Joaquim M. S. Cabral

(Full Professor)

	BioEngineering Research Group Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering Department of Bioengineering Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Technical University of Lisbon Avenida Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal
Phone: +351 - 218 419 063 Fax: +351 - 218 419 062 E-mail: joaquim cabral (click on)

Status at IBB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering:

Director of Laboratório Associado Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Status at Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering:

Head of the BioEngineering Research Group

Teaching at Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering:

Enzyme Engineering
Separation and Purification of Biological Products
Cell and Tissue Engineering

Education:

Diploma in Chemical Engineering, IST, 1976
Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering, IST, 1983
Post-Doc, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1983 - 1984
D. Sc., IST, 1989

Membership, Academic and Scientific Positions:

Full Professor of Biochemical Engineering, IST, 1992 - present
Associate Professor, IST, 1987 - 1991
Assistant Professor, IST, 1983 - 1986
Teaching Assistant, IST, 1978 - 1982

Director of Laboratório Associado Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, IST, 2006 - present
Head of the BioEngineering Research Group, IST, 1990 - present
Head of Chemical Engineering Department of IST, 2002 - 2007
Director of the Graduate Programme on Biotechnology, IST
Co-Coordinator of MIT-Portugal Program – Bioengineering Systems Focus Area, 2006 - present
Member of the Working Party/Section on Applied Biocatalysis of European Federation of Biotechnology, 1986 - present, Chairman 1991 - 1996
Honorary Member of the Section on Applied Biocatalysis of European Federation of Biotechnology (2005)
Member and Chairman of the Task Group on Biotransformation of the European Federation of Biotechnology Section on Biochemical Engineering Science, 1996 - 2004
Member of the Executive Committee of Process Integration in Biochemical Engineering Programme of European Science Foundation, 1992 - 1997
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Biochemical Engineering Network, 1993 - 1996
Member of the Executive Committee of the EFB Section on European Biochemical Engineering Science, 1999, 2001, 2002 - 2004
Associate editor of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 2001 - 2003
Review editor of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation 2004 -
Associate editor of Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 2002 -
Member of the Editorial Board of:

Research Activities/Interests:

My current research and future vision aims at contributing for biochemical engineering science through novel developments in Enzyme Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering and Stem Cell Bioengineering.

Publications:

Books - 6
Review Articles - 44
Refereed Journals - 340

Selected publications:

Books

Cabral, J. M. S., Mota, M., Tramper, J. (eds.), “Multiphase Bioreactors”, Harwood Academic Press, Reading (U. K.), pp. 1-493 (2001)

Cabral, J. M. S., "Cell Partitioning in Aqueous Two-Phase Polymer Systems", in Cell Separation: Fundamentals, Analytical and Preparative Methods Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 2nd ed., (Kumar, Ashok; Galaev, Igor Yu; Mattiasson, Bo Eds.), Elsevier Science, Vol. 106, pp. 151 -171, ISBN: 978-3-540-75262-2 (2007)

Articles

Diogo, M. M., Henrique D., Cabral, J. M. S., “Optimization and neural commitment of mouse embryonic stem cells”, Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem., 49, 105-112 (2008)

Frias, A. M., Porada, C. D., Kirsten B., Crapnell, C., Cabral, J. M. S., Zanjani, E.D., Almeida-Porada, G., “Generation of functional natural killer and dendritic cells in a human stromal-based serum-free culture system designed for cord blood expansion”, Exp. Hematology, 36, 61-68 (2008)

Fernandes, A. M., Fernandes, T. G., Diogo, M. M., Lobato da Silva C., Henrique D., Cabral, J. M. S., “Mouse embryonic stem cell expansion in a microcarrier-based stirred culture system”, J. Biotechnol., 132, 227-236 (2007)

Lienqueo, M. E., Salazar, O., Henriquez, K., Calado, C. R. C., Fonseca, L. P., Cabral, J. M. S., “Prediction of retention time of cutinases tagged with hydrophobic peptides in hydrophobic interaction chromatography”, J. Chromat. A, 1154, 460–463 (2007)

Abranches, E., O'Neill, A., Cabral, J. M. S., Schaffer, D. V., “Development of quantitative PCR methods to analyse neural progenitor cell culture state”, Biotecnol. Appl. Biochem., 44, 1-8 (2006)

Gonçalves, R., Lobato da Silva, C., Cabral, J. M. S., Zanjani, E. D., Almeida-Porada, G., “A Stro-1⁺ human universal stromal feeder layer to expand/maintain human bone marrow hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in a serum–free culture syste”, Exp. Hematology, 34, 1353-1359 (2006)

Vidinha, P., Augusto, V., Almeida, M., Fonseca, I., Fidalgo, A., Ilharco, L., Cabral, J. M. S., Barreiros, S., “Sol-gel encapsulation: an efficient and versatile immobilization technique for cutinase in nonaqueous media”, J. Biotechnol., 121, 23-33, (2006)

da Silva, C. L., Gonçalves, R., Crapnell, K. B., Cabral, J. M. S., Zanjani, E. D., Almeida-Porada, G., “A human stromal-based serum free culture system supports the ex vivo expansion/maintenance of bone marrow and cord blood hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells”, Exp. Hematol., 33, 828–835 (2005)

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