Communication to the general public

Hands-on-Activities in the ITQB Open Day 2023

Oeiras, 13 May 2023

Lígia Martins and Diogo Silva at NOVA SUSTAINABILITY WEEK

Round table on the Sustainable Development Goals. We have discussed the importance of research on Biocatalysts as new tools for converting renewable biomass feedstocks in Bio-Products, Bio-Materials, and Bio-Fuels towards a Bio- and Knowledge-Based Society.

Lisbon, 14 September 2022

ITQB NOVA 2021 Virtual Open Day

Science will Move us Forward!

May 30 from 10 AM to 5 PM (Lisbon time - GMT+1 - See the Agenda).

Virtual visits to spaces never opened to the public with the latest news about the work developed by our researchers and dedicated areas with on-demand content will allow you to discover exhibitions in a 3D environment, learn more about our laboratories and discover scientific equipment.

MET Lab released a video with a virtual visit to our lab and to meet our investigators:

Speed Dating about Sustainable Chemistry with Lígia O. Martins (Chemical Biology) and PI Beatriz Royo (Chemistry)

Carolina Rodrigues talks about SUMMER SCIENCE at ITQB

VISIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3slFIWKd694

Diogo Silva participated in the 54th PubhD on May 26, 21

Link to the video

SMARTBOX Project Video available

Enjoy the journey and discover on the way products in the supermarket, problems with fossil fuel, “lignin mortar”, the three pillars of the project, and some technical background to the terms of “Reductive Catalytic Fractionation”, “Oxidative biocatalysis” and the advantages of a handy enzyme toolbox.

Video link

More info: www.smartbox-project.eu

Smartbox is a European project funded by the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement 837890.

Hands-on-Activities in the ITQB Open Day 2019.

Dissemination of the B-Ligzymes and SMARTBOX projects. Activity: “Biorefinery for the XXI century”.

Hands-on-Activities in the MSCA European Researcher Night 2019.

Dissemination of the B-Ligzymes project. Activity: “Biorefinery for the XXI century”.

LO Martins participation in the radio project “90 segundos de ciência”; twice a day in Antena 1 at 11 am and 7 pm.

This project is coordinated by ITQB-NOVA, FCSH-NOVA, and Antena 1 (RDP) with the support of Novartis and Santander Universidades. 2019.

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-616-ligia-martins/

LO Martins on the “Prémio Nobel da Química 2018”.

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química

https://www.spq.pt/magazines/BSPQuimica/686/article/30002163/pdf

Hands-on-Activities in the MSCA European Researcher Night 2018

Dissemination of the B-Ligzymes project. Activity: “Bactérias para um Planeta mais Limpo”.

LO Martins “Sobre a origem das proteínas através da seleção laboratorial”, Jornal Público, 3 Oct 2018

https://www.publico.pt/2018/10/03/ciencia/opiniao/sobre-a-origem-das-proteinas-atraves-da-seleccao-laboratorial-1846177LO Martins “Biodegradação e valorização de lenhina, o mais abundante polímero aromática na natureza”. Renováveis Magazine.

Revista técnico-profissional de energias renováveis. 33, 1º trimestre de 2018. Pg 28-31

https://issuu.com/cie-comunicacao/docs/30-33

ITQB Day, July 2015. DECON project performed during practical classes of the Curricular Unit Biocatalysis of the Ph.D. Programme Sustainable Chemistry.