Janine Silva was awarded with the best student oral presentation prize at Euromal 2021
The congress had more than 450 participants and brings together experts from different areas and includes the main topics related to current research in malacology (study of molluscs).
Researchers and Students from CBMA participate in an agroecology event in Italy
Two CBMA researchers, Hernâni Gerós and Sofia Costa and six master's and doctoral students, Angélica Silva, Hélder Costa, Mariana Vale, Rui Pedro Fernandes Carvalho, Rita Gomes Gonçalves and Bruna Pereira Gonçalves, landed this weekend in italian territory to participate in the II Agroecology Summer School.
Lorena Donzella was awarded with the Microbiology Society Poster Prize
Her poster was titled: “Studying native Kluyveromyces marxianus transporters to reprogramme the balance between hexose and pentose transport”, part of this work was recently published in FEMS Yeast Research Journal.
Poor planning and management of dams and canals is “fatal to many species”.
The alert is given by Ronaldo Sousa, from CBMA, in an investigation now published in the scientific journal Global Change Biology.
CBMA team discovers enzyme with potential for biofuels and pharmaceuticals
A team, led by Björn Johansson from CBMA, discovered an enzyme that degrades one of the most abundant sugars in nature, with potential in the production of biofuels and molecules with pharmacological interests.
ARNET Associate Laboratory Approved
ARNET - Aquatic Research Network is an Associate Laboratory in aquatic sciences composed by 742 researchers (318 Integrated PhDs) from three multidisciplinary R&D units: MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) and Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA).
