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R&D Projects

Call for Funding of Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2008

Painel de Avaliação de Engenharia Biológica e Biotecnologia - 2008

Coordination

Nic D. Lindley
Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, France

Evaluation

John Michael Woodley
University College London, United Kingdom
John Villadsen
Techical University of Denmark, Germany
Juan Manuel Lema
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Manuel Cánovas
Universidade de Murcia, Spain
Mohamed Al-Rubeai
University College Dublin, Ireland
Nic D. Lindley

Projects assigned

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098076/2008

Streptomyces fermentations: oxygen-related mechanisms involved in the production of tacrolimus.
Marta Vaz Mendes
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098142/2008

Unraveling cancer metabolism and tumor growth through flux analysis and metabolic engineering
Rui de Albuquerque Carvalho
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098230/2008

Experimental protein descriptors by partitioning in aqueous two-phase systems
Pedro António Palma Madeira
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098411/2008

Combined proteomics and natural computing approaches to unleash the purification power of aqueous two-phase systems
JOÃO CARLOS RAMOS NUNES MARCOS
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098578/2008

Biological control of olive fungal pathogens of with extracts of Phytolacca americana L.
Eunice Luís Vieira Areal Bacelar
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098773/2008

Biosyngas-biological conversion of syngas by mixed anaerobic cultures
Maria Madalena dos Santos Alves
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/098862/2008

Sustainable membrane bioreactors for advanced wastewater treatment: a molecular approach
Gilda de Sousa Carvalho Oehmen
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099180/2008

NANOGEL: nanobiotecnologia para a vacinação contra o cancro
Francisco Miguel Portela da Gama
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099237/2008

Redox-BioMaterials: Design of new redox biomaterials and their application in Biofuel cells for the production of electrical energy, feedstock chemicals and building blocks
Luis Fonseca
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099249/2008

ABP VALUE - VALORISATION OF ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS BY ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
RUI ALFREDO DA ROCHA BOAVENTURA
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099332/2008

Towards a high-throughput drug discovery platform for the screening of GPCR targets in cells
Duarte Miguel de França Teixeira dos Prazeres
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099442/2008

In vitro and in silico models for permeability and metabolism: improvement of their performance for evaluation of ester-containing xenobiotics.
Ana Luisa Ferreira Simplicio
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099554/2008

Bioproduction of novel value-added extracellular polysaccharides (EPS) from glycerol byproduct by Pseudomonas oleovorans: from gene to product and process
Maria Filomena Andrade de Freitas
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/100384/2008

Development of a biosensor to identify fetal lung maturity and some angiogenic markers - FETSENSE
Maria Irene de Oliveira Monteiro Jesus Rebelo
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/100640/2008

Aerobic granular sludge for textile wastewater treatment
Nídia Dana Mariano Lourenço
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/100925/2008

Membrane chromatographic matrices for plasmid-DNA purification: rational design based on biochemical and biophysical interactions
Marília Clemente Velez Mateus
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/101073/2008

Biosynth: Bioconversion based methodologies for the asymmetric synthesis of carbocycles
PEDRO CARLOS DE BARROS FERNANDES
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/101349/2008

n-LiV3: Platform for Real-Time Monitoring in Yeast Cell for BioNanotechnology and Synthetic Biology
Rui Miguel da Costa Martins
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/101363/2008

WASTE2HYDROGEN - Biohydrogen production from industrial wastes: paper sludge hydrolysate and glycerol
Patrícia Maria Brito Madeira da Silva Moura
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102266/2008

Novel Cell Factories for the production of secreted complex bioproducts: a syntetic biology approach for improved product stoichiometries
Paula Marques Alves
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102424/2008

KILLCANCER - Killing cancer cells by targeted delivery of lectins by nanocapsules
Maria do Carmo Pinto Basto Avides Moreira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102613/2008

BIOFLUOPHAR - Bioreactor strategies for removal of fluorinated pharmaceuticals from wastewaters
Paula Castro
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102728/2008

