{"id":630,"date":"2020-09-19T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:23:13","slug":"balpreet-chosen-by-the-european-commission-to-speak-about-frontier-research-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/2020\/09\/19\/balpreet-chosen-by-the-european-commission-to-speak-about-frontier-research-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Balpreet chosen by the European Commission to speak about frontier research to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia has been chosen by the European Commission to speak about &#8220;Frontier research to fight COVID-19&#8221;, as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research-innovation-days.ec.europa.eu\/\">European Research and Innovation Days<\/a> that will take place from 22nd to 24th of September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In his talk, prof. Ahluwalia will present the idea about chip-based nanoscopy and its potential usefulness for COVID-19 research, as recently demonstrated in a published article together with his collaborators from Germany, where the chip-based nanoscopy technique was used for imaging\u00a0SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>The preprint version of the article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.09.04.283085v1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hereby a short description of the session, obtained from the European Commission webpage:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ecl-u-type-heading-3 custom-color--magenta ecl-u-mb-none\">Frontier research to fight COVID-19<\/h3>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The ERC session \u2018COVID-19: frontier research in the spotlight\u2019 aims to showcase examples demonstrating the added value of bottom-up frontier research in bringing innovative (and sometimes unexpected) solutions to the Covid-19 crisis, at short or medium-term. In this session, four prominent scientists, funded by the ERC, join forces to shed light on how we can build a more resilient post-pandemic world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information about the session <a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/file\/COVID19-Frontier_research_in_the-spotlight.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia has been chosen by the European Commission to speak about &#8220;Frontier research to fight COVID-19&#8221;, as part of the\u00a0European Research and Innovation Days that will take place from 22nd to 24th of September 2020. In his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/2020\/09\/19\/balpreet-chosen-by-the-european-commission-to-speak-about-frontier-research-to-fight-covid-19\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/nanoscopy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}