The kick off section of the Project ATLANTICLAM - Bring Euro-native clam species from ‘farm to fork’ under the scope of the BLUE GROWTH PROGRAMME will take place on the 18th of April at Escola Superior de Biotecnologia. The agenda includes research presentations by the project partners:
- Application of genomics technologies for the development of selective breeding programmes of clam species (NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research)
- In situ sensors for monitoring of cyanobacterial toxins (INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory)
- Development of new packaging technologies to preserve clams (ESB - Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Católica)
Attendance is free but subject to registration through oceanofrescoatlanticlam@gmail.com
Carvalho Guerra Auditorum



João Borges is a Senior Researcher at CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with an individual contract supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). He graduated and received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Porto in 2008 and 2013, respectively. His PhD studies focused on studying the fundamentals governing the adsorption of proteins on surfaces modified with self-assembled monolayers and biopolymeric materials. From 2013 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minho and University of Aveiro. His research focuses on the molecular design, synthesis and development of soft supramolecular multicomponent biomaterials, by combining polysaccharides, self-assembling peptides/proteins and nucleic acids, to be used as bioinstructive matrices to control cell functions and as platforms for controlled drug/therapeutics delivery.

