Aqua in Silico - Improving wastewater treatment plant efficiency Bárbara Almeida, Jorge Santos and Pedro Cardoso, UCIBIO members from the Biochemical Engineering Lab, participated in the 1st edition of HiTECH2018 with the project Aqua in Silico.
UCIBIO at Encontro Ciência 2018 UCIBIO will be present at Ciência 2018, the latest edition of the annual meeting of Portuguese researchers. This year’s meeting will take place from 2 to 4 July at Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.   UCIBIO will be present in various thematic sessions, demonstrations and also posters presentation by PhD students.   Maria João Romão, UCBIO’s director will coordinate one of the sessions: " From Molecular Biology and Biochemistry to Material Sciences​: Overview of EMBL and ESRF. Benefits for Portuguese R&D”.
Mariana Matos awarded Best Oral Presentation Mariana Matos, PhD student at the Biochemical Engineering Lab (BIOENG), led by Maria Ascensão Reis, has been awarded the Best Oral Presentation at the Joint Conference 7th European Bioremediation Conference (EBC-VII) and the 11th International Society for Environmental Biotechnology conference (ISEB 2018), which took place in Chania, Greece,
Ana R. Freitas is one of the two awardees of the international 2018 Travel Awards promoted by the Pathogens journal Ana R. Freitas, Post-doc in the BacT-drugs Lab, at UCIBIO in Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto, was awarded the 2018 Travel Award promoted by Pathogens. An Evaluation Committee organized by Pathogens Editorial Board attributed Travel Awards for two young investigators to support attending a conference in 2018 (800 CHF/720 EUR).