News

2020 European Researchers' Night

November 27, 2020
We are present in the 2020 European Researchers' Night.

PURE Project gets award from European Union’s Horizon 2020

November 2, 2020

The PURE project, coordinated by Prof. Cecília Roque, was awarded a financial funding by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 FET Open programme.

Oral talk at the Sci & Tech for Society webinar

October 21, 2020

Today, Prof. Cecília Roque gave an inspiring talk at the Sci & Tech for Society webinar!

New review on microfluidics in gas sensing

October 15, 2020

Our latest review has been published in a special issue “Gas Sensing Materials” of the MDPI open access journal Sensors.

This is a detailed overview on the use of microfluidic devices for gas sensing technologies. It summarizes different system designs using electrical and optical transduction and engineered throughout the years.

Presentation at NICE 2020 conference

October 13, 2020

Today, Prof. Cecília Roque presented our work "Intelligent gels for artificial olfaction" in NICE 2020 Online International Conference (https://www.nice-conference.com/). This is in the scope of #SCENT_project funded by the European Research Council.

Welcome to the team, Joana!

September 11, 2020

This week, we welcome Joana to our lab! She holds a bachelor in Biochemistry from FCT NOVA and is now doing the final thesis within the MSc in Biotechnology.

Joana will be working in "Odorant-binding proteins for artificial olfaction and fast diagnostics" within the #SCENT_project. Her main goal is to learn more about the world of biosensors as an emergent technology and what they could bring to mankind.

Welcome to the team, Cátia!

September 3, 2020

New year, new beginnings! Cátia started in our lab on the 1st September. She holds a bachelor in Biochemistry and is now doing the final thesis within her MSc in Biotechnology, both in FCT-NOVA.

1st prize in R2Value from FCT NOVA

July 29, 2020

Our lab participated in the FCT NOVA R2Value - Research to Value Innovative Initiative with 2 different projects. Congratulations to both ScaffPep & CrystalSense teams for the excellent work, and well done to CrystalSense for getting the 1st Prize!
Check the news: https://bit.ly/3facjo3

Congrats on your PhD viva, Carolina Pádua

July 21, 2020
Carolina Pádua just defended her PhD viva and is the most recent Doctor coming from our group!
 

Portugal Campus Party

July 7, 2020
Cecília Roque is an ambassador and speaker of the 1st edition of Portugal Campus Party. This exciting event is the perfect place to hear about innovation & technology, exchange of ideas, jobs and networking for young entrepreneurs around the world.
Visit Portugal Campus Party between the 9-11 July in a free digital concept.

Congratulations, Rita Ramos

July 7, 2020

Congratulations to Rita Ramos for the great presentation and discussion of her Bachelor's Project in Biochemistry, entitled "Production and purification of an affinity ligand discovered through in vitro combinatorial libraries", supervised by Prof. Cecília Roque and Manuel Matos, MSc. We wish you the best for your future!

New papers are out

June 30, 2020

Our new papers are out!

"Natural multimerization rules the performance of affinity-based physical hydrogels for stem cell encapsulation and differentiation", by Cláudia S. M. Fernandes, André L. Rodrigues, Vitor D. Alves, Tiago G. Fernandes, Ana Sofia Pina and Ana Cecília A. Roque in https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00473

New video!

June 16, 2020

To make our challenging ERC-funded SCENT Project better known, a fantastic video was produced and spread through our social channels.

Congrats, Dr. Raquel dos Santos!

June 8, 2020

Many congratulations to Dr. Raquel dos Santos, that successfully defended her PhD work last friday afternoon (05.06.2020).

Her thesis is entitled "Developing non-chromatographic strategies for biopharmaceuticals purification", supervised by Dr. Ana Luísa Carvalho and Prof. Cecília Roque.