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Senda Jimenez (Idibell)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Following cardiac injury, mammals are unable to regenerate the affected tissue and instead form a fibrotic scar to preserve mechanical function. In contrast, zebrafish possess the remarkable capacity to fully regenerate the damaged area within 30 days post-injury.
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The extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an essential role in this regenerative process. Using high-resolution mechanical measurements... -
Nisha Pawar Chauhan (Senior Posdoctoral Scientist at Institute for Bioengineering of catalonia)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Soft matter systems exhibit dynamic structural fluctuations that govern their mechanical properties and functionality across biological, colloidal, and polymeric materials. However, probing these nanoscale fluctuations in liquid environments with high spatial and temporal resolution remains a significant experimental challenge. Here, we present a framework that combines Liquid Transmission...
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Dr Jose L. Jordá (Instituto de Tecnología Química (UPV-CSIC))03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
INTRODUCTION
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Structural deformations in zeolites during adsorption processes have been previously reported for materials such as MFI [1], RHO [2], AlPO-LTA [3], or AlPO-CHA [4]. These changes are typically associated with an increase in adsorption capacity above a certain pressure, as evidenced by the presence of steep steps in the adsorption isotherm. Such behavior is often linked to... -
Damià Garriga Rigau03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The BL06-XAIRA beamline is the microfocus macromolecular crystallography (MX) instrument at the ALBA synchrotron, that just accomplished its first year of User Operation.
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XAIRA currently delivers a highly stable, intense X-ray beam of 4 × 3 µm2 (FWHM at 1 Å wavelength) in the energy range of 4.0 to 14 keV, specifically tailored for demanding structural biology projects. This high-flux beam is... -
Carlo Marini03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
BL16 NOTOS bridges the gap between X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) by enabling sequential, quasi-simultaneous measurements on a single sample. This multimodal approach provides a comprehensive picture of material evolution: operando XAS offers element-specific sensitivity to monitor oxidation states and local coordination changes, while operando XRD provides...
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Dimitrios Chatzogiannakis03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Combining two active materials in a single electrode is an established strategy to improve lithium-ion battery performance, reduce cost, and tailor properties such as the voltage profile and thermal stability [1,2,3]. Many commercial EVs employ blended positive electrodes (e.g., NMC–LMO, where NMC is LiNiₓMnᵧCozO₂, x+y+z = 1, and LMO is LiMn₂O₄) and negative electrodes (e.g.,...
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Caori Organista Castelblanco03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Within the ALBA Life Sciences Section, current efforts focus on establishing a multi-scale, multi-technique imaging strategy to map biological systems across hierarchical levels—from cells to tissues, and from tissues to whole organisms. The Fast X-ray Tomography and Radioscopy beamline (FaXToR) is central to this vision, offering a dedicated hard X-ray µCT instrument for morphological...
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Prof. Manuel Valiente (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is gaining rapidly growing interest in environmental and food-related research because it provides element-specific, atomic-scale insight into complex, real-world materials—a capability few other techniques can offer. This makes XAS uniquely suited for studying contaminants, nutrients, catalysts, and structural changes in biological, agro-food matrices, and...
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Yan Gao (ICMAB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Aqueous Zn–MnO₂ batteries involve complex reaction processes during operation, including deposition/dissolution of the MnO₂-based electrode and zinc-containing species, and possible generation of side products. Understanding these material transformations under working conditions is essential for clarifying the reaction mechanism and degradation pathways of this battery system.
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Ravi Ranjan03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
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Vlad Martin-Diaconescu03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Since 2013 CLAESS offered access to x-ray absorption and x-ray emission spectroscopy to a wide user community, running in a regime of around 50 experiments per year, most of them addressing key social challenges. The main focus on catalysis, energy related materials, environmental science, and solid-state physics resulted in the development of dedicated setups, optimized experimental...
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Mario López Martín (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Bacterial quorum sensing (QS) is a cell-to-cell communication with a central role in the virulence of several high-priority pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Acinetobacter baumannii. Degradation of the mediator signal, N-acyl-L-homoserine lactones (AHLs) in Gram-negative bacteria, is an attractive approach to develop alternative antibacterial treatments. Moreover,...
