e.biofilm — Group of Excellence on Engineered Biofilms

📣 Yesterday, the e.Biofilm team had the privilege of hosting a new 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, in the form of a 3-hour workshop presented by Dr. Ana Gomes Salgado, PhD in Educational Psychology from CIIMAR, with the topic of discussion “𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐃 – 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬”.

💡 During the workshop, Dr. Ana shared several emotional management strategies and the participants discussed among themselves what strategies worked better for them.

👏 Thank you to Dr. Ana and the participants for making it a success!

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This was a special year for the e.Biofilm project.

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📣 The e.Biofilm team had the privilege of hosting the second 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, presented by Nuno Filipe Azevedo, with the topic of discussion “𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝! – 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞-𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞”.

👉 During the meeting, Nuno talked about his professional journey and discussed with the participants what it takes to be successful in pursuing a scientific career.

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📌 Vânia Pinheiro (Focus Area 2) presented a poster at the V Chemical and Biological Engineering Doctoral Symposium at Universidade do Minho on the “Development of a reproducible 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 chronic wound model associated with bacterial biofilm”.

📌 Ana Barbosa (Focus Area 1) was at the Center for Biofilm Engineering Seminar Series at MSU, USA and presented her work on “mRNA PNA-FISH: A new tool for studying gene expression and spatial organization on biofilms”.

Learn more about e.Biofilm research areas at our website or contact us at ebiofilm@fe.up.pt.