Several NanoToxGen group members participate in the II Total Nanosafe International Conference 2024

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Past November, 2024, several NanoToxGen group members attended the II TOTAL-NANOSAFE International Conference, held at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, Portugal). Our predoctoral researchers, Lucía Ramos and Assia Touzani, performed two oral communications during the afternoon session. Lucía Ramos presented “In vitro evaluation of differently charged gold nanoparticles in neuronal cells: analysis of cell …

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Thesis Ainhoa Garayo Larrea at University of Navarra

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Last October 30th, our group coordinator Dr. Valdiglesias visited the University of Navarra (Spain) to participate as jury in the Doctoral Thesis defense of Ainhoa Garayo Larrea entitled “Epigenetic, neuroplasticity and inflammatory biomarkers of major depression and treatment response in immune cells”. After an excellent dissertation, she finally obtained her PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology …

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New NanoToxGen publication on zinc oxide nanoparticles

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Happy to share that our paper Toxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles: Cellular and behavioural effects has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere. In this last work, the effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles on glial cells and zebrafish individuals, particularly at cytogenetic and behavioural levels, are investigated. The involvement of the Zn2+ ions released from the NP …

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Participation of NanoToxGen group in the Spanish Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Meeting 2024

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Happy to share that several members of our research group attended the XXVIII Scientific Meeting organized by the Spanish Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (SEMA) from June 26-28 in Vila Real, Portugal. Our PhD researchers Assia Touzani and Lucía Ramos presented the works “Biocompatibility of platinum nanoparticles: study in neuronal cells and Drosophila melanogaster” and …

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Incrústate Program

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Last Saturday, the first Inkrustado Scientific Conference took place at Domus Museum (A Coruña, Spain). In such event, students who had participated in the last edition of the Incrústate program presented the results obtained during their stays in the CICA laboratories. Incrústate is a scientific dissemination project that seeks to inspire scientific and research vocation …

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Poster Award for our work in the EGRAPA Conference (Lithuania)

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Happy to announce that our colleague Emelyn Mathot has won the Poster Award for Young Researchers at The European Group for Research on Aging and Physical Activity (EGRAPA) conference in Kaunas, Lithuania last week, presenting our work «Are circulating inflammatory markers in older adults influenced by physical interventions?» This work stems from a collaborative effort …

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NanoToxGen team incorporates several students for the next months

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Several researchers have joined NanoToxGen team this year. Raúl Celis Zamora, exchange student from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (México), will stay with us between January and July, 2024. Carmen Teresa del Cabo Rodríguez is a student from the Master in Chemical Investigation Research and Industrial Chemistry performing her Master’s Dissertation in our lab.   Tania …

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