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Tuning T-cell activation: the molecular functions of CD5 and CD6 at the immunological synapse.
Alexandre Carmo
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Elucidating the relationships between myeloid-derived suppressor cells to improve anti-cancer therapy strategies
Karine Serre
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Regulation of microglia activation/deactivation by RNA-binding proteins: a role in neuroinflammation
Andrea Patricia Ribeiro da Cruz
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Decoding the spatial organization of TCR signaling in HIV-1 infected cells: impact on viral replication and cell transmission
Helena Isabel Martins Soares
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Immunity and inflammation in Parkinson´s disease
Raffaella Gozzelino
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM/UNL)
Rheumatoid arthritis treatment upgrade: a targeted nanotherapy approach
Cláudia Daniela Lacerda Nunes
ICETA - Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto (ICETA)
Leishmania exogenous antigens as vaccinal approach for Leishmaniasis
Nuno Pedro Moreira Santarém
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Role of diet-derived retinoids in natural intraepithelial lymphocytes
Manuela Ferreira
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Dissecting the role of T-cells in the dysfunctional immune response in diabetic wound healing
João Moura Alves
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
Investigating the role of IL-10 during monocyte differentiation in the gut mucosa: a metabolic perspective
Ricardo Jorge Leal Silvestre
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Immunoregulatory competence of mesenchymal stem cells and regulatory T cells in chronic graft-versus-host disease: implications for cGVHD pathogenesis and cellular immunotherapy
Rita Isabel Azevedo
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
The heat shock response in disease tolerance to microbiota
Laura Barrio
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Glia-derived factors in mucosal immune sensing
Henrique Veiga Fernandes
Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (FC Champalimaud)
Placental malaria vaccine: testing efficacy and understanding protection
Luciana de Deus Vieira de Moraes
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL)
Role of ER-stress associated molecules IRE1 and GADD34 on innate activation by nucleic acids
Philippe PIERRE
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
Targeting microRNAs to modulate the differentiation of anti-tumour human γδ T cells
Julie Cécile Caroline Ribot
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Análise da importância de proteínas com domínios scavenger ricos em cisteínas na inflamação e sinalização celular do sistema imune
LILIANA SOFIA DA SILVA MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Connecting the molecular dots of neuroinflammation and Alzheimer´s disease
Ana Gabriela Henriques
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
Impact of the inflammatory environment on the differentiation and maintenance of protective CD4+ T cell response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Egídio Torrado
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Mapeamento dos epitopos para IgE da beta-conglutina (Lu a 1) de tremoço (Lupinus albus), antes e depois da digestão
Ricardo Manuel de Seixas Boavida Ferreira
Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA/ULisboa)
Estimulando a imunidade contra o patogénio letal na Fibrose Quística, Burkholderia cenocepacia, através da glicoengenharia de células dendríticas
Maria de Guadalupe Gonçalves Cabral
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM/UNL)
Microbiota control of protective immunity against malaria.
Miguel Amado Franco Parreira Soares
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Characterization of antigenic post-translational protein changes and autoantibodies in the pre-clinical phase of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jose Antonio Pereira da Silva
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
Sirtuin deacetylases as pharmacological targets for inflammatory diseases
Maria Teresa Albuquerque Santos Faria Pais
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM/UNL)
Periodontal treatment effect on the systemic insulin resistance and inflammation
José João Baltazar Mendes
Egas Moniz - Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, CRL (CESEM)
Mechanisms used by T follicular helper (Tfh) cells to determine antibody isotype production in Th1 versus Th2 responses
Luis Ricardo Silva Graca
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Host mechanisms regulating IAV genome trafficking on Rab11 vesicles
Maria João Lopes Gonçalves de Brito Amorim
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Impairment of the malaria parasite hepatic infection by the sleeping sickness parasite
Miguel Prudêncio
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Host epigenetic factors modulating invasive fungal infections: the Cryptococcus case.
Francisco Javier Enguita
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Discovery of a novel Helicobacter pylori glycan-receptor involved in adhesion and injection of virulence factors.
