Base de datos de mujeres investigadoras y tecnólogas

Entity: Feyecon Development & Implementation Type of entity: Innovation and Technology Centres
City of entity: Weesp, Noord-Holland, Holland
Start-End date: 15/09/2008 - 15/11/2009 Duration: 1 year - 2 months
Goals of the stay: Doctorate
Provable tasks: R&D+I activities planned for the acquisition of new methods of harvesting and increase the
productivity of microalgae, with the objective of obtaining food products. Optimization of an industrial process
to obtain oils rich in ω-3. Use of techniques such as the extraction with organic solvents of lipids (fatty acids)
and pigments of microalgae, analysis by gas chromatography, liquid and thin layer. Optimization of the
extraction and purification of oils with supercritical fluids. Cellulose treatment with ionic liquids to obtain
biodiesel/biomass and degumming process for the obtained oil. Documentation of processes and results
obtained in English for the company.

Entity: University of Lisbon
Faculty, institute or centre: Falculty of Sciences
City of entity: Lisbon, Portugal
Start-End date: 01/09/2007 - 01/07/2009 Duration: 10 months
Goals of the stay: Researcher student
Provable tasks: Participation in research tasks in a cytotoxicity project entitled: Synthesis and study of the
anti-tumoral activity of organometallic compounds. University stay of 10 months at the Faculty of Science
in Lisbon. Work experience in the Inorganic and Biochemical Laboratory. Experience in synthesis and
purification of organometallic compounds, the analysis in Infra-red (KBr, v / cm-1) and in Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (1H-NMR) of them. Experience in the cultivation and maintenance of HeLa cells. Meticulous
work in flow hood under sterile conditions. Perfect handling of the inverted microscope with phase contrast
to study viability and cell count with hematocytometer. Experience in techniques such as extraction of DNA
from the same cell lines and separation by agarose gel electrophoresis. Intercalation studies between
organometallic compounds and cellular DNA fragments by measuring their viscosity and density, experience
in the use of the viscometer and the densitometer. Cell viability assays to study the in vitro cytotoxicity of the
compounds synthesized for HeLa cells. Nuclear DNA staining using HOECHST 33342. Perfect handling of
the fluorescence microscope.