Annual Report 2011
Appendix
Crossing the bridge: the role of an E3-ubiquitin ligase in the modulation Tiago Lourenço Post-Doc-Genomics of Plant Stress Laboratory
Primary Cultures and Stem Cells for Drug Discovery and Cell Therapy: Bioprocessing Challenges Paula M. Alves Head of Cell Bioprocesses Laboratory
Ionic liquids under common and sometimes not-so-common conditions: Recent experimental results José Esperança Assistant Researcher at Molecular Thermodynamics Laboratory
Using Drosophila to study the Unfolded Protein Response Pedro Domingos Head of Laboratory of Cell Signaling in Drosophila
Reductive elimination of Reactive Oxygen Species: Structural and Functional Insights Miguel Sepúlveda Teixeira Head of Metalloenzymes and Molecular Bioenergetics Laboratory Copper(II) cryptates as receptors for anions and potential radiopharmaceutical use Rita Delgado Head of Coordination and Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory Therapy with CO: where are we? Carlos C. Romão Head of Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory A brief journey into the nanoworld of proteins Margarida Archer Head of Membrane Protein Crystallography Laboratory Good and bad lipids Eurico Melo Head of Microheterogeneous Systems Photoprotection systems in Quercus ilex L. and the application of the Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) as an ecophysiological tool to detect oxidative stress Marta Pintó-Marijuan Post-Doctoral Monofunctional transglycosylases are not essential for Staphylococcus aureus cell wall synthesis Patricia Reed Post-Doctoral at Bacterial Cell Biology Laboratory Biochemical Systems Analysis of the trehalose cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Luís L. Fonseca Post-Doctoral fellow at Cell Physiology and NMR Laboratory A Structural Biology approach to study protein function Isabel Bento Auxiliary Investigator at Structural genomics Laboratory Population genomics of Medicago truncatula to identify mechanisms of salinity adaptation Matilde Cordeiro PhD student at Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory Deciphering energy metabolism in the earliest life forms: the dissimilatory reduction of sulfur compounds Inês Cardoso Pereira Biological Energy Transduction Manuela M. Pereira, Biological Energy Transduction Laboratory
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Role, evolution, and biosynthesis of di-myo-inositol-phosphate Nuno Borges Assistant Researcher Cell Physiology and NMR Laboratory Applications of Proteomics in Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences André Martinho de Almeida Researcher of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical /invited Researcher of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the ITQB
Other Seminars Oxidative stress and killing mechanism of bactericidal antibiotics: direct or indirect connection? Axel Hartke Caen University, France Partnership and Cooperation in Health R&D and Innovation Protocol between Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Eurotrials FCT R&D Projects in all Scientific Domains 2010. How to apply Informative/ work session by the Research Funding Affairs team, IGC From Cyanobacterial Hydrogenases to BioModularH2 Paula Tamagnini, IBMC, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Towards Pharmaceutically Acceptable CO-RMs Fabio Zobia Zurich University, Switzerland MIT-Portugal innovation and entrepeneurship initiative this session is open but registration is mandatory Pathological modeling, drug discovery and toxicity testing using pluripotent stem cells Marc Peschanski Scientific Director-(I-STEM, INSERM/UEVE) Exploiting the human immune response for the development of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies against infectious diseases Andreas Meinke- Intercell Overview of Vaccine Process Development at RIVM Leo van der Pol Vaccine Institute, Netherlands Development and Technology Transfer for Viral Vaccines Wilfried Bakker Vaccine Institute, Netherlands Corynebacterium glutamicum tailored for efficient isobutanol production Bastian Blombach- University of Ulm, Germany