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Affinity 2023 Conference

At Affinity 2023 there will be excellent opportunities for students and young researchers to share their work with the scientific community and plenty of moments for networking. Submit your abstract by the 1st of March. For more info visit: affinity2023.com https://biomolecular-engineering-lab.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/June-5-June-7-2023.mp4

New PhD Student

Our researcher Catarina Domingos just started her PhD in Biotechnology! She has a master’s in Chemical and Biological Engineering and her research project is focused on the development of functionalized purification matrices, for the bioseparation of biopharmaceuticals. We wish you all the luck!

Winter Symposium 2023

Last week, we kicked off the new year with our Winter Symposium. It was a great day to plan our future work and to discuss our latest achievements. We wish you all a good year! #ENSURE_project #PURE_project #PROTEIOS_project #SMASUS_project

 i4HB Kick off Meeting

This Monday, we took part in #i4HB Kick off Meeting! Armenio Jorge Moura Barbosa shared a presentation about the “Design and discovery of affinity ligands”, in TL 4 – Bioresources Valorization and Bioproducts Production, and Prof. Ana Cecília Roque as moderator of a “Round Table on Career Development”. Check out #i4HB website: https://i4hb-la.pt/

We have three new Masters!

We have three new Masters! Lately, this month José Dinis, Inês Cebola, and João Santos successfully defended their master thesis. We wish them the very best and good luck in their future projects!  Congratulations to all three! 

New paper about peptide submicrofibers!

New paper is out! Check out this work about “Solvent modulation in peptide sub-microfibers obtained by solution blow spinning” published in Frontiers: https://bit.ly/3h5L2KuCongratulations to all the authors!

Prof. Cecília Roque at PEGS2022 – Barcelona

In November 16th, Prof. Cecília Roque took part in PEGS2022 Europe Conference in Barcelona. The presentation was under the scope of the subject “Protein Purification Technologies”, about the “Design and Discovery of Affinity and Mixed-mode Adsorvents”.

Susana Palma at 2º Simpósio de Urologia

Early this month, our postdoc researcher Susana Palma took part in the conference: “The southside of urology 2022 – 2º Simpósio de Urologia”, organized by Hospital Garcia da Horta. Congratulations for the presentation!#ENSURE_Project

Margarida Dias at ASBE VI Conference

In the beginning of this month, our postdoc researcher Margarida Dias took part in the ASBE VI Conference (6th Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe), organized by the European Federation of Biotechnology, with the presentation “Cell-based vs Cell-free production and purification of marine-based structural proteins”. Congratulations!

New Article in CORDIS

Results in Brief article about the European Research Council #SCENT_project was published in CORDIS_EUOpen the following link to read:https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442342-gelatin-based-artificial-nose-for-disease-detection?WT.mc_id=exp