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Congratulations to Joana Calvário!

February 18, 2022

We are very happy to share that we have a new Master!

Last week, Joana Calvário successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Production and characterization of Odorant Binding Proteins", work supervised by Prof. Cecília Roque and Dr. Arménio Barbosa. Congratulations to Joana, we wish you all the best!

Biodevices 2022

February 16, 2022
Last week our PhD student Rita Oliveira presented her work, developed under the scope of the #SCENT_project, at the annual BIODEVICES2022 conference. 

ERC PoC Grant - #ENSURE_project

February 14, 2022
We are very happy to announce that our team was awarded the prestigious 

Congratulations, Dr. Manuel Matos!

February 9, 2022

Many congratulations to Dr. Manuel Matos, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Artificial scaffolds for affinity-triggered bioseparations".

Tackling Humidity with Designer Ionic Liquid-Based Gas Sensing Soft Materials

February 4, 2022
One of our latest works regarding "Tackling Humidity with Designer Ionic Liquid-Based Gas Sensing Soft Materials" from the

New publication is out: Nanoscale Events on Cyanobiphenyl-Based Self-Assembled Droplets Triggered by Gas Analytes

January 31, 2022

Check out our latest publications! In this paper, the authors showed how the dynamic self-assembly features of the Liquid Crystal droplets and corresponding optical changes upon gas exposure ensured efficient discrimination and classification of the tested gas analytes.

#SCENT_project in Publico

January 4, 2022

Great news to start 2022! Congratulations to the authors of this work! You can access the artice here: https://bit.ly/3zqo5X9

New publication available

January 4, 2022
One of our latest publications is now available!
In this paper, Ana Pina and colleagues discuss the discovery of phosphotyrosine-binding oligopeptides with supramolecular target selectivity through biopanning strategy.

This work was done in collaboration with the Rein Ulijn Group from Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY.

Visit from Prof. Alois Jungbauer

December 17, 2021

Last week we had the pleasure to host Prof. Alois Jungbauer from BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien and Head of Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering.

New publication "Discovery of phosphotyrosine-binding oligopeptides with supramolecular target selectivity"

December 15, 2021

 We are very happy to announce one of our latest publications! In this paper, Ana Pina and colleagues discuss the discovery of phosphotyrosine-binding oligopeptides with supramolecular target selectivity through biopanning strategy. This work was done in collaboration with the Ulijn Group from Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at CUNY, New York. Congratulations to the authors for this amazing work!

ISPPP Flash Presentation Award

December 9, 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Arménio Barbosa for winning the Flash Presentation Award from ISPPP 2021 with his work on "Molecular modeling on the discovery of synthetic affinity-adsorbents"! Prof. Cecília Roque also took part in the symposium with the talk "Affinity magnetic precipitation for antibody purification".

Welcome to the team, José!

December 9, 2021

We would like to welcome our most recent group member, José Dinis!

Thesis defense Cátia Soares

November 18, 2021

We are very happy to share that we have a new Master!!!

Today Cátia Soares successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Production and Characterization of stimuli-responsive Marine Proteins". Congratulations Catia we wish you all the best!

Visit from 3M - Alexei Voloshin

November 12, 2021

Yesterday, we had the pleasure to host Alexei Voloshin, the Global Head of Application Strategy and Bioprocess Science of 3M Biopharmaceutical Business Unit. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss our work and for the great talk about 3M's new technologies in biopharma. #PURE_project