Group Members

Faculty Staff

Member	Research Interests
Joaquim M. S. Cabral (Full Professor; Group Leader)	Enzyme engineering Stem cell Bioengineering Bioseparations
M. Raquel Aires-Barros (Associate Professor)	Liquid-liquid extraction of proteins Drug delivery
Luís J. P. Fonseca (Associate Professor)	Biocatalysis Process integration Biosensors Protein and cell chips
D. Miguel F. Prazeres (Associate Professor)	Plasmid DNA purification Development of DNA vaccines Biochips
Frederico C. Ferreira (Invited Assistant Professor)	Stem cells and reactor design Bioseparations and catalysis Scale up/down and process integration
Marília Mateus (Assistant Professor)	Membrane filtration fundamentals Membrane contactors in bioengineering Membrane modification for biocompatibilty/biointeractions
Gabriel A. Monteiro (Assistant Professor)	Development of DNA vaccines Plasmid DNA structural studies Recombinant protein expression and secretion
José A. L. Santos (Assistant Professor)	Protein and plasmid DNA separation and purification Membrane processes
Claúdia Lobato Silva (Assistant Professor)	Stem cell bioenginnering
M. Ângela Taipa (Assistant Professor)	Protein purification Immunoaffinity processes Synthetic affinity ligands for protein purification and stabilization

Member	Research Interests
Ana Azevedo	Purification of monoclonal antibodies
Carla Carvalho	Mechanisms of bacterial adaptation Biocatalysis and bioreactor engineering Fluorescence microscopy and image analysis
Catarina Madeira	Gene delivery to stem cells
Margarida Diogo	Stem cell bioengineering
Pedro Fernandes	Applied biocatalysis Bioreactors

Member	Research Interests
Bruno Ferreira Biotrend	Industrial biotechnology Fermentation and cell culture technology Stem cell bioengineering
Guilherme N. M. Ferreira (Assistant Professor - Universidade do Algarve)	DNA chips technology Gene therapy
Frederik van Keulen Biotrend	Biocatalysis in organic and organic-aqueous media with whole cells Bioreactors Fermentation technology
Eduardo Pinho e Melo (Associate Professor - Universidade do Algarve)	Protein stability and folding Enzyme engineering

Member	Research Interests
Ricardo Baptista	Animal and stem cell culture Protein stability
Gemma Eibes	Stem cell research Enzyme engineering
Nuno Lourenço	Biocatalysis Biosensors Ionic liquids
Tiago Fernandes	Ex vivo differentiation of mESC
Marco Marques	Microreactors Process Integration Biocatalysis
Pedro Oliveira	Genetic instability Stem cell research Comparative and evolutionary genomics

Member	Research Project
Pedro Andrade	Stem cell research
Susana Bernardino	Biocatalysis Enzyme technology
Sara Badenes	Enzyme engineering
Dragana Barros	Applied biocatalysis
Luís Borlido	Affinity purification of monoclonal antibodies
Joana Carvalho	DNA vaccines for sleeping sickness
Rui Catana	Development of a scalable process for inulin hydrolysis
Nídia Estrela	Protein stability and folding
Ana Fernandes	Stem cell research
I. Filipa Ferreira	Bioprocess engineering on microbial desulfurization
Geisa Gonçalves	Nucleic acid engineeringn
Gabriela Gomes	Nucleic acid engineering
João Guerreiro	Stem cell research
Jonathan de la Vega	Nucleic acid engineering
David Malta	Stem cell research
Verónica Martins	Biosensors
Kelany Nascimento	Liquid-liquid extraction of proteins
Ana Pereira	Protein chips
Carlos Rodrigues	Stem cell research
Luís Raiado-Pereira	Nucleic Acid Engineering
Paula Rosa	Liquid-liquid extraction of monoclonal antibodies
Francisco Santos	Stem cell research
Cláudia Silva	Immunoaffinity processes
Ana Isabel Silva	Bioartificial pancreas
Isabel Sousa	Protein stabilization with synthetic affinity mimic ligands

Member	Research Project
Joana Boura	Mesenchymal stem cell differentiation
Luís Pereira	Nucleic acid engineering

Group Composition