Today we highlight…
First 3D map of ovary throughout reproductive lifespan reveals it counts its own eggs
Despite same rearing conditions and identical DNA, mice have very different egg reserves, yet keep the same constant fraction of them ready for activation throughout their entire lives
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The space between neurons: a territory to explore to understand brain aging and diseases such as Parkinson's
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Research by Sergi Padilla Named to The 1% by QED Science
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Sugar Detected in Interstellar Space for the First Time
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BBDG Seminar: "Cellular Mechanisms of Oropouche Virus Replication, Egress, and Immune Evasion"
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EuroBioImaging Bilbao Node Seminars: July 6, 2026, 11:00h & 12.15h - Julia Fernández-Rodríguez
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BBDG Seminar: "Lipid control of mitochondrial fission"
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Biofisika Institute strengthens its European leadership with an ERC Advanced Grant for researcher David Albesa
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IWDS'26 – International Workshop on Dynamical Systems 2026
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EuroBioImaging Bilbao Node Seminar: "Strategies in light sheet microscopy for imaging fast dynamics in biomedical samples"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Structural and biophysical characterization of the ToSS-dependent pore forming toxins Tse4 and Tke5 from Pseudomonas"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Extending the Role of Calmodulin in KV7 channels, Folding, Redox Modulation and PIP2-dependent Gating"
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A key discovery reveals how neurons recycle a nutrient essential for brain communication
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BBDG Seminar: "Embryo size control"
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May 24: National Epilepsy Day. A molecular key that protects the brain: how the Biofisika Institute is researching neonatal epilepsy
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BBDG Seminar: "Portrait of a diseased protein: pathogenic variants in the multienzymatic CAD complex"
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Researcher Ignacio Arganda-Carreras Wins the Data Analysis in Imaging (DAIM) Award
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Unveiling the Structure and Mechanism of Action of Pseudomonas Effector Tse5"
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Two researchers from the Biofisika Institute among Spain’s most influential female scientists
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural biology of virus-host interactions"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cell membrane tension dynamics and cellular processes: from bacteria to B-cells"
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BBDG Seminar: "A minimal human ESCRT-Ill system to mimic HIV-1 detachment"
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IBF welcomes Sergi Padilla-Parra as a new Ikerbasque professor
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The space between neurons also “thinks”. A study reveals how its shape influences brain communication
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BBDG Seminar: "Structure-Guided Design of Artificial Glycopeptides for Cancer Immunotherapy and Diagnostics"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative structural biology of a T=219 marine giant virus"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cardiomyocyte dynamics: from low dimensional to realistic models"
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The Biofisika Institute will investigate how certain viruses turn our cells into “viral factories” thanks to a European project funded by the Wellcome
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BBDG Seminar: "Phase-Separating Peptides as a Universal Platform for Intracellular Delivery of Macromolecular Therapeutics"
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A Basque consortium of researchers is studying why mutations in a certain protein alter brain development in children with a rare disease
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BioForo Seminar: "Genomics revolution: insights into the role of plasmids as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance and virulence"
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Biofisika Institute takes part in the launch of EuroBioImaging Spain
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Bilbao to Host International Bunyavirus 2026 meeting from July 8–10
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2026: Students Visit the Instituto Biofisika
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Protein ring discovered that coordinates “conversation” between cells
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The Spanish Biophysical Society highlights a study by the Molecular Microwave Spectroscopy Group of the IBF
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A bacteria ally of crops reveals its “secret weapon” against plant pathogens
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BBDG Seminar: "Scaling laws in cancer and some clinical applications"
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BioForo Seminar: “Magnetic Resonance Imaging applications for the study of the CNS”
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BioForo Seminar: "Divergent Effects of APOE3 and APOE4 Human Astrocytes on Key Alzheimer's Disease Hallmarks in Chimeric Mice"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Design and Development of Engineered Antibody Formats for Targeted Cancer Therapy"
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BBDG Seminar: "Avidity and multi-specificity combined for antibodies against infectious diseases"
