News

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.

Last conferences attended: Gordon and ISOEN 2019

June 4, 2019

We have been busy traveling and participating in internatinal conferences this last month.

First Cecília Roque went together with Carina Esteves and Ana Pina to the Gordon Research Conference on "Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry" at Les Diablerets, Switerzland.


Expo FCT 2019, mais um ano a abrir as portas aos alunos do ensino secundário

June 4, 2019

Estivemos mais uma vez, no dia 24 de Abril, a participar na EXPO FCT 2019. 

Congratulations to Beatriz Santos that completed succefully her Master Degree

May 8, 2019

Last month, Beatriz Santos completed her Master's Degree in Chemical and Biochemistry Engineering with the thesis "Optimization of Sensing Materials for Gas Detection". In addition to Professor Cecília Roque, the jury was attended by Professor Mario Eusébio and Researcher Nídia Almeida.

Our last publication about 'Intelligent gelatin' has been in the media

April 30, 2019

Our new publication published in Materials Today this month was mentioned in several media news.

The paper showed that gelatin can be more than food. For the first time, it was shown an example of soft matter in artificial olfaction, where engineered gelatin materials combined with artificial intelligence tools were used to mimic the sense of olfaction.

Cecília Roque and Manuel Matos at the ACS Meeting in Orlando, USA, April 2019

April 18, 2019

In April Cecília Roque and Manuel Matos crossed the Atlantic to attend the 257th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition: 'Chemistry for New Frontiers' in Orlando, USA.

Inês Moreira was in Spain for the Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials

March 13, 2019

Inês Moreira presented her poster about 'Biopolymeric hybrid films for the detection of volatile organic compounds' at the 6th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials in Sitges, Spain, on 11-15 March 2019.

Participation in the BIODEVICES 2019 Conference, February 2019

February 26, 2019

Gonçalo Santos & Ana Carolina Pádua were both in Prague, on February 22 - 24, 2019, presenting their work related with the electronic nose and SCENT project at the 'Electronic Health Records and Standards Session' in 

New people arrived in the team

February 12, 2019

Fábio, Sara, Iana and Margarida are the four new colleagues that joined the team in February 2019. They all know quite well the lab since they have been part of the team before as master or PhD students. We are very happy to welcome them again and looking forward to this new professional challenge together.

We hope to have many news about their achievements in the near future but meantime we also want to share their plans in the new positions and to know more about who they are.

Antibodies Excellent Young Researcher Award

February 6, 2019

The winners of the Antibodies Travel Awards for 2019 were announced!

Manuel Matos, PhD Student in Bioengineering Systems (MIT-Portugal Program) was awarded with an Excellent Young Researcher certificate.

New visiting scientist in the team

January 9, 2019

We have a new visiting scientist at the lab. Her name is Larissa Martins, she is coming from Brazil and is doing a BSc in Chemistry at Universidade de São Paulo. Larissa will stay with us for around 2 months, until the end of February 2019, and her work will be related to the SCENT project.

New publication in Journal of Chromatography A.

November 21, 2018

Human serum albumin (HSA) is an important biopharmaceutical agent that has the capacity to carry diverse molecules and increase their circulation half-life time, but also to function as a disease biomarker.

Different chromatographic and non-conventional approaches for its purification were explored by Raquel dos Santos together with Carina Figueiredo, Aline Viecinski, Ana Pina, Arménio Barbosa and Cecília Roque and are now published in the Journal of Chromatography A.

Trends in Biotechnology journal cover

November 16, 2018


The cover of Trends in Biotechnology issue of December is out and it is a beautiful figure prepared by Arménio Barbosa together with Catarina Oliveira. 

ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting

November 14, 2018

Our two PhD students, Raquel Santos and Ana Carolina Pádua, presented their research work at the 9th ITQB NOVA PhD Students Meeting. The meeting held on 7-9th November, at ITQB, was organized by the PhD students to present and discuss their work amongst the scientific community.