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R&D Projects

Proposals for Research Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2006

Painel de Avaliação de Engenharia Bioquímica e Biotecnologia - 2006

Coordination

Nic Lindley
Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, France

Evaluation

John Michael Woodley
University College London, United Kingdom
Juan Manuel Lema
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mohamed Al-Rubeai
School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, Ireland
Nic Lindley

Projects assigned

PTDC/BIO/64028/2006

Production of valuable compounds by microbial fermentation of industrial waste
Paolo De Marco
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/BIO/64161/2006

Plant based systems for production of biopharmaceuticals
Rita Sobral Moutinho Abranches
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/64178/2006

Production of bacterial compounds for forest products protection
Ana Teresa Fialho Caeiro Caldeira
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/BIO/64534/2006

Microbial stress monitoring in bioprocesses optimization: Docosahexaenoic acid production by the microalga Crypthecodinium cohnii as a model
MARIA TERESA SARAIVA LOPES DA SILVA
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/BIO/64754/2006

CELL MONITOR - Development of automated sensor systems for monitoring microbial responses to induced stress conditions
António Osmaro Santos Silva Rangel
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/64783/2006

New Technologies for Chestnut (Castanea sativa) Preservation: physico-chemical, biochemical, microbiological and toxicological studies
Cristina Luisa Miranda Silva
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/64822/2006

BIOMIMETIC AFFINITY POLYMER SYSTEMS FOR MOLECULAR RECOGNITION OF ANTIBODIES
Maria Angela Cabral Garcia Taipa Meneses de Oliveira
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/64962/2006

Optical Multi-Parametric Immunosensor (OptiMuPI)
Abel Martin Gonzalez Oliva
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/65163/2006

Identification of vaccine-candidate immunogenic proteins of Burkholderia cepacia complex
Jorge Humberto Gomes Leitão
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/65383/2006

Chemical strategies for high-throughput proteomics: A rationally designed Affinity Tag-Receptor as a new approach for the production, purification and immobilization of recombinant proteins
Ana Cecília Afonso Roque
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/65389/2006

Bacillus subtilis as a cell factory: enhanced proteases production for ecofriendly leather industries. PROLEATHER.
Alberto José Delgado dos Reis
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/BIO/65544/2006

The plant Portulaca oleracea and the seaweed Ulva rigida as natural sources for ω3 fatty acids; studies on enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of ω3 fatty acids.
Isabel Maria Marques Saraiva de Carvalho
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/BIO/65683/2006

Cell-Chips
João Pedro Estrela Rodrigues Conde
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores para os Microsistemas e as Nanotecnologias (INESC MN)

PTDC/BIO/65743/2006

NUTRIOMICS - A nutrigenomics approach to uncover the physiological effects of functional food ingredients
Isabel Rocha
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/65893/2006

Tuning recombinant protein secretion in Escherichia coli
FILIPE JOSÉ MENEZES MERGULHÃO
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/BIO/66020/2006

Bioconversion of non-food mediterranean agro-crops into fuel ethanol and co-products
Anatoly Shatalov
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/66139/2006

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bioengineering: novel selection methods for human stem cell isolation and ex-vivo expansion
Joaquim Manuel Sampaio Cabral
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/66221/2006

Novel Yeast Metabolic Engineering Tools for Systematic Multiple Overexpression and knock-out
Björn Fredrik Johansson
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/66260/2006

BioCAPRA - High-value molecules from goat milk. Identification, characterisation and physiological functionality
Maria Luisa de Bivar Weinholtz Roseiro
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/BIO/66398/2006

Production of a recombinant rabies vaccine using Medicago truncatula
Changhe Zhang
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/66514/2006

Sensitive and selective detection of DNA/RNA based on functionalised gold nanoparticles - application to pathogen detection; mutation detection and RNA quantification
Pedro Viana Baptista
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/66794/2006

Continuous alcohol-free beer production
José António Couto Teixeira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67015/2006

Bioperfuse - New bioreactor for the development of improved tissue-like substitutes
Nuno Neves
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67159/2006