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**Cancelled** BBDG Seminar: “How to publish in the Nature Portfolio: tips and tricks for a successful publication”
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Biofisika Institute contributes to uncovering the dynamic inner workings of nuclear pore complexes
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Structural insights into a conserved mechanism of choline translocation and a distinct chaperonin-mediated protein folding cycle"
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The IBF participates in the CSIC's Second Conference on Large Researching Infrastructures
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Epithelial response to stretch during Drosophila dorsal closure: Emergence and control of deformation and polarization patterns"
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IBF joins Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka
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BBDG Seminar: "Revealing Native Cellular Landscapes through Correlative Cryo- 3DSIM, Cryo-SXT, and Cryo-ET"
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New strategies against HIV through antibody engineering
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BBDG Seminar: "Thinking about group transfer potential at the emergence of metabolism"
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BioForo Seminar: "Neurogenesis and transcriptomics provide a new understanding on brain evolution"
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BBDG Seminar: "Molecular mechanism of lipid droplet biogenesis"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative visual proteomics: Bridging cryoET with physics-based simulations for biological discovery"
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BioForo Seminar: "Spatio-temporal dynamics of secretory protein export"
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BioForo Seminar: "Unconventional strategies to inactivate oncogenic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase fusions"
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BioForo Seminar: "The Dance of Division: Coordinated Reassembly of NE and ER for a Stable Genome"
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BBDG Seminar: "Nanopipette robotics for multiparametric imaging and manipulation of living cells"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Mecanismo de retrotransporte del virus del papiloma humano mediado por Retrómero"
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New Preprint Reveals Mitochondrial Proteostasis Mechanisms Using Cryo-EM Data from BREM
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BBDG Seminar: "Nuclear Transport and mRNA Maturation & Export"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Computational developments for cryoelectron tomography applied on membrane proteins"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Rotational spectroscopy as a powerful chemical tool in the study of bioactive molecules"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "From Ancestral GTPases to Modern Membrane Scission: Evolutionary and Regulatory Insights into Dynamins Function"
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural insights into mitochondrial membrane shaping"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-electron tomography for comprehensive visual proteomics"
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BioForo Seminar: "Evolution of epithelial states in development, fibrosis and cancer"
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Prof. Félix M. Goñi, a Pioneer in Membrane Biophysics, retires
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BioForo Seminar: "Filling gaps in ether lipid biosynthesis and its evolution in eukaryotes from studying a bacterial response to light"
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BBDG Seminar: "Intersystem signaling, regulation, and synergistic antiviral activity in a CBASS-CRISPR-Cas antiviral defense island"
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BBDG Seminar: "From Molecular Motors to Mycobacterial Mechanisms"
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BioForo Seminar: "The Fusion of Quantitative Molecular Proteomics and Immune oncology: A Step towards Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapeutics"
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Edurne Rujas receives the "Enrique Pérez-Payá–Prospera Biotech & BCN Peptides" award for young researchers in biophysics
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BBDG Seminar: "Enzymatic Mechanisms of Peptide Hydrolysis Revealed by QM/MM Simulations: Insights from Mucinases and Toxins"
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"Processes & Materials for Life" symposium
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BBDG Seminar: "Biophysical Alterations of Organelle Membranes in Rare Lysosomal Storage Diseases"
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BBDG Seminar: "3D animation for integrative modeling of complex molecular mechanisms"
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BBDG Seminar: "Integrative Imaging to Understand HIV-1 Env dynamics"
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BioForo: "Focus on glial cells: New gene therapy approaches for retinal diseases"
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Workshop: “Diffusion in biological systems”
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Daniel Castaño talks about "Electrons to visualize cells" on the podcast "Oscilador Armónico"
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BioForo: "Is brain myelin an energy source/store?"
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IBF Seminar: "NMR across Phases: Tracking Amyloid Assembly from Liquid to Solid States"
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Marité Cárdenas talks about the Physics of Colloids on the podcast "Oscilador Armónico".