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Joana Albi Puig (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
De novo protein enables the creation of novel structures of stable protein structures that exceed those found in nature. However, designing antibody-like scaffolds that combine stability with functional versatility remains a major challenge, constrained by the conserved β-sandwich architecture of immunoglobulin (Ig) domains and designing functional loop regions.
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Marina Armengol Profitós03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The high photon flux and energy tunability of synchrotron facilities provide a clear advantage for the characterization of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) processes. A mobile custom-built ALD reactor (ALD2) has been developed at the ALBA Synchrotron to enable in situ monitoring of film growth using, up to now, two X-ray-based techniques: Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) at...
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Francesco Minati (Sapienza University of Rome)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Trigonal PtBi₂ has emerged as a compelling platform for studying the interplay between crystal symmetry, topology, and superconductivity [1,2,3]. In this noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetal, the absence of inversion symmetry and strong spin–orbit coupling give rise to topological surface states, while superconducting signatures appear to be strongly inhomogeneous from the nano- to the microscale...
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Pol Pérez Quer03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Improving the performance of rechargeable batteries in terms of energy density, lifetime, and reliability requires a detailed understanding of the electrochemical processes governing electrode behaviour at the atomic and electronic scales. Charge compensation in layered oxide cathodes typically involves multiple redox-active centres, most notably transition metals such as Mn and Ni, whose...
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112. Element-specific and real-space view of complex magnetism in the kagome Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2Abdul-Vakhab Tcakaev (EP IV, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Co3Sn2S2 is a prototypical magnetic kagome Weyl semimetal in which broken time-reversal symmetry, strong spin–orbit coupling, and kagome-derived electronic structure generate a large Berry-curvature-driven response, resulting in an unusually large intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity [1]. Since the Weyl-node configuration and the associated Berry curvature depend sensitively on the magnetic...
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Ms Eva Estevan Morió (IBMB-CSIC), Ms Mirea Mema (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Bacterial flagella are remarkable, highly sophisticated organelles primarily evolved for motility. These complex structures are composed of thousands of protein subunits, specifically flagellin, arranged in a helical filament. Intrigued by our discovery that several bacterial species naturally possess proteolytic domains on their flagellar surface, effectively transforming their flagella into...
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Federico Cova (ALBA CELLS)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The Fast X‑ray Tomography and Radioscopy (FaXToR) beamline at the ALBA synchrotron is a dedicated beamline for high‑speed micro‑tomography in the hard‑X‑ray regime (10–70 keV). Powered by a short in‑vacuum multipole wiggler, FaXToR delivers both filtered white and monochromatic beams with a maximum transverse size of 36 mm × 14 mm at the sample position, located 36 m downstream from the...
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Tanja Ducic03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Glioblastoma (GBM) is among the most aggressive and heterogeneous human cancers, characterized by complex molecular alterations, extensive cellular diversity, and limited therapeutic options. Understanding GBM progression and treatment response requires analytical approaches capable of connecting molecular composition with cellular organization and tissue-like complexity across multiple...
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Carlos Josué Alvarez Quispe (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
NTF2-like proteins are compact α+β fold domains with cone-shaped architectures and internal pockets that provide versatile scaffolds for the de novo design of ligand-binding proteins and enzymes. A persistent challenge, however, is that engineering functional binding pockets often destabilizes the protein, creating a trade-off between stability and function. Here, we show that this trade-off...
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Miguel Roselló González (Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP-CSIC))03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The serious problems derived from the presence and accumulation of organic pollutants in waters has led in recent years to the use of new porous materials for their detection and capture [1]. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as ideal candidates for such purposes due to their high permanent porosity, stability and great chemical versatility, including the potential for...
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Deepak Dagur03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
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Aleix Tarrés Solé03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Antibiotic resistance causes over one million deaths annually worldwide and poses an increasing threat to healthcare systems. Its rapid spread is largely driven by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) through bacterial conjugation, a process that disseminates resistance and virulence genes. In Bacillus subtilis, gene expression from conjugative plasmid pLS20 is regulated by a two-factor response...
