Íris Batalha was at the HUPO 11th Annual World Congress, that was held in Boston, Massachussetts, USA, from 9 to 13 of September 2012.

Íris presented a Poster, with the title "Novel synthetic scaffolds for the enrichment of phosphorylated proteins and peptides" and won a Travel Grant, provided by the organizers of the Congress.

Susana Palma attended the 2nd International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging, Lübeck (Germany), March 15/16, 2012 (site: http://www.iwmpi.uni-luebeck.de/)

1. "CHImeriX – Designing  new enzymes through computational synthetic biology"

The group received funding from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia for the project "Viral Capture and Purification System: Smart macroporous structures for the affinity purification of retroviral particles", lead by Cecília Roque in collaboration with IBET.