Recombinant cationic peptides - application in the production of antiseptic textiles
Francisco Miguel Portela da Gama
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67169/2006

BONEGENE- Bone tissue engineering by gene delivery in three-dimensional starch-based polymeric scaffolds
Helena Maria Pires Gaspar Tomás
Universidade da Madeira (UMA)

PTDC/BIO/67213/2006

Studies on the interactions between glass transition and water activity to assess food stability.
Cristina Luisa Miranda Silva
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/67306/2006

BIOFLUOR - Biological production of commercially relevant fluorinated organic compounds
Paula Castro
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/BIO/67307/2006

AromInZyme - Immobilized glycosidases for the enhancement of wine's aroma
José Maria Marques Oliveira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67344/2006

BIOPOLISH - Bioreactor strategies for polishing wastewater contaminated with organic micropollutants
Paula Castro
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/67356/2006

Developing a information framework for microarray data analysis
José Luis Oliveira
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/BIO/67443/2006

“Green bio-MAPs”: bio-Membranes for Antibody Purification prepared by clean processes.
Ana Cecília Afonso Roque
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/67452/2006

Quorum sensing phenomena in non-Candida albicans Candida species
Mariana Contente Rangel Henriques
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67509/2006

Supercritical Micronization of Plasmid DNA Vectors
Antonio Manuel Figueiredo Palavra
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/67877/2006

Nonribosomal Peptide synthetases as tools to generate new bioactive peptide antibiotics (BIOPEPTIDE)
Sónia Alexandra Leite Velho Mendo Barroso
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/BIO/68257/2006

Oxygen mass transfer in biphasic-media: impact and optimisation of processes involving yeasts
Isabel Maria Pires Belo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/68266/2006

Optimization of bacterial polymers production by a screening micro-bioreactor under oscillatory flow: valuation of Portuguese by-products via the polyhydroxyalkanoates biocycle
Daniel Pereira da Silva
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/68270/2006

Biotechnological Applications by Integral Use of Portuguese Agro-Industrial Residues
Denise Santos Ruzene
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/68453/2006

Hairy roots as an in vitro model system
Ana Cristina da Silva Figueiredo
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/69082/2006

VSPINE - Innovative Approaches for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries based on the Use of Adult Stem/Progenitor Cells and Tissue Engineering Strategies
António José Braga Osório Gomes Salgado
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/69242/2006

Integrated methodologies for the development of bi and three-valent DNA-vaccines against Helycobacter pylori
Cecília Ribeiro da Cruz Calado
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/BIO/69251/2006

Implementation of a strategy for the biotransformation of pharmaceutically active indole alkaloids by overexpressing a class III peroxidase in Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don
Mariana Sottomayor
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP/UP)

PTDC/BIO/69330/2006

Molecular methodologies for milk and dairy products analysis
Miguel Brito
Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa (ESTeSL/IPL)

PTDC/BIO/69350/2006

ANEURYSM -Investigation of aneurysm flows
Fernando Manuel Coutinho Tavares de Pinho
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/BIO/69407/2006

Novel stroke model for neuroprotective research: bioreaction of primary brain cell aggregates
Paula Marques Alves
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/69451/2006

Development of flexible cell lines for the Production of Retrovirus and Lentivirus for Gene Therapy.
Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/69452/2006

Manufacturing Canine Adenovirus Vectors for Gene Therapy: development of MDCK CAV-2 E1-complementing cell lines.
Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/69682/2006

Biomolecular Engineering Approches for in vitro Production of Self Assembly Viral Nanoparticles
Guilherme Nuno de Passos Correia Matos Ferreira
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/BIO/69689/2006

Metal ion complexation and antioxidant activity of proanthocyanidins
Baoshan Sun
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, I.P. (INRB)

PTDC/BIO/69725/2006

Modelling adsorption equilibrium of peptides on hydrophobic interaction chromatography under non-linear conditions.
Ana Cristina Dias Cabral
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/BIO/69968/2006