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CoDI Development Team (ALBA)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CoDI) beamline is under development as part of the ALBA II upgrade to provide a dedicated platform for high-throughput, multimodal in situ and operando nanotomography. Exploiting the increased coherent flux and brightness of ALBA II, CoDI will operate over an energy range of 4–25 keV and is designed for samples up to approximately 500 µm in size, enabling...
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Marc González Cuxart (ICN2)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Scanning tunnelling microscopy-induced luminescence (STML) enables optical spectroscopy with atomic-scale spatial resolution by probing plasmonic excitations within the tip–sample nanocavity [1]. Here, we investigate the optical response of atomically thin Bi layers grown on Ag(111), materials with intriguing electronic and optical properties for nanoscale optoelectronics, plasmonics and...
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François Fauth (ALBA-CELLS)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The Material Science and Powder Diffraction beamline (BL04-MSPD) [1] has acquired sound expertise in performing Synchrotron X-ray Powder Diffraction (SXRPD) experiments on Operando batteries. Since 2014, ~200 experiments of this type have been conducted on MSPD by users from all Europe, resulting in almost equal number of per review publications. The low noise and fast readout 1D position...
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Emily Ji Lam03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Porto-Sinusoidal Vascular Disease (PSVD) is a life-threatening chronic liver disorder, primarily driven by severe portal hypertension complications [1]. Currently, definitive clinical diagnosis relies on the identification of specific and non-specific non-cirrhotic histological microvascular lesions, such as the progressive obliteration of intrahepatic portal venules (OPV) and portal vein...
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Mercè Llugany Ollé (Plant Physiology Group (BABVE), Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB))03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Massive accumulations of pelagic Sargassum along Atlantic and Caribbean coastlines pose a growing environmental and socio-economic burden and, at the same time, constitute an abundant renewable feedstock for high-value bio-based products. The European MSCA Staff Exchanges project SARGEX works to advance the sustainable valorisation of this marine biomass through the identification of valuable...
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54. Multipoint Interfacial Anchoring Enables Cycling-Assisted Lithium-Storage Kinetics in CoNi@MXeneZeyan Li (University of Barcelona)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
High-rate lithium-ion storage requires anodes with fast charge transport, accessible ion pathways, and stable interfaces. Here, an alkalization-assisted electrostatic self-assembly strategy is used to construct CoNi@MXene, in which Co/Ni hydroxide/oxide-like nanodomains are anchored on Ti3C2Tx MXene through deprotonated oxygen-containing surface sites. This multipoint interfacial anchoring...
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Eduardo Solano03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Since entering user operation during ALBA phase I, the NCD-SWEET beamline has established itself as a high-performance and versatile platform, providing SAXS, WAXS, GISAXS, and GIWAXS capabilities to a broad scientific community. The beamline supports a wide range of in situ and operando experiments through flexible sample environments and enables correlative workflows with complementary X-ray...
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Alba Cazorla Moreno (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC))03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Ph-BTBT-Cn derivatives have attracted significant attention for their good electrical performance in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) [1]. As asymmetric small organic molecules, in thin films they exhibit a pronounced tendency toward polymorphism, including the formation of metastable phases and liquid crystalline phases upon thermal annealing [2, 3]. Although such rich thermal...
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Alejandro Ramo-Irurre (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC))03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Prussian Blue Analogues (PBAs) have attracted considerable interest as cathode materials for next-generation sodium-ion and multivalent batteries due to their open framework, rapid ion diffusion, structural versatility, and low cost synthesis. However, the role of structural water and its influence on electrochemical performance remains incompletely understood. Here, we combine operando...
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Dr Amir Sayid Hassan ROZATIAN (University of Isfahan)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
For hundreds of years paper has been the main material for recording cultural achievements around the world. Paper is mostly made up of cellulose with small amounts of organic and inorganic additives, which allow its identification and characterisation and may also contribute to its degradation. Prior to 1850 AD, paper was made entirely from rags, using hemp, flax and cotton fibres. At around...
