PhD Theses at ITQB NOVA
List of all PhD theses at ITQB since 1995
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1995
- Maria Paula Abranches Alvarinhas Fareleira (Bioquímica)
“Estudos de bioconversão de energia em microorganismos por técnicas não invasivas”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Maria Helena Rodrigues Gonçalves Soares Costa (Bioquímica)
“Relação estrutura/função em citocromos de bactérias metilotróficas”
Supervisor: Helena Santos / Manuel Carrondo - Ana Maria Staack Reis Machado (Química)
“Deslenhificação de madeira de eucalipto com misturas a alta pressão de 1,4 - dioxano e dióxido de carbono”
Supervisor: Manuel Nunes da Ponte - Ana Alexandra Ramos Falcão Martins (Bioquímica)
“Metabolismo de compostos carbonados (ácido cítrico e açúcares) investigado por ressonância magnética nuclear em bactérias lácticas”
Supervisor: Helena Santos
1996
- Paulo José Garcia de Lemos Trigueiros de Martel (Bioquímica)
“Protein electrostatics: theory, methods and applications”
Supervisor: Maria Arménia Carrondo - Maria Madalena Seabra de Oliveira Salema Cordeiro Oom (Bioquímica)
“Estudo da bioconversão de energia durante a fermentação maloláctica em leuconostoc oenos”
Supervisor: Vitória San-Romão
1997
- Helena Cristina Lourenço Pereira Matias (Bioquímica)
“Relação entre o metabolismo de fósforo e carbono em bactérias acumuladoras de polifosfato: estudos por RMN in vivo”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Philip Anthony Patrick Jackson (Bioquímica)
“Peroxidases of Lupinus Albus L. in vegetative development and the plant response to stress”
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo - António Manuel Gonçalves Lopes (Química)
“Partição de xenobióticos orgânicos em agregados anfifílicos: uma proposta de novos previsores de bioconcentração”
Supervisor: Eurico de Melo
1998
- Ana Alexandra Vieira Veríssimo da Cruz Varandas (Biologia)
“Analysis of D. vulgaris cytochrome c3 mRNA: the role of E.coli ribonucleases in the post-transcriptional control of this messenger”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - António Manuel Simões Carrão Albuquerque Baptista (Bioquímica)
“Theoretical methods for the simulation of proteins at constant pH”
Supervisor: Maria Arménia Carrondo - Mónica Isabel Oliveira Vidal (Bioquímica)
“Desenvolvimento de um imunossensor para o diagnóstico da peste suína africana”
Supervisor: Abel Oliva - Ricardo Saraiva Loureiro de Oliveira Louro (Bioquímica)
“Proton-thrusters: energy transduction performed by tetrahaem cytochromes c3 and its physiological relevance”
Supervisor: António Xavier
1999
- Margarida Archer Baltazar Pereira da Silva Franco Frazão (Bioquímica)
“Crystal structure analysis of metalloproteins: cytochrome c' and desulforedoxin (native and metal reconstituted)”
Supervisor: Maria João Romão - Manuela Alexandra de Abreu Serra Marques Pereira (Bioquímica)
“Rhodothermus marinus respiratory chain: alternative strategies in respiration”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Maria Rita Mendes Bordalo Ventura (Química)
“The asymetric syntheses of natural compounds starting from (-)-Quinic acid”
Supervisor: Christopher Maycock - Cláudio Emanuel Moreira Gomes (Bioquímica)
“Oxygen utilisation by prokaryotes: redox proteins from Archae and anaerobic bacteria”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - André Duarte Lopes (Química)
“Oxo complexes of molybdenum (VI) and rhenium (VII) for molecular materials and oxidation catalysis”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão - Karina de Bívar Xavier (Bioquímica)
“Carbohydrate metabolism in hyperthermophilic microorganisms”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Pedro Estilista Pereira Monteiro da Cruz (Engª. Química)
“Global optimization of bioprocesses: a focus on complex bioproducts”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo - Helder Joaquim Soares da Cruz (Engª. Química)
“Modulation of BHK cell metabolism by nutrient manipulation”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo - Maria de Fátima Gonçalves Ribeiro dos Santos Silva Lopes (Bioquímica)
“Actividade Lipolítica em Lactobacillus: novas perspectivas”
Supervisor: Teresa Crespo
2000
- Cristina Maria Pereira Marques
Engª. Florestal e Biotecnologia - Maria João Pedrosa Ferreira Moreno Silvestre (Bioquímica)
“Kinetics of biomolecular reactions with stochastic effects and dimensional constraints”
Supervisor: Eurico de Melo - Carla Alexandra Gamelas Albuquerque Pinto (Química)
“Haptotropic flexibility in indenyl substituted molybdenocene derivatives”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão - Jorge Miguel Pereira de Oliveira da Silva Santos (Bioquímica)
“Function and expression control of the morphogene bolA: adaptation and survival strategies of Escherichia coli”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Ana Cristina Messias Coelho (Bioquímica)
“NMR solution structure of cytochromes c3: insight into the structural origins of functional cooperativities”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Pedro Eduardo Marques Lopes (Química)
“Electronic structure and reactivity of transition metal complexes”
Supervisor: Maria José Calhorda - Ivo Comperts Boneca (Biologia)
“Cell wall biosynthesis and beta-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Joaquim Pires Antunes Mendes (Bioquímica)
“Modelling sidechain conformations in proteins”
Supervisor: Cláudio Soares/Mª Arménia Carrondo - Jorge Manuel Martins (Bioquímica)
“On modelling reactions in biological membranes: diffusion-controlled kinetics in mogeneous phospholipid bilayers”
Supervisor: Eurico de Melo - Maria Margarida Nunes da Rosa Dias Duarte (Biologia)
“Bases Moleculares da virulência e hemadsorção nos isolados nacionais Lisboa 60 e Lisboa 68 do vírus da peste suína africana”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada
2001
- Paula de Fátima Domingos Alves (Bioquímica)
“Transporte de água e electrólitos em membranas de epitélios”
Supervisor: Teresa Moura - Luís Jaime Gomes Ferreira da Silva Mota (Biologia)
“Molecular mechanisms of induction of the Arabinose Regulon in Bacillus subtilis”
Supervisor: Isabel Sá Nogueira - Paula Maria Marques Leal Sanches Alves (Bioquímica)
“NMR studies of central metabolism in brain cells”
Supervisor: Helena Santos, Manuel Carrondo - Ana Rute Ramos Neves (Bioquímica)
“Metabolic strategies to reroute carbon fluxes in Lactococcus lactis: kinetics of intracellular metabolite pools by In Vivo nuclear magnetic resonance”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Gabriela de Medeiros Silva (Biologia)
“Genes contained in two DNA fragments of Desulfovibrio gigas genome: molecular characterisation of the metalloproteins rubredoxin-oxygen oxidoreductase and neelaredoxin”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada - Sérgio Joaquim Raposo Filipe (Biologia)
“Cell wall structure and penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Mariana Luisa Tomás Gomes de Pinho (Biologia)
“Methicilin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: the role of the native penicillin-binding proteins”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Julien Loubinoux (Biologia)
“Les bacteries sulfato-reductrices humaines: caracterisation et pouvoir pathogene"
Supervisor: Jean Le Gall - Patrícia Rodrigues Noronha da Costa (Biologia)
“A molecular biology approach in the study of metalloproteins from Desulfovibrio”
Supervisor: Lígia Teixeira - Nicholas John Price (Biologia)
“Molecular characterisation of two haemproteins: the bacterial cytochrome c'' and the plant extensin peroxidades LEP1”
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo - Ji-Dong Lou (Química)
“Approaches to the synthesis of some novel optically active compounds”
Supervisor: Christopher Maycock
2002
- Fernando Manuel Baião Dias (Química)
“The dynamics of polymethylphenylsiloxanes in the picosecond time range”
Supervisor: António Maçanita - Sofia Segarra Marques Cortez Godinho (Química)
“Transition metal polynuclear complexes”
Supervisor: Mª José Calhorda/Carlos Romão - Marta Vieira Gomes Lopes Borges (Química)
“Light activated pest control”
Supervisor: António Maçanita - Duarte Emanuel Soeiro de Carvalho Oliveira (Biologia)
“Molecular characterisation of pandemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Raquel Sá-Leão Domingues da Silva (Biologia)
“Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae; the contribution of carriers and epidemic clones to the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Anabela Lopes Isidro (Biologia)
“Analysis of the SPP1 portal protein function during prohead assembly and DNA packaging: a bridge between function and structure”
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Maria Manuela Clemente Vilhena (Biologia)
“Cisticercose, Produção suína e Saúde da Comunidade. Um estudo em Moçambique”
Supervisor: Jorge Torgal - Nuno Manuel Fialho Seabra e Melo (Bioquímica)
“Vaccinium myrtillus peroxidases: plant glycoproteins with human Lewisª determinants“
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro - Pedro Miguel Lamosa António (Bioquímica)
“Protein stabilisation by diglycerol phosphate, a compatible solute from hyperthermophiles”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Ângela Cristina Brandão Fonseca Oliveira Prazeres (Química)
“Estrutura electrónica e reactividade de derivados de óxidos metálicos”
Supervisor: Maria José Calhorda - João de Bívar Xavier (Biologia)
“Ontogenesis of microbial aggregates”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Isabel Alexandra Aguiar de Abreu (Bioquímica)
“Mechanisms for oxidative stress response in anaerobic prokaryotes//Rubredoxin:superoxide oxidoreductase a new pathway for superoxide detoxification”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira
2003
- Sofia Isabel Vaz Queiróz de Macedo (Bioquímica)
“X-ray structure determination of iron-containing proteins from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 in different redox states: bacterioferritin and hybrid cluster protein”
Supervisor: Maria Arménia Carrondo - Ana Verónica Sousa Uva Carvalhal (Engª. Química)
“Mammalian cell growth arrest for biopharmaceutical production improvement”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo - Luis Jorge Camilo Maranga (Engª. Química)
“Engineering Challenges in the Production of VLPs - understanding baculovirus-insect cell interactions”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo - Nuno Miguel Deodato Fontes (Engª. Química)
“Studies on critical factors affecting enzyme activity in nonaqueous media: supercritical fluids and organic solvents”
Supervisor: Susana Barreiros - Marta Gibert Aires de Sousa Ferreira (Biologia)
