XIX Iberian Peptide Meeting (EPI 2025)
We were thrilled to be part of EPI2025, where Carina delivered a short talk titled “Peptide Ionogels for Artificial Olfaction.” A huge thank you to the organizers – you did an incredible job!
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 …
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 …
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
Catarina Faustino – Award
Catarina Faustino had the opportunity to attend Jornadas do Mar 2023 that took place in Navy School. She presented about ” A biotechnological approach to produce a recombinant protein a marine annelid toxin”. This scientific work was developed as a part of her master thesis. She was awarded with Prémio ex-aequo do 1° Escalão da …
New Masters – Biomedical Engineering
Congratulations to the new masters, who has successfully defended their master’s thesis! Susana Fernandes was supervised by Dr. Susana Palma and Prof. Hugo Gamboa under the scope of ENSURE project. Inês Gonçalves was supervised by Dr. Susana Palma and Prof. Marta Lopes in the ENSURE project. We wish you all the best and good luck for the …