Biological Chemistry
Biological Chemistry Division Laboratories
| | The Biological Chemistry division has a strong focus on functional and structural characterisation of proteins, in particular metalloproteins, membrane proteins and proteins related to human health, and also an important program on cellular stress responses. The biological problems addressed range from biological energy conservation in aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms to mechanisms of oxidative and nitrosative stress responses used by pathogens to evade host immune defenses, and also responses to metal and metalloid stress. Other studies include protein folding and stability, protein modelling and development of theoretical/computational methods for the simulation of biomolecular systems. More applied studies target the structural characterisation of proteins with pharmacological or health importance, and of enzymes with biotechnological applications. Head of Division: Cláudio M. Soares |
Laboratories
- Bacterial Energy Metabolism
Head: Inês A. Cardoso Pereira - Biological Energy Transduction
Head: Manuela M. Pereira - Biomolecular NMR Laboratory
Head: Manolis Matzapetakis - Genomics and Stress Laboratory
Head: Claudina R. Pousada - Inorganic Biochemistry and NMR
Head: Ricardo O. Louro - Industry and Medicine Applied Crystallography - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
Head: Pedro Matias - Membrane Protein Crystallography - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
Head: Margarida Archer - Metalloproteins and Bioenergetics
Head: Miguel Teixeira - Microbial & Enzyme Technology
Head: Ligia O. Martins - Molecular Genetics of Microbial Resistance
Head: Ligia M. Saraiva - Molecular Interactions and NMR
Head: Patrick Groves - Molecular Simulation
Head: Antonio M. Baptista - Mössbauer Spectroscopy
Head: Filipe Tiago de Oliveira - Protein Biochemistry, Folding & Stability
Head: Cláudio M. Gomes - Protein Modeling
Head: Cláudio M. Soares - Raman Spectroscopy of Metalloproteins
Head: Smilja Todorovic - Structural Biology - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
Head: Carlos Frazão - Structural Genomics - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
Head: Maria Arménia Carrondo
