Book: Fundamentals of Biocatalysts

Posted on January 17th, 2025

Professor F. Xavier Malcata, from thee Biotechnology group of LEPABE, is the author of the book "Fundamentals of Biocatalysts: Cell Structure and Function", published by Springer.

This textbook covers the essentials of cells as biocatalysts, including cell morphology, cell genetics, cell metabolism, cell operation, cell stoichiometry, cell engineering, and cell interaction. A pragmatic and systematic approach is provided to all such topics, from the point of view of a biological engineer – illustrated by criteriously selected and carefully solved problems, proposed at the end of each section.

Know more about this book here.

LEPABE leads the COST Action Net4CleanAir

Posted on December 5th, 2024

The COST Action CA23139 - Network for Indoor Air Cleaning (Net4CleanAir) was officially launched on October 18th with its first Management Committee meeting at the COST Association headquarters in Brussels. Sofia Sousa, senior researcher at LEPABE, was elected Chair to lead this COST Action. Pedro Branco, junior researcher at LEPABE, was also elected to a leadership role as Science Communication Coordinator.

With a planned duration of four years, the main aim of Net4CleanAir is to create an international and interdisciplinary network of experts and stakeholders with a shared vision of promoting clean air for healthy and energy-efficient indoor environments. It will pave the way for progress beyond the state of the art, namely by contributing for future development of standards and regulations, and decision-making systems for indoor air cleaning technologies.

Learn more about this COST Action here.

ABERTURAS E COROS DE ÓPERA – SONS DA ‘LIBERDADE’

Posted on November 13th, 2024

ALiCE, in collaboration with the 3 R&D units, CEFT, LEPABE and LSRE-LCM, are sponsors of the Researchers’ Concert: ABERTURAS E COROS DE ÓPERA.

This concert will take place on November 20th, 2024, at FEUP’s auditorium (21:30 h) and is performed by the choir and orchestra of the Academia and City Opera (OAC). Access to the Auditorium is free.

"SONS DA LIBERDADE" seeks to express the freedom and its various declensions, through orchestral and choral-orchestral pieces that span much of the 19th century, the century of people's freedom. A reality that manifested itself in the form of struggles for independence, in the form of struggles for the granting of rights and freedoms or in the form of struggles for national unification.

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