Port of Leixões and CIIMAR Open Day - 09.10.2021-10.10.2021

BIOREM continues to participate in outreach activities and engage with the general public to disseminate the objectives and main results of the project. The most recent event was the port of Leixões and CIIMAR open day, at the cruise terminal, in Matosinhos, Portugal.

European Researcher’s Night 2021 - 24.09.2021

Last month, BioRem was present at the European Researcher’s Night at the Hall of Biodiversity – Ciência Viva Center, Porto. This science communication event engages the scientific community with the main public and this year, it addressed initiatives that protect the environment and boost the green economy, reducing pollution. Microorganisms capable of degrading oil and maritime fuels were displayed that night, to highlight an innovative and environmental-friendly solution to tackle oil and marine fuel spills.

Blue Think Conference 2021: Share Science, Spread Knowledge - 23.09.2021-24.09.2021

This year’s edition of the Blue Think Conference, similar to last year, had the presence of BIOREM. The results achieved so far in the project were presented by three students:

(i) Alice Melzi did a poster communication entitled “Selection and optimization of autochthonous bacterial strains isolated from Port of Leixões for bioremediation of crude oil and maritime fuels”;

(ii) Maria Bôto talked about the “Diversity of the Functional Machinery of Native Microbial Communities with the Ability to Degrade Petroleum Hydrocarbons” in an oral communication;

(iii) Rafaela Perdigão addressed the “Marine microbial diversity of a fuel oil leakage: bioremediation of hydrocarbons in seawater sampled after a spill accident in a port area” in a flash talk communication.

Publication of a scientific article - 31.12.2020

In December 2020, an article entitled “Optimization of an Autochthonous Bacterial Consortium Obtained from Beach Sediments for Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons” was published in the MDPI scientific journal, “Water” (2021, 13).

The work contemplated in this article, is aligned with the Task 2 of the BIOREM project (Development of native microbial consortia for hydrocarbon compounds degradation).

You can download the full-text article here.