EnzOx2 will be coordinated from CIB with start date on 1st November 2016 and the goal of achieving the sustainable production of chemical building blocks and other added value products from plant biomass using enzymatic technologies.
Dr. Ginés Morata imparted the opening lecture of the “Frontiers in MCIB” master module with a conference entitled “How Drosophila can help to understand cancer?”.
The next 2nd and 3rd July the 1st Spanish Meeting of Biocatalysis (JEB15) will be celebrated in Madrid at the “Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas”(CIB)-CSIC.
The CELBICON project was launched on 14-15 March 2016 at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), the coordinating site of this new project from the EU Horizon 2020 program.
The cytoplasmic LSM1-7 complex participates in the response of plants to adverse environmental conditions originated by abiotic stresses such as freezing temperatures, drought or high salt.
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a quality control mechanism used by cells to remove aberrant mRNAs but it has been recently discovered that plays a more general role in the regulation of gene expression but controlling the decay of a subset of mRNAs, and it has a crucial role during stem cell differentiation.
Micrometric array chips have been introduce inside cells, using lipofection, and allow for monitoring cell changes inside living cells, without killing them.
The COST Action “European Network of Multidisciplinary Research and Translation of Autopahgy Knowledge”, “TRANSAUTOPHAGY”, has just been approved for the next four years, in the frame of the EU Framework Programme H2020.