“Bridges From Hospitals to the Laboratory: Genetic Portraits of Methicillin-Resistent Staphylococcus aureus Clones”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Isabel Maria Travassos de Almeida de Jesus Bento (Bioquímica)
“Structural Studies of the Tetrahaem cytochrome c3 and nine haem cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 in the oxidised and reduced state. Correlation with cooperativity effects”
Supervisor: Maria Arménia Carrondo - António Carlos Silva Henriques (Química)
“Síntese Assimétrica e Reacções de sulfóxidos e sulfonas de ditioacetais ciclícos”
Supervisor: Christopher Maycock - Joana de Almeida Pires da Fonseca (Engª. Química)
“Vapour Liquid Equilibrium Measurement and Emulsion Formation in ScCO2”
Supervisor: Manuel Nunes da Ponte - Ricardo Castela Gomes de Azevedo (Engª. Química)
“Termodinâmica de Líquidos Puros em Regimes Estáveis e Metaestáveis. Uma nova microcélula não-intrusiva para a monitorização da velocidade do som em condições (p,T) extremas “
Supervisor: Luís Paulo Rebelo - Ilídio Joaquim Sobreira Correia (Bioquímica)
“Characterization of three multiheme cytochromes isolated from sulfidogenic bacteria”
Supervisor: António Xavier - Célia Maria Valente Romão (Bioquímica)
“Iron metabolism is sulfate reducing bacteria: the hemoferritin from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Marta Wilton Pereira Leite de Vasconcelos (Biologia)
“A Biotechonological Strategy to Improve Iron Content in the Endosperm of Elite Rice Varieties”
Supervisor: Mª Margarida Oliveira - Helena Isabel Abrantes de Gouveia da Mota Veiga (Engª. Química)
“Líquidos a pressões negativas: correlação entre propriedades de equilíbrio e propriedades em regimes de metaestabilidade”
Supervisor: Luís Paulo Rebelo - Rita Alexandra da Luz Benasulin Santos Lemos (Bioquímica)
“Respiratory chains in prokaryotes. A novel complex in archaea and the oxygen respiratory chain from na "anaerobe"”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Maria de Fátima Afonso Cairrão (Biologia)
“Regulation of 3' to 5' exoribonucleases from the RNR family”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano
2004
- Carla Maria Alexandre Pinheiro (Biologia)
“Lupinus albus reaction to water deficit”
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo - Vitória João Valente Gemas (Biologia)
“Genetic variability of two woody perennials - Olea europaea L. and Eucalyptus globulus Labill. - assessed by RAPD and ISSR markers”
Supervisor: Manuel Pedro Fevereiro - Vítor Lino Piteira Barnabé de Sousa (Bioquímica)
“Study of the localization of fucosyltransferase III. Importance of the transmembrane and cytosolic domains”
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Zoran Visak (Engª. Química)
“L-L critical loci in heterogeneous mixtures at positive and negative pressures: relation to excess properties of the homogeneous counterpart”
Supervisor: Luís Paulo Rebelo - Dulce Alexandra Alves Lobo da Costa Azevedo (Biologia)
“Sensing thiol-reactive compounds by the bZIP transcription factors Yap2 and Yap1 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada - Nuno Miguel Formiga Borges (Bioquímica)
“The Role of Mannosylglycerate in Thermo- and Osmo-Adaptation of Rhodothermus marinus: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Applications”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Mónica Paula Fernandes Serrano Miranda (Biologia)
“Analysis of the sG checkpoint during spore development in Bacillus subtilis”
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Marta Ramilo Abrantes (Química)
“Organomolybdenum Oxo Catalysts for Sulfoxidation and Olefin Epoxidation”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão - Cristina Maria Silva Pereira (Bioquímica)
“Aspects of the extension network in the primary cell wall: kinetic and biochemical approaches to elucidate function”
Supervisor: Philip Jackson - Maria Luisa Caramalho Abrunhosa Vasconcelos (IGC) (Biologia)
“Analysis of Dscam and its molecular diversity in axonal targeting of olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila”
Supervisor: José Belo - Andreia de Sousa Fernandes (Bioquímica)
“Rhodothermus marinus respiratory chain: Studies on Complexes I and II “
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Cláudia Cristina Lage Pereira (Química)
“Indenyl Complexes of Niobium and Molybdenum: Synthesis, biomedical and catalytics applications”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão - Vesna Najdanovic-Visak (Engª. Química)
“Phase Behaviour and Thermodynamic Properties of Ionic Liquid Solutions”
Supervisor: Luís Paulo Rebelo - Zeljko Petrovski (Química)
“Amine and Imine Complexes of Molybdenum and Iron as Epoxidation Catalysis and Cytostatics”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão
2005
- Susana de Almeida Mendes Vinga Martins (Biologia)
“Biological sequence analysis by vector maps: alignment-free comparison of DNA and proteins”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Tiago Miguel Guerra Miranda Bandeiras (Bioquímica)
“Archaeal Respiratory Chains - Coupling the sulfur to oxygenic metabolism”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Cristina Maria Neves da Silva (Biologia)
“Mechanisms underlying flowering in Almond (Prunus dulcis): a molecular perspective”
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira - Alexandre Marnoto de Oliveira Campos (Biologia)
“Analysis of Protein Expression in Olea europaea L. , a Proteomic Approach”
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro - Susana Isabel Lopes Claro Tereso (Biologia)
“In vitro culture system for clonal propagation and genetic transformation of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Sol.)”
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira - Maria Manuel Machado Lopes Sampaio (Bioquímica)
“Engineering Escherichia coli for the Synthesis of Mannosylglycerate, a solute widely distributed in (hyper)thermophiles”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Patrick de Oliveira Freire (Biologia)
“Characterization of the gene bolA and its function in cell morphology and survival”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Isabel Maria Teiga Zilhão (Biologia)
“Nuclear, Plastidial and Mitochondrial Polymorphisms in Portuguese Olive Cultivars”
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro - Tiago Quininha Faria (Bioquímica)
“Understanding Protein Stabilization by Solutes from Hyperthermophiles: Effect of Mannosylglycerate on Protein Unfolding Thermodynamics and Enzyme Activity”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Miguel Pedro Januário Pessanha (Bioquímica)
“Structural , thermodynamic and functional characterization of multihaem cytochromes isolated from Shewanella and Geobacter species”
Supervisor: António Xavier - Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha (Engª. Química)
“Improved Strategies for the Developement of Retroviral Gene Theraphy Vectors: from the producer cell to the viral vector”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo - André Martinho de Almeida (Biologia)
“Using the TPS1 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana to increase abiotic stress tolerance in plants”
Supervisor: Manuel Pedro Fevereiro - Maria Manuela Parreira Broco (Biologia)
“Desulfovibrio gigas Flavoredoxin. A flavin reductase involved in thiosulfate metabolism”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada - Sara Cristina de Almeida Pinto Garcia (Biologia)
“Phase Space Reconstruction of Multivariate Time Series from Molecular and Field Biology”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Francisco Rodrigues Pinto (Bioquímica)
“Gene regulatory networks – tools for an enhanced understanding”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Mónica Rodrigues Fortunato Hilário (Biologia)
“Cerebral networks for memory strategies and Dissociation of new and old memories in posterior cingulated”
Supervisor: António Xavier/Joy Hirsch - Teresa Parente Madureira de Vasconcelos Costa (Biologia)
“Assembly of the Bacillus subtilis spore coat”
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Gonçalo Bruno Ferreira Real Rodrigues Carvalho (Biologia)
“Cell division and chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis”
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Sónia Cláudia Morgado Gonçalves (Biologia)
“Embryo development in maritime pine – a differential gene expression approach”
Supervisor: Célia Miguel - Maria Luísa de Ornelas Sieuve de Azevedo Soares Rodrigues (Bioquímica)
“Crystallographic studies on β-cinnamomin, catechol-O-methyltransferase and cytochrome c nitrite reductase”
Supervisor: Mª Arménia Carrondo/Margarida Archer - Tracy Laura Nevitt Gonçalves (Bioquímica)
“Towards understanding the functional role of Yap4 in the yeast response to hyperosmolarity”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada
2006
- Joana Paiva Gomes Miranda (Bioquímica)
“Identification and characterization of immunodominant proteins of Theileria uilenbergi to be used in the diagnosis of ovine theileriosis in China”
Supervisor: Abel Oliva - Rute Isabel Alves Rodrigues (Biologia)
“Functional Analysis of Desulfovibrio gigas ROO and Ech hydrogenase”
Supervisor: Claudina Rodriques Pousada - Vanessa Alexandra dos Santos Morais (Bioquímica)
“Role of Nicastrin in Alzheimer’s Disease: Importance of the Transmembrane Domain and Ectodomain”
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Jorge Almiro Barceló Caldeira Pinto Paiva (Biologia)
“Phenotypic and Molecular Plasticity of Wood Forming Tissues in Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)”
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro/Christophe Plomion - João André Nogueira Custódio Carriço (Biologia)
“New Perspectives on Microbial Typing”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Susana Maria Lavado de Oliveira Gardete (Biologia)
“Towards the understanding of the mechanism of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Ana Madalena Ludovice/Hermínia de Lencastre - Ana Sofia Correia Fortunato (Biologia)
“Involvement of defence-related genes during nodulation of Casuarina glauca”
Supervisor: Ana Isabel Ribeiro/Cândido Pinto Ricardo - Ana Rita Cruz Duarte (Engª. Química)
“Exploring supercritical fluid technology for the development of controlled drug delivery systems”
Supervisor: Catarina Duarte - Jingsi Liang (Biologia)
“Heterologous gene expression in legume nodules of Medicago truncatula”
Supervisor: Ana Isabel Ribeiro/Pedro Fevereiro - Inês Maria da Silva de Almeida Chaves (Bioquímica)
“Protein Expression in Plant Cells During Programmed Cell Death Induced by Stress”
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo/Ana Paula Regalado - Luís Maria de Figueiredo Mascarenhas Lopes da Fonseca (Bioquímica)
