Participation in the 1st GREENERING International Conference

Des.solve team members participated in the 1st GREENERING International Meeting, with several poster presentations and 3 talks, given by Ângelo Rocha, Inês Dinis and Hugo Monteiro. Congratulations to all for the excellent work!

https://greenering.eu/general-information.html

Jornadas Intercalares de Mestrados

Last week, Cátia Soares and Joana Calvário, master students in Biotechnology, presented what they developed so far in their thesis work, at "Jornadas Intercalares de Mestrados" from FCT NOVA. Congratulations for both presentations!

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

New Special Issue

Carolina Madeira is guest-editing a Special Issue entitled “Thermal and hypoxia vulnerability in tropical marine systems: advances in physiology, ecology and evolution”! The deadline for paper submission is 15th August 2021.

New publication on use of magnetic particles for protein crystalization

We are glad to share our recent paper that describes how magnetic particles can be used as controlled and tailor-made inducers for protein crystallization. Get to know this incredible work developed by R. dos Santos during her PhD studies  https://rsc.li/3rliGLz

Liliana Teixeira awarded a Mary Kay Foundation International Postdoctoral Scholars in Cancer Research Fellowship

"On this World Cancer Day, The Mary Kay Foundation, a decades-long leader in the mission to eliminate cancers affecting women, is proud to announce the first recipient in Portugal of the new 

Plano de Ação para a Gestão Sustentável dos Resíduos de Construção e Demolição na Área Metropolitana do Porto – Projetos Demonstradores

O Plano de Ação para a Gestão Sustentável dos Resíduos de Construção e Demolição (RCD), promovido pela Área Metropolitana do Porto (AMP), em parceria com a Lipor e com a Associação Smart Waste Portugal, foi desenvolvido pela 3drivers e pela FCT NOVA (Laboratório waste@NOVA do Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente – MARE).

Newsletter

MineHeritage's latest newsletter is now available. Find out all about our most recent activities:

mh_newsletter_m24.pdf

Just published!

Our Ph.D. student ana P. Rodrigo just published two excellent papers from her thesis and associated with our project WormALL:

RODRIGO, A.P., GROSSO, A.R., BAPTISTA, P.V., FERNANDES, A.R., & COSTA, P.M. (2021). A transcriptomic approach to the recruitment of venom proteins in a marine annelid. Toxins 13, 97. (doi: 10.3390/toxins13020097

Master Thesis defense

Débora Nunes presented her thesis on 1/02/2021 to obtain the MSc. degree in Bioorganic Chemistry. Her dissertation was entitled Development of PRIDES - PolymeRic Deep Eutectic Solvents for CO2 Capture. Congratulations Débora!

Nota de pesar

É com profundo pesar que a FaCiT vê partir o Professor Doutor Fernando Santana. Para além de ser um dos seus fundadores, o antigo Director da FCT_NOVA era um grande pilar da associação, sempre disposto a ajudar os estudantes por nós apoiados. 

New paper about the design of artificial enzymes

Our new paper is out! Check this review about the strategies to design the artificial enzymes from Beatriz P. Mariz, Sara Carvalho, Íris L. Batalha and Ana S.

Interview Antena 2 Ciência: PURE project

Last week, #PURE_project was the subject of Prof. Cecília Roque interview to Antena 2 Ciência. Get to know more about it:
(in PT)https://www.rtp.pt/play/p783/e516700/antena2-ciencia