IBIOCAT Science&Art- Exhibition: “The Medici and the Sciences -Instruments and machines in the grand ducal collections”- From 15 May 2008 to 11 Jan 2009, Florence (Italy), the “Museo degli Argenti”, Pitti Palace.

The exhibition "The Medici and the Sciences" addresses the leading role played by physical, mathematical and natural disciplines in Tuscany in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries. More specifically from Cosimo I up to Ferdinand II, the Medici were great patrons of both the constructors of scientific instruments and natural philosophers, since they were more acutely aware than any other European rulers of the fact that scientific knowledge and the technological control of nature gave political power solidity and prestige. This is why, alongside the lavish collections of paintings, sculpture and jewellery, the Medici also created a collection of mathematical instruments. The close relationship between art and science emerges from the precious beauty of many of these instruments, often one-off pieces and authentic works of art in themselves. "The Medici and the Sciences" underscores the fusion between art, science and political power, juxtaposing a wide selection of instruments from the Institute and Museum of the History of Science with a similarly ample range of paintings, printed works and manuscripts originating from the institutions of the Polo Museale and other institutes and libraries in Florence and elsewhere in Italy.

 

Promoters

• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
• Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze
• Museo degli Argenti
• Firenze Musei
• Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (IMSS)
• Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

For further information please visit the website: http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/mostre/mostra.asp?id=123

 

 

Laura Cipollina-IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

IBIOCAT HUMOR - The Periodic Table of Comic Books

Enjoy yourself!

The Periodic Table of Comic Books

http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

Click on an element to see a list of comic book pages involving that element.

Click on a thumbnail on the list to see a full comic bookpage.

 

From the Department of Chemistry, Universityof Kentucky
Lexington,KY 40506-0055

 

 

Laura Cipollina- IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

 

 

Summer school on ethics of nanotechnology

The University of Twente is organising a "Summer school on ethics of nanotechnology" to be held in Enschede (The Netherlands) on 24th-29th August 2008.

The EthicSchool is open to researchers (Ph.D. students, postdocs and others) from a wide variety of natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities backgrounds. The programme is organised around four themes related to nanoethics: ethics of bionanotechnology; ethics of nanoelectronics/ambient intelligence; military and dual use/peaceful use/global issues of nanotechnology; religious and cultural aspects, ethical traditions and relativism in the debate about nanoethics.

Further information and online registration

 

Green Thought for Today July 8, 2008

 

 

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

 

 

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 -1912), French mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher, is  known for formulating the "Poincaré Conjecture", one of seven Millennium Prize Problems which the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering $1,000 000 for a solution. Poincaré also discovered a chaotic deterministic system which provided the foundations of modern Chaos theory.

 

 

Laura Cipollina- IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

 

Green Thought for Today July 6, 2008

"[...] Non vi è alcuna incompatibilità fra l'esatto e il poetico. Il numero è nell'arte come nella scienza. L'algebra è nell'astronomia e l'astronomia confina con la poesia. L'anima dell'uomo ha tre chiavi che aprono tutto: la cifra, la lettera, la nota. Sapere, pensare, sognare".

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Laura Cipollina-IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

IBIOCAT Science&Art – Chris Drury: A Land Artist Working with Nature

From Chris Drury's statement:

 

"I am categorised as a land artist or someone who works with art and nature. In reality my work explores nature and culture, inner and outer. I travel and walk in out-of-the-way places, often alone. More recently I have been looking at Body as Landscape or systems within the body and systems on the planet.

 

Body as a Landscape- These are Science/Art crossover projects, mostly done in conjunction with hospitals and medical imaging technologies. I have been looking at blood and water flow patterns, wave patterns from echocardiograms and in naturally occurring formations in landscape, rock and tree barks. I have also been looking at plants and their poisonous / medicinal effects on the body. This area is a continuing source of inspiration and connective ideas which I will continue to explore.

 

Mushroom & Hand-written Text Works - Ever since Medicine Wheel, made in 1982, where I used a spore print at the centre to mirror the whole work, I have continued to use the image of the mushroom.

In a sense, fungi are the great recyclers of our planet. They break down dead organic matter to form the basis of the soil on which all life on earth depends. More than that, I am simply drawn to their mysterious beauty. By introducing hand written text following the pattern of the gills I have been able to add layers of meaning and direction to these works".

 

 

Learn more about Chris Drury's art by visiting his website: http://www.chrisdrury.co.uk/

 

 

Laura Cipollina- IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

 

Green Thought for Today July 2, 2008

Dedicato a Massimo, Alberto e Loris, e a tutti coloro che stanno lavorando con passione a IBIOCAT, per catalizzare una migliore qualità della vita.

"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life free from material care and freely consecrated to research".

Marie Curie, (1867-1934) b. Warsaw, Poland (née Maria Sklodowska)


Quoted from: Eve Curie (translated by Vincent Sheean), Madame Curie, Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946, pp 352-253.


Laura Cipollina- IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

Green Thoughts for Today June 28, 2008

"There will come a time, when the world will be filled with one science, one truth, one industry, one brotherhood, one friendship with nature. . . . This is my belief".

"We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature."

 

 

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor (1834- 1907) credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.

 

 Laura Cipollina, IBIOCAT- Divisione Marketing e Commerciale

Science to Market

"Science to Market"
October 7 – 8, 2008
Convention Center, Hannover, Germany

The Workshop opens on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, at 08:30 and it closes on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at 15:00.

Scope & Aim

As a European event the "Science to Market" EAPB conference aims at the promotion of partnering between the academic/ research community and the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

The goal is to enhance the economical output of scientific results and turn them into marketable technologies and biopharmaceutical products. Therefore, academic research scientists from universities and research institutions as well as representatives of the biotech and pharmaceutical industry are invited to exchange ideas, finally leading to fruitful co-operations.

This conference will cover a broad spectrum of topics in the fields of biopharmaceutical drug development and novel biotechnological approaches.

Conference Workshops

The conference is separated into two workshops, both of it offers a plenary lecture, three sessions and three oral poster presentations. Workshop 1 focuses on "Therapeutics and diagnostics" and workshop 2 will discuss the topic "Novel technologies".

Poster Contributions

Poster presentations on scientific pharmaceutical drug projects and novel technologies in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceutical drug development are welcome. The posters shall be presented by oral five-minutes-presentations (two slides on science and business opportunity) and in addition by traditional poster to facilitate networking between academic/ research and industrial partners.

Workshop 1: "Therapeutics and diagnostics"
(1a) Novel biopharmaceuticals and diagnostics
(1b) 2nd generation biopharmaceuticals
(1c) Novel vaccines and gene therapy developments

Workshop 2: "Novel technologies"
(2a) Novel biopharmaceutical drug formats
(2b) Novel Up-and Downstream developments
(2c) Novel biopharmaceutical drug delivery and analytical tools

For more information and for registration to this workshop, please visit the EAPB homepage under www.eapb.org/science_to_market_08/science_to_market_08.html

Registration is now open: http://www.biotechnica.de/50919
Download: www.efb-central.org/images/2ndAnnouncementScienceToMarket.pdf

Please also consider sponsoring options.

With kind regards,
Wieland W. Wolf
President of EAPB
The officially associated section of Pharma & Medical Biotechnology of EFB

 

 

 

Green Thought for Today June 26, 2008

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday".

Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific Technological and Social, 1970

 

 

 

Laura Cipollina, IBIOCAT- Divisione Marketing e Commerciale