What's happening in the lab?
2023 June - Welcome to Eduarda Maia, who joins the lab as undergraduate student.
2023 May - Our new Akta Go from Cytiva is up and running! Time to purify membrane peptides and membrane proteins!
2023 May - Fadi presented his work at the 2023 Autumn Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society that took place in Ouro Preto, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2023 April - New equipments have just arrived to the laboratory! Our research lab is becoming very equipped!
2023 February - Welcome to Iasmim dos Santos, who joins the lab as undergraduate student.
2022 November - Luis seeks highly motivated students pursuing a master's degree or a PhD. degree in either Natural Sciences or in Biosciences and Biotechnology. If you are willing to join our lab, please have a look at our Open Positions page for further information (Application deadlines: November 30th and November 27th, 2022).
2022 October - OUTREACH! Undergraduate student Fadi Simon made a YourTube video [in portuguese] to promote his scientific work as part of his Undergraduate Thesis Proposal. The target audience is high school students. Check it out!
2022 October - The research proposal entitled "Use of biomass and agricultural residues for bioenergy production by transformation thermochemistry aiming at the agroindustrial development in the State of Rio de Janeiro", led by Prof. Victor Haber Perez (Food and Technology Department - LTA/UENF) and teamed by Prof. Luis (LCFIS/UENF) and other coleagues, has been granted funding from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation). The results for the 2022 FAPERJ "Support for Scientific and Technological Projects in Agricultural Science in the State of Rio de Janeiro" call is found here.
2022 October - OUTREACH! Undergraduate student Fadi Simon from Basso Research Group presents his work to middle school students as part of his Undergraduate Thesis Proposal.
2022 July - The research proposal entitled "Development of the first integrated multiuser platform for expression, purification, and characterization of recombinants protein in the Northern Rio de Janeiro", led by Prof. Diogo de Abreu Meireles (LFBM/UENF) and teamed by Prof. Luis (LCFIS/UENF) and other coleagues, has been granted funding from FINEP/MCTI (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations). The results for the 2021 MCTI/FINEP/FNDCT/CT-INFRA "Research infrastructure in priority areas - PROINFRA 2021" call is found here.
2022 July - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Dr. Gabriel Bonan Taveira and coworkers from the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro has been published in BBA General Subjects! Please check out our publications page for further information.
2022 July - After successfully defending his Undergraduate Thesis Proposal, Fadi Simon de Souza Magalhães joins the Basso Research Group as an undergraduate student.
2022 June - The undergraduate student Ana Luiza Valente is awarded 1st place in the poster category at the 2022 Technological and Scientific Initiation Congress. Great job, Ana!
2022 June - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Prof. Glaucius Oliva (University of São Paulo, São Carlos) has been published in Nature Scientific Reports! Please check out our publications page for further information.
2022 June - Welcome to Scarllet Rodrigues dos Santos who join the lab as undergraduate student.
2022 April - We seek two highly motivated students pursuing a master's degree in Natural Sciences. If you are willing to join our lab, please have a look at our Open Positions page for further information (Application deadline: May 31st, 2022).
2022 February - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Prof. Eduardo Vicente (São Paulo State University, Tupã) and Prof. Eduardo Cilli (Sao Paulo State University, Araraquara) has been published in the Brazilian Journal of Physics as part of the collection entitled "Sergio Mascarenhas - a Polymath in Physics" dedicated to dedicated to Prof. Sergio Mascarenhas' memory. Please check out our publications page and the this very special edition of BJP for further information.
2022 January - Our work in collaboration with Dr. Vitor Serrão (University of California Santa Cruz), Prof. Otávio Thiemann (University of São Paulo), and co-workers has been featured in the COVER PAGE of the Journal of Molecular Biology! For a high resolution image, please check it out here. For details of the work, please see Serrao et al 2021.
2021 December - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Prof. Antonio Costa-Filho (University of São Paulo) and Prof. Maria Cristina Nonato (University of São Paulo) has been published in Biochimie! Please check out our publications page for further information.
