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New article

We’re kicking off the year with great news! Members of our team  have published an article in Material Advances by the Royal Society of Chemistry, focusing on the unique cephalopod proteins, reflectins, which are key to light reflection and camouflage. The study demonstrated that one recombinant reflectin sequence, R6, shows superior reversibility and faster assembly …

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Merry Christmas and Happy 2025

rom our Lab to you: We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2025!We are really grateful for all the projects and people we had the opportunity to collaborate with and we are looking forward for the next year. 🎅🏼🎄🥂

Eduarda Rodrigues MSc

Yesterday, Eduarda successfully defended her Master’s thesis in Biomaterials and Nanomedicine on “Bioneedles for Tailored Pain-Free Drug Delivery” developed at the Biomeng Lab and BioEng . We are really proud of this amazing achievement! 🎓💡

Jéssica Rodrigues MSc

Big congratulations to Jéssica Rodrigues on successfully completing her MSc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics about “Computational Modeling of Biopharmaceutical Purification Systems” 🧬✨The future is bright! 👏💻

 7th Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe Conference

This week at the 7th Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, Ana Margarida Dias and Cecília Roque joined experts to discuss the latest in synthetic biology. Ana Margarida Dias presented her work on “Prototyping novel structural and Cys-rich proteins using cell-free expression systems.” Exciting exchanges and insights into cutting-edge biotechnologies! 👩‍🔬👩‍🔬   …

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New member

Welcome João Saavedra!João completed the Bachelor’s and master’s degrees inBiological Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Now he is joining our team to work as a researcher on the #PROSPLIGN_project.We wish you a pleasant time with us! 😊

New Master Student

Welcome Renata Costa! Renata is doing her thesis about the use of recycled culture media from mammalian cell cultures for the recombinant production of structural proteins in E. coli. This research results from a collaboration between Biomolecular Engineering Lab and iBET, aiming to reduce the costs and environmental impact of bioproduction processes by exploring sustainable …

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3rd Edition PepperSchool

The 3rd Edition of PepperSchool, organized in collaboration with CNRS, took place last week at INATEL Caparica and NOVA FCT, Portugal. This thematic school focused on protein and peptide engineering, brought together renowned experts in the field, who shared their knowledge through engaging lecture sessions.Participants also had the chance to showcase their research through flash …

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Iana Lychko PhD

Thrilled to congratulate Iana Lychko, our PhD student in Biotechnology, for successfully defending her PhD. 👏The excellent work about “Optimizing the production and processing of reflectin proteins and derived materials” was supervised by Prof. Ana Cecília Roque and Dra. Ana Margarida Dias.We wish you all the luck for the next chapter of your journey 🚀

24TH Edition EUROQSAR

Arménio Barbosa participated in the 24th Edition of EuroQsar to present his work about “Molecular Modelling in Biotechnology: Design and Discovery of Small Molecule Adsorbents”.