Pep3-derived peptides among the coming generation of pesticides
Miguel Castanho
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/70118/2006

BIOFOMICS - Application of high-throughput methods for the systematic study of pure culture biofilms
Maria Olívia Baptista de Oliveira Pereira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/70256/2006

Application of PNA FISH and RT-PCR for the detection of Enterobacter Sakazakii, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp.
Nuno Filipe Azevedo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/70427/2006

Integrated Bioreactor and Membrane Distillation System for Production of Bioethanol from Sorghum and Beetroot Molasses Waste
Isabel Coelhoso
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/70576/2006

METAshbya - Metabolic engineering of the riboflavin producer Ashbya gossypii
Lucília Maria Alves Ribeiro Domingues
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/70722/2006

GANOCEUTICALS- Production and caracterization of nutriceuticals from the Portuguese Ganoderma lucidum.
Fernando Octávio de Queirós Dourado
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/70806/2006

In search of ideal protein stabilisers: compound libraries inspired by solutes from hyperthermophiles.
Pedro Miguel António Lamosa
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/70815/2006

In vivo delivery of anti-inflammatory chimeric proteins: assessment of therapeutic application.
Rasmus Larsen
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)

PTDC/BIO/70915/2006

Bacteriophage resistance in lactic acid bacteria: immunity and abortive infection
Susana Margarida Lopes Martins Domingues
Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia - Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (ICAT/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/71037/2006

BIOCLA - Bioconversion of linoleic acid into conjugated linoleic acid by Propionibacteria: strains screening and novel process strategies
Maria Isabel Andrade Mendes de Vasconcelos
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/71156/2006

Whole fungal cell biocatalysis in an ionic liquid solvent for white drug production
CRISTINA SILVA PEREIRA
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/71181/2006

Development and standardization of biotechnological assays for evaluation of efflux pumps activity of Gram negative clinical isolates that have a multi-drug resistant phenotype.
Leonard Amaral
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/71206/2006

Towards the effective usage of dairy strains for oral drug delivery: a systems biology approach to improve Lactococcus lactis acid resistance
Maria Helena Dias dos Santos
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/71223/2006

Microbial biodiversity of traditional foods - a treasure trove for the future
Maria de Lurdes Nunes Enes Dapkevicius
Universidade dos Açores (UAçores)

PTDC/BIO/71455/2006

BolA regulates Cell Growth and Survival: Study of this new Target focusing on the Control of Cell Division and Protein Production
Cecilia Maria Pais de Faria de Andrade Arraiano
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/71573/2006

Mechanisms of catabolite control in the human gut bacterium Bifidobacterium breve: clues towards the rational utilization of probiotics and prebiotics
Ana Rute Ramos Neves
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/71710/2006

OPTIC-ALGAE: hybrid photobioreactors, containing microstructured OPTICal fibres Aimed at operating with microLGAE
Francisco Xavier Delgado Domingos Antunes Malcata
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/BIO/71815/2006

Protein Folding, Stability and Aggregation: Effect of Molecular and Chemical Chaperones
Eduardo Pinho Melo
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/BIO/72034/2006

New stategies for Bone graft procedures using Phytomedicine approach
Maria Ascensão F S Lopes
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica - INEB Univ. Porto (INEB Porto)

PTDC/BIO/72044/2006

BIOFUNTEX - new BIOactive solutions in the textile domain: characterization of bioactive properties of specific FUNctional compounds, aimed at carrier development therefore and TEXtile improvement thereby
Maria Manuela Pintado
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB/UCP)

PTDC/BIO/72063/2006

Characterization and modeling of a specific transcriptional regulatory network required for multidrug resistance in yeast.
Miguel Cacho Teixeira
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/BIO/72108/2006

Enzymatic Degradation and Synthesis of Azo and Antraquinonic Dyes
Lígia Maria Oliveira Martins
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/72119/2006

Antibody-derived domains "Nanobodies" as a model for therapeutic inhibition of intracellular antigens
Joao Goncalves
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Ensino e Investigação da Microbiologia (ADEIM)

