In April 2021, A.Bikfalvi gave a conference for the Barnes Philosophy Club of London which is affiliated to the Royal Institute of Philosophy. Enclosed the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIIiL5-zl1Q
http://barnesphiloclub.blogspot.com/2021/03/next-talk-truth-in-biomedical-sciences.htm
Article from A. Bikfalvi on the Vienna Cercle and a review of the book by Karl Sigmund published in La TRIBUNE (in French)
Don Ingber from the Wyss Institute was invited by us for a talk on the his impressive organ-on-chip work. This was a truly phantastic talk. Below the video:
Denis Wirtz is the Vice Provost for Research, the TH Smoot Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Pathology, Oncology and the Director Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center. He was invited in the frame of our distinguished seminar series. His talk was centered on metastasis in breast cancer. Enclosed the link to watch the Video:
Bob Weiberg was invited by Andreas Bikfalvi to talk about his past and present research. Many people attended (more than 150 !).
Our article on the role of PRL2 in developmental angiogenesis has been recently published in Communications Biology.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584612/pdf/42003_2020_Article_1343.pdf
Peter Friedl gave a very interesting conference on November 2020 at the University of Bordeaux. Peter is Professor at the University of Nijmegen and at MD Anderson and a well know investigator in the tumor biology field. He talkes about migration and invasion of tumor cells .
We will have three outstanding seminars in November. Seminars will be held through visioconference:
Peter Friedl, RadboudUMC, Nijmegen and MD Anderson, Houston November 3th, 11 am
Robert Weinberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge USA November 17th 4pm
Rakesh Jain, Harvard University, Boston USA, November 19th 4 pm
Details will follow.
The current political situation has impacted significantly on the Sciences. Here a personal view and analysis written by A.Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz (CNRS Grenoble). This does not engage the institutions where both are affiliated with.
International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science
We have started already to resume our activities from juin on by following strict distancing rules and wearing mask. The COVID situation in France is not good, but we hope that we can go through this by maintaining quality research and our health. Informations related to our activitiés will be posted shortly.
