Our lab is organizing a three-day hands-on workshop that intends to capture the attention of talented graduate and post-graduate students (including M.Sc., Ph.D., Post-docs and researchers) with a background in computational chemistry, bioinformatics, chemical and biochemical engineering, for the forefront computational methodologies in use nowadays, in the field of de novo Protein Design.

We had the oportunity to show some of our work to high school students, as part of the 10th edition of the EXPO FCT initiative.

Professor Cecília Roque participated in the 3rd Meeting on Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe, held in Caparica (Portugal) last february 22-24, with the lecture "Tailored Synthetic Affinity Reagents for Purification Purposes"

The CHImerASE project partners met past february at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen (Germany).

Our colleague Ana Carolina Pádua has participated in the event Startup Pirates - Hardware Edition 2015 where her team developed a business idea for the electronic nose being developed at our lab. This initiative took place in Lisbon last December 12 to 19 and the final pitch of her team has been awarded the 3rd jury prize!

Professor Cecília Roque got her new Academic Degree - Agregação (or Habilitation).
This is the highest obtainable academic degree, and was conceded to Prof. Cecilia after an outstanding presentation and lecture with an academic jury on November 10 and 11, 2015.