Projects
Funded Projects (PI Mariana Pinho)
2018-2023: "Exploring the bacterial cell cycle to re-sensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria" (European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant)
2013-2018: "Finding New Mechanisms for Protein Localization in Bacteria" (European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant)
2013-2015: "The intriguing function of cytoskeleton-associated proteins in Gram-positive bacteria" FCT-ANR/BEX-BCM/0150/2012, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
2011-2013: "Study of the real-time response of individual Staphylococcus aureus cells to the presence of cell wall active antibiotics" (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ESCMID)
2010-2013: "Single cell studies of the action of antibiotics" (PTDC/BIA-BCM/099152/2008, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
2010-2013: "The cell wall synthetic machinery of Staphylococcus aureus and its response to the presence of antibiotics" (PTDC/BIA-MIC/099151/2008, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
2007-2010: “Spatial and temporal organization of Staphylococcus aureus cell division” (PTDC/BIA-BCM/664449/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
2007-2010: “Integrated view of the early steps in bacterial cell wall synthesis” (PTDC/BIA-MIC/67845/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
2005–2008: “Organization of the staphylococcal cell wall synthetic machinery” (POCI/BIA-BCM/56493/2004, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
Collaboration in funded projects
2021-2024: "Regulation of peptidoglycan hydrolases in the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus" (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Co-PI; PI Helena Veiga, ITQB-UNL)
2021-2024: "Investigating the mechanisms underpinning the interaction between autonomous immunity and intracellular S. aureus cell division and persistence." (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Co-PI; PI Pedro M. Pereira, ITQB-UNL)
2018-2021: "Role of the peptidoglycan hydrolases in the interaction of Streptococcus pneumoniae with an infected host" (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI Sérgio Filipe, FCT-UNL)
2018-2021: "Molecular and cell biology of imipenem resistance in the human intestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile" (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI Adriano Henriques, ITQB-UNL)
2007-2010: “ActivPOL – Development of oxazoline and aziridine-based antimicrobial polymers using supercritical carbon dioxide technology” (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI Ana Aguiar Ricardo, FCT-UNL)
2005-2008: "Role of bacterial cell wall on the host innate immune response" (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI Sérgio Filipe, ITQB-UNL)
2005-2007: “Regulation of cell wall synthetic genes and enzymes in ß-lactam resistant Staphylococcus aureus” (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, PI Hermínia de Lencastre, ITQB-UNL)
