On July 9th, an Open Seminar will be held as part of the EcoSentinel project, an important opportunity for scientific outreach and a discussion open to the academic community as well as to those who are interested.
The seminar will provide an overview of the project's results and a new frontier of research in which biology, biotechnology, electronics, and telecommunications converge to develop technologies inspired by living systems. The meeting will conclude with a roundtable discussion open to questions and debate.
EcoSentinel is a European project funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC Pathfinder Open), one of the European Union's most prestigious programs dedicated to frontier research. Coordinated by the Universitat Ramon Llull – La Salle in Barcelona, it brings together a multidisciplinary consortium composed of the University of Genoa, the University of Trento, Université Côte d'Azur, Ignion, and Plant-e.
The project's goal is to develop a new generation of living technologies in which plants are not simply objects of study, but become active components of biohybrid technological systems capable of harvesting energy, sensing the environment, processing information, and contributing to the development of sustainable wireless communication networks.
The Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DISTAV) at the University of Genoa is responsible for the biological component of the project. It studies functional traits, plant physiology, and plant biology to understand how their structural and physiological characteristics can be exploited to develop plants that can be used as antennas, energy generators, biosensors, and living communication systems. The goal is to identify the biological mechanisms that make the integration of plants into innovative biohybrid devices possible while maintaining their vital functions.
The event will be held on Thursday, July 9th, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Room AT02 at DISTAV, Viale Benedetto XV, 3 - Genoa.
For more information: enrica.roccotiello@unige.it