MICROPHYTE: Metabolic engIneering of Chlamydomonas and enviRonmental OPtimization for HYdrogen producTion and rElease
Francisco Xavier Delgado Domingos Antunes Malcata
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102750/2008

2D fluorometry: a powerful tool to improve mammalian cell process development
Ana Margarida Palma Teixeira
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102753/2008

From traditional Urban Effluent Treatment Plant to sustainable biorefinery (ETAR-Z)
José Manuel Cardoso Duarte
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/102998/2008

Lab-in-a-pill for early stage cancer detection of gastrointestinal tract
Graça Maria Henriques Minas
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103170/2008

PRODUCTION AND STABILITY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4
Ricardo Vidal Pimenta Baptista
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103359/2008

BACULOME-Engineering cellular energetics for improvement of bioprocesses: metabolic modeling for enhanced vaccines production.
Manuel José Teixeira Carrondo
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103615/2008

Acrescentar valor a resíduos agro-industriais por fermentação em substrato sólido(ADDVAL)
Isabel Maria Pires Belo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103761/2008

Enhancement of oxygen transport by functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (FMP) in non-Newtonian highly viscous microbial fermentations for biopolymer production: theoretical foundations and technological feasibility
Rui Manuel Freitas Oliveira
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103885/2008

Polyhydroxyalkanoates production optimization in mixed microbial cultures: unraveling the cellular regulatory response to transient carbon source supply
João Miguel Lopes Dias
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104159/2008

Electrical Impedance Tomography in the early detection of physiological alteration in plant tissues.
José Basílio Simoes
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra (ADDFUC/FCT/UC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104167/2008

Bone tissue engineering: injectable hydrogel with modified calcium phosphate and mesenchymal stem cells for bone regeneration
José Domingos Santos
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104360/2008

STEMSOURCE - Converting Stem Cell Potential into Clinical Applications: Systematic Study of Different Cell Sources
Rui L Reis
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104394/2008

A Bottom-Up Hybrid Semi-parametric Systems Biology Approach to the Macroscopic Control of N-glycosylation in Antibody Production Processes
João Miguel Lopes Dias
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104615/2008

Building wood elements degradation by rot-fungi: Inspection and diagnosis
Helena Pala D Sousa
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPLeiria)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104715/2008

BFC - Optimization of Biofilm Fuel Cells: integrated experimental and modelling approaches
Luis Manuel Ferreira de Melo
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105358/2008

SYMBIOALGA-A Biorefinery Platform: From Integrated heterotrophic and autotrophic microalgae culture to biodiesel and carotenoids production
Alberto José Delgado dos Reis
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (INETI)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105437/2008

Process for Production of Biopolymers from Cheese whey: upstream, fermentation and downstream
Maria Reis
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105497/2008

mAbChallenge - Addressing the Manufacturing Challenges Faced by the Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies Market
Mariana Contente Rangel Henriques
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105511/2008

Development of a novel antitumoral approach involving a concerted action of chemotherapeutic agents and gene therapy strategies
Henrique Manuel Santos Faneca
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105579/2008

Development of animal cell models of protein misfolding diseases for testing chemical chaperones of extremophiles as potential therapeutic compounds
Júlia Carvalho Costa
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105638/2008

Construction of phage genomic libraries and identification of endolysins with antimicrobial activity against S. epidermidis biofilms
Nuno Miguel Dias Cerca
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105685/2008

A new tool to map regulatory T cell origin: the TOM mouse
Jocelyne Demengeot
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/107920/2008

Integrative computational tools for organism-level biotechnology: the case of ionic liquids as solvents in whole-cell biocatalysis
Andreas Bohn
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/107971/2008

Applications and evolution of the nucleic acid diversification reactions from eukaryotes- a case for AID
Vasco M Barreto
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/108215/2008

NovaFlow - Novel applications of a state-of-the-art oscillatory flow platform: hydroxyapatite production and its use in bone extracellular matrix growth
António Augusto Martins de Oliveira Soares Vicente
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/108384/2008

