Cordis events

Quinoa is a highly nutritious grain identified by the UN as an essential crop to improve world food security. Pre-Columbian cultures started the domestication of quinoa about 7,000 years ago in the highland and coastal environments of the Andes where it is adapted to various...

Railway-induced ground-borne vibrations are one of the main causes of noise pollution generated by trains. Noise pollution is a serious concern for public health, causing the loss of about 1 million years of healthy life every year in the EU. This problem will probably worsen...

Regulatory processes within living cells have long been the topic of research interest and the key to understanding various diseases. The decades of studies resulted in a large body of knowledge on molecular interactions and regulatory pathways in the cells of model organisms...

Optical Frequency Comb (OFC) are laser devices which emit light in a wide spectrum consisting of equidistant peaks in frequency space. The FET project “Qombs” made major advances in high performance of the OFC by employing quantum cascade laser sources (QCL) able to...

"The project aims as developing novel thermodynamic concepts to understand quantum many-body systems when they are driven out of thermal equilibrium via the coupling to external reservoirs. In particular, we will clarify the specific resources, for thermodynamic protocols...

I believe a key challenge to reducing the uncertainty of global climate model projections is quantifying the role of submesoscale (0.1-10km, hours-days) ocean processes on the ocean-atmosphere exchange of heat and carbon in the remote Southern Ocean. In SPICE, I aim to address...

Biotherapeutics, such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), constitute an increasingly important class of molecular drugs. Accelerating our society’s access to novel biotherapeutics-based therapies and diagnostic tests for existing and new...

Cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent cause of death worldwide and half of these deaths are due to cardiac arrhythmia, a disorder of the heart's electrical synchronization system. Numerical models of this complex system are highly sophisticated and widely used, but to...

State-of-the-art metal oxide chemistry lacks the ability to predictably design materials and their properties from the atomic level upwards. This ability, however, would provide ultimate control over metal oxide structure and reactivity, leading to designer materials to...

Coordination between major cellular functions, such as transcription and proliferation, is critical to ensure cell survival. It has long been recognised that while in mitosis, cells switch-off most of their transcriptional activity. While Mitotic Transcriptional Inactivation...