CMCC: Euromediterranean Center on Climate Change CIRA(Italian Aerospace Research Centre) Meteo Systems and Instrumentation
CMCC (EuroMediterranean Centre on Climate Changes) Regional
Models and geo-Hydrological Impacts Division (REMHI) REgional Models (REM), Research Unit Leader
TITLE: Regional climate simulation with COSMO-CLM over the Mediterranean area: climate projections for the XXI century according to
the IPCC scenarios
DATE: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
TIME: 12:00
ROOM: Chemistry Seminar Room
Time:
12:00-13:00
Location:
Chemistry Seminar Room
Description:
CHEMISTRY SEMINAR
SPEAKER: Athanasios Nenes
Professor & Johnson Faculty Fellow, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Research Affiliate, Foundation for Research and
Technology – Hellas,
National Observatory of Athens, Greece
http://nenes.eas.gatech.edu
TITLE: Biomass burning as a driver of health, ecosystems and climate
We use model lipid membranes in the form of vesicles to study pH-controlled lateral lipid phase separation with the goal to direct the vesicles' surface topography and functionality, the vesicles' membrane permeability and fusogenicity. Integration of these processes on nanometer-sized lipid vesicles used as drug delivery carriers may precisely control their interactions with diseased cells increasing therapeutic efficacy while minimizing toxicities.
Two examples of improving the therapeutic potential in liposomal chemotherapy and alpha-particle radiotherapy will be presented: first, the description and demonstration of the efficacy of vesicles with 'sticky patches'. These vesicles introduce new binding geometries with isolated cell surface receptors, and enable selective targeting and effective killing of cancer cells currently reported as untargetable by today's reported nanoparticles; and second, the description of highly diffusing forms of lethal agents delivered and released within the tumor interstitium, and the demonstration of using this approach to effectively address the limited drug penetration and heterogeneous drug distributions in solid tumors that currently limit the therapeutic efficacy of these agents.
For forthcoming colloquia, please visit:
http://www.materials.uoc.gr/en/colloquia
Time:
12:00-13:00
Location:
Main Amphitheater “G. Lianis”, FORTH’s bldg
Description:
IMBB SEMINAR
Diomedes LOGOTHETIS
Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Bouve College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University, Boston
Title: "Heteromeric GPCRs involved in schizophrenia: the cases of Serotonin 2A with Glutamate type 2 or Dopamine 2 receptors"
Thursday, July 20th 2017 @ 12:00
Main Amphitheater “G. Lianis”, FORTH’s bldg