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Interview with Iban Ubarretxena in "El Diario Vasco" newspaper
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Manuel Fanega, General Manager of the Biofisika Institute, interviewed by Spanish National Radio (RNE)
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BBDG Seminar: "Mapping the endosomal proximity proteome reveals Retromer as a hub for RAB GTPase regulation"
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BioForo: "Cell of origin and molecular drivers of non-small cell lung cancer"
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BioPhyzza Connection 2025 at Instituto Biofisika
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Prof. Félix Goñi awarded by the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bilbao
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BBDG Seminar: "Understanding the mitochondrial DNA replication machinery"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-EM Unveils the Structural Dynamics of a Replicative Helicase"
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BBDG Seminar: "Biophysical insights into the problem of origins of life"
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Three researchers from the Instituto Biofisika ranked among the most prominent female researchers in the CSIC ranking
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Instituto Biofisika awarded with the CSIC ASPIRA-MaX Sagrario Martínez-Carrera seal of excellence
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BioPhyzza Connection 2025
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BBDG Seminar: "CHEM.IFPTML: Chemoinformatics Information Fusion & Perturbation-Theory Machine Learning"
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2025
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BBDG Seminar: "Sorting with Retromer: Molecular Insights into Endosomal Cargo Transport"
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Eurobioimaging Virtual Pub: "cryo-EM as a magnifying glass into cell biology"
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BBDG Seminar: "Cryo-EM architecture of a near-native stretch-sensitive membrane microdomain"
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural characterization of model lung surfactant films on the approach to zero surface tension and tuned by soft nanoparticles"
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IBF Seminar: "cryoEM reveals that Retron-Eco1 assembles NAD+-hydrolyzing filaments providing immunity against bacteriophages"
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BioForo: "The universe of lipid-protein interactions. A scientific meeting in honor of Prof. Alicia Alonso"
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BBDG Seminar: "Unveiling the Busy Social Network of a Cell"
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BBDG Seminar: "Dynamical systems in biophysics and not only"
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Ceremony in memory of Professor Arturo Muga, pioneer of Biophysics and Molecular Biology of proteins in the Basque Country
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BioForo seminar: "Caveolae: Mechanosensing and mechanotrasduction devices linking membrane trafficking to mechanoadaptation"
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Theoretical Biophysics seminar: A theoretical basis for cell deaths
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BBDG Seminar: "The molecular gymnastics of autophagy and lysosomes"
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AI Spots Cancer and Viral Infections at Nanoscale Precision
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"The molecular architecture of the nuclear basket" published in Cell
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural Mechanisms and Drug Discovery in Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Molecular recognition between cholesterol and Bordetella CyaA toxin"
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BBDG Seminars: "Protofilament-specific nano-patterns of tubulin post-translational modilications regulate the mechanics of ciliary beating"
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BBDG Seminars: "Sodium alginate/chitosan scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering: the influence of its three-dimensional material preparation and the use of gold nanoparticles"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Viroporin-like activity of ASFV structural proteins B117L and B169L"
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Workshop: "Phase Separation in Biophysical Systems"
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BBDG Seminars: "Active surfaces and biological morphogenesis"
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Instituto Biofisika awarded with the ASPIRA-MaX Josefa Barba seal of excellence
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EUROPEAN SOUTH ATLANTIC BIOPHYSICS CONGRESS, 5th-7th June 2024
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Pint of Science 2024
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IBF Seminars: "Molecules of Life: Biological Mechanisms, Structures and Functions"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Bridging conformational preferences and non-covalent interactions across diverse cyclic structures"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Membrane interactions of the ATG8 protein LC3C and its role in autophagy"
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Professor Arturo Muga passes away
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-- CANCELLED -- BioForo Seminar: “Structural and regulatory basis for pharmacological correction of inherited dopamine deficiencies and Parkinson’s disease”
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BioForo Seminar: "Collagen deposition in physiology and scarred-fibrotic tissue"
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BioForo seminar: “Unveiling and Leveraging the Neuroprotective Potential of Tetracyclines: A Journey from Biophysics to Pharmacology”
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BioForo Seminar: “Impact of chromatin remodeling defects in cellular plasticity, lung cancer progression and treatment sensitivity”
