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Such a great achievement, Filipa Engrola!

June 4, 2024
Congratulations to Filipa Engrola for the best flash presentation award at the 4th Meeting of Portuguese Young Biophysicists (

PhD student Guilherme Alves was selected for oral presentation at the Instruct-ERIC biennial meeting

May 23, 2024

Today, at the Instruct-ERIC biennial meeting, in Cascais, our PhD student Guilherme Alves presented his research work entitled "Unveiling O2 damage on Mo/W Formate dehydrogenases and their innate protection mechanism", supervised by Cristiano Mota and Maria João Romão.
Congratulations to the full team!

The XTAL at ExpoFCT 2024

April 10, 2024

Another successful edition of ExpoFCT!

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.