Just published!

May 20, 2021

Mariaelana took the lead of our newest paper in the bioprospecting of marine invertebrates for novel bioactives. This work lays the groundwork of our research line on cysteine-rich secretions in molluscs.

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)

May 13, 2021

DES Solve Research group is welcoming researchers from abroad and supporting their application for the Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) within COST action GREENERING. This action has the possibility to fund several STSMs. These are short term missions of scientific character up to about one month, funded up to about 3k€ (daily costs and traveling costs). The application is really easy, and it is allowed to exchange between uni-uni or industry-uni or uni-industry.

ProDGNE Kick-Off Webinar - 3 June 2021

May 10, 2021

The ProDGNE consortium is pleased to invite you to the ProDGNE Kick-Off Webinar.

In this webinar we will present ProDGNE, a 3 year transnational pre-clinical research project which brings together patients and researchers from Europe and Canada to develop an innovative therapeutic compound to treat GNE Myopathy (GNEM). Register here.

Call: Research grant, Masters degree, iSkin2 project

May 8, 2021

A call is open for hiring a researcher holding a masters degree in Biomedical Engineering (or a related field) to work in the iSkin2 project.

Applications are accepted until the 13th May

Full call text: https://bit.ly/3tvyex1

Publications 2020

May 8, 2021

Publications list was updated!

Publications

Bring AI to the edge device

May 7, 2021

IBM Research has developed a chip using phase-change memory (PCM) encoding the weights of a neural net on the chip itself.

The in-memory computing hardware showcased here increases the speed and energy-efficiency needed for the next generation of AI.

https://aihw-composer.draco.res.ibm.com/

Welcome to the group, Diana and David!

April 30, 2021

We have the pleasure to welcome Diana Laje and David Reis as new members of the group! They are undergraduate students in Biochemistry from FCT NOVA and will be doing their Bachelor's Projects, supervised by Ana Pina and co-supervised by Arménio Barbosa. Diana will work with "Artificial fluorescent enzyme - PM-GFP" and David will focus on "Development of collagen-inspired biomaterials". Good luck to both!

Open position - Research fellow #PURE_project

April 21, 2021

We are hiring!

We have a call open for a Research Fellowship under the project PURE until 3rd May 21.

For more information:

http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=134167

https://pure-fetopen.eu/job-offers/ 

HOT article!

April 19, 2021

We are very delighted that our article "Magnetic Particles used in a New Approach for Designed Protein Crystallization" was added to CrystEngComm HOT articles! A ‘HOT’ article contains research, which has been highlighted by reviewers as being interesting and significant research for the crystal engineering community. This work was done in collaboration with Xtal-FCT-NOVA.

PCISBIO Webinar 2021

April 18, 2021

Instruct- ERIC Webinar Program

Participação da representante portuguesa no STOA

April 16, 2021

A Profª Maria Manuel Leitão Marques é Eurodeputada e representante portuguesa no STOA do Parlamento Europeu (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/home/members). A sua atividade no Parlamento Europeu iniciou-se em 2019, tendo sido eleita pelo Partido Socialista. 

A Profª Leitão Marques é doutorada em Economia pela Universidade de Coimbra (1990), e professora desde 2003.

Foi secretária de estado da Modernização Administrativa em 2003, e posteriormente (2015) ministra da mesma pasta.