Henrique F. Carvalho participated in the 2nd edition of the European Summer School on Industrial Biotechnology (ESSIB) 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, August 30 - September 4.
Susana Palma presented her PhD work in the conference NANOBIOAPP2015 - Latest Advances on Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 21-23.
The Biomolecular Engineering Group participated in the "Noite Europeia dos Investigadores" 25 September 2015, counting with the presence of the PI Cecilia Roque and all other scientists involved.
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network PROSENSE aims at training a new generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary techniques and methods required to meet the major challenges in the development of diagnostic tools for prostate cancer.
The article "A value-added exopolysaccharide as a coating agent for MRI nanoprobes", from Susana Palma and co-authors, was accepted in Nanoscale and is now online.
Our group has recently participated in two outreach activities:
-The 9th edition of EXPO FCT, an exhibition of Science, Technology and Inovation held at FCT/UNL. More information can be found here: http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/expofct/home
In this video, Professor Cecília Roque gives a description of the project SCENT: HybridGels for RapidMicrobial Detection, funded through a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).
Prof. Cecília Roque from UCIBIO@REQUIMTE was distinguished with the Starting Grant from European Resarch Council (ERC), one of the largest and more prestigious research grants attributed in Europe.
The work developed in our lab "Exploring the potential of magnetic antimicrobial agents for water disinfection" has been cited in the science blog http://drinkingwateradvisor.com.
The Crystal Sense team, composed by Prof. Ana Cecília Roque, Ana Margarida Dias, Ana Sofia Pina and Ricardo Branco, was interviewed by the TV program "Exame Informática", as a result of the participation in coHItech program.