Ana Maria Rodrigues Leite de Magalhães
Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular (IPATIMUP/UP)
BACTERIAL DIVERSIFICATION IN AIRWAY TRACT: SURVEY OF THE PATHOGENIC SIGNATURES OF ISOLATED PHENOTYPES DURING INFECTION EVOLUTION
Maria Olívia Baptista de Oliveira Pereira
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Polymicrobial infections: how antimicrobial drugs shape the cross-talk between clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and can these bacterial interactions be easily modulated by abiotic and biotic factors?
Lucinda Janete Da Silva Bessa
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar da universidade do Porto (ICBAS/UP)
Plasmodium-mediated mechanisms suppressing sterile immunity
Ângelo António Ferreira Chaves do Rosário Chora
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Chimera virus model to investigate the pathogenesis of Kaposi´s sarcoma herpesvirus in laboratory mice
João Pedro Monteiro e Louro Machado de Simas
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Impact of a novel vaccine candidate against Group B Streptococcus-induced neonatal diseases on commensal microbiota
Paula Ferreira
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar da universidade do Porto (ICBAS/UP)
PersMed: Personalized medicine in respiratory infectious diseases – antimicrobial strategies to fight polymicrobial infections in cystic fibrosis and ventilator-associated pneumonia
Susana Patrícia Peixoto Lopes
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Dismantle echinocandins resistance in the treatment of invasive fungal infections: the triad host-fungi-antifungal
Ana Sofia Quinta e Costa Neves de Oliveira
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP)
CtIncipedia – A multidisciplinary approach to study Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion membrane (Inc) proteins
Luís Jaime Gomes Ferreira da Silva Mota
NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT (NOVA.ID.FCT)
Foetal protective responses in Placental Malaria
CARLOS AUGUSTO GOMES BARBOSA DA PENHA GONÇALVES
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Emerging new human polyomaviruses: Pathogenic or innocent bystanders?
Angela Maria Chambel Pista
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSARJ)
Topical aplication of Portuguese honey and phage therapy for the treatment of chronic wounds
Ana Filipa Frutuoso Mendes Henriques
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Biofilm in hemodialysis tunnelled catheters – understanding the formation to achieve prevention.
Isabel João Soares da Silva
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica - INEB Univ. Porto (INEB Porto)
Understanding the molecular details of human placenta infection by Listeria monocytogenes
Ana Catarina Teixeira da Costa
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Iron hide and seek- does ferritin help the macrophage fight mycobacteria?
Maria Salomé Gomes
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
The retropepsin APRc as a target for the development of new drugs to combat rickettsioses
Isaura Isabel Gonçalves Simões
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
Diabetic wound microbiome dynamics and selective modulation by antimicrobial peptides
Sónia Gonçalves Pereira
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
Evaluation of spiro-B-lactams compounds as new antivirals for the prevention of HIV-1, HIV-2 and Respiratory Viruses infections with high impact in public health.
Inês Isabel Fernandes Bártolo
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
Neonatal bacterial sepsis: identifying the molecular mechanism of susceptibility
Pedro Jorge Fonseca Madureira
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Blocking the progression of Plasmodium sporozoites from the skin to the liver
Joana Alexandra Pinto da Costa Tavares
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Manipulação da morte celular por Listeria Monocytogenes: Novas questões novos modelos
Francisco Magalhaes Sarmento Ribeiro de Mesquita
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP)
Role of Repair of Iron Centres protein in Staphylococcus aureus virulence
Lígia Nobre
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of human thymic protection and regeneration in viral infection
Helena Isabel Marques Nunes Cabaço
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
DENGUENTRY - Unraveling a new functionality of the capsid protein of Dengue virus in virus-cell fusion and RNA genome translocation.