2021 December - The research proposal entitled "Implementation of an integrated center for expression and purification of recombinant proteins at UENF", led by Prof. Ana Eliza Zeraik (LQFPP/UENF) and teamed by Prof. Luis (LCFIS/UENF) and Prof. Diogo de Abreu Meireles (LFBM/UENF), has been granted funding from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation). The results for the 2021 FAPERJ "Support for Regional Scientific and Technological Development of the State of Rio de Janeiro (DCTR)" call is found here.
2021 December - Julio visited the Biophysics and Structural Biology Group at the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Carlos, Brazil. He spent a week learning the skills to prepare peptide-free and peptide-decorated lipid bilayer samples for spectroscopic and calorimetric studies as part of his undergraduate research in our lab.
2021 December - Luis has been granted with a Research Grant from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation) to study the "Structure, functions, and dynamics of viral membrane peptides", with special emphasis on the SARS-CoV-2 fusion peptides. The results for the 2021 FAPERJ "Support for Infrastructure and Research in the State Universities in Rio de Janeiro" call can be found here.
2021 November - Our laboratory has been granted funding from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation) to repair, renew, and expand the existing research facilities of the Physical Sciences Laboratory (LCFIS). The Project Coordinator is Prof. Marcelo Gomes da Silva. The results for the 2021 FAPERJ "Support for Infrastructure and Research in the State Universities in Rio de Janeiro" call can be found here.
2021 November - Luis seeks two highly motivated students pursuing a master's degree in Natural Sciences. If you are willing to join our lab, please have a look at our Open Positions page for further information (Application deadline: November 30th, 2021).
2021 October - Our laboratory has been granted funding from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation) to have our Bruker EPR spectrometer fixed. The Project Coordinator is Prof. André Oliveira Guimarães. The results for the granted 2021 FAPERJ "Maintenance of Multiuser Equipment" call can be found here.
2021 October - Luis has been granted with a Research Grant from FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation) for the development of new therapies against COVID-19. The results for the granted 2021 FAPERJ "Development and Evaluation of Vaccines and Therapies against COVID-19" call can be found here.
2021 October - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Prof. Marcelo Guerin (CIC bioGUNE, Spain) has been published in Science Advances! Please check out our publications page for further information.
2021 October - Luis gives a talk entitled "The role of biophysics to the understanding of the SARS-CoV Spike fusion peptide function: From the mechanism of action to the viral inhibition" to undergraduate students from the Physics course of the State University of Londrina (UEL) in a series of seminars organized by Prof. Bruno Vicentin.
2021 October - PAPER OUT! Our work in collaboration with Dr. Vitor Serrão (University of California Santa Cruz), Prof. Otávio Thiemann (University of São Paulo), and co-workers has been published in the Journal of Molecular Biology! Please check out our publications page for further information.
2021 October - Luis and his undergraduated students Ana Luiza and Júlio Cézar attended the 20th IUPAB Congress, 45th Annual SBBf Meeting, and 50th Annual SBBq Meeting and presented a poster entitled "Lipid bilayer membrane as a possible target for inhibition of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike-mediated membrane fusion process". Luis also gave a talk at the meeting about the same research.
2021 August 2021 - Luis gives a talk entitled "SARS-CoV fusion peptides: mechanism of action and viral inhibition" to the graduate students from the Postgraduate Program in Natural Sciences (PPGCN) of the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF) in a series of webinars organized by Prof. Maria Priscila Pessanha de Castro. The talk (in Portuguese) can be watched in the side link:
2021 June - Luis helped in the organization of the Biological Physics area of the 2021 Autumn Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF) as a member of the Scientific Committee.
2021 March - Welcome to Ana Luiza Valente and Júlio Souza who join the lab as undergraduate students.
2020 December - Luis gives a talk entitled "Applications of electron magnetic resonance to the study of biological systems" in a virtual meeting organized by CAFIS (Centro Acadêmico César Lattes)/UENF (@cafis.uenf).
2020 November - Luis Basso joins the Physical Sciences Laboratory of the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro Darcy Ribeiro (UENF) as an Associate Professor.