A night where science meets fun, European Reseachers' Night 2019

We had a great night again among all the researchers and people that pass by to visit 'The scent of science' at the European Reseachers' Night 2019 that took place on 27th September, at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC-ULisboa) and Jardim do Príncipe Real.

Silesian University of Technology

The MineHeritage project is also on the Silesian University of Technology website! (Polish Language)

https://www.polsl.pl/Wydzialy/RG/Lists/AktualnosciWydzialuGornictwaiGeologii/PokazWiadomosc.aspx

Classificações da 5ª Corrida Solidária FaCiT_NOVA

A 5ª Edição da Corrida Solidária FaCiT_NOVA decorreu no passado dia 5 de outubro no Campus da Caparica da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 

Esta edição contemplou 514 inscrição, tornando-se a edição com maior número de participantes. 

As classificações gerais da prova encontram-se aqui apresentadas.

European Minerals Days

The Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum of the University of Zagreb organized the European Minerals Day on the 23rd of September 2019. The activities included the dissemination of the MineHeritage Project, workshops and seminars about the mineral world, some of them specially dedicated to the younger generations. 

European Research's Night 2019

This Friday, 27 September 2019 will be the European Researchers' Night! The MineHeritage project will be presented in different cities!
In Lisbon, we will be at the Museum of History and Natural Science, from 18h. Come on!


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Welcome to the team, Eduardo Simões

Eduardo Simões is a new undergraduate student that arrived in the begining of September. He will be at our lab doing an internship until December 2019. He is Brazilian and studies Chemical Engineering at the Poli-Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

NOVA science for a day

On the 18th of September, 2019, Carina Esteves presented her PhD work about 'Intelligent gels for artificial olfaction' at the 2nd Edition of

RGNF - University of Zagreb Activities

In the context of the MineHeritage project, the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum of Zagreb (RGNF), in partnership with the Rabdoa Museum, seeks to identify old and abandoned mining sites, which may contribute with additional information on the use and exploitation of Raw materials. The RGNF visited the Museum and Mines of sulphur and coal and installed two Geocaches that successfully promote historical mining in Radoboj.

New paper in Scientific Reports

Our Ph.D. Students Carla Martins and Ana P. Rodrigo are leading authors of the paper just published in Scientific Reports entitled “The complexity of porphyrin-like pigments in a marine annelid sheds new light on haem metabolism in aquatic invertebrates”.

Marine natural products meeting in Peniche

Arménio Barbosa presented his work about Drug Discovery and Development with a poster entitled 'Computer-aided discovery of new anti-leukemic epigenetic drugs based on free-access marine compound libraries' at the XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products and XV European Congress on Marine Natural Products.

Young Biophysicist Talk Award to Tomás M. Fernandes

Tomás M. Fernandes received the Young Biophysicist Award for his talk "Redox characterization of multiheme cytochromes" at NOVA Biophysica conference held in Lisbon in September 2019.

New article just accepted!

Ana and Carla lead an article that has just been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports which is due for publication next week. Thw work, appended to our project GreenTech, results from a collaboration between UCIBIO and LAQV and deals on the distribution and chemical characterisation of porphyrinoids from the marine Polychaeta Eulalia

More information will be added as soon as the paper is made public.

Ana Pina awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Fund

Ana Pina is one of the recipients of the Research Fund Awards from Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Fund. This award will provide to Ana Pina an exciting opportunity to study functional collagen mimetic peptides.

The Royal Society of Chemistry awards grants of up to £4000 to enable high quality research of funding with the aim of supporting those undertaking their own research as early career researchers.  

Newsletter

The First MineHeritage Newsletter is now available!

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