Inaugural session 2019/2020

February 10, 2020

The academic year of 2019/2020 had its inaugural session on 10 Feb 2020.

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Welcoming new trainees

February 6, 2020

Undergraduate trainee students Íris Ramos, Rita Bastos and Ricardo Estevens (LBCM), plus Ricardo Pereira (LBq) Just joined our ranks. These students will be a part of the team in the first trimester of the year. They. are working on subjects related to marine bioproducts and biotechnoogy

D4Ss fieldwork starts

February 6, 2020

MARlab has recently started the Project D4Ss fieldwork, collecting samples from 3 different sites in the Sado estuary.

The team, consisting of MARE-NOVA researchers Marta Martins, Joana Neves and João Pequeno, as well as Mare-UÉVORA researchers, collected the samples on site and then processed the samples in the laboratory in order to assess the functional benthic ecosystem interactions and differences between the sampling sites, which are located in different margins of the estuary.

Welcome Intern Students

February 6, 2020

MARlab welcomes all the intern students joining us!

The scholar internships will last from 1 month up to 6 months.

Welcome Beatriz Matos and Bárbara Sá

January 30, 2020

Beatriz Matos and Bárbara Sá are two new researchers that have joined MARlab in Januray 2020.

Beatriz was already a member of the team but now joins us as a Masters Researcher. She will work in PAHMIX Project led by Marta Martins. Bárbara Sá comes from the Algarve region and wil work in the RIVERSEA Project, led by Paula Sobral.

We welcome Beatriz and Bárbara to the team!

Welcome to the team, Gabriela!

January 27, 2020

Gabriela is an undergraduate student in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from USP - University of São Paulo, Brazil. She will be working closely with Manuel Matos on the production of novel affinity adsorbents towards antibodies. During her stay, Gabriela will enhance upstream and downstream processing of novel ligands discovered from combinatorial libraries.

Newsletter

January 23, 2020

The second MineHeritage newsletter is now available!

mh_newsletter2.pdf

Special Commendation Award

January 22, 2020

A Special Commendation Prize on Mervyn Heard Award (2019) by the Magic Lantern Society was awarded for the project Technology and Preservation of Painted Glass Slides for Projection with Magic Lanterns by Márcia Vilarigues, Ângela Santos, Vanessa Otero and Beatriz Rodrigues.

La Caixa Fellowship

January 20, 2020

Welcome to the team, Prof. Cícero Cena!

January 20, 2020

Prof. Cícero Cena arrived last week and is staying with us for one month. He is graduated in Physics and holds a PhD in Materials Science, he is an Associated Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS).

"Natural deep eutectic systems in drug discovery and human health - breakthroughs in a liquid phase"​

January 17, 2020

In the ambit of the conference IC3TC 2019 - 3rd International Caparica Christmas Conference on Translational Chemistry 2019, organized by the Bioscope/ Proteomass research group, Prof. Ana Rita Duarte gave a talk with the title "Natural deep eutectic systems in drug discovery and human health - breakthroughs in a liquid phase". The complete presentation can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuSCDDdDAKI&feature=youtu.be

Krzemionki pre-historical mine

January 17, 2020

Krzemionki pre-historical mine, in Poland, is part of MineHeritage database.

http://krzemionki.pl/aktualnosci/mineheritage/