Stay tunned for the for the upcoming news regarding the grop's new European project TITAN

New paper from the group. Congrats to Sarah and the rest of the team for their work "Rapid Same-Day Detection of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., and Escherichia coli O157 by Colorimetric LAMP in Dairy Products" recently published in Food Analytical Methods.

Congratulations to Agnes for her new paper "Programmable graphene-based microfluidic sensor for DNA detection" recently published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.

New paper from FQS in collaboration with ASMECRUZ the Hospital Clínico de Santiago de Compostela and the FDA. The manuscript was published in Microbial Risk Analysis, and was entitled "Detection, molecular characterization, and antimicrobial susceptibility, of Campylobacter spp. isolated from shellfish"

Congratulations to Joana Carvalho for her new paper recently published in Scientific Reports, entitled "Faster monitoring of the invasive alien species (IAS) Dreissena polymorpha in river basins through isothermal amplification".

Congratulations to Foteini Roumani for her first paper as first author. It was published in Food Control with the title "Loop-mediated isothermal amplification combined with immunomagnetic separation and propidium monoazide for the specific detection of viable Listeria monocytogenes in milk products, with an internal amplification control"

Congratulations to Joana Carvalho, and the rest of the team, for their latest publication in Talanta, entitled "Single-use microfluidic device for purification and concentration of environmental DNA from river water".

A few days ago FQS, in collaboration with Nanochem, was awarded a seed grant to explore the usage of COFs in DNA extraction/ purification for qPCR applications. Congratulations and "keep pushing"!

New publication from the group. The paper entitled "Application of Short Pre-enrichment, and Double Chemistry Real-Time PCR, Combining Fluorescent Probes and an Intercalating Dye, for Same-Day Detection and Confirmation of Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli O157 in Ground Beef and Chicken Samples" was accepted in the special issue "New Advances in Identification and Quantification of Foodborne Pathogens" in Frontiers in Microbiology. Congratulations to everybody, great team work.

FQS is actively involved the fight against COVID-19. We are collaborating in two additional projects in collaboration with several colleagues from INL and other partner institutions. In the project "COUNTED" (funded by the Agência Nacional de Inovação) we are working in the development of miniaturized systems to detect the virus, and in "INNO4COVID-19" (funded by the EU in the H2020 program) we are responsible for a use case also focused in the detection of the virus through different isothermal techniques, and naked-eye detection.

Congratulations to our partners from the Food Processing Group for their new manuscript "Physicochemical characterization, bioactive properties and cytotoxicity assessment" published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, and congratulations to Sarah for her participation in this study by performing the antimicrobial activity tests.

Our study dealing with the detection of L. monocytogenes by RPA-LF was selected for the cover of September in Foods

Congratulations to Sarah for her two new scientific publications in Foods and Microorganisms. Great work developing new methods for pathogen detection

Graphical abstract from Azinheiro et al., 2020

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/9/9/1249

The contract of our colleague Rafa has finished, and she left the group. We wish you all the best in the coming future.

Preliminary results results obtained in one of our novel methods for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 targeting different viral genes

The FQS has been recently been awarded a new project by the FCT in the 2nd call APOIO ESPECIAL RESEARCH4COVID1-9, to develop a rapid method for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The project will be performed in collaboration with IPO-Porto and will take advantage of CRISPR-Cas technology for this new assay.

A new research paper was recently accepted in Food Microbiology. The study was supported by the Seafood Age project (http://seafoodage.eu/archivos/532)

FQS starts working in the fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Marta Prado appeared in a local Portuguese television talking about the recently granted project, as well as about other developments done in her lab.

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The FQS has been recently been awarded a project by the FCT in the call APOIO ESPECIAL RESEARCH4COVID1-9, to develop a rapid method for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The project will be performed in collaboration with IPO-Porto.

New article published in Journal of Food Science and Technology-Mysore dealing with the evaluation of commercial antibodies for the concentration of L. monocytogenes in food samples. "Evaluation and implementation of commercial antibodies for improved nanoparticle-based immunomagnetic separation and real-time PCR for faster detection of Listeria monocytogenes".

Congratulations to all the team members, as well as to those from the Water Quality and Medical Devices who collaborated in the new article recently published in Materials. "Multifuntional Gold Nanoparticles for the SERS Detection of Pathogens Combined with a LAMP–in–Microdroplets Approach".

Congratulations to Sarah Azinheiro for her paper entitled "A smart microfluidic platform for rapid multiplexed detection of foodborne pathogens" recently published in Food Control, and thanks to our colleagues from the Medical Devices research group with whom the study was done in collaboration.

The FQS research group is keeping up with their research activities working from from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. #stayathome

New paper published in collaboration with the Water Quality and Medical Devices research groups, as well as Dr. Arun K. Bhunia from Purdue University "Gold Nanostars for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogens via Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Combined with Microfluidics". The manuscript was published in ACS Nano Materials.

Congratulations to our team member Joana Rafaela Guerreiro for her recent paper "Attomolar Label-Free Detection of DNA Hybridization with Electrolyte-Gated Graphene Field-Effect Transistors" published in ACS Sensors.

Foteini Roumani and Joana Carvalho are representing the FQ&S group from INL with a poster: "A DNA-based fast method for the detection of spoilage fungi in fruit preparations" and an oral presentation on "Development and optimization of miniaturized devices for DNA analysis of food samples"at RAFA 2019 conference in Prague #RAFA2019

Carlos Carpena is leaving FQS. Going back to Ocupharm in Madrid.

Summer is gone and we have to say goodbye to Gonzalo and Sergio. We all wish you the best for the future.

A very warm welcome to our latest new comer

Celia Toledo Prado!!

Congratulations to Marta and Yosbel

New paper published in Food Control!!!

"Optimized sample treatment, combined with Real-Time PCR, for Same-day detection of E. coli O157 in ground beef and leafy greens"

Congratulations to our collaborator Telma Domingues, who has successfully defended her master thesis entitled "Understanding DNA-DNA interactions using graphene transistors" last July 1st.

Telma was co-supervised by Dr. Marta Prado (INL), Professor Pedro Alpuim (ECUM/INL) and Professor Paulo Mendes (EEUM). Additionally, she received support from our team member Dr. Joana Guerreiro, and Dr. Jérôme Borme.

Congratulations to Joana Carvalho for the "Best poster award" in XX EuroFoodChem Conference organized in Porto

Joana Carvalho and Sarah Azinheiro will be attending the XX EuroFoodChem Conference in Porto from June 17th to the 19th. They will present their work on "Disposable Miniaturized Device for DNA Purification From Complex Samples" and "Comparative study of multiplex real-time Recombinase Polymerase Amplification and ISO 11290-1 methods for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes in dairy products"

New paper published by our group in Journal of Food Science.

Combination of Immunomagnetic separation and real-time Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (IMS-qRPA) for specific detection of Listeria monocytogenes in smoked salmon samples

Welcome to our new team member, Agnes Purwidyantri

New European Project granted! ERDF, Interreg Atlantic Area

SEAFOOD-AGE. Smart and eco-innovative SEAFOOD processes and products for healthy AGEing

Our FCT project "PORTGRAPHE" was granted