Miguel Castanho
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Bacterial adaptive evolution during chronic infection: the case study of the Burkholderia cepacia complex in the cystic fibrosis lung
Isabel Maria de Sá Correia Leite de Almeida
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento (IST-ID)
Unraveling the role of peroxisomes within antiviral innate immunity
Daniela Maria Oliveira Gandra Ribeiro
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
POLYVASC– A novel approach to prevent catheter related infections
Ana Isabel Silva Dias
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP)
Identification of bacterial strategies that conceal surface peptidoglycan from detection by the infected host
Sérgio Joaquim Raposo Filipe
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)
MONOLIPOPEP – DODAB:MO based liposomes as antigen delivery system: development of an immunoprotective strategy against fungal infections
ANA PAULA FERNANDES MONTEIRO SAMPAIO CARVALHO
Universidade do Minho (UM)
An omics approach to unravel the virulent determinants implicated in Candida tropicalis vulvovaginal infection
Sónia Carina Morais da Silva
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Respiratory microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: new biomarkers and therapeutic strategies
Isabel Henriques
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
Host cell autophagy in the immune response to fungal infection
Agostinho Albérico Rodrigues de Carvalho
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Role of influenza A virus genome binding to mitochondria and peroxisomes
Marta Alenquer
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Understanding Latent TB Infection: Profiling transcriptomic diversity across distinct Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages and development of new in vitro drug susceptibility testing methods and drugs for dormant bacilli.
João Ruben Lucas Mota Perdigão
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
Natural molecules to control antibiotic-resistant infections: a new insight to an old problem
Anabela Portela Borges
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP)
Development of a bi-functional therapy for treatment of Hospital acquired Pneumonia
Sandra Aguiar
Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMV/ULisboa)
Reverse genetic vaccine seeds for Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: Protein functional compatibility between PB1 and antigenic proteins as a determinant factor in seed virus growth and antigen expression
Helena Rebelo-de-Andrade
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
Role of cathepsins and their inhibitors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV infection of macrophages and dendritic cells: implications on survival and antigen presentation
ELSA MARIA RIBEIRO DOS SANTOS ANES
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
An RNA-based approach to bacterial infection: The function of PNPase and regulatory noncoding RNAs in Listeria virulence
José Marques Andrade
ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL)
Functional Caracterization of Mycobacteriophage Endolysins
Madalena Maria Vilela Pimentel
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
Dynamics of microbial colonization of the respiratory tract in an elderly population
Paulo Jorge Pereira Cruz Paixão
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM/UNL)
Candida albicans cell surface variegation: from a comensal to a pathogen
Isabel M Miranda
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP)
Dissecting the mechanisms responsible for infection-induced thymic atrophy and T cell tolerance
Cláudia Rubina Freitas Pereira de Nóbrega
Universidade do Minho (UM)
Exploring the memory B cells: a mean to identify the neutralizing epitopes involved on spontaneous resolution of HCV infection.
José Maria Marcelino
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL)
Unravelling the role of mistranslation in the acquisition of drug tolerance and resistance in Candida albicans
Ana Rita Macedo Bezerra
Universidade de Aveiro (UA)
Refilling the pipeline: searching new candidates for fighting microbial infections
Maria Eugénia Ribeiro Pinto
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto (FF/UP)
Analysis of Drosophila interaction with stable gut microbiota
Luis Manuel Valla Teixeira
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Oral microbioma and immunoinflammatory profile in chronic periodontitis - a longitudinal study
Henriqueta Alexandra Mendes Brêda Lobo Coimbra Silva
Universidade de Coimbra (UC)
Streptococcus pyogenes NETrapped: genetic and phenotypic factors underlying innate immune evasion and invasive infection
Ana Isabel Aquino Friães
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João lobo Antunes (IMM/FM/ULisboa)
Bacterial interactions determining colonisation resistance and Salmonella pathogenesis
Jessica Thompson
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG)
Who is the bad guy: Escherichia coli, Herpes virus-1 or neutrophils extracellular traps (NETs)?
Luisa Maria Freire Leal Mateus
Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMV/ULisboa)
New Formulations for the eradication of Helicobacter pylori
Ana Isabel Vila Pena
Laboratório Ibérico Internacional de Nanotecnologias INL LIN (INL)
Alternaria surface allergens and fungal sensitisation
Teresa Maria Fonseca de Oliveira Gonçalves
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
Synergy between inhibitors of chitin and melanin synthesis
Chantal Ana Vicência Fernandes
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC)
COMBITool4TB, polyfunctional nanoplatform engineered for vaccination and immunomodulation
Rogério Paulo Pinto de Sá Gaspar
FARM-ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM-ID)
Liposomes as a multifunctional platform for the treatment of tuberculosis
Marina Barroso Pereira Pinheiro
ICETA - Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto (ICETA)