Optimization of the anthropometric study of body composition based in the two compartment model using artificial neural networks
Maria Teresa Braga Valente de Almeida Restivo
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/108517/2008

QCMTF-Biosensor platform for transcription factor DNA binding activity detection
Guilherme Nuno de Passos Correia Matos Ferreira
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/108872/2008

Risk analysis and safety of food packaging for young children
MARIA DE FÁTIMA DOS REIS FILIPE TAVARES POÇAS
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/109181/2008

Discovery and monitoring of protein biomarkers by structure-focused proteomics
Pedro António Palma Madeira
Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular (IPATIMUP/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098215/2008

Phytochemical characterization of succulent plants invasive in european countries for evaluation of their commercial value
Silvia Isabel Palma Ferreira
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, FP (FFC/FC/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098352/2008

Exploiting the type II phosphomannose isomerase BceAJ as a new target for the development of new antimicrobials and for biotechnological applications
Jorge Humberto Gomes Leitão
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098365/2008

Terrestrial black slug: a source of new bioactive molecules?
Luisa Maria Sobreira Vieira Peixe
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098663/2008

BIOPLAT - DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A NOVEL HIGH-THROUGHPUT PLATFORM FOR THE SYSTEMATIC AND LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF BIOFILMS
Maria Olívia Baptista de Oliveira Pereira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098961/2008

Innovative strategies for the purification of biopharmaceuticals: Magnetic Nanoparticles applied to High-Gradient-Magnetic-Separation and Aqueous-Two-Phase-Systems
Ana Cecília Afonso Roque
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098983/2008

Transgeneration evaluation of rice transcriptomic/proteomic alterations caused by genetic modifications and other stresses
Rita Batista
Pró-INSA, Associação para a Promoção da Investigação em Saúde (Pró-INSA/INSARJ)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099004/2008

BioCaT: Biodiesel Carbon Trapper
Lilia Santos
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (FCT/UC)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099312/2008

Prediction of single component and multi-component biomolecule isotherms on ion-exchange and hydrophobic interaction adsorbents.
Ana Cristina Dias Cabral
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099403/2008

Study of the Mechanisms of Adhesion and Adaptation of Bacterial Cells in Biofilms. Use of Constitutes of Aromatic Herbs to Promote Cell Detachment (BiofHerbs)
Carla da Conceicao Caramujo Rocha de Carvalho
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099466/2008

Development of yeast cell-based systems for functional and molecular studies of p53 family isoforms: Screening for small-molecule modulators
Lucília Helena Ataíde Saraiva
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099553/2008

NANOPEPT - multifunctional innovative Nanocarriers: tArgetiNg dairy biOactive Peptides and protEins for food and biopharmaceutical aPplicaTions
Victor Manuel Cardoso Figueiredo Balcão
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100060/2008

For-tune: Fine-tuning physiology of anaerobic microbial consortia for enhanced biomethane recovery from lipids/LCFA
Diana Zita Machado de Sousa
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100061/2008

Efficient derivation of neural stem/progenitor cells from umbilical cord blood-mesenchymal stem cells and subsequent differentiation into the oligodendrocytic lineage
MÁRIO MARTINS RODRIGUES GRÃOS
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100183/2008

Novel polymeric systems and fluorinated liposomes for DNA delivery
Sandra Cristina Pinto da Rocha
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100250/2008

The chick embryo: a model for cancer research
Ana Paula Soares Dias Ferreira
Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular (IPATIMUP/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100326/2008

Bacterial protein azurin as a new candidate drug to treat poor-prognosis breast cancer
Arsénio Carmo Sales Mendes Fialho
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100491/2008

Using functional genomics to improve mammalian cells for virus based biopharmaceuticals manufacture
Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100493/2008

Improved and faster cell line development: recombinase mediated cassette exchange tools for mammalian cell engineering
Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100507/2008

Lost in Septation: Characterization of a novel regulatory pathway of cell division and morphology centered on the bolA gene.
Cecilia Maria Pais de Faria de Andrade Arraiano
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100536/2008

