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Researchers at the CRG prove that chromatin originated in ancient microbes
In almost every human cell, two meters of DNA must fit into a nucleus that is only a few millionths of a meter in size. Like wool in a skein, this extreme challenge of space requires the DNA to wrap itself around proteins called histones. This spiral genetic...
2D-SMARTiES – José J. Baldoví
José J. Baldoví (Institute for Molecular Science, ICMol, Universitat de València) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During his project 2D-SMARTiES (Chemical Design Of Smart Molecular/2D Devices For Information Technologies) he will develop a general...
Spanish and British researchers prove the role of the male germ in the structural evolution of the genome
Analysis of the genomes of different mammals has shown that, although they all have a similar catalogue of genes, they may be ordered differently and turned on and off differently. These chromosomal rearrangements influence gene function and regulation and contribute...
MacroTaxReforms – Isaac Baley
Isaac Baley (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During his project MacroTaxReforms (The Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms) he will study the macroeconomic effects of corporate taxation and delineate and quantify the...
PIEZOZYMES – Susana Velasco
Susana Velasco (Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis, ISQCH) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During her project PIEZOZYMES (Enzymatic Piezoelectric Composites to Regenerate Redox-Cofactors driven by Mechanical Sources) she will pursue...
WINC – Sergi Abadal
Sergi Abadal (Technical University of Catalonia, UPC) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During his project WINC (Wireless Networks within Next-Generation Computing Systems), he will lay the foundations of revolutionary computing systems enabled by the...
Researchers from the Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIC-UPV) develop a new system to produce hydrogen
An international team of scientists, in which the Institute of Chemical Technology ( ITQ, a mixed centre of the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Valencia) participates, has developed a new electrified reactor to obtain hydrogen in a more sustainable and...
CET-3PO – Nadia Blagorodnova
Nadia Blagorodnova (University of Barcelona) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. During her project CET 3PO (Common Envelope Transients – Progenitors, Precursors and Properties of their Outbursts) she will study how pairs of massive stars...
DEMODRIVERS – Umberto Lombardo
Umberto Lombardo (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA‑UAB) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project DEMODRIVERS (Drivers of Demographic Dynamics) will study the patterns and drivers of human demographic dynamics in the Bolivian...
ECCO – Ángel Goñi-Moreno
Ángel Goñi-Moreno (Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, CBGP‑UPM/INIA) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. During his project ECCO (Evolutionary Cellular Computing for Environmental Synthetic Biology) , he will design and implement novel biological...
PASSAGE – Blanca Ausín
Blanca Ausín (Salamanca University, Usal) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. Her project PASSAGE (Provenance And tranSport PathwayS of mArine proxy-bearinG particlEs) will allow to accurately reconstruct past climates by identifying distorted climate signals in...
FAPoD – Sandro Shelegia
Sandro Shelegia (Pompeu Fabra University) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project FAPoD (Foundations for Antitrust and Policy on Digital Platforms) will study competition in digital platform markets. Sandro was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1980. After...
PEOPLE – Michael Toffolo
Michael Toffolo (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project PEOPLE (PalaeoEcology and OPen-LandscapE adaptations of Pleistocene humans in South Africa) will determine whether freshwater...
mayFLYeye – Isabel Almudi
Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. Her project mayFLYeye (The evolution of new organs during insects’ conquest of the sky) will study the origin of wigs and the turbinate eyes of mayfly males, a sex-specific...
InteVol – Asier Marzo
Asier Marzo (Public University of Navarre) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project InteVol (Interactions with Future Reach-Through Volumetric Displays) will produce the first volumetric display that supports direct interaction. Since Asier was a little...
HomE – Antonio J. Peña
Antonio J. Peña (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, BSC) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project HomE (Enabling Homomorphic Encryption of Deep Neural Network Models and Datasets in Production Environments) will bring machine-learning users the...
Let T Be – María Mittelbrunn
María Mittelbrunn (Center of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. Her project Let T Be (Letting up senescence and inflammaging through T cells) will study the specific molecular mechanisms and metabolic requirements of...
Spanish and British scientists discover what prevents the immune system from working normally
Scientists have long wondered what causes immune disorders in only one of two identical twins since their genes are the same. Now, a new study by the Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute (Barcelona), the Wellcome Sanger Institute (United Kingdom), and other...
COSMO-LYA – Andreu Font Ribera
Andreu Font Ribera (Institut de Física d’Altes Energie, IFAE) has obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant 2021. His project COSMO-LYA (A Cosmological Lever Arm for Fundamental Physics) will study some of the main open questions in cosmology and in particle physics. Andreu...
SCRAMBLE – Lluís Jofre Cruanyes
Lluís Jofre Cruanyes (Technical University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech, UPC) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. His project SCRAMBLE (Turbulence-On-a-Chip: Supercritically Overcoming the Energy Frontier in Microfluidics) will focus on the fundamentals of...
EpiSperm – Eva Maria Novoa
Eva Maria Novoa (Centre for Genomic Regulation, CRG) has obtained an ERC Starting Grant 2021. Her project EpiSperm (Dissecting the role of sperm transcriptome dynamics in intergenerational inheritance through native RNA nanopore sequencing) will characterize the...
European Research Council selects for funding 46 Spanish research projects
The European Research Council (ERC) is the first pan-European funding body for frontier research. The ERC’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research...
Researchers from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (CSIC-University of Valencia) measure for the first time the mass of one of the basic constituents of matter with the help of the Higgs boson
The standard model of particle physics, the theory that best describes the visible matter in the universe, predicts that many of the properties of particles have different values depending on the energy at which they are observed. This also occurs with the mass of...
Spanish and German researchers devise a new strategy to introduce substances into the cell
An international team including researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela has described a mechanism to bring bioactive agents into the cell using boron compounds that are capable of disordering water molecules and dehydrating the load they carry. In... 42 events found.
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2 events, Ángela de la Cruz : Upright 25 Mar – 06 Sept | IKON Gallery | Birmingham FREE EXHIBITION Ikon Gallery presents rarely seen works by acclaimed artist Ángela de la […]  Francisco de Zurbarán 02 May – 23 Aug 2026 | National Gallery | London The first major monographic exhibition in the UK devoted to Spanish 17th-century artist Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), […] | ||||||
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