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A Workshop on Molecular Geometry and Visualization will be held next Friday, 11th September at the Centro de Congressos of IST (Alameda).  The workshop is organized by Prof. Joaquim Jorge from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IST and will feature a talk on Predictive and Scalable Macro­Molecular Modeling by Prof. Chandrajit  Bajaj of the University of Texas at Austin. Miguel Prazeres from BERG-iBB will also be presenting ("Exploring Biomolecular Interactions in Paper-based Biosensors"). Follow this link to learn more:  https://sites.google.com/site/amopworkshop2015/

Dr. Luís Costa from A4F-Algae for Future, a bioengineering company aiming at the development of projects for the industrial production of microalgae, will be giving a seminar next Friday the 12th May, at 12h00m, in Room Va2, IST (Alameda). Dr. Luis Costa, a former graduate of Biological Engineering from IST will be speaking about his educational and professional background, highlighting the areas of heterogeneous catalysis with enzymes and zeolites and  of industrial scale microalgae production. The talk is part of the seminar series of the Bioengineering Department at IST.

Photo: Nannochloropsis sp. CSIRO 2009,  CC Attribution 3.0 Unported. From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_10697_Microalgae.jpg

Dr. Emil W. Ciruczak, a renowed specialist in the areas of Near-Infrared, Raman, PAT, QbD and DoE will be giving a talk entitled "PAT Tools for the Pharma Industries" this Wednesday the 27th May, at 14h30m, in Room Q4.6, IST (Alameda). Dr. Ciruczak will be hosted by Prof. José Cardoso de Menezes and the seminar is organized in the context of the Master in Pharmaceutical Engineering. 

Dr. Fernando Anjos-Afonso of the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute at Cardiff School of Biosciences, will be giving a talk entitled "Notching up Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells to control their cell fate decisions and expansion" Friday the  8th May, at 11h00m, in Room 1.38, IST (TagusPark). Dr. Anjos-Afonso was awarded the Jane Hodge Research Fellowship at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute in 2015, to investigate different cell-to-cell communication signalling pathways that control human haematopoietic stem cell activity and to determine how these pathways are exploited or avoided by certain leukaemias.

Photo: A colony of embryonic stem cells (centre). Ryddragyn 2006, Public domain.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humanstemcell.JPG