Meet our PhD guest student from Brazil!

We are excited to introduce Fernando Ribeiro, our guest PhD student from Brazil!
Fernando is a biomedical scientist (BSc) and biochemist (MSc). His PhD research focuses on molecular mechanisms in amyloid diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Diabetes.

Meet our new Team Member!

Jhon Alex Buitrago has joined the CryoEM@NOVA team as Postdoctoral Researcher. He has been dedicating his research career to advancing techniques in structural biology and exploring their applications:

https://sites.fct.unl.pt/cryoem-at-nova/people/jhon-alexander-rodriguez-buitrago

Welcome aboard Jhon!

Guilherme Vilela-Alves presented his PhD Thesis Plan

Today, our PhD student Guilherme Vilela-Alves, supervised by Cristiano Mota and Maria João Romão, from XTAL, and Harmut Luecke, from the CryoEM group at NOVA FCT, has publicly presented his PhD Thesis Plan. The whole group is proud of you, Guilherme! Great work and stimulating discussion!

Open Lecture "Cryo-EM unravels mysteries of hibernation and host cell invasion by microsporidian parasites"

The CryoEM@NOVA team invited today the Chemistry Department  to participate in an open lecture by Dr. Himanshu Sharma from Umeå University:

 "Cryo-EM unravels mysteries of hibernation and host cell invasion by microsporidian parasites"

The XTAL is back to the European Researchers' Night!

This year's activity was titled: Studying proteins in 3D can help reduce atmospheric CO2

Ana Luísa Carvalho and Cristiano Mota represented the XTAL at ECM34 in Padova

The 34th European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM34,

Filipa Trovão at the UCIBIO BioSeminars!

Today, the star of the UCIBIO BioSeminars was our most recent PhD, Filipa Trovão, shining bright in her presentation en

Filipa Engrola has presented the PhD Thesis Plan

Today, our PhD student Filipa Engrola, supervised by Teresa Santos Silva, from XTAL, and Aldino Viegas, from