project officer for very productive discussions for our next half way ahead. 

THE FEMALE BYAXON RESEARCHERS THINK OVER GENDER BALANCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

The scientists from the ByAxon project have been interviewed by the FETFX team as part of International Women’s Day and give their views about gender balance in FET* projects. The scientists have mused about the theme #BalanceforBetter and how gender diversity have help them in their academic projects.

One thing that stands out about the ByAxon project is that five out of six principal investigators, i.e. leaders of this STEM project in their institution, are women. Even though the overall gender balance is similar to other EU projects, the number of women leaders is above the average. The full interview can be read in the website of FETFX.

FETFX, or EFFECT, is a project funded by the HORIZON 2020 FET-Open Programme with the aim of enhancing the visibility and impact of FET research. EFFECT will accomplish this by strengthening the involvement in the FET world of researchers, policy makers, industrial players, the media and the public, via fresh, impact-driven communication materials and engaging community-building actions. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 FET Programme under grant agreement No. 824753.

OUR WEBSITE IS NOMINATED FOR THE .EU WEB AWARDS

The .eu Web Awards are an online competition designed to acknowlede the best websites using the .eu extension. 

This website is now nominated for the Awards on "Laurels" category. If you have enjoyed the content of this website, please consider giving us a vote: 
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BYAXON IN THE PUBS - PINT OF SCIENCE 2019

  

The project ByAxon has been the star at the "Tech me out" sessions of Pint of Science in Spain. Mª Concepción Serrano (ICMM-CSIC) and Lucas Pérez (IMDEA Nanociencia) have participated this Wednesday 22^nd of May on two different meetings in the cities of Madrid and Toledo, respectively. In both cases, the pubs helding the event had a full house, about 150 attendees in total. Our researchers Serrano and Pérez demonstrated their excellent skills in science communication and in turn, the public responded with a prolific questions session. 

Pint of Science was an initiative of two researchers at Imperial College (London) that quickly reached the category of Festival in UK in 2013. From that year on, the Festival has been held in an increasing number of cities around the globe. This year 2019, over 300 cities from 24 countries have participated in Pint of Science. 

BYAXON AT FELASA CONGRESS 2019

  

Our partners mfd-Diagnostics have attended the FELASA Congress in Prague, Czech Republic. mfd-Diagnostics sales manager Frank Günther presented a poster of ByAxon at the exhibition on 10-13th June 2019.

FELASA is the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations which represents over 4000 specialists in the field of laboratory animal science. The FELASA trienial congress gathers around 2000 participants from 28 countries to share the current knowledge on the use and welfare of animals in experiments, ethical aspects, legislation and education. 

 
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GET TO KNOW BYAXON PROJECT

  

Students from the Summer Course "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" of Alcalá de Henares University (Madrid) visited the "Neural Interfaces" laboratory at IMDEA Nanociencia, where ByAxon researchers explained the aims of the project. The post-doc and PhD students Isidoro Martínez, Beatriz Rodilla, Arturo Vera and Ana Arché engaged with the students in two parallel groups to show the nanostructure of the bypass and the magnetic sensory part of the device. 

 
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LUIZ GUILHERME RECEIVES THE BEST POSTER PRIZE AT ESM2019

  
Luiz Guilherme (PhD student at GREYC lab) has receive the prize for the best poster presentation at the European School of Magnetism (ESM2019) for his contribution with ByAxon project results. 

The school took place from Sep. 2nd to Sep. 13th in Brno, Czech Republic. The 2019 school aimed at providing a thorough understanding of a magnetism based on a broad series of fundamental lectures. Also, it wa an excellent opportunity for young scientists to meet and share their expertise.

Congratulations Luiz!
 
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BYAXON RESEARCHERS CELEBRATE EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS' NIGHT

Researchers from the project ByAxon celebrated the European Researchers' Night in the open-doors day at IMDEA Nanociencia. Mª Concepción Serrano (ICMM) and Lucas Pérez (IMDEA) welcomed a group of interested people with two talks about spinal cord injury and possibilities that science could bring to aid this condition.



After the welcome, the visitors got involved with researchers in two hands-on workshops directly at the research labs facilities at IMDEA Nanociencia. 

The European Researchers' Night is a scientific dissemination project promoted by the European Commission within the Marie Sktodowska-Curie action of the Horizon 2020 programme. The Night takes place simultaneously in more than 371 European cities since 2005 every last Friday in September. This year, ERN activities at IMDEA Nanociencia were included within the Future Tech Week. 

CONSORTIUM GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN TOLEDO

  
The Consortium of ByAxon has gathered in Toledo (Spain) at Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos for its general assembly. During the two-day meeting, researchers have had the opportunity to share their latests results and discuss on the progress of the project. 


In the picture, our principal researchers of ByAxon project. From left to right: Teresa González (IMDEA), Mª Concepción Serrano (ICMM-CSIC), Laurence Mechin (GREYC), Laura Ballerini (SISSA), Elisa López (Hospital Parapléjicos) and Carmen Huck (MFD). Photo credit: Juan Carlos Monroy Escalona (photographer at Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos). 



After the meeting, all partners had the chance to visit the premises of the hospital and share a networking evening together around Toledo. 

 
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