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The next annual ELyT Lab Workshop on March 12 to 14, 2012 in France
The 4th ELyT Lab workshop will be held in France from March 12 to 14, 2012, in Presqu'ile de Giens (south east).
ElyT School in Lyon 2011
The third edition of the ELyT School was held from the 4th to the 14th of September 2011 in Lyon with the visit of 30 students (20 PhD and 10 Master students) accompanied by four professors from Tohoku University.
The 3rd ELyT lab workshop
The 3rd ELyT lab workshop, held in Sendai during 3 days from February 22th to 24th 2011 has been a great success, involving about 100 researchers (among them 35 French attendees) and several industrial partners. This confirms the dynamism of our joint laboratory. Program and some presentations can be downloaded here. The website is regularly updated.• Biosciences & Engineering (B), • Durability, Reliability in Energy and Transportation (R), • Nano & Micro Scale Materials & Devices (M), • Flow Dynamics, Heat Transfers and Microfluidics (F), • Tribology (T)
The 2nd Lyon-Tohoku Science & Engineering meeting held in Sendai on December 12-14, 2007 and its updates during the 1st ELyT lab annual workshop (Sendai, Dec 1&2, 2008) and during the 2nd ELyT lab annual workshop (Sévrier, March, 2010) confirm the different projects listed below.
Within also the "Brain Science", a new project focuses on biological mechanisms involving fatty acids and their role in the brain function.
Within the Medical engineering and Microbiology & Environment, the Medical engineering part is mostly engaged in proposals with nanostructured ceramic biomaterials, artificial blood vessels using polyvinyl-alcohol, tactile sensors, and bioengineering of living materials in general.
Other engineering projects, such as the tentative replacement of human tactile by "objective" sensors, are in between several topics such tribology and bioengineering.
We may easily anticipate that the growing field made from the interface between biosciences and materials engineering, namely bioengineering, is self-organizing with a good rationale, and a very good promising future.
This thematic actually contains 4 projects:
LipidScience (NEW): Collaboration has started between Noriko Osumi’s laboratory and Michel Lagarde / Nathalie Bernoud-Hubac at INSA-Lyon. This concerns the role of the main polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), arachidonic (AA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acids in neurogenesis and targeting the brain with these PUFA and their oxygenated metabolites. The main applications are the neurodegenerative diseases. A NEDO grant has been applied for by Prof. Osumi, but failed because of lack of preliminary results from the collaboration.
French side leader: Michel Lagarde, michel.lagarde[at]insa-lyon.fr |
Japanese side leader: Noriko Osumi, osumi[at]mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp |
SubProjects |
French & Japanese leaders |
Bio Tribology of Catheters |
Vincent Fridici (ECL) |
Understanding the Relation between Cell Friction, Adhesion and Motion: Modeling and Experiments Using Dictyostelium. |
Yoshinori Hayakawa (TU) |
Bioengineering of Tactile Perception: Haptic Tribometry |
Hassan Zahounani (ECL) |
Lipid biology and its application. |
Michel Lagarde (INSA) |