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BioForo Seminar: “Impact of chromatin remodeling defects in cellular plasticity, lung cancer progression and treatment sensitivity”
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BBDG Seminar: "Structural analysis and inhibition of human LINE-1 ORF2 protein reveals novel adaptations and functions"
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BBDG Seminar: "The strange things that papillomavirus proteins do"
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Emakumeak Zientzian Seminar: "The successful trajectory of a female scientist: Mª Luisa Fdez-Gubieda Ruiz" (ES)
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BREM provided high-resolution imaging for the First atomic-scale 'movie' of microtubules under construction
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The Advanced Light Microscopy Node Bilbao (ALM@BIO) is one of the five new Spanish Nodes approved by Euro-BioImaging
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Emakumeak Zientzian 2024
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BioForo seminar: "The role of inflammation in breast cancer progression"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: “Development and integration of In Silico and In Vitro tools for comprehensive prediction and characterization of genetic variants in Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Hyperlipidemias”
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Instituto Biofisika recognized by the Science and Technology Faculty of the UPV/EHU
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The Advanced Light Microscopy Node Bilbao to join Euro-Bioimaging
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BBDG Seminars: "Advancing Membrane Biophysical Imaging: from Bulk Measurements to Single-Molecule Trafficking"
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Annual BioForo Meeting: “7th Alumni Research Meeting”
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POSTPONED - BBDG Seminars: "Recruiting antibody-membrane interactions to combat HIV infection (and cancer?)"
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BioForo seminar: "Mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in hormone-driven cancers"
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BioForo seminar: "Unravelling animal-microbiota interactions through novel technologies: holo-omics, micro-scale 3D metagenomics and gut-on-a-chip"
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BBDG Seminars: "Resolving the kinetics of Hsp70 chaperone activity by stochastic, single-molecule sampling of substrates"
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BioForo seminar: "When the start matters: biological relevance of protein N-terminal acetylation"
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IBF seminar: "Tools to image and cross membranes"
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BioForo seminar: "The Lipotype Hypothesis"
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BBDG Seminar: "Unravelling the structure of toxic protein aggregates in situ"
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Mini-workshop: 'Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and biology'
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BioForo seminar: "The fusion of quantitative molecular proteomics and immune-oncology: a step towards precision medicine in cancer therapeutic"
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BioForo seminar: "Role of mitochondrial fusion proteins in the transfer of phospholipids from the endoplasmic reticulum to the mitochondria"
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BioForo seminar: "Coupling sterol and ceramide synthesis and transport at ER-endocytic contact sites"
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Talking lipids. Special Meeting 100th anniversary of LIPID
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Alicia Alonso recognized with a Basque Women Researcher Award in recognition of her distinguished research career
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CartoCell, an open-source tool capable of detecting hidden patterns in cellular tissues
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "EXPLORING 'MINIMAL METABOLISM' AS A CENTRAL CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE AND DEVELOPING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY"
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BBDG Seminars: "The long journey of an insect virus: from the field to the pharmaceutical pipeline"
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BBDG Seminars: "Synthetic gene circuits & their applications: Programming cells in space, time, and more"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Interaction of the LC3/GABARAP autophagy proteins with membranes: Exploring the effects of ceramide"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "NOVEL FUNCTIONS OF CALMODULIN IN Kv7.2 REGULATION AND CO-TRANSLATIONAL FOLDING"
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Advanced Workshop in Ion Channels: “Exploring novel conformational states in a K+ channel using weak-binding antibodies and FRET” | “Regulatory subunits controlling the voltage gated Kv1.3 channel”
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Jorge Pedro López Alonso winner of the 'José Tormo' award
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Dr. Israel S. Fernandez will join the IBF as Ikerbasque Research Professor
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BioForo seminar: "Role of ceramide in protein sorting”
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The president of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) visits the Instituto Biofisika
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BBDG Seminars: "Single molecule sensing of annexing and dynaming"
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BioForo seminar: "BBB opening in neurodegenerative diseases: Possibilities and hurdles"
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IBF Seminars: "Optogenetic generation of leader cells reveals a force-velocity relation for collective cell migration"
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BioForo seminar: "Role of lipids and membrane mechanics in the early secretory pathway"
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A century of lipids, from Biological Chemistry to Lipidomics
