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SupraLife 2025

From September 29th to October 3rd, we took part in the Supralife conference held in Aveiro.Cecília and Iana gave oral presentations on their research, while Cátia and Inês presented their work in the form of scientific posters. It was a great opportunity to share our results, engage in stimulating discussions, and connect with the scientific …

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Affinity 2025

This week (2-4 june), Cecília and Carolina participated at Affinity2025, the ISMR meeting in NC State University (Raleigh, North Carolina). Carolina presented a poster and a talk titled “Streamlining the Production of Antibody-Affinity Ligands for Efficient Bioseparation”. It was a great opportunity to share insights, connect with brilliant researchers and friends, exchange ideas and to have fun!  Hope to see all …

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Summer internship

Zuzanna has arrived to do a summer internship in our lab! She is a master’s student in Bioinformatics Wroclaw at University of Science and Technology. She is going to work on the discovery of affinity ligands for purification! We wish her a pleasant stay with us!

ECB Conference

From June 30th to July 3rd 2024, Cecília Roque and Inês Padrão attended the European Congress on Biotechnology (ECB) in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Both presented a poster and flash presentation under the scope of #PROTEIOS_project and #PURE_project. 

ERC Grant

We are very happy to announce that Ana Cecília Roque was awarded a  ERC PoC Grant to validate the technological and business feasibility of an innovative method for the smell-inspired technologies for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. The project UNMASK : Unraveling Parkinson ́s disease diagnostic will be funded with €150K and this is the researcher’s …

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New Members

Welcome to our lab! We have 3 new members joining our lab as research assistants!  Ana Spencer was a PhD Student at i3S and Susana Fernandes holds a master in biomedical engineering. Both are working under the scope of Ensure project. Afonso Eva holds a master in biotechnology and he is working under the scope …

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Winter Symposium 2024

We kicked off the year with our Winter Symposium! It was a great day to meet our new members in the lab. Besides, it was possible to discuss our scientific ideas and plan our future work. We wish you all a good year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

In our lab group we have people from different countries: Portugal, Ukraine and Turkey. So, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in different languages!

Gonçalo Teixeira – PhD Viva

Thrilled to congratulate Gonçalo Teixeira, our PhD student in MIT Portugal Program of Bioengineering Systems, for successfully defending his PhD.   The excellent work is about “Olfaction inspired sensing using tailor-made proteins” supervised by Prof. Ana Cecília Roque and Dr. Arménio Barbosa. We wish you luck for the next chapter of your incredible journey