Workshops 2023 Graphical DesignHelena Pinheiro, iMM | June 22ndiMM PhD Students Workshop Committee «This workshop aims to teach the necessary techniques to elaborate scientific images, figures, schemes, and graphical abstracts for any scientific communication (oral presentations, posters and publications). On this workshop, the students have the opportunity to learn how to optimize the process of figure … Continued
XV CAML · V NeurULisboa PhD Students Meeting The XV CAML · V NeurULisboa PhD Students Meeting took place from 4th to 6th May. This meeting marked the return of the in-person PhD Meeting. With an opening session on May 3rd, 4 invited keynote speakers and two round table about Diversity and Inclusion and Communication … Continued
Dressing up RNA molecules to last In a work published in Nature, Idálio Viegas a PhD Student from Luísa Figueiredo Laboratory, describes a new mechanism that decorates the end tails of RNA molecules, and prevents their degradation. This phenomenon, discovered for the first time in Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, could be … Continued
Science Career Sessions 2023 “Science Careers” is a series of talks to get to know jobs in science beyond academia. Cátia Janota, Business Data Analyst at Amgen (January 11, 2023). Joana Carvalho, Science Illustration and Visual Communication at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (January 30, 2023). Joana Melo, Medical Writer at W4Research (February 14, 2023). Adriana … Continued
PhD Viva | March 2022 Marco Cavaco (Miguel Castanho Lab) defended his PhD thesis on March 23, 2022. Title: “Trans-BBB peptides for targeting brain metastasis”
PhD Viva | February 2022 Ana Filipa Cardoso (Henrique Veiga-Fernandes Lab) defended her PhD thesis on February 2, 2022. Title: “Regulation of type 2 innate lymphoid cells at barrier sites”
PhD Viva | December 2021 Helena Pinheiro (Edgar Gomes Lab) defended her PhD thesis on December 17, 2021. Title: “Unraveling the role of mRNA localization mechanisms in the establishment of myofiber nuclear domains” Know more about the work developed by Helena during her PhD.
What is required for doing a PhD at iMM? by Domingos Henrique (iMM Training Hub – Director of Studies) That’s a question that several students are now asking, after learning that a new Call for PhD students has been launched by our PhD program, LisbonBioMed. I usually answer that the most important “requirement” is to … Continued
Science Career Sessions 2021 “Science Careers” is a series of talks to get to know jobs in science beyond academia. How is it like to work as a medical science liaison (MSL)?, by Marie Bordone, LisbonBioMed Alumna, Medical Science Liaison for Alzheimer’s Disease at Roche, Portugal (October 14, 2021). Doing research in a pharmaceutical company, … Continued
Trypanosomes can’t fool the adipose tissue In a work published in PLOS Pathogens last month, Henrique Machado, from Luísa Figueiredo Laboratory, showed that the adipose tissue is able to mount a broad immune response to the parasites. Henrique Machado, Tiago Bizarra-Rebelo, Mariana Costa-Sequeira, Sandra Trindade, Tânia Carvalho, Filipa Rijo-Ferreira, Barbara Rentroia-Pacheco, Karine Serre, Luisa M. … Continued
