Congratulations to our Younger Investigator Awardees

Last week we took part in the #affinity2021 #conference organized by the International Society for Molecular Recognition (https://ismr.org). We are very happy to announce that our PhD students Carina Esteves and Gonçalo Teixeira were awarded Younger Investigator Award for their posters presentations. Congratulations! #SCENT_project

Affinity 2021 and 2023 - See you in Lisbon

3-half days full of spectacular talks came to the end. We would like to thank all our fantastic speakers, organizing and scientific committees, and to our sponsors for making possible the virtual edition of #affinity2021. Hope to see you all in 2023! Join ISMR for Free Membership and don’t miss our news ➡ https://ismr.org/membership

Just published!

Recently-graduated M.Sc. student M. Leonor Santos just published a paper straight out from her thesis in Molecules, Special Issue Porphyrinoids and their derivative as photosensitisers

Pilar Portela awarded a Fulbright Portugal Grant

Pilar Portela is one of the Fulbrighters 2021 and was awarded a Fulbright Portugal Grant to go to Yale University for 5 months as part of her PhD project. Her work will focus on the in vivo manipulation of Geobacter cultures to unveil the mechanisms by which electrons are transferred to the cell’s exterior through conductive protein filaments.

Congratulations!


Related News

Java TypeState Checker is out!

Our paper "Java Typestate Checker" is freely available at:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-78142-2_8

The paper will be presented by João Mota next wednesday (16 June) at 16:30 (Lisbon Time) @Coordination: feel free to register and attend!

https://www.discotec.org/2021/programme

New paper with ISR-Instituto Superior Técnico

New paper out! A collaboration with ISR-Lisboa from Instituto Superior Técnico on "Optical Gas Sensing with Liquid Crystal Droplets and Convolutional Neural Networks". We show the identification of 11 different volatiles by video analysis of a single liquid crystal droplet using advanced image recognition methods. Congratulations to all! Access to paper: https://bit.ly/3z4WR83 #SCENT_project

Plastisphere Spring Sampling Campaign!

This past week, members from MARlab, with collaboration from ICNF, went back to the Sado estuary to conduct the spring sampling campaign for the Plastisphere project.
The team was transported by an ICNF's boat to 2 different locations in the estuary, where we collected sediment and water samples. We took some pictures of the activities too (see below)!

Outcomes from the PhD conference/Winter School 2020/21

The presentations of the past even that integrated both 8th Doctoral Conference and the 11th Winter School on Technology Assessment are available.

It can be visualised or for dowload in the following links:

Winter School presentations: https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/winterschool-ta/presentations

Doctoral Conference presentations: https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/phdconference-ta/presentations

Welcome to the group, Catarina!

Welcome to the group, Catarina! Catarina is a MSc student in Biological and Chemical Engineering. She has a Bachelor degree in Biotechnology. Catarina will be working in the #PURE_project. Good luck!

Top Downloaded Paper - Biotechnology Journal

We have the pleasure to be recognized within the 10% Top Downloaded Papers from the Biotechnology Journal! Congratulations to all the authors. Access the paper: 

Open position - Research fellow #SMASUS_project

We have an open position for a Research Fellowship for a prospective PhD student under the project SMASUS.

Application period: 4-18 June

http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=135131

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/642702

European Maritime Day

Today is the first day of the EMD 2021. It takes places online and you can find all the information here. Stay tuned!