Projects and funding
2022
PI: From trash to treasure – developing proprietary collagenases for transformation of fish waste into high value products”. InnOValley Proof of Concept Fund.
2021
As partner: CaboAcid, Investigating the potential effects of ocean acidification on marine carbonate organisms along the Iberian margin coastal upwelling system. EuroFleets + funding.
2020
As partner: Detect: “Development of an Easy, fast-Track and Economical Colorimetric Test for autonomous national diagnosis of COVID-19” (FCT).
2019
As partner: Twinning project EU proposal 857203 – IMpaCT - Imaging Life from Molecules to Cells.
2018
As partner: Twinning project EU-proposal 810856-TIMB3 about BioSpectroscopy.
2015
As principal investigator: “DNA repair from bacteria to man”. PTDC/BBB-BEP/0561/2014. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.
Coordinator Portugal: “Discovery and training of microbial biocatalysts for biomass conversion using moving bed technology (MBT)”. ERA-net Marine Biotechnology
2014
Post doc fellowship: “Towards a better understanding of Base Excision Repair (BER) initiation”. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal.
2012
Marie Curie fellow: “The role of Base Excision Repair (BER) for extreme radiation and desiccation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans”. Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (IEF).
2009
As project member: “Oxidative stress response mechanisms in Deinococcus radiodurans”. FCT, Portugal.
2008
As principal investigator: “Protein-protein interactions at atomic levels”. Funding for establishment of independent research group through the Functional genomics initiative (FUGE) in Norway (“karrierestipend”). The Research Council of Norway (RCN).
As principal investigator: “Functional and structural biology studies of DNA repair proteins from the radiation resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans”. The SYNKROTRON programme. RCN.
2007
As principal investigator: “Protein-DNA interactions at atomic levels”. The FRIBIO programme. RCN.
2005
As project member: “Structural and energetic aspects of protein DNA-recognition. The cod Uracil DNA-glycosylase as a model system”. The FRIBIO programme. RCN.
