My research
News
24.01.2022 - Our work on phage endolysins was published in Scientific Reports.
20.12.2021 - Our master student Raquel Gonçalo has defended her Master thesis at the Faculty of Sciences of the University fo Lisbon.
23-26.11.2021 - We have participated in Microbiotec 21 with two posters showing our most recent results on the synergism between phage endolysins and antimicrobial peptides, and on the ocurrence of multimeric endolysins.
19-23.07.2021 - We have received two highschool students in our lab in the scope of Ciência Viva.
07.2021 - We have participated on the iMed.ULisboa internal meeting with two posters.
14.01.2020 - The work resulting from a collaboration with Rute da Fonseca at the University of Copenhagen was published online at NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics.
09-11.01.2020 - I was acting as a convener at the Funny Animals seminar at the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: parallax.
06.01.2020 - I joined the group of Carlos São-José to study "Fusion of complementary antibacterial functions as a new strategy to generate alternative agents to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens".
Research interests
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Farmacy of the University of Lisbon.
My current research deals with phage endolysins and their potential as new enzybiotics.
Check out my publications to learn more!
Recent publications
Synthetic antimicrobial peptides as enhancers of the bacteriolytic action of staphylococcal phage endolysins
Cultivation and functional characterization of 79 planctomycetes uncovers their unique biology
Defining the regulon of genes controlled by σE, a key regulator of the cell envelope stress response in Streptomyces coelicolor
Extracytoplasmic function σ factors can be implemented as robust heterologous genetic switches in Bacillus subtilis
Characterization of the widely distributed novel ECF42 group of extracytoplasmic function σ factors in Streptomyces venezuelae
Engineering orthogonal synthetic timer circuits based on extracytoplasmic function σ factors