Welcome to the team, Guilherme!

Guilherme is our new Research Assistant in the SCENT project. He has a Masters degree in Micro and Nanotechnology Engineering from FCT-NOVA and did his master thesis in the University of Aalborg (Denmark), in the "Development of a microfluidic platform for dielectrophoretic separation of polymeric nanoparticles".

Welcome to the team, João!

João is a student in the 3rd year of the Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering in FCT-NOVA. Since he has a natural curiosity and already does electronics as a hobby, he is now investing his free time in our lab, gaining experience and know-how in several fields.

3rd phase of applications for the PhD research on Technology Assessment (2019-2023)

The applications for the PhD programme on TA are already open (3rd phase, 2019-2023). The links to follow are:

in English: https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/education/course/phd-technology-assessment
in Portuguese: https://www.fct.unl.pt/ensino/curso/doutoramento-em-avaliacao-de-tecnologia
in Portuguese: https://clip.unl.pt/candidatura/terceiro_ciclo
in English: https://clip.unl.pt/candidatura/terceiro_ciclo?lang=EN&l%EDngua=en

The application process will be open until March 3, 2020

For more information, please contact abm (at) fct.unl.pt

Call for SR&TD Project Grants (FCT 2020)

29.11.2019 - Foi publicado o Aviso de Abertura de Concurso (AAC) e o Guide for Peer Reviewers para submissão de candidaturas a projetos de IC&DT em todos os domínios científicos.
Ao abrigo deste AAC, o prazo para apresentação de candidaturas decorre entre o dia 30 de janeiro de 2020 e o dia 31 de março 2020 (17 horas).
O formulário de candidatura, bem como o guião de candidatura, serão disponibilizados no dia 30 de janeiro de 2020.
Todas as candidaturas devem ser apresentadas em língua inglesa através de formulário eletrónico no Portal de Concursos

Welcome to the team, Sabrina

Sabrina arrived this week and is staying in our lab until March 2020. She is Brazilian, born in São Paulo, and is beginning the 3rd year of her bachelor degree in Pharmacy – Biochemistry in USP. She will be working closely with Manuel Matos on the production of novel affinity adsorbents towards antibodies. Antibodies and related fragments are important tools in biotechnology context due to their potential as therapeutic and imaging agents.

DoCEIS 2020

The 11th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS’20) is devoted to Technological Innovation for Life Improvement.

Costa de Caparica, 6-8 May 2020.

New article just published

We just published a review entitled "The State-of-the Art of Environmental Toxicogenomics: Challenges and Perspectives of “Omics” Approaches Directed to Toxicant Mixtures" in the International Journal of Environmental and Human Health. The article, led by C. Martins, results from a collaboration between the Karolinsks Institute of Sweden and SeaTox.

Students from the Master in Biochemistry stay in the lab

During these last 4 weeks, on every Monday, we had Inês Ferreira and Cristina Nunes in our lab, two students from the FCT NOVA Master in Biochemistry. They were eager to assist lab routines and learn some research procedures under the Biomolecular Techniques discipline. We are thankful for having students learning more about our lab but also for experiencing the enthusiasm of doing research. Hopefully this will motivate students pursuing the investigation path.

Workshop Participativo: Contributos para a redução dos plásticos nos setores da pesca e marítimo-portuário

O BL. EU Climate - Climate innovation in Southern European Waters é um projeto europeu financiado pelo EIT Climate-KIC, e liderado pela FCT da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, em parceria com a Associação Portuguesa de Lixo Marinho (APLM) e com o apoio da Administração do Porto de Lisboa. Para além de Portugal, a Grécia e a Croácia também participam no projeto. O objetivo do BL. EU Climate é a redução de lixo marinho e o contributo dos setores da pesca, turismo e navios de carga na prevenção da produção de resíduos de plástico.

Fernando Nunes finished today his Master

Fernando Nunes, our last master student in the group, finished today successfully his Master in Bioorganic Chemistry.

Arménio Barbosa was the main supervisor and Cecília Roque co-supervisor. The work developed during the thesis was mainly in computational chemistry and related to “Molecular properties of VOC sensing materials”.

Congratulations Fernando! We will miss your usual cheer and joy at the lab. 

European Geologist Journal 48

The European Geologist is a Journal of the European Federation of Geologists. Out this week, issue 48 is dedicated to European geological heritage. MineHeritage is mentioned in the article "Croatian Geological heritage related to historical mining and quarrying", by Marta Mileusnić, Ana Maričić and Michaela Hruškova Hasan, MineHeritage partners of Faculty of Mining Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb.

New paper about metallopeptides & computational design approach

Hydrolytic zinc enzymes are common targets for protein design but the computational design of metal-containing proteins remains challenging due to the need to properly model protein–metal interactions. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose to integrate information of protein–metal interactions in long time scale simulations by focusing on the inherent flexibility of small proteins and their interactions with the metal ion by molecular dynamics simulations and spe

Beatriz Mariz finished her MSc in Biochemistry

Today it was Beatriz Mariz day! She just finished with much success her Master in Biochemistry with the thesis “Artificial fluorescent phosphatase enzyme”. Ana Pina, the supervisor, Cecília Roque, co-supervisor, and the rest of the group could not be more happy for her.

We wish you all the best Bia, it was great to meet, work and have fun with you.

Inês Padrão finished her MSc in Biotechnology

Inês finished her MSc in Biotechnology with the thesis “Multicomponent Chemically and Physically Cross-linked Hydrogels” last Wednesday, the 6th of November.

Congratulations Inês Padrão for a successful Master Thesis Defense. We wish you all the best to your next professional challenge. It was great to have you with us.