Joana Pereira has successfully defended her PhD thesis on the "Mechanisms of host resistance to pneumolysin attack" on the 17th of September. Her thesis was supervised by S. Sousa and the main opponents were Dr Michael Connor (Pasteur Institute, FR) and Dr Serge Mostowy (LSHTM, UK). We are all very proud of you Joana! We wish you the best for...
Francesca Palma is a third-year PhD student of Biochemical and Biotechnological Sciences from the Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". She has joined our lab for a 6-month internship to develop a high-content microscopy protocol that allow measuring damage to the plasma membrane of epithelial cells in real-time (Draq7/Hoechst...
Hugo Maldonado is a third-year Bachelor student of Cellular and Molecular Biology from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. Hugo has recently joined our lab for a 2-month internship to produce molecular tools that allow the identification of the proxeome of the ER chaperone Gp96 in cells intoxicated with pneumolysin, the toxin produced by...
Our PhD student, Joana Pereira, was awarded an EMBO fellowship to support her 4-month scientific mission to the laboratory of Professor John Leong, at Tufts University in Boston! Joana will validate if the bacteria Streptococcus pneumonia triggers the same mechanisms of plasma membrane repair as pneumolysin, which is a pore-forming toxin released...