Bioproducts for bioremediation: engineering laccases from Streptomyces spp.
Andrea Zille
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100799/2008

NANODIAG - Quantum dot-based ultrasensitive molecular diagnosis for leukaemia
Peter Eaton
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100859/2008

Macrophage´s cryobank - development of a new support for citotoxicity studies of new biotechnologies and biomaterials
Ana Cristina Aguiar dos Santos
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra (FM/UC)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100959/2008

Hematopoietic stem cell niches for cell expansion and vascular differentiation - Stemniche
Lino Ferreira
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101071/2008

Functional Seafoods: New Gelation Technologies (HiTechFish)
Rogério da Silva Oliveira Mendes
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, I.P. (INRB)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101088/2008

Exploring human embryonic stem cell fate using 3-D cellular microarrays
Maria Margarida Diogo
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101134/2008

Screening of Laforin Inhibitors and Development of Drug delivery Systems for Cancer Chemotherapy
Pedro Miguel Dias Castanheira
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101237/2008

The use of nanobiomaterials for structural and funcional protection of human phenylalanine hydroxylase: towards a new approach to phenylketonuria treatment
António José Leitão das Neves Almeida
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa (FF/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101254/2008

The influence of additives, impurities, oligomers and aggregates on the mechanisms of protein crystal growth
Fernando Alberto Nogueira da Rocha
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101277/2008

Functionalized gold nanoparticles for delivery of bioactive molecules
Manuel Alvaro Neto Coelho
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101301/2008

NanoGENE: Molecular genetics nanotechnology for bioactive targeting and delivery
Eliana Souto
Fundação Ensino e Cultura Fernando Pessoa (FECFP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101449/2008

BIOGLEE - Anti-inflammatory action of thermal muds
Salomé Fernandes Pinheiro de Almeida
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101458/2008

OTAFREE - Production and separation of an ochratoxin A hydrolytic enzyme
Luís Abrunhosa
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101486/2008

Amniocyte-derived cells for the production of biopharmaceuticals
Pedro Estilita Pereira Monteiro da Cruz
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101634/2008

Fh8 - Structural and functional characterization of a small protease present in Fasciola hepatica hosts.
Ana Margarida Moreira Leitão de Barros Martins Damas
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101739/2008

Nanother: A novel anti-HIV-1 molecular therapy strategy using protein nanoparticles
Sandra Sofia Ganchas Soares
Universidade do Algarve (UAlg)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101751/2008

Electroactive biofilms: Mechanisms and Biotechnological Applications
Regina Maria de Oliveira Barros Nogueira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101929/2008

New selection platform of therapeutic antibodies by virus-direct evolution.
Mariana Canelhas Palminha Santa Marta
Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Ensino e Investigação da Microbiologia (ADEIM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101956/2008

FREECELL - Smart thermo-responsive substrates aiming at engineering materials-FREE CELL constructs that recreate native cell morphology, spacial distribution and tissue shape
Manuel Ricardo Mendes Pereira da Silva
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101992/2008

Bioseparation by Solvent-Gradient, Simulated Countercurrent Chromatography
José Paulo Barbosa Mota
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102034/2008

NanoBioPhotonics - biomolecular recognition and nanodiagnostics
Pedro Viana Baptista
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102163/2008

Engineered biomimetics for large-scale enrichment of phosphoproteins
Ana Cecília Afonso Roque
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102273/2008

Biosynthesis of Highly Pure Plasmid DNA for Cancer Therapy
João António de Sampaio Rodrigues Queiroz
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102352/2008

Innovation process for production of catechins and OPCs by thiolysis of polymeric proanthocyanidins
Baoshan Sun
Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biológicos, I.P. (INRB)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102513/2008

NewFusionTag - New fusion partners for soluble protein overexpression and purification in Escherichia coli: evaluation and characterization of a novel fusion system
Lucília Maria Alves Ribeiro Domingues
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102649/2008

