Welcome to the team! Jéssica Rodrigues is a Master Student in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at NOVA School of Science and Technology . She will be working on her master thesis entitled “Computational Modeling of Biopharmaceuticals Purification Systems”.We wish you good luck!
Cecília Roque made a lecture entitled “Protein-Based Materials: Bioinspired Systems for unsual applications” at Biological Making of Materials: Summer School 2023 (11-15th September) organized by DIGS-BB. Cátia Soares, a PhD student in our lab participated in the summer school. It was a great opportunity to met experts and other young scientists in the Biomaterials field.
Congratulations to Ana Rita Oliveira, our PhD student in MIT Portugal Program of Bioengineering Systems, for successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Enhancing VOC selectivity by designing novel gas sensitive soft materials”. We would like to congratulate her for her excellent work and wish the best for her future!
Welcome Luca! He is currently a 3rd year Bachelor student at the Faculty of Medical Engineering of POLITEHNICA University in Bucharest, Romania. He will be taking part in a interneship and the project he will be part of is “Development of a tailor-made cell-free extract for in vitro production of Proteins” supervised by Ana Margarida Dias. We wish …
Congratulations to Pedro Teixeira and Ana Santos for defending the Bachelor’s Project! Pedro Teixeira, BSc Student in Cell Molecular Biology, presented his work entitled “Bacteria discrimination using an eletronic nose”, supervised by Carina Esteves and Susana Palma. Ana Santos, BSc Student in Biochemistry, presented her work entitled “Computational Biomarker Selection for Bladder Cancer Detection Systems”, …
During the #Affinity2023 conference, Cecília Roque was awarded with the Affinity Technology Award by the International Society for Molecular Recognition (ISMR). This award distingues the prestigious scientific work in the field and is granted in each Affinity meeting. Many congratulations!
In Affinity2023, held in Lisbon in 5-7th June 2023, Gonçalo Teixeira, PhD student in Bioengineering from the MIT-Portugal, was awarded with the Younger Investigator Award for best oral presentation. His talk was about ‘Odorant-binding proteins based sensors for volatile organic compounds detection’. #SCENT_project #ENSURE_project
On 5-7th June 2023, the members of our lab organized the 25th Meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition: Affinity 2023. It was a big opportunity for us to present our work under the following projects: #ENSURE_Project #SMASUS_project #PURE_project #PROTEIOS_project. It was a pleasure to meet you all and we are looking forward to …
We have an open call for applications for Master students!! If you are interested in pursuing a Master thesis in our group during the academic year 2023/24 have a look at our proposed topics!- Improved methods for the non-invasive diagnostic of urinary tract cancers- Production of recombinant proteins in cell-free systems- Development of peptide-based fiber-mats- Protein …
This month, Susana Palma and Carina Esteves attended to Tec2med Summit. We have been showing our e-nose and Susana did an oral presentation “Olfaction-inspired technologies for healthcare”, as part as #ENSURE_project and #SCENT_project.
