Eventos

A Escola Superior de Biotecnologia e a ALUMNI - Associação dos Antigos Alunos da ESB organizam anualmente o Ciclo de Tertúlias na Biotecnologia. Uma oportunidade única para formação e reflexão, em contacto com especialistas que se associam à dinâmica de relação da Escola Superior de Biotecnologia com a comunidade.

A primeira Tertúlia na Biotecnologia de 2023 irá realizar-se, a 18 de abril, pelas 13h30, no Auditório Comendador Arménio Miranda, com Romeu Mendes, Médico Especialista em Saúde Pública e Coordenador do Diabetes em Movimento.

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A Conferência - Pesquisa científica sobre Violência Doméstica no âmbito da Universidade Federal do Ceará terá lugar no próximo dia 13 de abril, pelas 17h30, na Sala EAA006.

O evento contará ainda com o lançamento do livro "Feminicídio: mapeamento, prevenção e tecnologia" de José Antonio Fernandes de Macêdo, Sílvia Rebeca Sabóia Quezado e Tiago Dias da Silva.

Programa

• As inovações digitais no enfrentamento da violência de gênero
  José Antonio Fernandes de Macêdo - Universidade Federal do Ceará

• A era dos dados e o crime de feminicídio no Brasil
  Sílvia Rebeca Sabóia Quezado - Universidade Federal do Ceará

• O dever do Estado de proteger a vítima e punir o agressor
  Cristina Correia - Escola do Porto da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

• Moderação:
  Sandra Tavares - Escola do Porto da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Lançamento do livro "Feminicídio: mapeamento, prevenção e tecnologia"

• Apresentação:
  Elisabete Ferreira - Escola do Porto da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Ana Rita C. Duarte will present on April 12, 2023, at 4:30 pm, at the room EA008, a lecture entitled "What is the role of eutectic solvents in the development of biomaterials for biomedical applications?".

Ana Rita C. Duarte was born in Lisbon in 1978. Currently Associate Professor with habillitation at the Chemistry Department from Nova School of Science and Technology. She was previsously Research Assistant at the 3B’s research group at Universidade do Minho, where she worked for 10 years. She graduated in Chemical Engineering by Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2002 and completed her PhD on Exploring supercritical fluid technology for the preparation of controlled drug delivery systems in 2006 by the same University. In 2006/2007 she was a researcher at Techniche Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands.

The International Society for Advancement of Supercritical Fluids granted her thesis the Best Thesis Award in 2007. In 2013 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholar to support her stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, where she was for a period of 6 months. she has been the PI and/or co-PI of 5 Projects funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. In 2016 she was awarded an ERC consolidator grant entitled: DES.solve – When Solids Become Liquids: Natural Deep Eutectic solvents for Chemical Process Engineering, to proceed the developments on green technologies. This 5 year project was funded by the European Research Council with 1,87 million euros. In 2022 she was awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant to pursue one of the technologies developed withing DES Solve.  At the moment she is supervising and/or co-supervising 1 Master thesis, 5 + 2 PhD Students and leading a team of nearly 15 researchers. In 2018, co-founded Des Solutio, a spin-off company from FCT-NOVA which aims to develop safer and greener alternatives to the chemicals that are usually used in the production of beauty, pharmaceutical, personal care and other products. She is the Action Chair of COST Action Greenering which involves more than 250 participants from 34 different countries.

At the moment, she has 167 papers listed in scopus with a total of 6034 citations, and an h-index of 41. Her main research interests are the use of green technologies for the development of biomaterials. In particular, the use of water, and supercritical fluids together with the exploration of natural deep eutectic solvents for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0800-0112

Please join us on the 31 of March 2023 starting at 14:15.
No need to register - just show up in EBI -100.

João Pedro Silva is our guest speaker.

Summary
Glucans are polysaccharides commonly found in different organisms such as mushrooms, yeasts, oats, barley and seaweed but not in mammalians. In this class, glucans act as immune stimulants being recognized by different pathogen-associated molecular pattern receptors. This property is interesting for the development of applications where the immune system activation is needed, for example, in viral infections. In this work, we have explored the use of industrial spent yeast residue to extract and purify glucans with suitable properties for the development of different biomedical applications.