August 2011

The University of Barcelona maintains its position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2011 (ARWU) published this August.

The tobacco consumption survey shows that over 25% of staff is smoker and almost half of them think about quit it someday Under the Smoke-free IDIBELL program, offered by the institute through ICO’s Control Tobacco Unit to all workers who want to quit smoking, it has been performed a poll to assess what is the snuff prevalence among IDIBELL staff and if all workers know about this support program. Quit smoking The poll

Published on PLoS ONE IDIBELL researchers have shown that several brain regions known as the Default Mode Network have activity at rest and when we induce a task, this network is disabled. Emotional or cognitive tasks Article’s reference

IDIBELL researchers show that methylation of FOXP3 factor controls Regulatory T cell immunosuppressive function A study of the Nephrology and Renal Transplantation research group of the IDIBELL demonstrates that renal transplant patients who present regulatory T cells with high expression of FOXP3 factor demethylated, both in blood or directly into the transplanted organ, have a better functional outcome of the graft. Article’s reference

Meeting of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) International Pharma Licensing Symposium (IPLS). ICC on Genomic Imprinting and Beyond. Medevice Exhibition and Biomaterials Conference. RECOMB 2011. Salón Internacional de la Química. Expoquimia. European Cancer Cluster Partening (ECCP) Interbio Summer School on Structural Biology “NMR applicactions in Protein Reseach”. Biotechnica. BIO-Europe (17th Annual International Partneting Conference). F Medica. Technology Summit & Technology Platform .