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

MP2Lab researchers are leading two new projects funded in the Call for Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains 2023 of the Foundation for Science and

Dr. Francisco Romero-Campero, Associate Professor of Molecular Systems Biology of the University of Seville, visited our lab during the last month to continue our collaboration