“Metabolism of Primary Astrocytes Studied by NMR: Metabolic Trafficking and Neuroprotection”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Patrícia dos Santos Antunes (Química)
“Evaluation of macrocyclic complexes and somatostatin-based radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear medicine”
Supervisor: Rita Delgado - Feng Li (Química)
“Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry of New Macrocycles and Cryptands as Receptors for Cations and Anions”
Supervisor: Rita Delgado - Maria Leopoldina C.C.A. Miragaia Ryder (Biologia)
“The evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis: diversity in genetic backgrounds and in the structure of the resistant determinant SCCmec”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre/Isabel Couto - Maria Inês Crisóstomo Ramos (Biologia)
“Contrasts and similarities in the β-lactam resistance of Pneumococci and Staphylococcus aureus: mechanisms, evolution and epidemiology”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre/Alexander Tomasz - Rui Gonçalo Viegas Russo Conceição Martinho (Biologia/Bioquímica)
Registo de tese na UNL - César Miguel Pereira Soares Mendes (Biologia)
“Cell Death Mechanisms in the Retina of Drosophila melanogaster”
Supervisor: Álvaro Tavares/Hermann Steller/Bertrand Mollereau - Rita Gonçalves Sobral de Almeida (Biologia)
“Modulating Staphylococcus aureus cell physiology through a murein ligase”
Supervisor: Hermínida de Lencastre/Alexander Tomasz/Ana Madalena Ludovice - Patrícia Matos Cruz da Silva Pereira (Bioquímica)
“Biochemical and genomics studies of proteins involved in the bioenergetic metabolismo of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria”
Supervisor: Ricardo Louro/Inês Cardoso Pereira (António Xavier) - Catarina Morais Vaz Paquete (Bioquímica)
“Thermodynamic and kinetic characterisation of multiheme cytochromes”
Supervisor: Teresa Catarino (António Xavier) - Ricardo Hugo Jorge Pires (Bioquímica)
“Membrane-bound metalloproteins involved in Sulfate Respiration”
Supervisor: Inês Cardoso Pereira (António Xavier)
2007
- Clara Pinheiro Vieira Correia dos Reis (Bioquímica)
“Study of Trf4 and Trf5 in Sacharomyces cerevisae: Poly(A) Polymerases with a Function in Histone Homeostasis”
Supervisor: Judith Campbell/Sukalyan Chatterjee - Beatriz Garcia Fernández (Biologia)
“Analysis of the role of Dpp signalling during the morphogenetic process of Dorsal Closure in Drosophila melanogaster”
Supervisor: António Jacinto/Moises Mallo - Marta Sofia Zambujo Carapuço (Biologia)
“The role of Hox genes in the development of the branchial arches and axial skeleton”
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - João Filipe Bogalho Vicente (Bioquímica)
“The Role of Flavodiiron Proteins in Nitric Oxide Detoxification”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Vítor Hugo Oliveira Teixeira (Bioquímica)
“Molecular Modelling of Redox Proteins Involved in the Hydrogen Metabolism”
Supervisor: Cláudio Soares - Maria Angelina de Sá Palma (Bioquímica)
“Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Identification and Characterisation of Biochemical and Molecular Marker”
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Rute Conceição do Nascimento Veríssimo Afonso (PGDBM) (Biologia)
“A non-assigned herpesvirus gene inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis”
Supervisor: Michael Parkhouse - Isabel Eloi Marcelino-Mista (Engª. Química)
“Development of a Vaccine Candidate Against Heartwater”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo / Paula Alves - Tiago Bruno Pereira Soares Ferreira (Engª. Química)
“Adenovirus as a Biopharmaceutical: Optimisation of Vector Production”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo/ Paula Alves - Melinda Carmen Noronha (Química)
“Time-Resolved Fluorescence of Tyrosine Residues: A New Tool to Characterize Protein Conformational Changes”
Supervisor: António Maçanita / Helena Santos - Ana Filipa de Matos Almeida Valente (Bioquímica)
“Hydrogen Metabolism in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough“
Supervisor: Inês Cardoso Pereira - Claudia Istrate (Biologia)
“Host and Immune Responses to Natural and Experimental Rotavirus Infection”
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo/Paula Alves - Sara Newbery Raposo de Magalhães (Biologia)
“To eat and not to be eaten. Do plan-inhabiting arthropods tune their behaviour to predation risk?”
Registo de tese/Universidade de Amsterdão - Irina Luísa Saraiva Franco (Biologia)
“Regulation of arabinose metabolism in Bacillus subtilis: linking structure and function”
Supervisor: Isabel Sá Nogueira - Susana de Sousa Araújo (Biologia)
“Expression of the ELIP-like protein DSP22 in Medicago truncatula: an approach to improve the response of a legume plant towards water deficit”
Supervisor: Manuel Pedro Fevereiro - Marta Alexandra Garcia Campos (Biologia)
“The role of VEGF during a malaria infection”
Supervisor: Maria Mota - Ana Sofia Gírio Veloso (Biologia)
“Regulation of the pró-apoptotic protein Bim by the kinase Erk5 in mitosis”
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee - Alexandre Alves Neves (Biologia)
“Deciphering Notch transcriptional synergy in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos”
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Jorge Bruno Reis Wahnon (Química)
“Asymmetric synthesis using chiral pool hydroxyacids”
Supervisor: Christopher Maycock - Maxime Guy Leonard Cuypers (Bioquímica)
“Structural studies of iron storage proteins: Dps and Bacterioferritin”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira, Robert Crichton, Sean McSweeney, Edward Mitchell, Célia Romão - João Vieira Rodrigues (Bioquímica)
“Superoxide defence strategies in anaerobic prokariotes: The mechanism of superoxide reductases”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - David Guerra Aragão (Bioquímica)
“Structure to function studies in hybrid cluster proteins and glucose-1-phosphate urydylyltranferases”
Supervisor: Carlos Frazão, Edward Mitchell - Nuno Miguel da Silva Micaêlo (Bioquímica)
“Enzyme structure and function in nonaqueous solvents”
Supervisor: Cláudio Soares - Krassimira Assenova Passos Guerra (Química)
“Heterodinuclear Metal Complexes as Models of Active Centres of Proteins”
Supervisor: Rita Delgado - Ana Catarina Maurício Brito Ataíde Montes (Bioquímica)
“Fucosyltransferase IX: characterization and biological role”
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Larissa Consani Textor (Bioquímica)
“Structural insights into the new features of the transcription factor MafB”
Supervisor: Matthias Wilmanns, Maria Arménia Carrondo - Filipa Susana Caldas Pinto (Biologia)
“p63 function in epithelial stem cells”
Supervisor: Frank McKeon, Sukalyan Chatterjee - Sílvia Cristina Ferreira de Carvalho (Química)
“New Molecular Architectures for the Encapsulation of Anions”
Supervisor: Rita Delgado - Sílvia Cristina de Paiva e Almeida (Biologia)
“Manipulation of T and B cell biology through transgenic expression of a vírus gene inhibiting transcription via NF-kB and NFAT”
Supervisor: Michael Parkhouse - Amélia Maria de Sousa Martins Muralha Delgado (Biologia)
“Bacteriocins from Lactic Acid Bacteria of Portuguese Table-Olives”
Supervisor: Cidália Peres / Manuel Pedro Fevereiro - Ana Serbanovic (Engª. Química)
“Alternative Solvents: Phase Behaviour and Application in Catalysis”
Supervisor: Manuel Nunes da Ponte - Sandra Cristina de Oliveira Viegas (Biologia)
“Microbial Ribonucleases: control of gene expression and regulation of small non-coding RNAs”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Bruno Lourenço da Silva Victor (Bioquímica)
“Molecular modeling of redox proteins involved in the oxygen and nitric oxide metabolism”
Supervisor: Cláudio Soares - Catarina Maria de Castro Dias Vieira Figueiredo (Biologia)
“Role of neuron-microglia interactions in NMDA receptor-mediated cell death”
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee - Ana Lúcia de Freitas Mesquita Barbas (Biologia)
"Functional and Structural Studies on Escherichia coli RNase II: a crucial enzyme in RNA metabolism"
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Ana Raquel Sampaio de Sousa (Engenharia Química)
"Development of Functional Particles using Supercritical Fluid Technology"
Supervisor: Catarina Duarte
2008
- Paula Cristina Trindade Lima Gaspar (Biochemistry)
“Metabolic engineering of Lactococcus lactis for mannitol production: the role of NADH-dependent dehydrogenases in directing carbon fluxes”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Luis Pedro Gafeira Gonçalves (Biochemistry)
“Osmo- and thermo-adaptation in hyperthermophilic Archaea: identification of compatible solutes, accumulation profiles, and biosynthetic routes in Archaeoglobus spp”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Rita Maria Cruz de Campos Batista (Biology)
“Avaliação do impacto da engenharia genética de plantas nas alergias e na alteração da expressão génica”
Supervisor: Maria Margarida Oliveira - Cristina Maria Mendes Branco Price (Biology)
“Gene expression in response to hypoxia stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: transcriptional, translational and post-translational regulation”
Supervisor: Ricardo B. Ferreira/Julia Bailey-Serres - Diana Sílvia Medeiros Plácido (Biochemistry)
“Crystallographic studies on the human protein ADAR1 and a transglutaminase from Bacillus subtilis”
Supervisor: Maria Arménia Carrondo/Margarida Archer/Adriano Henriques - Jaime Manuel Pinto Combadão (Biology)
“Models of natural selection in structured populations and in populations that fluctuate in size”
Supervisor: Isabel Gordo - Carla Alexandra Duarte Jorge (Biochemistry)
“Transport, metabolism and physiological roles of compatible solutes of thermophilic bacteria: Petrotoga miotherma and Rhodothermus marinus”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Andreia Isabel Ferreira Veríssimo (Biochemistry)
“Thermodynamic redox behaviour of heme-copper oxygen reductases”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira/Manuela Pereira - Teresa Isabel Cocheno Rodrigues (Chemical Engineering)
“Purification of Retroviral Vectors for Gene Therapy: Process Development and Product Characterization”
Supervisor: M.Carrondo/Pedro Cruz - José Manuel Café Inácio (Biology)
“Molecular analysis of arabinan degradation in Bacillus subtillis”
Supervisor: Isabel Sá Nogueira - Gonçalo Martins Conde da Costa (Biochemistry)
“Drosophila kinetochore protein characterization and functional study of Droshophila Sgt1”
Supervisor: Ana Coelho/Álvaro Tavares - Ana Alexandra Figueiredo Matias (Chemical Engineering)
“Desenvolvimento De Óleos Alimentares Funcionais - Da Ciência à Aplicação”
Supervisor: Catarina Duarte - Marta Sofia Guedes de Campos Justino (Biochemistry)
