João Rainha is a postdoctoral researcher in Synthetic Biology 🔬. His work focuses on engineering microbes to produce valuable chemicals with applications in sustainability and industry.

Cláudia Amorim is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioengineering. Fascinated by from-waste-to-market solutions, she develop sustainable bioprocesses to turn agro-residues into health-promoting food ingredients 🔎 💡 📈

Débora Ferreira is a postdoctoral researcher in Bioengineering 🧪. She holds a PhD in Bioengineering Systems 🎓. Her research focuses on the use of engineered nanoplatforms as drug delivery vehicles for a wide range of different therapeutics for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer 🎯.

Joana Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minho. Her research interests include the use of synthetic biology tools to construct biosynthetic pathways for the production of therapeutic and industrially relevant compounds.

Sara Silvério is an Assistant Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Her research has focused on bioprospecting novel and more robust biocatalysts for the sustainable production of different types of prebiotics

Lígia Rodrigues is Associate Professor with Aggregation at University of Minho. She coordinates the Synbiomics group and her research focuses on using synthetic biology approaches to design and build new cell factories or improve existing ones for the sustainable production of value-added compounds.

🔬 Welcome to SynBiomics!

We are a multidisciplinary research group based on Centre of Biological Engineering. We combine synthetic biology, omics, and bioprocessing to create sustainable biotech solutions.

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