News

ESBES 2018

Our laboratory was present at the ESBES 2018 conference which was held in Lisbon from 9-12th September. Some of our member attending presented their work, namely:

Manuel Matos, PhD student from our lab, gave an oral communication of his work entitled "Petasis-Ugi affinity ligands as alternative tools for antibody purification".

II Symposium of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab + Group activity

The II Symposium of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab was held on  25th-27th July at FCT NOVA. During these days the researchers and collaborators of the laboratory had the chance to present the work developed during the year, as well as to hear inspiring talks from invited researchers from other institutes about their research projects.

This year Gonçalo Teixeira and Manuel Matos were the event organizers.

NEI 2018 - Noite europeia dos Investigadores

The Biomolecular Engineering Lab was present in "Noite dos Investigadores 2018", in the Natural History Museum, in Lisbon, with the subject "O Aroma da Ciência". 

Ciência 2018

3rd of July we marked our presence once again in Ciência 2018, at Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, with our project SCENT.

Principal Investigator Prof. Cecília Roque gave a talk on the second day (4th July) exposing the work conducted in our facilities.

Expo FCT 2018

Once again FCT-NOVA received high school students from all around the country during the Expo FCT 2018. This initiative is a good way for students to have an ideia about what we do in our campus, and of course, the biomolecular engineering group was there!

Check some photos at: Click Here

UPCOMING ISSUE: Open Biomaterials Research

Call for Papers on “Open Biomaterials Research” at the multidisciplinary open-access journal PLOS ONE where Cecilia actas as an Academic Editor.  The Guest Editors for this project are Aldo R. Boccaccini, Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Michael McAlpine and Jie Song.

Visit at Cambridge Graphene Centre

Prof. Cecília Roque visited the Cambridge Graphene Centre, England. During this time she visited the facilities and got to know about the work developed at the center. She also gave a lecture where presented our work at the Biomolecular Engineering Lab.

You can find more about the Cambridge Graphene Centre clicking here!

Jornadas Ciceco 2018, Aveiro

Principal Investigator Prof. Cecília Roque was invited to speak and share her knowledge at Jornada Ciceco 2018 edition.

More info at: Click Here

Chem2Nature 2018, Porto

Our group was present at the summer school Chem2Nature 2018 in Porto, Portugal. Principal Investigator Prof. Cecília Roque was one of the invited speakers, where she spook about our work at the Biomolecular Engineering Lab.

Outreach at Colégio Verde Água

Little insight on our outreach at Colegio Verde Agua on 4 of April.

Take a look at:

https://www.facebook.com/colegioverdeagua/videos/1803601483276728/

PEPPERSchool (PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING: FROM CONCEPTS TO BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS)

Reminder of the international thematic school PEPPERSchool (PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING: FROM CONCEPTS TO BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS) that we are organizing in Carry-le-Rouet (France) on May 13-17th, 2018. This school will gather international experts from the field of peptide/protein chemistry as well as molecular biology methodologies.

PEPPERSchool - “Peptide and protein engineering: from concept to biotechnological applications ”

Our group is part of the organising committee of Pepper school event.

14-17 May 2018, Carry-le-Rouet, France

It will cover the following topics:

Congratulations to our PhD student

Congratulations to our PhD student Henrique Carvalho for completing the PhD program from MIT Portugal in Bioengineering Systems.

Henrique Daniel Figueiredo Carvalho

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Anything but conventional chromatography Workshop

The Workshop ABC2 "Anything but conventional chromatography" organised by our group and held in Lisbon last week (22-24th November) has been a success!

Thanks to all participants!