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In this experiment, human mesenchymal stem cells (stained with phalloidin) and cell-adhesive microgels (stained with ATTO565 (red) and FITC (green)) self-assembled into a living microtissue. The properties of these cell-adhesive microgels are both physically and chemically tuneable. Moreover, the cell-adhesive microgels are able to direct the behaviour of the cells, for example by influencing cell fate by microgel stiffness.
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Eduin Ivan GONZALEZ CASTILLO

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Eduin Ivan GONZALEZ CASTILLO; SWITZERLAND
AO Research Institute Davos (ARI)

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Biography
Dr Eduin Gonzalez has a background in Civil Engineering from the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (Mexico). He obtained a MSc from the Research Center of Advanced Materials (Mexico) in 2010, and, subsequently, completed in Spain the master (2013) and doctoral (2017, summa cum laude) programs in Polymers Science and Technology offered by the Menendez Pelayo International University in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council. His career in Biomaterials Science started in 2018, when he carried out a one-year postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Biomaterials at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Germany), and which was centred on the development of multifunctional polymeric surfaces for biomedical applications. From 2019 to 2022, he was researcher at the Department of Biomaterials at the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (Slovakia), participating in the design and optimization of nanostructured coatings for implants. Furthermore, Dr Gonzalez Castillo completed another one-year postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Biomaterials at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. He was researcher at the Institute of Polymers at the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 2022 to 2023, carrying out research on 3D printed scaffolds. Lately, he has completed a research stay at AO Research Institute Davos (Switzerland) as regenerative orthopaedics guest scientist, where his project on multifunctional polymeric surfaces for dental implants was financed by the Swiss National Scientific Foundation through the Scientific Exchanges program.

Expertise
Besides the development of multifunctional nanomaterials for biomedical applications, Dr Gonzalez Castillo has wide experience and expertise in cutting-edge characterization techniques based on synchrotron radiation. He participated in the in the commissioning of beamline BL01-MIRAS (microspectroscopy IR) at ALBA synchrotron, as well as in projects involving the use of synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy for studying 2D materials and hybrid polymers. Furthermore, he has been principal investigator in projects approved through competitive calls at the ALBA synchrotron for accessing to the beamlines BL01-MIRAS and BL11-NCD-SWEET (X-ray diffraction: SAXS, WAXS, and GISAXS), and which were aimed at carrying out top-level research on polymeric materials of significant biomedical importance. Recently, his work has been recognised by international research associations such as the Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis which selected his proposal as one of the two highest-ranked ones received in the 9th call because of its remarkable scientific quality.

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2 Postdoc positions at  I-Form/Biodesign Europe/Centre for Medical Engineering Research Dublin

2 Postdoc positions at I-Form/Biodesign Europe/Centre for Medical Engineering Research Dublin

The I-Form/Biodesign Europe/Centre for Medical Engineering Research is currently offering a two 3 year postdoctoral researcher positions that aims to develop an osteoinduction-augmented magnesium medical Implant for skeletal repair and to develop a vascularisation-promoting scaffold for bone tissue engineering applications

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Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society (Turkey)

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Society (Turkey)http://www.biyomalzeme.org.tr

Hellenic Society for Biomaterials

Hellenic Society for Biomaterialshttp://www.biomaterials.org.gr

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Research Instutute Davos

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