Retroviral like particles: improving potential as candidate vaccines for Hepatitis C
Manuel José Teixeira Carrondo
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102759/2008

• FactorYeast: Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of added-value compounds from biodiesel derived crude glycerol
Odilia Queiros
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, CRL (CESPU)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102849/2008

SuSHI, Sugar-Seeking Hydrolytic Instruments: improved properties of phage lysin against dental plaque by mutagenesis
Leonardus Dorothea Kluskens
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/103138/2008

Biocatalytic optimization of enzymes with heavy metal reductase activity: Protein bioengineering to design optimal microrganisms for bioremediation of environmental contaminants.
Carlos Alberto Gomes Salgueiro
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/103389/2008

Suberbis - New polymers from cork using biotechnological approaches
Ricardo Alexandre Rodrigues Pires
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/103758/2008

Adsorção e remoção de metais pesados por cianobactérias - avaliação da aplicabilidade em águas contaminadas
Paulo José de Morais Simão Baptista Pereira
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSARJ)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/103820/2008

GLYCONSTRUCT - Yeast-based technologies for the enzymatic synthesis of glycosylated tumor-associated antigens
Pedro Miguel Reis Guimaraes
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104109/2008

Development of a rapid screening assay to predict toxicity of complex metal mixtures in industrial effluents
Paula Marie Cypas Antunes
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104198/2008

Cold-adapted enzymes: Structure-function relationships, fundamentals of adaptation and biotechnological applications.
James Anthony Collins
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104260/2008

MICROZEO: Microalgae associated to zeolitic materials for the selective removal of mercury from aquatic systems
Marta Otero
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104359/2008

UnderStress: Large-scale Literature Mining of Microbial Stress Response Mechanisms
Anália Maria Garcia Lourenço
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104411/2008

VirulNCAC - Virulence of non-Candida albicans Candida pathogens adhered to human tissues
Joana Cecília Valente Rodrigues Azeredo
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104581/2008

S-Factor - Secretome of Mesenchymal Like Stem Cells from Different Sources: Identification and Possible Roles on Neural Survival, Rescue and Differentiation
António José Braga Osório Gomes Salgado
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104703/2008

Derivation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Differentiation of Lines in Tissue.
CARLOS PEDRO FONTES OLIVEIRA
Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104711/2008

NanoFoodPack: Nanoparticles in Food Packging: characterization, toxicological assessment and development of strategies and guidelines for safety assessment
Ana Cristina Cardoso Freitas Lopes de Freitas
Instituto Piaget, Cooperativa para o Desenvolvimento Humano, Integral e Ecológico CRL (IPiaget)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104745/2008

Understanding polymicrobial infection leading to endocarditis
Maria do Pilar de Araújo Teixeira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104912/2008

MycoFat: Metabolic engineering of fatty acid synthesis for enhanced biodiesel production
Björn Fredrik Johansson
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105057/2008

Prediction, validation and functional analysis of miRNA targets in Daucus carota L. and its potential use as functional markers to assist plant breeding
Hélia Cristina Guerra Cardoso
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105326/2008

Characterization of Helicobacter pylori diversity by FTIR spectroscopy for strain typing, diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance and drug screening
Cecília Ribeiro da Cruz Calado
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105372/2008

Controlled self-assembly of synthetic DNA-based nanostructures at the electrode-solution interface: In situ electrochemical scanning probe microscopy characterization
Ana Maria Chiorcea Paquim
Instituto Pedro Nunes - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento em Ciência e Tecnologia (IPN)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105390/2008

Phytoremediation of metals: zinc and cadmium transport and accumulation mechanisms in Solanum nigrum L.
José Pissarra
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105462/2008

A new heterologous expression system to produce glycosylated proteins in chloroplasts
Isaura Isabel Gonçalves Simões
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/105528/2008

Proteomics analysis of the secretome of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells and study of its effects on neural survival, differentiation and regeneration
MÁRIO MARTINS RODRIGUES GRÃOS
BIOCANT - Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia (BIOCANT)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108058/2008

