New UCIBIO article reveals how a key enzyme intervenes in chlorophyll biosynthesis: a step towards a greener future
Pedro Silva, Associate professor at Universidade Fernando Pessoa and researcher at the Biomolecular Simulation Lab at UCIBIO in Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto, together with Qi Cheng (Hebei Agricultural University) has explored the reaction mechanism of a key, light-activated, enzyme in chlorophyll biosynthesis using quantum chemical methods.
Raquel Portela awarded an ESCMID Research Grant
Raquel Portela, a researcher at UCIBIO-NOVA, was recently awarded a research grant from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) to develop the project “Characterization and Application of a New Bacteriocin System of Staphylococcus aureus”.
Cecília Roque receives an ERC Proof of Concept grant
Cecília Roque, leader of the Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory at UCIBIO-FCT NOVA was distinguished with a European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant with the project ENSURE: Non-invasive follow-up of urinary tract cancers.
DNAzymes – high-resolution characterization of DNA molecules with therapeutic potential
(Image description and credits: The binding arms on a DNAzyme (red) specifies where it binds to an RNA strand (yellow), which is then cleaved.
Credit: HHU/Manuel Etzkorn)