Just accepted.

Our manuscript, "On the progression of COVID-19 in Portugal: A comparative analysis of active cases using non-linear regression" was just accepted for publication in Frontiers in Public Health (Section: Infectious Diseases - Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment

Welcoming new M.Sc. students

We are very pleased to welcome our new M.Sc. students who will be developing their experimental and thesis with us, starting after the holidays, next September: Inês Cabral (Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine), Sónia Campos and Telma Luís (Biotechnology), and Marta Gato (Biochemistry).

1st prize in R2Value from FCT NOVA

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

UCIBIO Summer School 2020

Our group is hosting two “Summer School UCIBIO-NOVA - Initiation to Research in Applied Biomolecular Sciences” students.

Welcome João and Gonçalo!

Most recent paper highlighted at UCIBIO

The research work “Thermodynamic properties of triheme cytochrome PpcF from Geobacter metallireducens reveal unprecedented functional mechanism” has just been published in the BBA – Bioenergetics Journal and was highlighted at UCIBIO.

Congrats on your PhD viva, Carolina Pádua

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

Portuguese research increases the effectiveness of dexamethasone in the treatment of COVID-19

Following our previous publication about the benefit of specific THEDES in the administration of dexamethasone for Covid-19, we are now pleased to share with you the press releases. Check it in the links below:

https://raiox.pt/investigacoes-portuguesas-podem-vir-a-contribuir-para-o-tratamento-da-covid-19/

Newsletter

MineHeritage third Newsletter is now available! Check it out to find out more about our latest activities:

mineheritage_3rd_newsletter.pdf

D4Ss is back to the field: summer sampling campaign!

This past few weeks, members from MARlab, with collaboration from MARE-UÉ went back to the Sado estuary to conduct the summer sampling campaign for the D4Ss project.

PROJECTOS "VERÃO COM CIÊNCIA 2020" : FÍSICA NUCLEAR APLICADA

1. Sumário

A Escola de Verão – Fiísica Nuclear Aplicada insere-se nos objectivos gerais da FCT/UNL e do LibPhys-UNL de contribuir activamente para o desenvolvimento do conhecimento cientiífico e da sociedade em diversas aáreas.

Portugal Campus Party

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

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!

      Lanterna Magica on air

The project Lanterna Magica was selected to be broadcast at the Antena 1 radio station on the program "90 Segundos de Ciência" and was on air on June 22nd and 23rd, 2020 (Episode 882) | To listen to this interview with Ângela Santos please click here.

New papers are out

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