Newsletter

August 29, 2019

The First MineHeritage Newsletter is now available!

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Designer Biology 2019 Conference in Newcastle

August 9, 2019

Margarida Dias was this month in Newcastle University (UK), at the Designer Biology 2019 Conference that took place in Jul 31 – Aug 2, 2019, to present the work about 'Multicomponent and functional protein-based materials' in a session related to biomaterials as functional and tuneable materials.

 Photography credits: @DrGvanK

New publication about marine natural products' databases

July 30, 2019

Marine organisms and microorganisms are a source of natural compounds with unique chemical features applied in several areas like, drug discovery, cosmetics, materials and production of biofuels.

New marine natural products are discovered every day and access to information about these molecules should be organized and free-access for better exploitation.

Second MineHeritage Geocaching

July 26, 2019

Search for the second MineHeritage project geocache! In Radoboa Museum, Croatia!

https://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC8A70Q&title=radoboa-museum 

Summer job shadowing

July 19, 2019

We had for the last 2 weeks, 1st to 12th of July, Carolina Spencer in our Lab, a high school student that chose to take 2 weeks of her vacation doing job shadowing with our scientists. Carolina spend every mornig in our lab helping and following a different researcher. During this time she had the opportunity to meet several researchers and students with different academic backgrounds and different projects. She has 17 years and just finished the 11º year.

New publication about affinity-triggered hydrogels

July 18, 2019

Our last publication from Cláudia Fernandes, Ana Pina, Arménio Barbosa, Inês Padrão, Margarida Dias and Cecília Roque, together with collaborators from LAQV - FCT NOVA, LEAF from ISA and Department of Bioengineering and iBB – Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences from IST, was published in Biotechnology Journal.

NOVA STEAM Academy

July 17, 2019

The 1st edition of NOVA STEAM (STEAM - Sicience TEchnolog Arts Mathematics) Academy from FCT NOVA finished with great enthusiasm. 

Great gathering at the IUPAC 2019 in Paris

July 17, 2019

Cecília Roque was invited speaker at the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Conference 2019 in Paris, France, that took place on 5-12 July. Together with the 50th IUPAC General Assembly and the 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, this conference was held to celebrate the IUPAC 100th anniversary.

Cecília participated in the session 'The International Younger Chemists Network: Shaping the Future Worldwide' and it was a great to be part of the IUPAC centenary celebration together with such an inspiring group of young scientists.

Participation at the Ciencia 2019

July 17, 2019

We were a full day, on the 9th of July, at Ciencia 2019 meeting in Lisbon meeting scientists and learning more about the science made in Portugal. 

New article just accepted!

July 16, 2019

Cunha et al. (2019) Was just accepted for publication in Aquatic Toxicology. The manuscript explore the phyllogeny of CYPs in mussels, through sequencing of CYP-like mRNAs in the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis. See our publication here. 

Interview of Prof. Ana Rita Duarte in Antena 1

July 10, 2019

Prof. Ana Rita Duarte was invited to do an interview in Antena 1 radio, in the program "Ponto de Partida", where Eduarda Maio explores pertinent questions about portuguese scientific reasearch that is being developed in several fields. 

You can listen here the interview (in portuguese):

https://www.rtp.pt/play/p2063/e410661/ponto-de-partida

Participation in NOVA STEAM Academy

July 5, 2019
NOVA STEAM academy is a summer school created for students of the 3º Cycle of basic education and high school with curiosity to know from inside the academic world. The STEAM academy provides direct contact between students, teachers and researchers through scientific, ludic and ludic-sportive activities.

Ciência Viva no Laboratório 2019

July 5, 2019

Our lab participated in "Ciência Viva no Laboratório 2019" and hosted two high school students for a week. 

Affinity 2019 Conference

July 2, 2019

In June we were 3 days in Stockholm - June 26 to 28th - discussing affinity technology, molecular recognition and its application in industry at the Affinity 2019 Conference.

Rita Oliveira, Gonçalo Teixeira and Cecília Roque presented their work at the poster session and Manuel Matos gave a talk about 'Purification platform for antibodies & antibody based-fragments based on a de novo designed affinity adsorbent'.

New publications about SCENT project

July 2, 2019

Two papers were published related to SCENT project and our E-noose methodology to distinguish odours. Early this year, on February, Gonçalo Santos and Ana Carolina Pádua were both in Prague to attend the Biodevices 2019 Conference and the Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies were now released.