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Arnau Martínez Pérez (BCN-MEDTECH, University Pompeu Fabra)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Tissue microstructure dictates organ function, therefore a rigorous characterization of tissue architecture is imperative for understanding healthy and pathological processes [1]. While Synchrotron X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging (X-PCI) offers high-resolution, high-contrast and non-destructive 3D imaging of cardiac microstructure [2], the massive data volumes and complexity of these acquisitions...
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Emigdio Chavez Angel (ICN2)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
This work presents a new environmental photon-scanning probe microscopy platform at the ALBA Synchrotron, designed to enable correlative experiments under controlled atmospheres and operando conditions. The facility integrates a micro-Raman spectrometer with an optically coupled atomic force microscopy head, providing advanced capabilities for multimodal characterization. The micro-Raman...
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Saad Ali03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Dissolution of redox-active organic electrode materials into the electrolyte is a major limitation for the long-term stability of organic batteries. However, directly monitoring dissolved species during battery operation remains challenging because conventional ex situ measurements cannot fully capture their temporal and spatial evolution. In this work, we present a spatially resolved operando...
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Nicolas Candau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Strain-induced crystallization (SIC) is a key mechanism governing the performance of many elastomeric systems, influencing their mechanical reinforcement, thermal response, fatigue resistance, and functional properties. In this work, we present recent results obtained at the BL11-NCD-SWEET beamline of the ALBA Synchrotron using in situ wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) during thermomechanical...
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Arturo Rodríguez Banqueri (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Massive, catalytically active protein cages are exceptionally rare in nature. The oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis secretes zuzalysin (ZUZ), a virulence metallopeptidase that undergoes a calcium-triggered hierarchical assembly. Activated via a cysteine-switch mechanism, ZUZ pentamers sequentially organize into bipentamers, tripentamers, and a colossal, virus-like ≈5.6-MDa dodecahedral...
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Dr Laura Mariño Puertas (CSIC IBMB)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The 20S proteasome is a compartmentalized protease that ensures controlled proteolysis and safeguards cell protein homeostasis in all kingdoms of Life. Proteasome activity is mainly regulated by ATPase activators that cap its extremities, although alternative energy-independent activators have been described and shown to play important roles. Here, we report the discovery of a novel...
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Wendy Camila Anzola Muñoz (PhD Student at ALBA)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Optimizing auxin-mediated plant development is critical for global food security, as this phytohormone regulates plant architecture and environmental adaptation. This process relies on a chromatin-based regulatory switch in which activator Auxin Response Factors (ARFs), particularly AtARF5/MONOPTEROS, recruit the BRAHMA (BRM) ATPase-associated SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex to modulate...
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Vitaliy Mykhaylyk (Diamond)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
X-ray crystallography has become an essential technique for obtaining primary structural information on protein-ligand interactions, guiding the design of new drugs. However, determining the precise binding mode of ligands to proteins can be challenging, especially when ligands adopt multiple orientations or exhibit low occupancy in binding sites due to weak affinity—conditions common during...
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Elias Garcia Echeverria03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Dry reforming of methane (DRM) represents an attractive route to simultaneously valorize CH₄ and CO₂ through the production of synthesis gas (CH₄+CO₂ → 2H₂+2CO). In this work, monometallic and bimetallic Co–Ir catalysts supported on CeO₂ were studied. The catalysts were prepared by ball milling (BM) and incipient wetness impregnation (IWI), and their catalytic performance was related to the...
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Martina Cots Costa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Background and Aims
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most important approaches to treat cancer, but normal tissue tolerance limits the delivery of curative doses to the tumour. By using dose distributions that differ from the flat profiles employed in conventional RT, spatially fractionated radiotherapy (SFRT) techniques have demonstrated a remarkable capacity to spare normal tissue...
