YeastGenomicsLab@NOVA

The Yeast Genomics* lab @ NOVA

(*evolutionary, functional, comparative and more)

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Lab out with exquisite Italian food prepared by Nicola Francesca, a visiting Postdoctoral Fellow from Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy.

May 28, 2012

July 6, 2013

May 16, 2014

July 16, 2013

Lab members in 2013. Back row L to R: Teresa Maia, Raquel Barbosa, Carla Gonçalves, Rita Pais, Nicola Francesca, Pedro Almeida.

Front row L to R: Márcia Palma, Tiago Touret, Sara Teixeira, José P. Sampaio, Paula Gonçalves, Marco Coelho.

Lab members in 2014. L to R: Pedro Almeida, Oliver Röhl, Margarida Gonçalves, Cláudia Carvalho, Renata Oliveira, Madalena Oom, Paula Gonçalves, José P. Sampaio, Márcia Palma, Raquel Barbosa, Sofian Chouih, Carla Gonçalves, Andreia Medeiros, Susana Lopes, Marco Coelho

February 20, 2014

Carlos Rosa and Paula Morais visit the lab in the context of an ongoing collaboration that explores Saccharomyces diversity and domestication of in Brazil.

October 2015

Lab members in 2015. L to R: Pedro Almeida, Marco Coelho, Cláudia Carvalho, Raquel Barbosa, Márcia Palma, Carla Gonçalves, José P. Sampaio, Madalena Oom, Paula Gonçalves, Ana Pontes, Margarida Gonçalves, Cristina Maldonado

Chris Hittinger (University of Wisconsin-Madison), visits the lab and presents a talk at the XXXVII Portuguese Genetics Conference in Lisbon.

November 30, 2009

May 10, 2012

Lab members in 2012. L to R: José P. Sampaio, Madalena Oom, Paula Gonçalves, Pedro Almeida, Marco Coelho, Márcia Palma, Carla Gonçalves, Raquel Barbosa, Sara Teixeira

October 24, 2011

Well defended! Congratulations to Marco Coelho who defended his PhD Thesis, “Molecular mechanisms of sexual reproduction in basidiomycetes: exploring connections with lifestyles. (L to R: Jan Schirawski, Elvira Coimbra, Álvaro Fonseca, Alexander Idnurm, Geraldine Butler, Paula Gonçalves (co-advisor), Isabel Gordo, Marco Coelho, Manuel Santos, José P. Sampaio (co-advisor).

Marco and Márcia present their work in Microbiotec’09 in Vilamora, Algarve.

February 2017

December 2016

Well defended! Congratulations to Pedro Almeida who defended his PhD Thesis, “Microbe Domestication and the Identification of the Wild Genetic Stock of Wine Yeasts”.

(L to R: Fernando Henriques, Maria João Sousa, Lília Perfeito, Pedro Almeida, Patrícia Brito, Manuel Malfeito Ferreira, José P. Sampaio (advisor).

Dr. Savitree Limtong, Kasetsart University, Thailand, visits the lab

September 2016

Lab out at “Dois Corvos” brewery & Taproom

June 2017

Lab out with two visiting PhD students Juan Eizaguirre and Parichat Into (right photo).

June 2017

Well defended! Congratulations to Márcia David-Palma who defended her PhD Thesis, “Elucidating the mating system of Phaffia rhodozyma, an astaxanthin-producing yeast with biotechnological potential”. (L to R: Fernando Rodrigues, Ursula Kües (examiner), Maria Adelaide Jesus, Márcia David-Palma, Paula Gonçalves (advisor), Sara Branco (examiner), José P. Sampaio (co-advisor).