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/

Welcome to the team, Guilherme!

January 13, 2020

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!

January 9, 2020

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)

January 9, 2020

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)

January 6, 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

December 11, 2019

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

December 3, 2019

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.