Closed Calls

MOSTMICRO-ITQB Exploratory Projects 2023

The exploratory projects in the core areas of the MOSTMICRO-ITQB unit aim to get preliminary results to support subsequent funding applications and develop novel research ideas to understand biological processes at the molecular, structural, cellular or population levels, with a focus on microbes important for human health, biotechnology, and the environment. Collaborations with other ITQB NOVA laboratories are allowed. 25000€/project for one year.The five following projects, out of 20, have been selected within this call:

1. Description of the bacteriome of the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, Cristina Silva Pereira’s Lab

2. How is mycobacterial cell division rapidly arrested to evade innate immunity? Probing divisome interactions in isolation and in vivo, Zach Hansel’s lab

3. Unravelling ecological interactions leading to antimicrobial tolerance in polybacterial communities of the human gut microbiota, Sarela Garcia Santamarina’s Lab

4. Stressing Out: Promoting Antifungal Activity by Fostering Reductive Stress with Metal Complexes, Ana Petronilho’s Lab

5. How the Nucleocapsid protein hijacks the TGFβ pathway to enforce COVID-19 pathogenicity? - a structural perspective, Tiago N. Cordeiro’s lab

Important documents:

• Call notice
• Application form
• Guidelines for Evaluation
• Regulations