News and events

New article on Impact Journals. INSERM, UB and CNRS published an article on July's issue of Impact Journals / Oncotarget: Targeting cancer with peptide aptamers, authors: Renaud Seigneuric, Jessica Gobbo, Pierre Colas, Carmen Garrido. Click to read full article.

Aritcle on Plasmon-Assisted Optofluiidcs published on ACS Nano by Jon S. Donner, Guillaume Baffou, David McCloskey and Romain Quidant Click to read the full article

Review article on nano-tweezers by the group of Romain Quidant in a special issue focused on optical manipulation.

May 31st 2011 The June 2011 special focus issue of Nature Photonics is devoted to optical manipulation. ICFO researchers Dr. Matheu Juan, Dr. Maurizio Righini and ICREA Prof. Romain Quidant contribute with a review article about Plasmon nano-optical tweezers. Link to paper

Please find in the following link the first Newsletter for SPEDOC project.

January 2011, Andreas M. Kern and Olivier J. F. Martin from the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), published a paper on the "Excitation and Reemission of Molecules near Realistic Plasmonic Nanostructures".

December 1st and 2nd 2010, 3rd Internal Workshop and PCC Meeting. On December 1st and 2nd the SPEDOC team held the 3rd meeting which was kindly hosted by the INSERM in Dijon, France. Each partner shared the results in their correspondent deliverables.

July 5th 2010 The translational review by Seigneuric et al. published at Current Molecular Medicine RS presents key potential contributions of nanotechnology to cancer research.

November 2nd 2010 Plasmon nano-optics provides novel nanotools for bioscience and medicine

Prof. Romain Quidant, Scientific Coordinator of the SPEDOC project, reviews in the SPIE newroom (http://spie.org) recent advances on the use of gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications, towards the development of future point-of-care devices for early cancer diagnosis and cancer therapies.

EOS Conference on Optofluidics (EOSOF 2011)

International Congress Centre Munich (ICM), Germany, 23 May 2011 - 25 May 2011

Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2011 to be held in Brussels
23 - 24 February 2011 -Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Brussels Representing more than 1.500 members from industry, research and politics the Photonics21 Annual Meeting has become the major event to the European photonics community.

June 22nd 2010 SPEDOC's 3rd Internal Workshop & PCC Meetings
On December 1st and 2nd 2010, the SPEDOC team will hold the Third Internal Workshop and PCC Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by the INSERM Faculté de Médecine in Dijon, France.

April 27^th 2010 SPEDOC's first press release
SPEDOC project launches its first press release with a presentation of the main project objectives.

April 13th 2010. ICFO hosts the project kick-off meeting for SPEDOC.

The project kick-off meeting took place on January 13th, 2010 at ICFO and held the participation of representatives from the involved members,including Université de Bourgogne,France; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), from Switzerland; and the company COSINGO-Imagine Optic Spain. Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), France and The Institute of Photonic Sciences from Spain (ICFO).

June 22nd 2010 SPEDOC's 2nd Internal & PCC Meetings
On June 22nd 2010, the SPEDOC team held the Second Internal Workshop and PCC Meeting. The meeting was kindly hosted by the EPFL · Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.

March 30^th 2010 Second Internal Worshop and PCC Meetings
On June 22^nd, the Second Internal Workshop and PCC Meetings will be held at EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (www.epfl.ch)

The attendees to this meeting will be the Group Leaders as well as Post-Docs and Students involved in the project to present their progress in the deliveries planned.