PAR-UPT - SURVIVING NANOPARTICLES: MECHANISMS OF NANOPARTICLE UPTAKE AND HANDLING BY MAMMALIAN CELLS
Maria Helena Antunes Soares
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108119/2008

Surface-functionalized bacterial cellulose whiskers for nanotechnological applications
Fernando Octávio de Queirós Dourado
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108130/2008

Development and characterization of microporous bacterial cellulose scaffolds for biomedical applications
Fernando Octávio de Queirós Dourado
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108162/2008

SupercriticalStimuli - Development of stimuli responsive substrates for cell expansion and differentiation
Ana Rita Cruz Duarte
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108605/2008

Development of a rapid prototyping based integrated methodology to manufacture high performance titanium custom fit bone prostheses
Teresa Duarte
INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108697/2008

Delivery and trafficking of plasmid for DNA vaccination
Gabriel António Amaro Monteiro
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108824/2008

ALGAE-SENSING - Microalgae bioreactors equipped with sensing systems for assessment of physical and biochemical parameters
António Osmaro Santos Silva Rangel
Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108991/2008

NANOSTRUCTURED IMMUNOSENSORS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF CELIAC DISEASE AND QUALITY CONTROL OF GLUTEN-FREE PRODUCTS
Hendrikus Nouws
Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares - Porto (ICETA-Porto/ICETA)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/109095/2008

BioSpheres: Development of a new biomimetic methodology for the production of hydrogel spheres for biomedical and biotechnological applications, using superhydrophobic substrates
Joao Filipe Colardelle da Luz Mano
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/109177/2008

EVALUATION OF THE FIBRINILYTIC POTENTIAL OF A SERINE-PROTEIN EXPRESSED BY A N ENTOMOPATHOGEN
Nelson Simões
Universidade dos Açores (UAçores)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/099662/2008

Exploitation of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides (EPS) for heavy metals bioremediation
Paula Tamagnini
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/101114/2008

Metabolism as a modulator of stem cell pluripotency and differentiation
João RamalhoSantos
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/101985/2008

AshByofactory - Ashbya gossypii: a systems metabolic engineered cell factory
Lucília Maria Alves Ribeiro Domingues
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/103147/2008

Study of the operation of SBRs for enhanced phosphorous removal and for PHA production by image analysis and multivariable statistical techniques
Antonio Luis Pereira do Amaral
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (IPC)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104235/2008

HeliSysBio - Molecular Systems Biology Helicobacter pylori
Isabel Rocha
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/104263/2008

Micro2Micro- Microbial products to control microbial films
Maria João Lopes da Costa Vieira
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/105085/2008

Bioresist - The influence of biofilm phenotype on its resilience and resistance
Manuel Simões
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-EBI/109093/2008

Chimera - Development of new chimeric proteins to be used in the fabrication of a novel biomaterial for bone regeneration application
Rui L Reis
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098111/2008

Optimizing carbohydrate utilization in farmed sea-bass through metabolic profiling
John Griffith Jones
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099268/2008

Exploring a novel functional marker candidate for efficient somatic embryogenesis in Daucus carota L..
Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt
Universidade de Évora (UE)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099672/2008

Development of siRNA-loaded nanoparticles to circumvent chemoresistance in cancer stem cells
Gabriela Martinho de Almeida
Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular (IPATIMUP/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102863/2008

SYNBIOBACTHER - Synthetic biology approaches to engineer "therapeutic" bacteria
LIGIA RAQUEL MARONA RODRIGUES
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104940/2008

Filmstart - Initial conditions controlling the onset of biofilms
FILIPE JOSÉ MENEZES MERGULHÃO
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104980/2008

BIOMYR: Towards the metabolic engineering of beta-myrcene pathway of Pseudomonas sp. M1: functional genomics and structural biochemistry approaches
Pedro Miguel Santos
Universidade do Minho (UM)

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108269/2008

Improving Debaromyces hansenii biotechnological potential by understanding the impact of CUG mistranslation in stress tolerance
Isabel M Miranda
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP)