News and Highlights
News
May 2024 - Online Interview: Romeu Viana and Miguel Cacho Teixeira were featured in the MICROBES AND US Podcast.
February 2024 - Award granted: Our paper on the genome-scale metabolic model of Candida auris was awarded the Best paper of 2023 in FEMS Yeast Research
December 2023 - Award granted: Diogo Couceiro was granted a Best Poster Award at Microbiotec 2023
November 2023 - Award granted: Miguel Cacho Teixeira gets an UL/CGD honorable mention
October 2023 - Just published: Metabolic scale modeling of the emerging pathogen Candida auris
February 2023 - Thesis defense: Mónica Galocha defended her PhD Thesis in Biotechnology and Biosciences
December 22 - Just published: The newest release of YEASTRACT+
November 22 - Award granted: Mónica Galocha Awarded the Best PhD Work in Research and Infectious Diseases by redeSAÚDE, ULisboa!
November 22 - Just published: Insights into genetic diversity and drug resistance based on large-scale genome sequence analysis
October 22 - Just published: A new family of azole importers is uncovered!
July 2022 - Just released: Special Issue on the beauty of Pathogenic Yeasts!
June 2022 - Award granted: Miguel Cacho Teixeira gets an UL/CGD honorable mention
February 2022 - Just published: A genome-scale model of C. parapsilosis metabolism
January 2022 - Just published: A new regulator of azole drug resistance is characterized
July 2021 - Just published: A very close look into the molecular basis of adhesion and biofilm establishment by Candida glabrata
February 2021 - Just published: AntiMicrobial Peptide Resistance Conferred by a Polyamine Transporter: a New Virulence Mechanism
February 2021 - Just published: Development of Anti-Fouling Materials that Reduce Microbial Pathogen Adhesion
January 2021 - Just published: What makes S. boulardii probiotic? A transcriptomics view
November 2020 - Just published: Oxidative Stress Response Pathway Promotes Virulence in C. glabrata
October 2020 - Just published: Global Evaluation of S. cerevisiae Regulatory Network: Challenging Previous Concepts
October 2020 - Thesis defense: Mafalda Cavalheiro to Defend PhD Thesis in Biotechnology and Biosciences
September 2020 - Just published: Genome-scale metabolic model of the human pathogen Candida albicans
July 2020 - Just published: New Pathway Controlling Azole Resistance in Candida glabrata
March 2020 - Just published: Dual Role in Drug Resistance and Biofilm Formation Played by a Family of Proteins in the Human Pathogen Candida glabrata
Oct 2019 - Just published: The YEASTRACT+ Portal is Released!
Sept 2019 - Thesis defense: Pedro Pais to Defend PhD Thesis in Biotechnology and Biosciences
Oct 2018 - Just published: Following the Evolution Towards Fluconazole Resistance in C. glabrata
Awards
• Diogo Couceiro receives Best Poster Award at MicroBiotec23, 2023
• Miguel C Teixeira was granted an honorable mention in the ULisboa/CGD award, 2023
• Mónica Galocha Awarded the Best PhD Work in Research and Infectious Diseases by redeSAÚDE, ULisboa, 2022
• Miguel C Teixeira was granted an honorable mention in the ULisboa/CGD award, 2021
• Romeu Viana receives Best Poster Award at MicroBiotec19, 2019
• Mónica Galocha receives Best Poster Award at HFP2019, 2019
• Mafalda Cavalheiro receives Best Poster Award at MicroBiotec17, 2017
• Pedro Pais receives Best Poster Award at MicroBiotec15, 2015
• Miguel C Teixeira was granted an honorable mention in the UTL/Santander Researcher award, 2012
• Miguel C Teixeira was granted an honorable mention in the UTL/Santander Researcher award, 2011
• Miguel C Teixeira was granted the Young Researcher in Microbiology award SPM/Alfagene, 2009