🆕Very hapy to share our recent work on engineering double-interlinked colloidal gels inks for printing stable supraparticle architectures in-air and in-hydrogels João Mano COMPASS CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials Universidade Aveiro @AdvSciNews #3Dprinting #biomaterials 📑👉 ow.ly/XJkg50PeSf3

📌 The #SupraLife #SecondSchool is quickly approaching! 📝 Bioinspired Supramolecular Self-Assemblies 📆 10-15 March 2024 📍Universidade Aveiro 🇵🇹 🗣️ Amazing line-up of plenary speakers 🤩🙌 ⏳Deadline for abstracts for oral & poster: 15 Nov 2023 Join us! 👇👇👇 supralife.eu/secondschool

🆕Excited to share our discussion on exploring cell surface engineering toolboxes to generate programmable living assemblies José Pinto João Mano COMPASS CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials Universidade Aveiro @AdvSciNews 📰tinyurl.com/46nk726t #cellsurface #livingmaterials

🗣️ Jeroen Leijten, Professor University of Twente (inactive) 🇳🇱 is a plenary speaker @#SupraLife #SecondSchool! 🤩 ➡️ Jeroen is an expert on the creation of 3D #spatiotemporal microenvironments to control #cell behavior & will talk about adv. micromater. & #modular #bioinks for #tissue #engineering!👌

🗞️🆕Very hapy to share our recent work on Photo‐Compartmentalized Decellularized Matrix‐Hyaluronan Hybrid Units for Pancreatic Tumor‐Stroma Modeling 🔬🧫 Maria Monteiro João Mano COMPASS CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials Universidade Aveiro @AdvSciNews 📰👉shorturl.at/DSWZ9

Exciting news; Biomaterials Advances are partnering with Materials Today Bio to create the joint Thematic issue “Programmable Living Biomaterials”. Focus on new ideas on synthetic biology, biomaterials, microbial & biomedical engineering. Call for papers: sciencedirect.com/journal/biomat…

European Society for Biomaterials are delighted to announce the call for 2024 ESB Scientific Awards nominations is now open. Please do not miss the opportunity to nominate a colleague for one of our four prestigious awards. Deadline for nominations is 29/12/2023. More details in the adjoining 🧵

🎄Last Monday evening we had our annual COMPASS X-mas dinner!! It was an incredible get together with lots of fun and room for some “scientific” diplomas 🤭🎓 🥰 We wish all our followers a wonderful Christmas time and happy new year 🎊

Chama-se João Mano, é investigador do CICECO - Instituto de Materiais de Aveiro e já conquistou 5 bolsas do Conselho Europeu de Investigação. Na revista Linhas comemorativa do 50º aniversário da UA, João Mano revisita uma carreira, no mínimo, inspiradora. ua.pt/pt/noticias/12…

Last night we had our group anniversary retreat 🥳 we visited the Aliança Underground Museum and had a wonderful dinner at Caves Aliança 😍 Thanks to the organizing committee! HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY COMPASS GROUP 🎂

Professors Vitor Gaspar and Joao Mano: Photoacoustic processing of decellularized extracellular matrix for biofabricating living constructs João Mano Vítor Gaspar CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new approach to the design of living materials, leveraging core metabolic processes in human cells to use cells as active crosslinkers for the creation of macroscale living materials João Mano Vítor Gaspar Nature Materials go.nature.com/3AO0nca

Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy allows the imaging of 3D biological objects but remains expensive and not easily scalable. Raju Tomer et al have now developed a low-cost and scalable LSFM framework with high imaging performance Columbia BME Nature Biomedical Engineering go.nature.com/4d9vOLs

Glycoengineered cells containing bioorthogonal tethers function as building blocks for the programmable fabrication of human living materials with distinct structures and tissue functionalities. COMPASS João Mano Vítor Gaspar nature.com/articles/s4156…

Reproductive health is an understudied field. The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 allowing bioengineered models in drug testing might particularly benefit reproductive and pregnancy research given the lack of suitable animal models in this field Dr. Michelle Oyen go.nature.com/4eLaNHY