Eduardo Brás
PhD student in Biotechnology
Research
Activities
My research is being developed from a collaboration between IBB and INESC
Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, under the Advanced Integrated
Microsystems doctoral program.
My work is supervised by Professor João Pedro Conde and Professor Pedro
Fernandes and focuses on the application of enzymatic reactions in tailored
made microfluidic chips.
Two potential applications will be studied:
- (i) biosensing of metabolites (in plants, animals and humans);
- (ii) screening of production conditions for high value added
biotechnological products.
In addition, the integration of additional processing modules to the
microfluidic microreactor will be studied:
- (i) sample preparation;
- (ii) downstream separation.
In the past I've worked on the development of microfluidic reactors for the
cultivation of yeast cells and on the development of a microfluidic approach
to optimise the purification of biomolecules through the use of aqueous
two-phase systems.
Selected Publications
Bras, E.J.S., Chu, V., Aires-Barros, M.R., Conde, J.P., Fernandes, P., “A microfluidic platform for physical entrapment of yeast cells with continuous production of invertase”, J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 92 (2017) 334-341. doi: 10.1002/jctb.5010
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