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My organizational activities focus on two aspects of the broadly defined area of biological surfaces and interfaces research: (1) lipid interfaces/lipids at interfaces; (2) blood-biomaterial interactions/material hemocompatibility.
These activities strive to fulfill two objectives: (i) nucleate/catalyze collaborations between practitioners of diverse disciplines (clinicians and scientists/engineers; biologists and physicists; etc.) working in these areas; (ii) examine bio-interfacial phenomena from the perspective of the different relevant length scales (atomic/molecular, meso, cellular, tissue/organ, etc).
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2019 FEBS Advanced Lecture Course Biological Surfaces and Interfaces: the Mechanistic View
Organizers: Marta Bally (Umeå University, Sweden) and myself, chairs.
Delphine Gourdon (Ottawa, Canada) and Chris Lorenz (King's College London, UK), vice-chairs.
The took place June 30, 2019 - July 5, 2019, at the Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
We thank invited speakers, attendees, and sponsors for the amazing meeting!
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BloodSurf2017
Blood-biomaterial interface: where medicine and biology meet physical sciences and engineering.
Co-organizer: Robert Latour (Clemson, SC).
The conference took place September 17 - 20, 2017, Madren Conference Center, Clemson, SC, USA.
Thanks for an excellent meeting, everyone!
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2017 FEBS Biological Surfaces and Interfaces Workshop on Interface Dynamics
The conference took place July 2 – 7, 2017, Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Catalonia, Spain.
Organizers: Manuel Salmerón-Sánchez (University of Glasgow, UK) and myself, chairs; Marta Bally (Umeå University, Sweden), vice-chair.
Thanks everyone - invited speakers, contributors, attendees, and sponsors – for an excellent conference!
Conference Photos are available for download here.
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BloodSurf2014: Workshop Focus on the Blood-Biomaterial Interface: Surface Analysis meets Blood Compatibility, November 3 - 7, 2014, at La Villa Clythia, Fréjus, France.
Co-organizers: Anouk Galtayries (ParisTech/France), Giacomo Ceccone (EU-JRC, Italy), Miguel Manso (Madrid, Spain), Morgan Alexander (Nottingham, UK).
This meeting brought together scientists from the clinical and the physicochemical side of the blood-biomaterial interface in order to examine the current state of affairs and explore promising new research directions in the field of blood compatibility, where some half a century of research has not yielded an understanding of the blood-biomaterial interactions at the level required for the design of a hemocompatibile material.
The result of this meeting was a special issue of Biointerphases on blood-biomaterial interactions and a review article in Blood Reviews: Stirred, shaken, or stagnant: what goes on at the blood-biomaterial interface.
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Physics Meets Biology at the Cell Membrane: the Iberian Membrane Biophysics Colloquium.
Co-organizer: Marisela Velez (CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, Madrid, Spain).
The aim of this meeting was to bring together physicists and biologists working on cell membranes. The meeting featured renown international researchers. It took place at CIC biomaGUNE in September 2013. Sponsors included Foundacion Ramon Areces, Department
of Education of the Basque Government, and industrial partners.
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FEBS international combined practical and lecture courses on the Physical Chemistry of Biointerfaces, PhysChemBio - 2010 and 2012.
Co-organizers: Ralf Richter (CIC biomaGUNE), Marisela Velez (CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, Madrid, Spain).
These two workshops provided the attendants (graduate students working in the broadly defined area of soft interfaces) with a thorough overview
of basic concepts from physics, chemistry, and biology that form the foundations of the interdisciplinary field of biointerfaces and
illustrated how these concepts are applied in everyday research.
Both workshops took place at CIC biomaGUNE, S. Sebastian, Spain, featured an eclectic mix of senior and young international researchers,
and were supported by the (Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS),
Department of Education of the Basque Government, Max Planck Society, and a number of industrial sponsors.
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