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Congratulations, Doctor Raquel Costa!

December 21, 2023

Congratulations to Raquel Costa for successfully defending her PhD thesis in the Doctoral Program MolBioS at NOVA School of Science and Technology.
Her thesis entitled "Deciphering human-microbiome glyco-code: an integrative approach to uncover protein-glycan interactions in the gut" was supervised by Angelina Sá Palma, from the GlycoLab, and Ana Luísa Carvalho, from XTAL.

Congratulations, Doctor Viviana Correia!

December 20, 2023
Congratulations to Viviana Correia for successfully defending her PhD thesis in the Doctoral Program MolBioS at NOVA School of Science and Technology.
Her thesis entitled "Deciphering glycan: protein interactions in the Human Gut Microbiome – A combined high-throughput and structural approach" was supervised by Angelina Sá Palma, from the GlycoLab, and Ana Luísa Carvalho, from <

Best MSc student award to Guilherme Alves

November 15, 2023

Congratulations to our PhD student Guilherme Alves, who has just been awarded the Biochemistry for Health MSc Best Student Award, at the 46th Anniversary of NOVA FCT!

The XTAL group in the GlycoTwinning Summer School

September 29, 2023

From September 25th to the 28th, Maria João Romão, Ana Luísa Carvalho and Benedita Pinheiro were tutoring Macromolecular Crystallography methods at the GlycoTwinning Summer School: Scientific Hands-on course in protein/glycan interactions: a structural perspective, co-Chaired by Filipa Marcelo, from the NMR group, and Ana Luísa Carvalho. 

Congratulations to Alicia Candeias!

December 5, 2022
Congratulations to our student Alicia Candeias for successfully defending her MSc thesis in Biochemistry at NOVA School of Science and Technology.
Her thesis entitled "A molecular view on how a commensal bacterium thrives in the human gut" was supervised by Ana Luísa Carvalho, from XTAL, and Angelina Sá Palma, from the GlycoLab.