PTDC/BIO/72307/2006

Piezoelectric Biosensors for molecular analysis in biomedical applications and process analytical technology
Guilherme Nuno de Passos Correia Matos Ferreira
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/BIO/72363/2006

Production and Utilization of Whey Protein Concentrates of Ovine and Caprine Origin
Carlos José Dias Pereira
Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra (ESAC/IPC)

PTDC/BIO/72755/2006

Integrated strategy for expansion, neuronal differentiation and cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells
Paula Marques Alves
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/72773/2006

Fingerprinting of clinical isolates of the Burkholderia cepacia complex with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and chemometrics
João Pedro Martins de Almeida Lopes
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/BIO/72828/2006

Affinity purification of plasmids for gene therapy
Cândida Ascensão Teixeira Tomaz
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/BIO/72868/2006

Generating a rennet substitute of plant origin based on the natural diversity of cardosin-like proteases.
Euclides Pires
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/BIO/73455/2006

Biobleaching of kraft pulps with bacterial and fungal laccases
Rogério Manuel Santos Simões
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/BIO/73946/2006

Site-specific labeling of proteins in vitro, in vivo and at the cell surface by a novel type of transglutaminase isolated from spores of Bacillus subtilis
Adriano O Henriques
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/74231/2006

Optimisation, monitoring and control of polyhydroxyalkanoates production by mixed microbial cultures: optimal strategies for organisms selection and for physiological adaptation
Rui Manuel Freitas Oliveira
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/BIO/74553/2006

Micro2Micro - Microbial biofilm control using microbial products
Manuel Simões
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/75193/2006

Biomechanical breast model and clinical applications
Rui Paulo Soares Ribeiro
INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI/UP)

PTDC/BIO/78811/2006

Novel tools for recombinant protein production
Gabriela Moura
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/BIO/79524/2006

Optimization of the methanation process in the scope of second generation liquid biofuels production
Antonio Guerreiro de Brito
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/81548/2006

Optimização biotecnológica de um organismo envolvido em processos de bioremediação de metais toxicos/radioactivos e na produção de electricidade
Carlos Alberto Gomes Salgueiro
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/BIO/64682/2006

Pimaricin production in Streptomyces natalensis: the effect of oxidative stress response.
Marta Vaz Mendes
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/BIO/65627/2006

Development of novel approaches for anti-tumor therapy based on the S4(13)-PV cell penetrating peptide to improve the intracellular delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids and proteins
Maria da Conceição Monteiro Pedroso de Lima
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)

PTDC/BIO/66151/2006

PROBIOETHANOL - Proteomics and engineering of yeast ethanol tolerance for high-productivity bio-ethanol fermentation processes
Lucília Maria Alves Ribeiro Domingues
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/67160/2006

Biostikers - development of IL10 controlled release systems
Francisco Miguel Portela da Gama
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/69092/2006

The interaction between recombinant protein secretion and biofilm formation and stability
FILIPE JOSÉ MENEZES MERGULHÃO
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/BIO/69310/2006

OpenMicroBio: A framework for computational simulation of cellular communities during BioProcess Engineering
Rui Miguel da Costa Martins
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/69359/2006

Polymer carriers for the delivery of biopharmaceutical peptides
Manuel Alvaro Neto Coelho
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/BIO/69745/2006

Microbial monitoring of biomethane and biohydrogen production processes- BIOPOWER
MARIA ALCINA ALPOIM DE SOUSA PEREIRA
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/70017/2006

Lab-on-a-chip with fluid acoustic microagitation
Graça Maria Henriques Minas
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/73550/2006

BioMode - Dos dados experimentais à modelação do fenótipo do biofilme
Maria João Lopes da Costa Vieira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/77936/2006

A new generation of biofilm supports with controlled carbon release properties
Antonio Guerreiro de Brito
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/BIO/80932/2006

Melhoramento de rizóbios por modificação genética com genes de resposta ao stress
Isabel Solange Martins de Oliveira
Universidade de Évora (UE)