BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:451@biocityturku.fi DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190404T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190404T130000 DTSTAMP:20231013T063208Z URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/frontiers-of-science-harnessing-the-pow er-of-electronics-for-biology/ SUMMARY:Frontiers of Science: Harnessing the power of electronics for biolo gy DESCRIPTION:Dr. Róisín M. Owens\, University of Cambridge\, UK\n\nHost: R onald Österbacka (ronald.osterbacka@abo.fi)\n\n \;\n\nDr. Róisín M. Owens is a University Lecturer at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and B iotechnology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham Colleg e. She received her BA in Natural Sciences (Mod. Biochemistry) at Trinity College Dublin\, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Sout hampton University. She carried out two postdoc fellowships at Cornell Uni versity\, on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in t he dept. of Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. David Russell\, and on rhinovirus therapeutics in the dept. of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Moonsoo Jin. From 2009-2017 she was a group leader in the dept. of bioelec tronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne\, on the microelectronics campus in Provence. Her current research centers on application of organic elect ronic materials for monitoring biological systems in vitro\, with a specif ic interest in studying the gut-brain-microbiome axis. She has received se veral awards including the European Research Council starting (2011)\, pro of of concept grant (2014) and consolidator (2016) grants\, a Marie Curie fellowship\, and an EMBO fellowship. In 2014\, she became principle editor for biomaterials for MRS communications (Cambridge University Press)\, an d she serves on the advisory board of Advanced BioSystems and Journal of A pplied Polymer Science (Wiley). She is author of 70+ publications and 2 pa tents. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award.\n\nIn vitro m odels of biological systems are essential for our understanding of biologi cal systems. In many cases where animal models have failed to translate to useful data for human diseases\, physiologically relevant in vitro models can bridge the gap. Many difficulties exist in interfacing complex\, 3D m odels with technology adapted for monitoring function. Polymeric electroac tive materials and devices can bridge the gap between hard inflexible mate rials used for physical transducers and soft\, compliant biological tissue s. An additional advantage of these electronic materials is their flexibil ity for processing and fabrication in a wide range of formats.(1) In this presentation\, I will discuss our recent progress in adapting conducting p olymer devices\, including simple electrodes and transistors\, to integrat e with 3D cell models. We go further\, by generating 3D electroactive scaf folds capable of hosting and monitoring cells.(2) I will also highlight re cent research using biomimetic models of cell membranes interfaced with or ganic electronic devices for drug discovery.(3)\n\nBibliography\n1. J. Riv nay et al.\, Organic electrochemical transistors. Nat. Rev. Mater. 3\, 170 86 (2018).\n\n C. Pitsalidis et al.\, Transistor in a tube: A route to th ree-dimensional bioelectronics. Sci. Adv. 4\, eaat4253 (2018).\n C. Pitsa lidis et al.\, Biomimetic Electronic Devices for Measuring Bacterial Membr ane Disruption. Adv. Mater.\, 1803130. (2018)\n CATEGORIES:BiocityTurku events LOCATION:#_LOCATIONNAME\, #_LOCATIONFULLLINE\, #_LOCATIONCOUNTRY X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=#_LOCATIONFULLLINE\, #_LOCA TIONCOUNTRY;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=#_LOCATIONNAME:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Helsinki X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Helsinki BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T040000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR