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.

Bolsa de Investigação para Mestre

Encontra-se aberto concurso para a atribuição de uma Bolsa de Investigação para Mestre no âmbito do projeto “HIPERSLAB – Melhoria do Comportamento Estrutural de Lajes Fungiformes Sujeitas a Acções Horizontais Cíclicas e Sísmicas Através da Utilização Racional de Betões de Elevado Desempenho Reforçado com Fibras”, com a referência PTDC/ECI-EST/30511/2017.

Requisitos de admissão: Mestrado em Engenharia Civil, Eletrotécnica ou Informática. É dada preferência a candidatos que preencham os seguintes requisitos:

i) área de especialização em estruturas;

Des.solve new published video article

Des.solve new published video article

A new article created by Des.solve group is now live on JoVE video journal. The article focuses on the Preparation of Binary and Ternary Deep Eutectic Systems, using a reproducible protocol that aims to standardize the preparation of these systems throughout the scientific community. JoVE articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity.

NOVAsaúde 2nd International Conference

The environment and its consequences on human health were discussed on October 14th, 2019, at the NOVAsaúde 2nd International Conference dedicated to the theme "Respiratory Disease and Environmental Health". 

First programmable memristor computer

The first programmable memristor computer—not just a memristor array operated through an external computer—has been developed at the University of Michigan.

More information:

https://news.umich.edu/first-programmable-memristor-computer-aims-to-bring-ai-processing-down-from-the-cloud/

Participation on the EPTA Conference 2019, Stockholm

The Portuguese chapter of the EPTA report 2019 is online. It was produced by the integrated CICS.NOVA members Ana P. Gil, António B. Moniz and José de São José, and the collaborator researchers Bettina Krings and Bárbara Bäckström. The complete version of the report is here.

The 2019 EPTA report on "Technologies in care for older people" is now available online.

2nd phase of applications for the PhD research on Technology Assessment (2019-2023)

The applications for the PhD programme on TA are already open (2nd 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 October 31, 2019

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

Welcome to the team, Wilton Cardoso

The coffee has a new undeniably aroma in our office that it had not had in the past mornings.