This week at the 7th Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, Ana Margarida Dias and Cecília Roque joined experts to discuss the latest in synthetic biology. Ana Margarida Dias presented her work on “Prototyping novel structural and Cys-rich proteins using cell-free expression systems.” Exciting exchanges and insights into cutting-edge biotechnologies! 👩🔬👩🔬
Arménio Barbosa participated in the 24th Edition of EuroQsar to present his work about “Molecular Modelling in Biotechnology: Design and Discovery of Small Molecule Adsorbents”.
Last week, Professor Cecília, Carolina and Catarina (Biomeng Lab) and Alexander (BOKU University) participated in the BPP Conference in Luxembourg.All of them are part of the PURE Project and their participation in conferences is crucial to disseminating the project. Well done PURE team! 👏
We have a new published paper in Vaccine about “Enhancing NA immunogenicity through novel VLP designs”. Alexander Zollner and Alois Jungbauer are two of the authors of the paper. This work was developed under the scope of the Pure Project, financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020.
PhD student Alexander Zollner from BOKU attended the Annual Retreat of the BOKU DocSchool BioproEng in Steinschaler Dörfl, Austria, between 14th and 16th May 2024. He gave a flash talk about his research in purification of Virus-like particles and won the Poster award with his work about “Chromatography based purification of enveloped virus like particles displaying influenza N2 …
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Last week, Cecília Roque attended the Bioprocessing Summit Europe in Barcelona. Cecília presented a lecture about “Design and Discovery of Affinity and Mixed-Mode adsorbents” under the scope of PURE project. Pure PhD student Alexander Zollner was also present at this event. He held a presentation about the switch from resin-to-membrane-based technologies in Downstream processing of …
We have a new published paper in Separation and Purification Technology about “Heparin-affinity chromatography is a generic purification platform for chimeric gag VLPs displaying different viral surface antigens”. This work was developed under the scope of the Pure Project, financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020.
From December 7th-9th, we had the opportunity to attend Microbiotec23 that took place in University of Beira Interior, Covilhã. Cecília Roque presented as keynote speaker the scientific work entitled “Nature inspired solutions in Health Biotechnology. Aditionally, Arménio Barbosa presented the talk ” A molecular modeling perspective on the development of synthetic affinity ligands” and Catarina Domingos the …
Last month, Margarida Dias present a lecture on October 18th entitled “Biotechnology and its impact in the pharmaceutical industry” at 57º Semana Universitária Paulista de Farmácia e Bioquímica, University of São Paulo (SUPFAB 2023).
From 5th to 8th of November 2023 PURE member Alexander Zollner and Cecília Roque attended the 42nd International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP) in Vienna. Alexander gave an insight in his current research in “Chromatography-based purification of enveloped virus-like particles displaying influenza N2 neuraminidase surface antigen for an immunologic study …