“A study of microbial defence strategies against nitrosative stress”
Supervisor: Lígia Saraiva - Nelson Alexandre da Cruz Soares (Biochemistry)
“Wound-related changes in the apoplast proteome of Medicago truncatula and their association with early steps in ROS signal transduction pathway”
Supervisor: Philip Jackson - Tiago Filipe dos Santos Lourenço (Biology)
“Addressing abiotic stress tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) through a transgenic approach”
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo - Sónia Sandra Cabrita Negrão (Biology)
“Breeding for semidwarfism and blast resistance of traditional portuguese rice varieties by marker-assisted backcrossing”
Supervisor: M.Oliveira/D.Mackill - Lília de Fátima Gomes Perfeito-PGDB (Biology)
“Dynamics of adaptation in populations of Escherichia coli”
Supervisor: Isabel Antunes Gordo - José Eduardo Marques Andrade (Biology)
“The role of Exoribonucleases in growth phase control and their function in the degradation of RNA”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Catarina de Cértima Fernandes Homem (PGDBM) (Biology)
“Regulation of cadherin-based cell adhesion and its interaction with the cytoskeleton”
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - Ana Sofia Carvalho Paiva Fernandes Pires (Biology)
“Plant cell cultures as an alternative system for the production of glycoproteins: Expression and purification of native and recombinant proteins”
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro/Rita Abranches - Sílvia Maurício Correia (Biology)
“Viral modulation of interferon responses”
Supervisor: Michael Parkhouse - Ana Lúcia Gomes Almeida Pereira Mena (Biology)
“Regulation of the pró-apoptotic protein Bim EL during mitosis and mitotic slippage”
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee - David Vítor Marçal Pinto (Biochemistry)
“Structural studies on family III alcohol dehydrogenases from pathogenic bacteria”
Supervisor: M. Arménia Carrondo/Francisco Enguita - Sónia Cristina Alves Dickson Leal Solano (Biochemistry)
“Protein folding, metal ions and conformational states – the case of a di-cluster ferredoxin”
Supervisor: Cláudio Gomes - Sandro Filipe Fernandes Pereira (Biology)
“Penicillin-binding proteins in the cell cycle of Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre/Alexander Tomasz/Adriano O. Henriques - Marijana Blésic (Chemical Engineering)
“Phase Behaviour of Alternative Solvents”
Supervisor: Luis Paulo N. Rebelo - Jorge Augusto Machado Pereira (Biochemistry)
“Deciphering the role of Yap4 phosphorylation under stress conditions”
Supervisor: Claudina R.Pousada - Cristina Isabel Tavares Pereira (Biochemistry)
“Peptidolític System and Bioenergetics of Biogenic Amine Production in Lactic Acid Bacteria”
Supervisor: Teresa Crespo/Mª Vitória S. Romão - David Zeferino D’Azevedo Cristina (Biology / Molecular Genetics)
“A Regulated Response to Mitochondrial Dysfunction Modulates Longevity and Rates of Living”
Supervisor: Cynthia Kenyon/Jorge Carneiro
2009
- Catarina Isabel Catarino Milheiriço (Biologia/Biologia Molecular)
"Studies on Methicillin-resistance cassette in Staphylococcus aureus: New typing strategies and insights into the regulation of resistance expression"
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Cristina Maria da Costa Peixoto Lisboa (Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologia/Biotecnologia)
"Challenges in the Purification of Complex Biopharmaceuticals"
Supervisor: Paula Marques Alves
- Jorge Manuel Martins Cunha (Biologia)
"Diversidade biológica de Vitis vinifera L em Portugal: contribuição genética da subsp. sylvestris (Gmelin) Hegi para a origem das castas Portuguesas, subsp. vinifera"
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro/José Eiras Dias
- Liliana Maria Bota Marum (Biologia)
"Genetic and epigenetic approaches to evaluate stability during in vitro propagation of Pinus pinaster Ait."
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira
- Luís Miguel Barroso Pereira Lima (Química)
"New Tetraaza Macrocyclic Ligands with Potential Medical Interest: Synthesis and Study of their Transition Metal and Lanthanide Complexes"
Supervisor: Rita Delgado
- Marco António Mattos Vilela (Biologia/Bioquímica)
"Automated reverse engineering of metabolic pathways from time series"
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida
- Maria Cândida Maia Mellado (Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologia/Vacinas)
"Triple-layered rotavirus-like particles production: a focus on in vitro assembly and disassembly"
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo/Paula Alves
- Maria Luis Guimarães Amorim (Biologia/Biologia Molecular)
"Insight into the local epidemiology of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a Portuguese Hospital”
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre
- Marlene Isabel Rosa do Carmo (Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologia/Terapias Génicas)
"Gammaretroviral and Lentiviral vectors for Gene Therapy: Stability and Inactivation Mechanisms"
Supervisor: Manuel Carrondo/Pedro Cruz
- Marta Gomes da Silva (Bioquímica/Biotecnologia)
"Development of a new Babesia bovis diagnostic method and identification of new vaccine candidates"
Supervisor: Abel Oliva
- Nuno Alexandre Gomes Faria (Biologia/Biologia Molecular)
"Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: typing strategies and epidemiology trends"
Supervisor: Hermínia L./A.Tomasz/Duarte O.
- Nuno António Gonçalves Moreno (Biologia/Biofísica)
"Oscillatory behavior in pollen tubes: the biophysical and biochemical fundamental basis of cell growth and morphogenesis"
Supervisor: José Feijó
- Patrícia Isabel Gomes Alves (Biologia)
"Cystic Fibrosis By Proteomics: Identification of Molecular Targets for Therapeutic Intervention"
Supervisor: Deborah Penque/Ana Coelho
- Regina Maria Fonseca da Luz Freitas (Bioquímica)
"Expression of protein biologic activity. Different strategies in a space/time referential"
Supervisor: Ricardo Ferreira
- Ricardo Jorge Martins Gouveia (Biologia)
"The neuronal L1 cell adhesion molecule – Procution, characterization and biological role"
Supervisor: Júlia Costa
- Rute de Almeida Ferreira de Castro (Bioquímica/Fisiologia Microbiana)
"Metabolism in Lactococcus lactis: Glucose Transporters and a Novel α-Phosphoglucomutase"
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Sara Isabel Rodrigues Rasteiro de Campos (Bioquímica/Simulação Biomolecular)
"Study of the effect of pH on the structure and function of peptides and proteins using molecular simulation methods"
Supervisor: António Baptista - Sónia Adelaide Q.S. Santos Rocha (Bioquímica/Neurociências)
"In Vitro models for metabolic studies of Brain insults"
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Susana André Lima Lobo (Bioquímica/Bioquímica Microbiana)
"Anaerobic bacteria: an investigation of metabolic important enzymes. A novel type of oxygen reductase and enzymes of the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis"
Supervisor: Lígia Saraiva - Tiago Jorge de Pinho Carvalho - PGDB (Biologia)
"The Computational Role of Short-Term Plasticity and the Balance of Excitation and Inhibition in Neural Microcircuits: Experimental and Theoretical Analysis"
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee/Dean Buonomano
2010
- Catarina Heitor Gomes (Biochemistry)
"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: mammalian cell models, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase and biological characteristics"
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Catarina Sá de Almeida Amaral (Biology)
"Role of Yap8 and Yap1 b-Zip transcription factors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exposed to arsenic stress"
Supervisor: Claudina R. Pousada - José Mário Leitão Ribeiro (Biochemistry)
"The importance of the extensin network formation in the definition of the primary cell wall properties"
Supervisor: Philip Jackson - Ana Raquel Viegas Correia (Structural Biochemistry)
"Protein Folding and Disease: The mitochondrial protein frataxin"
Supervisor: Cláudio M. Gomes - Jennifer Ann Geiger (Genética Molecular)
"Wound Healing: a genetic approach in Drosophila"
Supervisor: António Jacinto - Filipa Pontes de Moraes - IGC-PD (Biology)
"Tbx1 and Bmp2 in the development of the ear, neural crest and pharyngeal system in mice"
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - Rita Maria Martins de Sousa Maia Malpique (Engenharia Biomédica)
"Novel cryopreservation strategies for cell-therapies and pre-clinical research"
Supervisor: Paula M. Alves - Ana Teresa de Carvalho Negrão Serra (Biotechnology)
"Valorization of traditional portuguese apples and cherries. biochemical characterization and development of functional ingredients"
Supervisor: Catarina Duarte - Ricardo Jorge Alexandre Águas - IGC-PD (Epidemiology)
"The versatility of mathematical models: From biological mechanisms to epidemiological scenarios"
Supervisor: Gabriela Gomes - Paulo Jorge Rêgo Durão (Biotechnology)
"CotA-laccase from bacillus subtilis: structure-function studies of catalytic copper centers"
Supervisor: Lígia O. Martins - Joana Raquel Morgado da Rocha (Structural Biochemistry)
"Structure to function studies in udp-glucose dehydrogenases and nitroreductases"
Supervisor: Carlos Frazão - Eda Rita Gomes Soares Machado (Biology)
"Characterization of the glycosylation of human tumor cells"
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Leonor da Gama Carvalho Norton (Celular Technology)
"Expression of antibodies and retroviral vectors from defined chromosomal sites: strategies towards reliable production systems"
Supervisor: Paula M. Alves - Ricardo Miguel Neto da Silva - PGDB ( Developoment Biology)
"Mutual dependence between myc and the hippo pathway in growth regulation and homeostasis"
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - António Manuel Missionário Roldão (Systems Biology)
"Production optimization of rotavirus-like particles: a systems biology approach"
Supervisor: Manuel J. T. Carrondo - Maria Joana Patrício Gonçalves de Sá - PGDB (Systems Biology)
"Communication and choice in yeast mating"
Supervisor: Mónica Bettencourt Dias - Marta Alexandra Marques Alves (Plant Physiology)
"Responses of higher plants to boron defi ciency"
Supervisor: Cândido Pinto Ricardo - Ana Patrícia Neto Refojo (Bioenergetics)
"The alternative complex iii from rhodothermus marinus – a prototype of a new family of quinol: electron acceptor oxidoreductase"
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Ana Paula Martins Farinha Resende (Molecular Biology)
"Proteomic and transcriptomic approaches to abiotic stress tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.)"
