In the past three weeks we had the pleasure to host Roxana Cotojman from Colegiul National Gheorghe Magheru, Romania for an internship within Erasmus+ Program (with Casa da Educação). Roxana worked together with our PhD student Jorge Antunes and we hope she enjoyed the experience as much as we did!
The risingtemperaturesthreatening life on our planet arecaused in part by microbes that produce 50% of atmospheric methane, a gas 30 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat. Surprisingly, another kind of microbe combats these rising temperatures by consuming up to 80% of methane released from ocean sediments.
Jorge Antunes and Tomás Fernandes received the prizes for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster at the Biophysics Festival 2022 held in Aveiro on June 3rd.
Pilar Portela is one of the Fulbrighters 2021 and was awarded a Fulbright Portugal Grant to go to Yale University for 5 months as part of her PhD project. Her work will focus on the in vivo manipulation of Geobacter cultures to unveil the mechanisms by which electrons are transferred to the cell’s exterior through conductive protein filaments.
"On this World Cancer Day, The Mary Kay Foundation℠, a decades-long leader in the mission to eliminate cancers affecting women, is proud to announce the first recipient in Portugal of the new
Tomás M. Fernandes received the Young Biophysicist Award for his talk "Redox characterization of multiheme cytochromes" at NOVA Biophysica conference held in Lisbon in September 2019.
Joana Dantas has been awarded the Prémio António Xavier 2018, for the best PhD Thesis conducted in Portugal in 2017, in the area of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
