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BMBS COST Action BM1104 Mass Spectrometry Imaging: New Tools for Healthcare Research

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Published on Friday, 15 February 2013 12:21

Department of Biotechnology at the University of Rijeka is an active member of the European COST initiative on mass spectrometry imaging. Prof. Peter-Katalinić as a member of the management committee participated in the planing meeting accompanied by the workshop on multimodal imaging held at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, from 6.-8. February 2013.

Department of biotechnology will highly contribute to these goals in which a number of experiments concerning the profiling of Adriatic food and clinical samples will be designed and carried out in collaboration with the leading European academic and industrial laboratories. The results of such pioneering studies will contribute to a clear visualization of potentials of new technologies for industrial applications and their scientific and economic benefits to Croatia and, finally, serve as an impact for  inspiration of all possible stakeholders.


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Successful collaboration with industry on the development of medicinal product

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Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 12:01

Austrian company PanaCeo International Active Mineral Production GmbH has, on the basis of contract on the development of a new medicinal product, provideed two laboratories of the Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, with contemporary scientific equipment. The equipment will be used for cell culture work and in the area of analitical and preparative chemistry.



 

The mayor Vojko Obersnel has expressed his support to the student journal project

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Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 11:54

Rijeka's Mayor Vojko Obersnel has, in his support letter, accentuated the importance of publishing of the journal "Biotech - science in society" for it introduces the public with news in the world of biotechnology. Taking into account the wide applicability and scientific trends, the biotechnology study program is of great importance for the development of Rijeka and its University. The program offers careers of the future with a large market potential, says the Mayor, and the development of this scientific branch and its popularisation will most surely help to promote our city and the University.

 

Project FermFoodOmics within FP-7 delivered

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Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 11:42

Collaborative project FermFoodOmics („Traditional food and the future role of genomics, proteomics, glycomics and metabolomics in the assessment of food safety, quality and originality“) is finished and has been sent for evaluation within the program scheme FP-7. The project budget is 9.000 000€, and participants of the project proposal are the Department of Biotechnology of University of Rijeka and 12 other partner institutions from Croatia, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Denmark, Austria, France and Greece. The leader and coordinator of the project is Dr. sc. Đuro Josić from the Department of Biotechnology.


Work meeting with Sincrotrone Trieste ScPA

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Published on Sunday, 27 January 2013 14:06

Department of Biotechnology, Centre for Micro and Nano Sciences and Department of Physics from the University of Rijeka are organizing a working meeting with experts from the Sincrotrone Trieste ScPA. The purpose of the meeting is development of future collaboration platform for new analytical and imaging technologies for basic and developmental research. Meeting will take place on January, 30th 2013. at Department of Biotechnology, University Campus, 2nd floor - Meeting Room, O-207, R. Matejcic St. 2, Rijeka. Tentative program of the meeting:

 
·         10:30  Introductory notes: Pero Lučin, President of the University of Rijeka,
                     Sandra Kraljević Pavelić, organizer, Department of Biotechnology
·         10:45  Luca Gregoratti:  XPS spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy
·         10:55  Lisa Vaccari:  infrared spectromicroscopy - life science
·         11:05  Loredana Casalis: AFM – biotechnology
·         11.15  Alessandra Gianoncelli:  x-ray transmission imaging -
                     material science and life science
·         11:25  Giuliana Tromba: x-ray imaging - material & life science
·         11:35  Mladen Petravić: Analysis of food by XPS
·         11:45  Jasna Peter Katalinić: Analytical and high-throughput
                     methods for food analysis
·         11:55-12:15  Discussion and conclusion of the meeting
·         12:30  Working lunch at the University Campus
 
 
 
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