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Manuel Nuno Melo
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Formerly:
NWO VENI and Marie Curie Fellow at the Molecular Dynamics Group of the University of Groningen. Ph.D at the Physical Biochemistry group, University of Lisbon.
Researchers
Marcin Makowski
Marcin is a PhD student in collaboration with the Nuno Santos Lab at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, working on the aggregation and activity of specific antimicrobial peptides on anionic membranes.
Luís Araújo
Luís is a PhD student in collaboration with the Fábio Fernandes Lab at Instituto Superior Técnico. He is working on ion interactions of phosphatydilinositol phospholipids.
Ana Raquel Nogueira
Raquel is a PhD student working on developing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization.
Maryam Lotfi
Maryam is a researcher developing coarse grain models for biochemically relevant compounds.
Rodrigo Barriga
Rodrigo is a Masters' student working on protein-cofactor interactions in the bacterial respiratory chain.
Fernando Nunes
Fernando is doing an internship modeling the phase behavior of specific liquid crystals of biotechnological interest.
Gonçalo Vieira
Gonçalo is a Masters' student working on protein-lipid interactions in the mitochondrion, and their relevance for apoptosis.
Past Members
Gabriel Serafim
Gabriel did his MSc on the antimicrobial mechanism of dendrimer nanoparticles, also supervised by Vasco Bonifácio from Instituto Superior Técnico
Ana Catarina Narciso
Catarina was a Master's student in collaboration with the Federico Herrera Lab, with focus on the characterization of protein complementation.
Robin Heiringhoff
Robin did an ERASMUS internship at the lab, at the end of his graduation from Heidelberg University. He worked on coercing AMPs to form pores in membranes.
Clément Arnarez
Clément joined the group after his PhD at the University of Groningen and a postdoctoral period at the University of Delaware. He worked on lipid-lipid and ligand-protein interactions.
Guilherme Razzera
Guilherme spent a year at the group working on protein-lipid and lipid-lipid interactions, while on a sabbatical from his duties at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Nestor Wendt
Nestor obtained his Masters' from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. He joined the group for a project on coarse-grain cell wall modeling.