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The Biofisika Bizkaia Foundation (FBB) has affiliated to i2basque
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OLDM'23 - Origins of Life Donostia Meeting
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Pint of Science Bilbao 2023
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Seminar: "Advances in Lightsheet Microscopy: Imaging the Unseen"
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BBDG Seminars: "Lipids: 100 years, and 50 years"
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BioForo seminar: "Immunological mechanisms of resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer"
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BBDG Seminars: "New 3D human biomodels to study the neurodegenerative diseases"
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IBF Seminars: "Drug Discovery based on Biophysical Analysis"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Medidas de afinidad de anticuerpos VIH anti-MPER por su epitopo reconstituido en membranas modelo. Correlación con su polirreactividad y potencia de neutralización"
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BBDG Seminars: "Molecular mechanisms of BCL2 proteins, the master apoptosis regulators"
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Prof. Alicia Alonso Izquierdo appointed Vice President of the Governing Board of the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COSCE)
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Félix M. Goñi Urcelay at Humboldt Research Award Ceremony
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BBDG Seminars: "ONE DNA repair protein in action"
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BBDG Seminars: "Emprender: impulso y dinamización de la ciencia, clave para llegar al paciente"
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BBDG Seminars: "The long and winding road... to autophagy"
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BBDG Seminars: "Nanoparticle surface tuning for in vivo applications with a focus on fluorine"
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BioForo seminar: “Chromatin regulators in stem cell differentiation and cancer processes”
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Emakumeak Zientzian (Women in Science)
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BBDG Seminars: "Understanding cellular mechanotransduction: from mechanical stimuli to biochemical signaling"
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Brain organoids Summer School 2023
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BioForo seminar: "Microenvironmental control of chromosomal stability during development and tissue homeostasis"
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IBF Seminars: "Bringing insights into the characterization of 3D cell motility through bioimage analysis"
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BBDG Seminars: "Pushing the limits in atomic-resolution electros cryo-microscopy of biological specimenes"
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BBDG Seminars: "Using Cryo-EM to unveil the structure and function of DNA-associated macrocomplexes"
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BioForo seminar: "Integrating population-scale sequencing with epigenomics and transcriptomics to identify the genetic basis of adaptive evolution"
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BBDG Seminars: "Model celular membranes: From flat to strongly curved structures"
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Félix M. Goñi, entre los más influyentes del mundo, según la Universidad de Stanford (California)
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Félix M. Goñi at the World's Top 2% Scientists
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Workshop: "Dynamic modeling and statistical inference in the life sciences: philosophical and practical perspectives"
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BioForo seminar: "One Ring to Rule Them All? Comprehensive Structure and Functional Adaptations of the Nuclear Pore Complex"
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IBF Seminars: "Viral Fusion Peptide Interactions with Biomimetic Lipid Cubic Phases"
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BioForo seminars: Wed 2, Thu 3 & Fri 4 NOV 2022
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BBDG Seminars: "The P. aeruginosa efector Tse5 forms membrane pores disrupting the membrane potential of intoxicated bacteria"
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BBDG Seminars: "Microwave and laser spectroscopies for structural elucidation and as chemical tools"
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EMBO Workshop: Birth and fission of cellular compartments
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*POSTPONED* - BBDG Seminars: "Using Cryo-EM to unveil the structure and function of DNA-associated macrocomplexes"
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IBF Doctoral Thesis: "Lipid-protein interactions in autophagy: Exploring the role of LC3/GABARAP-family members"
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The registration for the 8th International Iberian Biophysics Congress is open
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IKUR 2030: Instituto Biofisika hosts the Catalan Secretary of Education
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BREM has been featured in Teknopolis
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The inauguration of BREM has featured in "El Correo"
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BREM is officially launched by the Lehendakari
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Deia, local newspaper, featuring our centre
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New Titan Krios Cryo-EM at the FBB-IBF
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Conversation with Félix M. Goñi
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Programa IKUR. El Gobierno Vasco destina 100 millones para reforzar el tejido científico en 9 años
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Diario Deia: Entrevista al catedrático Félix M. Goñi.
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Félix M. Goñi Urcelay awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award