Funding

Funding

• “Structure function studies of murine Toll-like receptors: Activation of the innate immune response” (POCI / SAU-IMI/ 55 729 /2004), Principal Investigator - Maria Arménia Carrondo

• “Structural genomics and human pathogenic bacteria” (POCI/V.5/A007/2005, Medida V.5 ­ Acção V.5.1), Principal Investigator - Maria Arménia Carrondo

• “Z-DNA and Z-RNA : the long road to a biological function” (PTDC/SAU-MII/69084/2006), Principal Investigator - Maria Arménia Carrondo

•  "Towards biohydrogen production ­ study of a high-activity, oxygen-resistant bacterial hydrogenase" FCT PTDC/BIA-PRO/70429/2006 (2008-2010), Principal Investigator - Pedro Matias 

•  Molecular Adaptation to Extreme Environments: Structural Studies of Proteins Involved in the Synthesis of Osmolytes in (hyper)thermophylic micro-organisms" FCT PTDC/QUI/71142/2006 (2008-2010), Principal Investigator - Pedro Matias 

• "Iron Metabolism Study in Deinococcus radiodurans- Novel strategies" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/67240/2006), Principal Investigator  - Célia Romão 

• "A structural genomics approach to membrane transport proteins form Archaea" PTDC/BIA-PRO/66833/2006, Principal Investigator: Margarida Archer, collaboration with P. Hederson (Leeds, UK) and A. Kletzin (Darmstadt, Germany)

• "Studies on a model membrane complex involved in anaerobic respiration" PTDC/BIA-MIC/68827/2006, collaboration with Inês Pereira (PI) and Lígia Saraiva (ITQB)

• "Chemical reactivity as a tool in drug design: modification of the beta-lactam scaffold to improve serine protease inhibition" PTDC/QUI/64056/2006, collaboration with Rui Moreira (PI, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lisbon)

• "Searching for functional/structural minimum common denominator in haem-c copper oxygen reductases" PTDC/BIA-PRO/66557/2006, collaboration with M. Pereira (PI, ITQB)

• "Investigating the energy transduction Q-cycle mechanism in complexes of respiratory chains" PTDC/QUI/66559/2006, collaboration with M. Pereira (PI, ITQB)

• "Structural characterization of membrane proteins from the respiratory chain of a thermoacidophilic organism" POCI/BIA-PRO/55621/2004, (2005-2008), Principal Investigator: Margarida Archer

• "Studies on quinone-protein interaction in complexes of respiratory chains", Team member, POCTI/QUI/59824/2004
  

• "Marie Curie Integrated Training Network on the Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins, 1 out of 16 participants
  

• "Membrane Protein European Consortium (E.Meo) under 7^th Framework Programme, Associated Member
  

• "Biochemical and Structural Studies of UDP-Glucose Dehydrogenases" PTDC/QUI/67925/2006, Principal Investigator: Carlos Frazão