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira - Ana Paula Gonçalves Batista (Bioenergetics)
"Energy transduction by respiratory complex I"
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Bruno Emanuel Ferreira de Sousa Correia (Computational Biology)
"Computational design with flexible backbone sampling for protein remodeling and scaffolding of complex binding sites"
Supervisor: Cláudio M. Soares - Tiago Manuel Ferreira da Silva Vicente (Biotechnology)
"Downstream processing development of enveloped viruses for clinical applications: Innovative tools for rational process optimization"
Supervisor: Manuel J. T. Carrondo - Bárbara Joana de Almeida Henriques (Structural Biochemistry)
"Defective protein folding and function in metabolic disorders: studies on the mitrochondrial flavoenzyme ETF"
Supervisor: Cláudio M. Gomes - Sébastien M. Potot (Biotechnology)
"Metabolic and morphogenetic engineering of bacillus subtilis: biotechnology for industry"
Supervisor: Adriano O. Henriques - Lígia Isabel dos Santos Nobre (Molecular Genetics)
"Unravelling novel modes of antimicrobial action"
Supervisor: Lígia M. Saraiva - Ana Sofia Fernandes de Oliveira (Computational Biology)
"Molecular modelling of abc transporters: from atp hydrolysis to substrate transport"
Supervisor: Cláudio M. Soares - Zita Carvalho dos Santos (Cellular Biology)
"Evolution and biogenesis of microtubule-derived structures"
Supervisor: Mónica Bettencourt Dias - Ana Margarida Janeiro Lopes dos Santos Azevedo (Biology)
"Molecular almond shoot organogenesis: an integrated strategy to identify key genes in adventitious regeneration"
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira - Hugo Miguel Raposo Correia Botelho (Biophysics)
"Metal Ions and Protein Folding: Conformational and Functional Interplay"
Supervisor: Cláudio M. Gomes - Vítor Manuel Bordona Sousa Paixão - ITQB/PGDB (Biophysics)
"NMR studies of tetrahaem cytochromes from D. desulfuricans and S. frigidimarina"
Supervisor: David Turner - Teresa Margarida Gomes da Conceição (Molecular Biology)
"Staphylococcus aureus: towards a comprehensive view on epidemiology and clonal spread"
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Nelson Emanuel da Silva Frazão (Molecular Biology)
"Massive shift in the pneumococcal nasopharyngeal fl ora after the 7-valent conjugate vaccine: epidemiological studies and testing pathogenic
potential in animal models"
Supervisor: Hermínia de Lencastre - Rita Margarida Morais Tavares - PGDB (Structural Immunology)
"The enzyme a20 maintains immune homeostasis and prevents autoimmunity"
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee/Averil Ma - Ana Sofia Roldão Lopes Amaral Duque (Molecular Biology)
"Transformation of medicago truncatula with the arginine decarboxylase gene to modify polyamine metabolism toward water deficit resistance"
Supervisor: Pedro S. Fevereiro
2011
- Tânia Marisa Catarino Ribeiro
“Studies on resistance and response to vancomycin in Enterococcus faecalis: a last resort antibiotic”
Supervisor: Mª Fátima Silva Lopes - João Daniel da Silva Seixas
“Development of CO-Releasing Molecules for the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases”
Supervisor: Carlos Romão - Tânia Leal da Silva Barreto Vinagre
“Hox genes control the specification of global vertebral domains”
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - Inês Gabriel e Silva Batista e Guinote
“Functional Studies on BoIA and related genes: increasing the understanding of a protein with pleiotropic effects”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - André João Tavares Fernandes
“Insight over multicopper oxidases stability”
Supervisor: Lígia Martins - Maria Margarida de Carvalho Negrão Serra
“Process Engineering of Stem Cells for Clinical Application”
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Tânia Filipa Pais de Oliveira
“Crystallographic and Biochemical Studies on Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductases”
Supervisor: Margarida Archer - Maria Filipa Baltazar de Lima de Sousa
“Searching for the common denominator of heme-copper oxygen reductases: Evolution and thermodynamic characterization”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Raquel de Amaro Lourenço
“Symmetry-Out, Asymmetry-In: The role of dmrt2”
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - Maria Helena Macieira Pires Futcher de Deus
“Improving discovery in the Life Sciences using Semantic Web Technologies and Linked Data: Design principles for Life Sciences Knowledge Organization Systems”
Supervisor: Jonas Almeida - Rui Miguel Tiago Peixoto (PGDB)
“Trans-Synaptic Signaling by Activity-Dependent Cleavage of Neuroligin-1”
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee - Silvana Coelho Cardoso Manuel
“Genetics of berry colou rand anthocyanin content variation in grapvine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera)”
Supervisor: Pedro Fevereiro - Mafalda Pinto Baptista Lopes da Silva
“Dissecting the molecular interaction between hepatocytes and Plasmodium liver parasites”
Supervisor: Miguel Seabra - André Filipe Pontes da Costa
“Cp-Functionalised N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Coordination to Mo, Ru, Rh and Ir and Catalytic Applications”
Supervisor: Beatriz Royo - Teresa Marina Fonseca de Almeida Santos Braga
“Enterococcus and biocides: mechanisms of tolerance and selection for vancomycin resistance”
Supervisor: Fátima Lopes - Rita Maria de Brito Francisco
“Biochemistry of Grape Berries: Post-genomics approaches to uncover the effects of water deficits on ripening”
Supervisor: Maria Manuela Chaves - Catarina Sim-Sim Pereira
“Bacterial inter-species communication mediated by the autoinducer-2 signal”
Supervisor: Karina Xavier - Raquel Alexandra Gaboleiro Antunes
“Neural mechanisms of stimulus generalization in auditory fear conditioning”
Supervisor: Marta Moita - Marta Viseu Rodrigues
“Heat Stress Adaptation in Hyperthermophiles: Biosynthesis of Inositol-Containing Compatible Solutes”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Nuno Eduardo Buxo Carinhas
“Systems Biotechnology of baculovirus-producing insect cells”
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Sofia Isabel Marques da Silva
“Formate metabolism in sulfate reducing bacteria”
Supervisor: Inês Cardoso Pereira - Rute Margarida Gonçalves Matos
“Functional and Structural Characterization of the RNase II-family of enzymes”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Ana Rita Pimenta Falcão Marques
“Mitosis and Protein Nα – Terminal acetylation”
Supervisor: Rui Gonçalo Martinho - Martina Bradic
The Genetic Basis of Morphological Change in Convergent Evolution of Natural Populations: “Identifying Candidate Genes Behind Convergent Evolution in Blind Cave Fish, Astyanax mexicanus”
Supervisor: Henrique Teotónio - José Ángel Brito Castro
“Oxo-molybdenum(VI) complexes containing chiral ligands: catalytic applications in selective epoxidations”
Supervisor: Beatriz Royo Cantabrana - José Artur Alves de Brito
“Crystallographic studies on two hyperthermophilic enzymes”
Supervisor: Margarida Archer - Marija Petkovic
“Revealing fungal activity in the presence of ionic liquids “
Supervisor: Luis Paulo Rebelo - Pedro Miguel Veríssimo Mateus
“Ditopic molecular architectures for the recognition of anionic species”
Supervisor: Rita Delgado - Cristina Isabel Caniço Escrevente
“Protein glycosylation of exosomes from ovarian carcinoma cells”
Supervisor: Júlia Costa - Ana Isabel Porém Amaral
“Metabolic Flux Analysis of Neural Cell Metabolism in Primary Cultures”
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Stefanie Nunes Rosa
“Transgenic plants as models to study chromatin organization and regulation of gene expression”
Supervisor: Rita Abranches - Cátia Gisela Rebordelo Marques Feliciano (PGDB)
“Behavioral and synaptic circuit analysis in models of neuropsychiatric disorders: Dissecting the in vivo role of the postsynaptic density proteins nArgBP2 and Shank3 using genetically engineered mice”
Supervisor: Sukalyan Chatterjee - Cátia Cristina Moreira Proença (PGDB)
“Molecular modulation of brain development and function: Lessons from “old” and “new” protein families – Molecular mechanisms of neurotrophin and Slitrk protein families mediating development and function of central nervous system”
Supervisor: Moisés Mallo - Raquel Fonseca de Carvalho
“Functional and molecular characterization of SR45: a plant-specific splicing factor involved in sugar and stress signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Supervisor: Paula Duque Magalhães - Alexandra Sofia Oliveira Simões
“Molecular nature, population biology and fitness of non-typeable Streptococcus pneumonia”
Supervisor: Raquel Sá-Leão - Maria do Carmo Barreto Baptista Basílio
“Dynamics of cork mycobiota throughout stopper manufacturing process: from diversity to metabolite”
Supervisor: Vitória S.Romão/Teresa Crespo - Tiago Vasconcelos Duarte Moreira Pais
“Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Stabilization by Osmolytes of Hyperthermophiles”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Sofia Cristina dos Santos Venceslau
“Electron transfer chains in sulfate reducing bactéria”
Supervisor: Inês Cardoso Pereira - Catarina de Matos Ferraz Franco
“Proteomics based approach to understand tissue regeneration – starfish as a model organism”
Supervisor: Ana Varela Coelho - Ivo Marguti
“Immune response and tissue cytoprotection: two sides of the same coin in immunopathology”
Supervisor: Miguel Soares, Thiago Carvalho - Ana Inês da Cunha Ferreira
“Regulation of PLK4 levels and activity to ensure centriole number control”
Supervisor: Mónica Bettencourt Dias - Ricardo António Neves Moreira
“Studies on BolA and Ribonuclease R: Two Important Factors in the Control of Bacterial Gene Expression”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Óscar Leandro da Silva Ramos
“Development and characterization of bioactive, edible whey protein films and coatings to improve quality and safety of food products”
Supervisor: Francisco Xavier Malcata - Tânia Sofia Granja Tavares
“Production and characterization of the biological activity of peptides obtained via hydrolysis from whey proteins by cardosins”
Supervisor: Francisco Xavier Malcata - Fabrizio Testa
“Mechanisms of NO and O2 scavenging in microorganisms and human pathogens”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira
2012
- Sara Nunes Lança de Carvalho
“Adaptation from standing genetic variation and from mutation: experimental evolution of populations of Caenorhabditis elegans”
Supervisor: Henrique Teotónio - Olga Carina de Oliveira Fernando (PGDB)
“Intron evolution in primates”
Supervisor: Isabel Gordo - Duarte Dionísio Figueiredo
“Novel Transcription Factors Regulating the Expression of the Rice Gene OsDREB1B”
Supervisor: Nelson Saibo - Nadja Pejanovic
“Identification of mechanisms controlling the transcriptional activity of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-ҡB) p65/RelA”
Supervisor: Miguel Soares - Ana Lúcia Serafim de Carvalho
“Metabolic Engineering of Lactococcus lactis for Improved Tolerance to Acid Stress: guidelines from in vivo NMR analysis of glucose metabolism”
Supervisor: Helena Santos - Helena Maria dos Santos Costa
“Mechanism of Interleukin-8 induction by Human Cytomegalovirus UL76 protein”
Supervisor: Michael Parkhouse - Ana Rita Rodrigues Rasteiro de Campos
“Neolithic transitions: can genetic data help us understand a major demographic event in human prehistory?”
