MP2Lab researcher Heta Mattila was awarded an Academy Research Fellowship 2025, a 4-year project for early-career researchers funded by the Research Council of Finland. The name of

MP2Lab members Vesa Havurinne and Heta Mattila took part in the Nordic Photosynthesis Congress/Nordic Algae Symposium held in Helsingør, Denmark in October, where they presented

The project KlepoSlug was presented at the Expo 2025 in Osaka representing the University of Aveiro, as part of the Economic, Scientific and Cultural program

Diana Lopes, former PhD student at the MP2Lab, has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Mucus of the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia crispata: Contribution of

During spring and early summer 2025, the MP2Lab team has been presenting the latest results of the Kleptoslug project at several international conferences abroad:  

In a recent study published in Communications Biology, researchers from MP2Lab and collaborators from University of Turku, Finland, showed that a common light acclimation mechanism in

A recent study coordinated by the MP2Lab team was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials: Natural Slab Photonic Crystals as Biogenic, Customizable Nanomaterial for Label-Free

Slab photonic crystals – nanoscale structures that enable fast communication, sensing, and quantum logic – are typically engineered in cleanrooms. However, nature has already mastered

A new study by the MP2Lab on the bioactivities of the mucus of the tropical sea slug Elysia crispata has been published in the journal