People
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Manuel N. Melo
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Formerly:
NWO VENI and Marie Curie Fellow at the Molecular Dynamics Group of the University of Groningen. Ph.D at the Physical Biochemistry group, University of Lisbon.
Researchers
Martín Calvelo
Martín is a postdoctoral researcher studying protein aggregation in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.
Fernando Nunes
Fernando is a PhD student in collaboration with the Cristina Silva Pereira Lab, working on computational models of suberin.
Tâmela Madaloz
Tâmela is a visiting PhD student from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, working on the modeling of steroid hormones.
Ana Carolina Araújo
Ana Carolina is a Master's student focusing on the formation of pores in membranes.
João Catarino
João is a Master's student developing models of the bacterial cell wall.
Past Members
Guilherme Jusek
Guilherme did his Master's thesis project simulating deep-eutectic solvent mixtures for biotechnological applications.
Marcin Makowski
Marcin was a PhD student in collaboration with the Nuno Santos Lab at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, working on the aggregation and activity of specific antimicrobial peptides on anionic membranes.
Luís Araújo
Luís was a PhD student in collaboration with the Fábio Fernandes Lab at Instituto Superior Técnico. He worked on ion interactions of phosphatydilinositol phospholipids.
Ana Raquel Nogueira
Raquel was a student working on developing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization.
Maryam Lotfi
Maryam was a researcher developing coarse grain models for biochemically relevant compounds.
Rodrigo Barriga
Rodrigo was a Master's student working on protein-cofactor interactions in the bacterial respiratory chain.
Gonçalo Vieira
Gonçalo was a Master's student working on protein-lipid interactions in the mitochondrion, and their relevance for apoptosis.
Gabriel Serafim
Gabriel did his MSc on the antimicrobial mechanism of dendrimer nanoparticles, also supervised by Vasco Bonifácio from Instituto Superior Técnico
Ana Catarina Narciso
Catarina was a Master's student in collaboration with the Federico Herrera Lab, with focus on the characterization of protein complementation.
Robin Heiringhoff
Robin did an ERASMUS internship at the lab, at the end of his graduation from Heidelberg University. He worked on coercing AMPs to form pores in membranes.
Clément Arnarez
Clément joined the group after his PhD at the University of Groningen and a postdoctoral period at the University of Delaware. He worked on lipid-lipid and ligand-protein interactions.
Guilherme Razzera
Guilherme spent a year at the group working on protein-lipid and lipid-lipid interactions, while on a sabbatical from his duties at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Nestor Wendt
Nestor obtained his Master's from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. He joined the group for a project on coarse-grain cell wall modeling.