Supervisor: José Pereira-Leal - Ana Paula Gomes Marques
“Biogenic amines in wine: Gene transcription as a tool for selection of Oenococcus oeni starter strains”
Supervisor: Vitória San Romão - Inês Manuel Bento Mendes Pinto - GABBA
“Spatiotemporal mechanisms for actomyosin ring assembly and contraction in budding yeast cell division”
Supervisor: Eurico de Melo/David Pellman - Sofia Margarida Batista Leite
“Novel Approaches for Culturing Hepatocytes for Drug Testing Applications”
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Ana Maria Rodrigues Jorge
“Insights into cell wall synthesis and cell division in Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Mariana Gomes Pinho - Mariana Coelho Correia da Silva
“Epigenetic and Cell Cycle Control of Centromere Inheritance”
Supervisor: Lars Jansen - Barbara Zofia Jezowska
“The role of Actin Capping Protein and Src signalling in tissue growth and apoptosis during Drosophila wing development”
Supervisor: Florence Janody - Andreia Cristina Marques da Cunha (IGC-PD)
“Regulation of autoimmune neuroinflammation by stress-responsive genes”
Supervisor: Miguel Soares - Pedro Miguel Rodrigues de Barros
“Insights into the role of almond CBF transcription factors in the environmental control of cold acclimation and dormancy break”
Supervisor: Margarida Oliveira - Susana Margarida Pires Gonçalves
“Structure-function relationships in a glycosyltransferase, a phosphatase and an oxidorreductase”
Supervisor: Pedro Matias - José Manuel Menino Ventura Antão
“Compositional and Functional Analysis of Polycomb Target Chromatin”
Supervisor: Robert E. Kindston - Sofia Domingues de Carvalho
“Insights into the biological significance of alternative splicing in Arabidopsis: Functional characterization of a dual-targeted E3 ligase and the SCL30a SR protein”
Supervisor: Paula Duque Magalhães - Magda Luciana Dias Pereira Atilano
“Bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis and recognition by the innate immune system”
Supervisor: Sérgio Filipe - Sónia Cristina F.S. Sequeira Ventura (transf.)
“Strategies of the African Swine Fever Virus to manipulate innate immunity”
Supervisor: Michael Parkhouse - Liliana Sofia Batista do Nascimento
“Yeast as a model system to study genetic and post-translational regulation of metabolic pathways in mammals”
Supervisor: Claudina R. Pousada - Frédéric Bustos Gaspar
“Non-clinical isolates bring new findings on enterococcal virulence”
Supervisor: Teresa Crespo/MªFátima Lopes - Marta Maria Coelho dos Santos Abrantes
“Precious transition metals: The importance of Zn2+, Mn2+ and Cu2+ for the human pathogen Enterococcus faecalis”
Supervisor: Mª. Fátima Lopes - Tânia Sofia Lobato Paulo Serra
“Regulation of the rice gene OsRMC under salt stress: identification and functional characterization of novel transcription factors”
Supervisor: Nelson Saibo - Ana Filipa Carapinha Pinto
“Reductive scavenging of reactive oxygen species in prokaryotes: Rubrerythrin and Superoxide Reductase”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Joana Morais Baptista
“The role of di-iron proteins in pathogen resistance”
Supervisor: Lígia Saraiva - Ana Sofia da Cunha Miguel
“Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Functionalization and Bioconjugation for Biological Applications”
Supervisor: Christopher Maycock - Sandra Margarida da Costa Carvalho
“Understanding the relationship between central metabolismo and virulence in the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumonia”
Supervisor: Ana Rute Neves - Sónia das Neves Nicolau Nunes Leitão
“Epidemiological studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in the post-vaccination era among two risk groups: children and the elderly”
Supervisor: Raquel Sá-Leão - Ana Teresa dos Santos Avelar
“Chromosome structure: a selectable trait for evolution”
Supervisor: Miguel Godinho Ferreira - Lucélia Rodrigues Tavares
“Evaluation of neuroprotective potential of polyphenols derived from Portuguese native plants: Juniperus sp. and Rubus sp.”
Supervisor: Ricardo Boavida Ferreira - Vera Lúcia Faria Viola Gonçalves
“Cyanobacterial and Protozoan Flavodiiron Proteins are Nitric Oxide and/or Dioxygen Reductases”
Supervisor: Miguel Teixeira - Patrícia Alexandra de Sousa Barros
“The role of Rac1-modulated gene transcription in tumorigenesis”
Supervisor: Peter Jordan - Inês Fernandes Bento
“Centriole elimination in Drosophila oogenesis”
Supervisor: Mónica Bettencourt Dias - Barbara Maria Irene Vreede
“The origin and diversification of na evolutionary novelty: lessons from Drosophila oogenesis”
Supervisor: Élio Sucena - Ivo Miguel Henriques Saraiva
“Structural and functional characterization of the gene products responsible for phototrophic iron oxidation by purple bacteria”
Supervisor: Ricardo Louro - Cláudia Susana Fernandes Queiroga
“Disclosing Carbon Monoxide Protection in Cerebral Ischemia: insight into the celular mechanisms”
Supervisor: Paula Alves - Ana Filipa de Melo Tadeu Pereira dos Reis
“Biological and biochemical characterization of mutants of the RNase II family of enzymes”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Joana Catarina Rocha Lamego
“Understanding Human Carboxylesterase 2 and the feasibility of a more relevant cell model for intestinal metabolism”
Supervisor: Ana Luísa Simplício - Inês de Jesus de Almeida e Silva
“The role of small RNAs and ribonucleases in the control of gene expression in Salmonella Typhimurium”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Helena Maria Pinto Veiga
“Cell division and chromossome segregation in Staphylococcus aureus”
Supervisor: Mariana Gomes Pinho - Mafalda Soeiro Xavier Henriques
“Studies of the assembly of the Streptococcus pneumonia capsular polysaccharide”
Supervisor: Sérgio Filipe - Vânia Sofia Fidalgo Pobre
“Interplay of exoribonucleases, Hfq and small RNAs structural determinants in the control of gene expression”
Supervisor: Cecília Arraiano - Inês Garcia de Oliveira Trindade
“MicroRNAs as modulators of water deficit responses in Medicago truncatula”
Supervisor: Manuel Pedro Fevereiro
2013
Bioquímica
- Vesna Prosinecki
“Protein stability in a proteomic perspective”
Cláudio Gomes - Diana Andreia Pereira Lousa
“Molecular determinants of nonaqueous biocatalysis: A computational analysis”
Cláudio Soares; António Baptista - Mariana Boavida Lopes Carvalho
“The biotransformation of pentachlorophenol by Mucor plumbeus: Mechanistic insights”
Cristina S.Pereira; Andrew Hursthouse - Ana Filipa Nogueira Tavares
“Novel insights into the action of antimicrobial agentes against human pathogens”
Lígia Saraiva - Przemyslaw Michal Nogly
“Crystallographic studies on membrane and cytoplasmic enzymes: Bifunctional cytidylytransferase /CDP-alcohol phosphatidyltransferase and α-phosphoglucomutase”
Margarida Archer - Bruno Miguel Oliveira Maia da Fonseca
“Mind the gap: characterization of periplasmic cytochromes from Shewanella oneidensis involved in extracellular electron transfer”
Ricardo Louro - Pedro Oliveira Quintas
“Electron Transfer and Ligand Binding Properties of Cytochromes”
David L. Turner; Teresa M. Catarino - Catarina Isabel Simões Pires da Silva
“Structure-function analysis of Multicopper oxidases”
Mª Arménia Carrondo; Isabel Maria Bento - Mafalda Cristina de Oliveira Figueiredo
“Desulfovibrio vulgaris defenses against oxidative and nitrosative stresses”
Lígia Saraiva; Miguel Teixeira - Pedro Miguel Ferreira Assis de Sousa
“Supercomplexes of Prokaryotic Aerobic Respiratory Chains – Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis supramolecular assemblies”
Ana Margarida Melo; Miguel Teixeira - Fábio de Oliveira Morais e Silva
“Deciphering the genome of Desulfovibrio gigas: the role of the hydrogenases”
Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada; Inês Cardoso Pereira - Isabel Tavares Lima Martins
“On the way towards the understanding of suberin degradation by Aspergillus nidulans “
Luis Paulo Rebelo; Cristina Silva Pereira
Biologia
- Ricardo de Sousa e Paiva
“T cell Maturation and Regulatory T Cell Differentiation: From the Thymus to the Periphery”
Jocelyne Demengeot - Cláudia Alexandra dos Reis Serra
“Biology and applications of an undomesticated gut strain of Bacillus subtilis”
Adriano Henriques; Ghislain Schyns - Vivian Leite de Oliveira
“Impact of viral immunomodulatory proteins at the level of the cell and the whole animal”
Michael Parkhouse - Bárbara Fonseca de Almeida
“Micropollutant bioremoval in wastewater treatment systems: from microbial population structure to function”
Maria Teresa Crespo; Gilda Carvalho - Arnon Dias Jurberg
“Extension and patterning of the vertebrate body: roles of Gdf1 1 and Wnt3a signaling in the axial progenitors”
Moises Mallo - Elizabeth Ann Ball
“Uncovering the role of IFNAR1 in Experimental Cerebral Malaria”
Carlos Penha Gonçalves - Hugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida
“Measuring chromosome-end fusions in fission yeast”
Miguel Godinho Ferreira - Migla Miskinyte
“Role of biotic interactions in generating and maintaining biodiversity”
Isabel Gordo - Renata Filipa Cruz de Matos
“Enterococcus faecallis V583 prophages: dynamic interactions and contribution to bacterial pathogenic traits”
Maria de Fátima Silva Lopes; Pascale Serror - Ana Filipa Gonçalves Milhinhos
“Novel insights into plant vascular development: disclosing a mechanism to maintain thermospermine homeostasis in the xylem”
Célia Miguel; Ana Canõ-Delgado - Pedro Matos Pereira
“Peptidoglycan assembly machines: The Staphylococcus aureus Penicillin-Binding Proteins”
Mariana Gomes Pinho - Mariluz Gómez Rodriguez
“Inheritance of histone H3 variants across mitotic cell divisions”
Lars E. T. Jansen - José Joaquim Fonseca Ribas Fernandes
“Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Behavior and the Brain”
