Sofía Rubio, PhD student in our group, will participate in the 5th European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences (5th ECCLS), which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on June 10-12, 2013. This conference is an activity of the EuCheMS (European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) Division of Chemistry in Life Sciences.

Sofía will contribute to the conference with the poster “The same formulation, a different effect. Controlling conformation of NanoBioconjugates”.

At this major event, seven conferences took place in parallel, as well as a vast exhibition, one-to-one meetings and an industrial forum. ImagineNano gathered the global nanotechnology community, including researchers, industry policymakers and investors.

In this framework, Prof. Puntes was invited on a double feature. First, to give the talk “Detoxifying Antitumoral Drugs via Nanoconjugation: The Case of Gold Nanoparticles and Cisplatin” at the NanoBioMed conference. And secondly, to give a dissemination talk for the general public within the Societal Activities of ImagineNano: “Nanoparticles before nanotehcnology (cosmogenic, geogenic, biogenic and -unnoticed- antropogenic origin)”. Both talks took place on April 24.

NanoBioMed program and info: http://www.imaginenano.com/SCIENCE/Scienceconferences_BioNanoMed.php

Societal Activities program and info: http://www.imaginenano.com/SOCIETY/Society_Imaginenano.php

The talk will take place at IBEC, floor 11, Tower I, Baldiri Reixac 4-8, 08028 Barcelona. More information can be found at: http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/

Below follows the abstract of Víctor’s talk.

The last decade has seen the study of the properties of inogranic nanoparticles flourishing. Nanoparticles display properties that are strongly determined by both morphology and environment and in the physico-chemical context where they are immersed. As an example, note that the optical properties of gold or the magnetic properties of iron oxide at the nanoscale are modified depending on the environment without mediating any chemical reaction. Inorganic nanoparticles behave as “artificial atoms”, since their high density of electronic states -which controls many physical properties- can be extensively and easily tuned by adjusting composition, size and shape. After intense explorative research into the preparation of materials with new properties, and search of application of those novel found materials, now is time for re-designing nanoparticles properties, and in today’s context, including safety from the earlier stages of design, including both, the synthesis of the material and the application of it, as much as its fate, recycling and disposal. I would like to show results of our laboratory trying to design the nanomaterial and its application (for medicine and environmental remediation) employing the new tools for manipulation and characterization recently developed by nanotechnology.