Financed projects
Funded Projects
PhytoLac - Engineered Lactococcus lactis for the optimized production of nutraceutical
plant-derived polyphenols
PTDC/EBB-EBI/113727/2009, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia(Portugal).
Duration: March 2011 – February 2014. Recomended funding: 159.024,00 Euro.
PI: Ana Rute Neves
Collaborator: Oscar P. Kuipers (RUG, The Netherlands).
PneumoSyS - A systems biology approach to the role of pneumococcal carbon metabolism in colonization and invasive disease.
PTDC/SAU-MII/100964/2008, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).
Duration: April 2010 – March 2013. Funding: 199.650,00 Euro.
PI: Ana Rute Neves
Collaborators: Susana Vinga (INESC-ID, Portugal), Peter Andrew and Hasan Yesilkaya (U. Leicester, UK).
PneumoCaPTS - Regulation of virulence factors by glucose-dependent catabolite repression.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/099963/2008, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).
Duration: January 2010 – December 2012. Funding: 198.804,00 Euro.
PI: Ana Rute Neves
Collaborators: Margarida Archer (ITQB/UNL, Portugal), Oscar P. Kuipers (RUG, The Netherlands), Jetta Bijlsma (UMCG, The Netherlands) and Pedro Lamosa (ITQB/UNL, Portugal).
Novel roles of Lactococcus lactis cellobiose-PTS system in sugar metabolism and bacteriocin activity.
Acções Integradas Luso-Espanholas – 2009. Acção Nº E–67/09. Funding: 8.000,00 Euro.
Portuguese PI: Ana Rute Neves. Collaboration: Beatriz Martínez Fernández (IPLA-CSIC, Spain).
Investigation on the link between central carbon metabolism and capsule production in the human pathogen Steptococcus pneumoniae.
POCTI/BIA-MIC/56235/2004, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal).
Duration: January 2006 – September 2007. Funding: 35.000,00 Euro.
PI: Ana Rute Neves
Collaborators: Helena Santos (ITQB/UNL, Portugal) and Oscar P. Kuipers (RUG, The Netherlands).
Collaboration in Funded Projects
platform for new and efficient bioprocesses (BioProChemBB).
ERA-IB project coordinated
by Bernard J. Eikmanns, University of Ulm, Germany. Portuguese participation:
HelenaSantos (PI) and Ana Rute Neves.Duration: February 2009 - January 2012.
Integrated view of the early steps in bacterial cell wall synthesis. PTDC/BIA-MIC/67845/2006. Fundação Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal). Duration: January 2008 - December 2010. PI: Mariana Pinho (ITQB, Portugal). Collaborators: Ana Rute Neves and Sérgio Filipe (ITQB, Portugal).
DynaMo: dynamical modeling, control and optimization of metabolic networks.
PTDC/EEA-ACR/69530/2006. Fundação Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal). Duration: September 2007 - August 2010.
PI: Susana Vinga (INESC-ID, Portugal). Collaborators: Helena Santos/Ana Rute Neves (ITQB, Portugal), Jonas Almeida (Univ. Texas, USA), Eberhard E. Voit (GeorgiaTech, USA).