Joseph J. Paton; Matthew Botvinick - Thiago dos Santos Guzella
“Analysis of Stochastic Fluctuations in the Dynamics of Signaling and Transcriptional Regulation”
Vasco Barreto; Jorge Carneiro - Ana Margarida Teixeira Saramago
“The relevance of Ribonuclease III in several pathogenic bacteria”
Cecília Arraiano; Susana Domingues - Iris Margarida Donga Vilares
“Uncertainty and decision-making in the human brain”
Konrad Kording; Rui Costa - Hugo Liberal Fernandes
“Uncertainty, generalization, and neural representation of relevant variables for decision making”
Zachary Mainen; Konrad Kording - Cláudia Sofia dos Santos Martinho
“Regulation of gene expression by SnRK1 kinases and miRNAs during the plant stress response”
Elena Baena González - Patrícia Irene da Silva Inácio
“The Liver Endoplasmic Reticulum in Malaria liver infection – a functional study of the Unfolded Protein Response”
Henrique Teotónio/Miguel Seabra* Maria Manuel Mota (IMM); Adriano Henriques - Maria Luísa Gouveia e Freitas Côrte
“Dissecting the function of the SpoIIIJ and YqjG membrane protein insertases during bacterial spore development”
Adriano Henriques
Química
- Helga Margarida Correia Ferreira Garcia
“Development of suberin films driven by an ionic liquid-based depolymerisation process”
Cristina Silva Pereira; Luís Paulo Rebelo - Elisa Regina Figueiras Julião Inácio de Campos
“A nanopore-based stochastic detection method: Single molecule characterisation of nanoparticles using α-hemolysin”
Abel Oliva / Yann Astier
Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologia
- Rui Manuel Cordeiro Ferreira
“Creating greater value for biomass residues – extraction of suberin and betulin using alternative solvents”
Cristina Silva Pereira; Luís Paulo Rebelo - Sandra Marisa Lourenço Sanches
“Integration of membrane filtration and photolysis processes for drinking water treatment”
Teresa Crespo; Vanessa Pereira - Ana Filipa Correia da Silva
“Microbiology of membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment: a molecular approach”
Maria Teresa Crespo; Gilda Carvalho - Eva Correia Lourenço
“New enzyme stabilisers inspired by compatible solutes of hyperthermophilic microorganisms”
Rita Ventura; Helena Santos
2014
Biologia
- Jacinto José Fonseca Pereira
"Computational modeling of Prefrontal cortex circuits: from neurons to networks"
José Leal; Xiao-Jing Wang - Rogério Paulo Pelaio Candeias
"The Drosophila melanogaster Network Landscape – Prediction and analysis of transcriptional regulatory and protein-protein interaction networks"
Jorge Carneiro; Manolis Kellis - Raquel Alexandra Martinho dos Santos
"Novel functions of the cohesin accessory factor dPDS5 uncover a new meiotic checkpoint"
Vítor Barbosa - Neuza dos Prazeres Lima Teixeira
"Fsr Quorum Sensing: Role in Enterococcus faecalis Biology and Host Infection"
Fátima Lopes; Michael Gilmore - Dina Raquel da Silva Coelho
"ER stress sensors during photoreceptor differentiation and degeneration in Drosophila"
Pedro M. Domingos - Rita Susana da Silva Valente
"Cell-to-cell Communication in Pectobacterium wasabiae"
Karina Xavier - Yoan Diekmann
"The Evolution of Function in the Rab Family of small GTPases"
José B. Pereira Leal - Marisa Mateus de Oliveira
"Coordinating development: uncovering the mechanisms that coordinate organ growth and patterning with the development of the whole body"
Christen Mirth - Lurdes da Glória Rodrigues Duarte
"Unravelling maternal and fetal genetic factors protecting from Pregnancy Associated Malaria in the mouse"
Carlos Penha Gonçalves - Maria de Fátima Cardoso Pereira
"Spore differentiation in relation to the infectious cycle of the enteric pathogen Clostridium difficile"
Adriano O. Henriques - Andreia Lúcia Campos dos Santos Ferreira Miguel
"Molecular regulation of secondary growth: searching for SHORT-ROOT function in cork formation"
Célia Miguel - Maria Isabel Lopes Correia
"Assembly of AraR-DNA complexes and gene regulation in Bacillus subtillis"
Isabel Sá Nogueira - Daniel Santa Cruz Damineli
"Synchronization properties of multi-oscillator circadian systems: biological functions beyond timekeeping"
Andreas Bohn - Alexandre Castanho Barata Leitão
"Hematopoiesis in the Drosophila larva: beyond the lymph gland"
Élio Sucena - Catarina Alexandra Gonçalves Fernandes
"Assembly and function of a protein cross-linking enzyme during bacterial spore morphogenesis"
Adriano Henriques - Rita Drumond Mateus
"Size-Control Regulation during Regeneration: How to stop Growth?"
António Jacinto Fernando Casares - Clara de Fátima Alves Pereira
"Stochasticity and commitment in monoallelic gene expression"
Vasco Barreto - Ewa Anna Chrostek
"Genomic and environmental factors influence Wolbachia-Drosophila symbiosis"
Luís Teixeira - Sander Paul van Noort
"Participatory Surveillance and Mathematical Models in Epidemiologic Research: Successes and Challenges"
Gabriela Gomes - Leila Teruko Shirai
"Morphological diversification through the evolution of developmental hierarchies"
Patrícia Beldade - Teresa Carla de Almeida Figueiredo
"Amidation of peptidoglycan in Staphylococcus aureus – Identification of MurT-GatD enzymatic complex and insights into the biological role of this secondary modification"
Hermínia de Lencastre; Ana Madalena Ludovice - Rui Alexandre Ferreira Castanhinha
"Developmental and paleontological insights into skull bone homology and evolution"
Joaquín Leon; Élio Sucena - Ana Lopes Tavares
"Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Portugal: origin, epidemiology and virulance"
Hermínia de Lencastre; Maria Miragaia
Bioquímica
- Ana Raquel Martinho Ramos
"Study of novel energy metabolism pathways in anaerobic bacteria"
Inês Cardoso Pereira - Rui Carlos Soares Pimpão
"Exploring the bioavailability of (poly)phenols from berries and their potential activities in Humans"
Ricardo Boavida Ferreira; Gary Williamson - Maria Alexandra dos Santos Alves
"Functional characterization and directed engineering of redox proteins for a rational improvement of Bioelectrochemical systems"
Ricardo Louro - Marta Franco Coimbra Marques
"Structural and Functional Studies of a High Activity NiFeSe Hydrogenase"
Inês Cardoso Pereira; Pedro Matias - Diego de Oliveira Hartmann
"Exploring ionic liquids’ unique stimuli to elucidate uncharacterised celular and molecular mechanisms in filamentous fungi"
Cristina Silva Pereira; Ricardo O. Louro - Alexandre Filipe Guerreiro Borges
"The grapevine defences. Walking towards the “hidden” role of dirigent in Vitis vinifera secondary metabolism"
Ricardo Boavida Ferreira; Sara Alexandra Monteiro
Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologia
- Ana Filipa de Albuquerque Ferreira Rodrigues
"Novel strategies for the developments of a hyperproducer HEK293-derived cell line for manufacturing virus based biopharmaceuticals"
Ana Sofia Coroadinha; Wei-Shou Hu - Liliana Sofia Carvalho Tomé
"Development of new membranes based on ionic liquid materials for gas separation"
Isabel Marrucho Ferreira; Carmen Barros
Química
- Sofia Cristina F.B. Leite de Souza
"On the physical-chemical properties of ceramide C16 and of its mixtures with cholesterol, palmitic acid and cholesteryl oleate"
Eurico de Melo
2015
- Ana Maria da Silva Esteves, Biochemistry
Insights into the biochemical strategies of adaptation to heat stress in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus - Fernando João Gomes dos Santos, Biology
Learning new tricks: Corticostriatal dynamics during novel skill learning - Lígia Antunes Gonçalves, Biology
Host genetic factors in mouse malaria liver stage infection Bahtiyar - Yilmaz, Biology
A Natural Protective Mechanism Against Malaria – The Role of Gut Flora - Piergiuseppe Nestola, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Improving downstream processing for viral vectors and viral vaccines - Paulo David M. Fernandes, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Bioprocess design of canine adenovírus vectors for gene therapy applications - Cátia Maria Nunes Trindade Soares, Biology
Inhibition of SNF1-related protein kinase1 by trehalose 6-phosphate and other metabolites and the interrelation with plant growth - Ana Laura Machado Seara Paixão, Biochemistry
The role of pneumococcal carbon metabolism in colonization and invasive disease - Ana Isabel Aires Amaral, Biology
Functional MRI of stimulus interference on auditory processing in normal listeners and tinnitus patients - Sónia Alexandra Gonçalves Mendes, Biochemistry
Multi-Enzymatic Systems for Cleaning-up Synthetic Dyes from the Environment - Joana Borrego Pinto, Biology
The mechanism of centriole inactivation in starfish oocytes - Cláudia Carolina de Almeida Mendes, Biology
Nutritional plasticity and evolutionary divergence in the Drosophila ovary - Dennis Peter Herrmann, Biology
Investigation of Novel Circuits Involved in Virgin Female Receptivity of Drosophila melanogaster - Zélia Licínia Ferreira Gouveia, Chemistry
Targeting Heme with Single Domain Antibodies - Daniel Bodor, Biology
Quantitative Centromere Epigenetics and the accurate maintenance of centromeric CENP-A levels - Nadine Simone Schweizer, Biology
The Role of the Fbox Protein CG6758 in Xbp1s Induced Retinal Degeneration in Drosophila - Filipe Serrão Santos Oliveira, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Azeotropic Separation: Playing with the Ionicity of Ionic Liquids - Marc Rajeev Gouw, Biology
New tools for old organelles: Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Cell Biology - Nuno Filipe Alves de Almeida, Biology
Comparative mapping of disease resistance gene in Lathyrus spp. using model legume genetic information - Maria Inês Alves Vicente, Biology
Uncertainty in olfactory decision-making - Pedro Mendes Moreira, Biology
