Excited to share fantastic news! We have a freshly published paper in Frontiersin Chemistry. In this work, the authors explore “Hierarchical self-assembly of a reflectin-derived peptide”. This work was developed under the scope of the #Sea2See_project and #Proteios_project. Congratulations to the authors! More info
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.
WE ARE HIRING Three open positions in our lab to join the PURE project: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/140352 ( BI/06-2023/BM-PURE) https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/140346 (BI/05-2023/BM-PURE) https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/140343 (BI/04-2023/BM-PURE) More about this EU-funded FET-OPEN project and partners: https://pure-fetopen.eu/ JOIN OUR TEAM AND APPLY NOW
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”, …
We have an open position for a postdoctoral fellow to join the PURE project: https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/123198 More about this EU-funded FET-OPEN project and partners: https://pure-fetopen.eu/
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
