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Call for Funding of Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2008

Biological Sciences - Biology of Microorganisms

Painel de Avaliação de Ciências Biológicas - 2008

Anne Ridley
Pilar Santisteban
Dorothea Bartels
Alberto Luini
Annalise Pastore
Didier Mazel
Ben-Zion Shilo
Rafael Ignacio Márquez Martínez de Orense
Paul Giller
Daniela Corda

PTDC/BIA-MIC/098228/2008: The role of Gardnerella vaginalis in mixed species biofilms occurrence in Bacterial Vaginosis. Nuno Miguel Dias Cerca, Universidade do Minho (UM). €174,808.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/098637/2008: Proteomics of Bacterial Cell Division. Adriano O Henriques, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €190,991.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/099151/2008: The cell wall synthetic machinery of Staphylococcus aureus and its response to the presence of antibiotics. Mariana Luisa Tomás Gomes de Pinho, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €198,420.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/099826/2008: Reversion of a genetic code alteration in the human pathogen Candida albicans. Manuel António Silva Santos, Universidade de Aveiro (UA). €198,600.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/099963/2008: PneumoCaPTS - Regulation of virulence factors by glucose-dependent catabolite repression. Ana Rute Ramos Neves, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €198,804.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/100370/2008: Regulation and maturation of hydrogenases in cyanobacteria. Paula Tamagnini, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP). €135,000.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/100747/2008: Tracking the synthesis of the Chlamydia cell wall - a biological paradox in intracellular and evasive bacteria. Sérgio Joaquim Raposo Filipe, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €160,000.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/100910/2008: Survey of the Leishmania thiol system for the development of new anti-parasitic formulas. Helena Maria de Sousa Castro, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC/UP). €137,609.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/101036/2008: Regulation of iron homeostasis in cyanobacteria. Matthias Erwin Futschik, Universidade do Algarve (UAlg). €150,000.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/101375/2008: Metabolic circuits in inflicted bacterial cell death. Rita Gonçalves Sobral de Almeida, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €156,825.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/104030/2008: Metabolic engineering of an anaerobic bacterium for biological hydrogen production. Inês Antunes Cardoso Pereira, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €176,484.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/105247/2008: Planctomycetes - an unusual deep-rooted lineage. Unveiling the mechanisms involved on stress adaptation. Milton Simões da Costa, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €189,624.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/105509/2008: Helper compounds against multidrug resistant bacteria: revealing their mechanism of action. MIGUEL VIVEIROS BETTENCOURT, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL). €131,396.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/108309/2008: Unraveling the specific involvement of the small Rho-like GTPase Cdc42 in the highly polymorphic nature of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis yeast cells. Fernando José dos Santos Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho (UM). €120,000.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/108327/2008: Analysis of Wolbachia protection against viruses in Drosophila melanogaster. Luis Manuel Valla Teixeira, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG). €150,000.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/108747/2008: Controlo da homeostase do ferro pelas proteínas activadoras em levedura (Yaps) em células eucarióticas. Claudina Amélia Marques Rodrigues Pousada, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €183,648.
PTDC/BIA-MIC/108811/2008: HELIWATER - Water and associated biofilms as a possible vector for Helicobacter pylori transmission among the human population. Maria João Lopes da Costa Vieira, Universidade do Minho (UM). €141,781.