Effectiveness of Selection Methods for Improvement of Portuguese Maize. The study of fasciation - Francisca Sarreira Simões Horta Monteiro, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Rational design of insect cell-based vaccine production: Bridging metabolomics with mathematical tools to study virus-host interactions - Filipa Andreia Portugal Nunes, Biology
Determinants for the subcellular localization of the inner and outer spore coat hubs in Bacillus subtilis - Ana Isabel Gonçalves Pereira, Biology
Auditory cues in Social Transmission of Fear - Inês Gomes de Noronha Trancoso, Biology
DNA editors of the Adaptive Immune System – physiology, repair regulation and evolution - Meire Coelho de Almeida, Biochemistry
Structure and dynamics of the NO sensing domain of the human soluble Guanylate Cyclase - Francisca Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Biology
Ascl1 and MyT1 transcriptional networks in vertebrate neurogenesis - Leonor Ribeiro Duarte Margalha, Biology
Regulation of SnRK1-dependent energy signaling by sumoylation - Maria Madalena Amaro da Costa Luz Carneiro, Biology
The role of short telomeres as cause of natural aging in zebrafish - Diana Leonor Constantino Macedo, Biochemistry
Investigating the neuroprotective mechanisms of plant polyphenols in models of Parkinson’s disease - Patrícia Marçal Alves Correia, Biology
The role of serotonin in behavior: Shining light on the maestro of the brain - Alcino Orfeu de Leão e Flores, Biology
On the road of sequencing the genomes: Past, Present and Future - André Gil Fernandes de Mendonça, Biology
The role of reinforcement learning in perceptual decision-making - Ricardo Perdigão Henriques, Biochemistry
The role of the miR-200 family in the epitelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) - Carina Alexandra Pereira Valente, Biology
The role of co-colonization in pneumococcal ecology and evolution - Dusica Rados, Biochemistry
Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of succinate and 2,3-butanediol - Jordi Salmona, Biology
Comparative conservation genetics of several threatened lemur species living in fragmented environments. A glimpse through natural history of northern Madagascar lemurs - Rodrigo Manuel Abril de Abreu, Biology
Social Eavesdropping in Zebrafish - Gonçalo Manuel Pinho Ribeiro de Oliveira Poças, Biochemistry
Functional and genetic analysis of alfa-synuclein and huntingtin in Drosophila melanogaster - André Fernando Anastácio dos Santos, Biochemistry
Novel insights into dissimilatory sulfite reduction - Ana Rita Tomé Ferreira, Biochemistry
Yeast Response to Arsenic’’s Threats
2016
- Ana Carina Santos Ferreira da Silva, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Strategies for improved Adenovirus and PPR vaccine production in diferente cell lines: from bioprocess development to final formulation - Débora Alexandra Marques Tavares da Venda, Biology
Studies on non-typeability and molecular identification of the pneumococcus - Joana Rita Gonçalves Araújo Rolo Mateus, Biology
Origin and evolution of the ß-lactam resistance determinant in staphylococci - Maria Inês Ramos Grilo, Biology
Unfolding the physiological roles of the binding of Atl to eDNA in Staphylococcus aureus - Tânia Catarina Cidade da Costa Silva Ferreira, Biology
The role of PKCs in Morphogenesis - Paula Cristina de Azevedo Alves Marques, Biochemistry
Triggering secondary metabolite biosynthesis: exploring the effects of ionic liquids in fungal metabolism - Sowmiah Subbiah, Chemistry
Synthetic approach towards biomass derived pyridinium salts - Luís Carlos Santos Filipe, Chemistry
Studying the structural features of peptide dendrimers using a combined computational and experimental approach - Tiago Martins da Costa Duarte, Technological and Engineering Sciences
Probing CHO cells using metabolomics and fluxomics tools - Bruno Sousa Cardoso da Costa Marreiros, Biochemistry
Exploring NADH:quinone oxidoreductases, Complex I and alternative dehydrogenase – NDH-2 - Filipe Manuel Beata da Silva Almeida, Biology
Functional analyses of inclusion membrane proteins of Chlamydia trachomatis - Adelina Margarida Lima P. Rodrigues Parente, Biochemistry
Defences of Helicobacter species against host antimicrobials - Diego Melo Almeida, Biochemistry
Regulation of the OsNHX1 gene expression: identification and characterization of novel transcription factos - Maria Sarmento de Matos Paiva Raposo da Cunha, Biology
Identification and characterization of type III secretion effectors in Chlamydia trachomatis - Bruno Alexandre Caetano Afonso, Biology
Natural selection and evolution of behaviour and its variability in experimental populations - Liliana de Jesus Duarte Ferreira, Biology
Insights into the epigenetic regulation of the rice genome: the role of DNA methylation and histone modifications in salt stress responses - Matilde de Vasconcelos Manso de Ataíde Cordeiro, Biology
Salinity adaptation in Tunisian and Portuguese Medicago truncatula populations - Ana Margarida Sarilho Ferro, Biochemistry
A reverse genetics approach to identify Cynara cardunculus L. genotypes with improved bioactive content - Ana Sofia Cabral e Sousa de Almeida, Biology
Carbon monoxide modulation of neuronal diffentiation – disclosing celular mechanisms - Victor João Martins Taveira Carocha, Biology
Critical Players and Gene Expression Regulation in Eucalyptus Xylogenesis - Vìtor Gouveia Faria, Biology
Host-microbe interaction and evolution: infection, symbiosis, immunity and adaptation - Mariana Miguel Rebelo da Palma, Biology
Study of seasonal weight loss tolerance in small ruminants – an NMR-Metabolomics approach
2017
ITQB NOVA
- Sónia de Fátima Estevão Neto, Biochemistry
IUnravelling the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate eléctron transfer in the anaerobic respiratory metabolismo of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 - Filipa Baltazar da Costa Vaz, Biology
Bacteria presente mechanisms that evade celular and humoral responses mediated through peptidoglycan recognition by PGRP-SA and PGRP-LC - Carmen Sofia Pedro dos Santos, Biology
Genomic approaches to understand the genetic response to Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands in Castanea spp - Cláudia Alhinho Mourato, Biochemistry
Biological Interconversion of Hydrogen and Formate - Sandra Isabel Pereira Santos, Biochemistry
Unraveling the protection mechanisms in the radiation resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans: Cross-talk between Dps proteins triggers manganese distribution as a defense strategy against oxidative stress - Soraia Cristina Marques Caetano, Biology
Stress response mechanisms underlying metal detoxification in yeast: The cases of cobalto, cadmium and iron - André Miguel Henriques Cordeiro, Biology
The rice Phytochrome-Interacting Factor 14 – a regular of cold, jasmonic acid and light related genes - Hugo Ferrão Dias de Almeida, Technological and Enginering Science
Treatment of aqueous effluents contamined with active pharmaceutical ingredient - Maria Cecília Marques da Câmara Pina, Biology
OsCPK17, a calcium-dependent protein kinase that modulates rice response to abiotic stress - Saúl Alves Graça da Silva, Chemistry
Aziridines and their asymmetric conversion to bioactive compounds: Approaches to Terpestacin, Oseltamivir and analogues - Pedro Rafael da Silva Álvaro Magalhães, Biochemistry
Inclusion of protonation effects in the simulation of proteins in membrane environments - Sara Teresa Neves da Silva, Biochemistry
Structural insights into the human multifunctional protein RuvBL2 - Inês Rodrigues Silva Cristo, Biology
Grainy Head in Wound Healing: Maintaining Identity within Caos - Inês Margarida Lourenço Figueira, Biochemistry
Deciphering the potential of berries polyphenol metabolites for Parkinson’s Disease: Digestion, blood-brain barrier transposition and neuroprotective effect - Nazua Farida Lima Ferreira da Costa, Biochemistry
Gram positive bacteria do it differently? – Probing the molecular bases for the efficient extracellular electron transfer performed by Thermincola potens JR
IGC
- Maria Inês da Silva Pais, Biology
Understanding the microbiota community of Drosophila melanogaster and its role on the immune system - Maria Adelina Gonçalves Jerónimo, Biology
The origin and development of novelty: eyespots and immunity - Ana Stankovic, Biology
Cell cycle-based mechanism of epigenetic centromere propagation - Caetano Souto Maior Mendes, Biology
Model-based inferences in host-pathogen-symbiont interactions: Implications for the design of experimental and observational studies - Pedro Ângelo Pereira da Silva, Biology
Quantitative image analysis of cells using morphodynamical models: Sea urchin spermatozoa as case study - Ozhan Ozkaya, Biology
Dynamics of Interbacterial Cooperation and Cheating - Ana Martins Ribeiro, Biology
“Nrf2 Confers Disease Tolerance to Bloodstream Infections - Ewa Renata Piskadlo, Biology
Maintenance of metaphase chromosome architecture by condensin I - Sascha Werner, Biology
The role of intraflagellar transport in ciliary maintenance - Elvira Lafuente Mazuecos, Biology
Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila
Champalimaud Foundation
- Jacques Edgard Angelo Bourg, Biology
Amplification in cortical networks - Niccolò Bonacchi, Biology
Spatial goals and actions in the orbitofrontal cortex - Samantha Lucille Herbert, Biology
How the nervous system responds to and regulates amino acid homeostasis - Samuel James Walker, Biology
More than Fruit Flies: Neuronal mechanisms of nutrient selection in Drosophila - Sofia Lima da Silva Soares, Biology
Time in the basal ganglia: The contributions of striatal and midbrain dopamine neurons to timing behavior
