Nuno F. Azevedo, Eva Pinho, Laura Cerqueira, Nuno Guimarães, and Rita Santos were present in the António V. Xavier Seminars on the 10th October. Nuno Azevedo was an invited speaker, with a talk entitled “Applications of nucleic acid mimics in biotechnology”. The FISH Group members also took part in meetings with ITQB researchers to discuss possible collaborations.