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Michael Joachim Ulrich Foerster03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The Photoemission Electron Microscope (PEEM) of the ALBA synchrotron is a versatile surface characterization tool for x-ray nanospectroscopy and spectromicroscopy [1]. It uses photoemitted electrons to form an image of the sample under synchrotron radiation and provides elemental, chemical and magnetic contrast through the tunable x-ray energy and polarization. XPEEM magnetic combines high...
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Mr Juan S. Ramírez Larrota (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the principal guardian of mucosal surfaces, acting as the primary defense against pathogens. To successfully colonize the human body, several bacteria have evolved peptidases that specifically cleave antibodies, uncoupling antigen recognition from immune effector functions. While most of these enzymes exclusively target the hinge region of the IgA1 subclass, the...
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Samuele Austoni03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The protein interactome comprises the full repertoire of molecular partners of a given protein, including proteins and small molecules, within a defined cellular and physiological context. Because these interactions are dynamic and condition-dependent, interactome analysis can reveal protein function and the regulatory networks that control it. In this sense, our project focuses on Auxin...
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Tim Jacobs (II. Institute of Physics B RWTH Aachen University and JARA-FIT Germany)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Transition-metal phosphorus trisulfides (TMPS₃) are van der Waals antiferromagnets with various magnetic ground states, providing a platform for studying two-dimensional magnetism [1,2]. The compound CuCrP₂S₆ exhibits additional ferro-/antiferroelectric order caused by a vertical shift of the Cu atoms and magnetoelectric coupling [2].
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Damià Garriga Rigau03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Studying the cellular phenotype of plant cells is crucial for understanding how plants grow, develop, and respond to mutations, pathogens, or environmental stimuli. To this end, a new procedure is presented, based on the application of cryo–soft X-ray tomography (cryoSXT) on protoplasts, enabling the accurate determination of the tridimensional subcelluar structure of plant-derived cells at a...
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Elzbieta Pach (ICMAB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
The ultrafast Transient Liquid-Assisted Growth (TLAG) [1–5] presents an outstanding opportunity to fabricate low-cost, high-throughput superconducting REBa₂Cu₃O₇ (RE = Y or other rare earth elements, REBCO) films using scalable methods. TLAG enables the growth of epitaxial superconducting films at rates ranging from 100 to 5000 nm/s. However, the fast kinetics of this non-equilibrium process...
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Federico Movilla (Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Farmacia, Departamento de Fisicoquímica)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Gels can be defined as composite materials resulting from the combination of a solid (gelator) capable of generating a three-dimensional network that retains the flow of a much larger quantity of fluid due to surface tension. In particular “supramolecular gels” are an increasingly important class of new materials, defined by the ability of the molecular components to self-assemble through...
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Yubexi Correa-Marcano03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Seaweed-derived polysaccharides such as agar, alginate, carrageenan, and cellulose are increasingly incorporated into food formulations due to their technological and nutritional properties. However, their impact on the gastrointestinal digestion of other food components, in particular proteins, remains poorly understood. In this work, we investigated how different seaweed polysaccharides...
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Andrea Sorrentino03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
INTRODUCTION
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Synchrotron-based full-field soft X-ray transmission microscopy (TXM) provides ~30 nm spatial resolution combined with tunable photon energy, enabling chemical mapping via pixel-resolved X-ray absorption spectra. This technique allows the identification and quantification of chemical species independently of their crystalline state. When the absorption edge of interest lies... -
Dr Cristina Machon (IBMB-CSIC)03/09/2026, 17:40Poster
Pathogenic bacteria have evolved numerous virulence factors to overcome host defense mechanisms. Among the most effective are secreted proteolytic enzymes (proteases) that specifically target and inactivate key proteins of the human immune system, critically including protective mucosal antibodies such as Immunoglobulin A (IgA), at the host-pathogen interface. This represents a vital immune...
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Ester Boix Borràs (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain)Poster
Human RNase 2, also named the eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN), is a secretory protein of the vertebrate-specific RNase A superfamily involved in antiviral and proinflammatory cell response. Identifying ligand-binding pockets in EDN is thus relevant to structure-based drug design. By X-ray crystallography we first identified a conserved site at the protein surface binding to carboxylic...
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