MolBioS Labs

Sixty seven research laboratories from ITQB NOVA, IBET, FCT NOVA, and IGC are associated with the MolBioS Program.

Students can select their PhD supervisor among these researchers, according to MolBioS guidelines*. 

Please follow the lab link to know more about the research in each lab. 

ITQB NOVA and IBET  

• Animal Cell Technology Unit - Cell Bioprocesses
  Paula M. Alves  
• Animal Cell Technology Unit - Advanced Cell Models
  Catarina Brito
• Animal Cell Technology Unit - Engineering Cellular Applications
  Manuel Carrondo  
  António Roldão

• Animal Cell Technology Unit - Cell Line Development and Molecular Biotechnology Cell Bioprocesses
  Ana Sofia Coroadinha

• Applied and Environmental Mycology
  Cristina Silva Pereira
• Bacterial Cell Biology
  Mariana G Pinho

• Bacterial Energy Metabolism
  Inês Cardoso Pereira

• Bioelectrochemistry and Electrobiotechnology
  Felipe Conzuelo

• Bioinspired Peptide Systems 
  Ana Pina

• Biomolecular Diagnostic
  Abel Oliva 

• Bioorganic Chemistry
  Rita Ventura
• Bioorganometallic Chemistry
  Ana Petronilho
• Cell Signaling in Drosophila
  Pedro Domingos
• Control of Gene Expression
  Cecília Maria Arraiano
  José Andrade

• Dynamic Structural Biology
  Tiago N. Cordeiro

• Human Microbiota – Xenobiotics Interactions
  Sarela Garcia-Santamarina

• Genetics and Genomics of Plant Complex Traits (PlantX)
  Maria Carlota Vaz Patto 

• Yeast Molecular Biology
  Catarina Pimentel
• Genomics of Plants in Stress (GPlantS)
  M. Margarida Oliveira
• Glycobiology

     Júlia Costa

• Organometallic Catalysis
  Beatriz Royo
• Industry and Medicine Applied Crystallography - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
  Pedro Matias
• Inorganic Biochemistry and NMR
  Ricardo Louro

     Catarina Paquete

• Intracellular Microbial Infection Biology
  Pedro Matos Pereira
• Proteomics Unit (iBET) Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
  Tiago Bandeiras
• Proteomics of Non-Model Organisms
  Ana Varela Coelho 
• Membrane Protein Crystallography - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
  Margarida Archer Franco Frazão
• Functional Biochemistry of Metalloenzymes
  Miguel Teixeira
• Microbial and Enzyme Technology

     Lígia O. Martins

• Microbial Development
  Adriano O. Henriques
  Mónica Serrano
• Microbiology of Man-made Environments
  Teresa Crespo  

• Molecular Genetics
  Hermínia de Lencastre

• Bacterial Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology

     Maria Miragaia

• Molecular Genetics of Microbial Resistance
  Lígia Saraiva 
• Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens
  Raquel Sá-Leão  
• Molecular Simulation

     António M. Baptista 

• Multiscale Modeling
  Manuel N. Melo
• Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutical Analysis
  Ana Luísa Simplício
• Plant Cell Biology
  Rita Abranches
• Plant Cell Biotechnology
  Pedro Fevereiro
• Plant Gene Regulation
  Nelson Saibo  
• Protein Modelling
  Cláudio M. Soares
• Proteome Regulation in Plants
  Isabel Abreu
• Raman BioSpectroscopy
  Smilja Todorovic
• Single Molecule Microbiology

     Zach Hensel

• Structural Genomics - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
  Maria Arménia Carrondo
• Structural Virology - Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
  Colin McVey
• Plant Genomics
  Jörg D. Becker

FCT NOVA

• Baterial Cell Surfaces
  Sérgio Filipe
• Biochemistry and Bioenergetics of Heme Proteins
  Carlos Salgueiro
• Biological Chemistry @ FCT/UNL
  Isabel Moura
  Jose Moura
• Biomolecular Engineering
  Ana Cecília Afonso Roque  
• Bionano @ REQUIMTE
  Ricardo Franco
• Human Genetics and Cancer Therapeutics
  Alexandra Fernandes
• Infection Biology
  Luís Jaime Mota  
• Macromolecular Crystallography @ REQUIMTE 
  Maria João Romão
  Ana Luísa Moreira de Carvalho
  Angelina Palma
  Teresa Santos-Silva
• Microbial Genetics
  Isabel Sá Nogueira
• Molecular microbiology of bacterial pathogens
  Rita Sobral   
• Molecular Microbiology
  Paula Videira
• Nanotheranostics
  Pedro Viana Baptista
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  Eurico Cabrita

     Filipa Marcelo

• The Yeast Genomics Lab at Nova
  Jose Paulo Sampaio
  Paula Gonçalves

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

• Bacterial Signalling
  Karina Xavier
• Plant Molecular Biology
  Paula Duque 

• Plant Stress Signaling
  Elena Baena-Gonzalez