Welcome to BioISI Junior Programme

If you are a MSc Student in your 2nd year of the MSc., i.e., the year of the thesis, this programme is made for you!

BioISI Junior programme is directed to MSc students whose thesis is supervised by a BioISI PhD integrated member and performed at BioISI labs. This programme will sponsor 8 scholarships (BII) for 6 months, promoting and recognizing the best students.

Hurry up! Check Bellow the MSC project proposals, contact your future Supervisor and Join us! BioISI will be very happy to welcome you in our institute.

MSc Project Proposals at BioISI

Functional analysis of candidate resistance genes to oomycete pathogens

Supervisors: Susana Serrazina, Rita Costa

Contact: smserrazina@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Caracterização molecular de fungos causadores de doenças em cajueiro na Guiné-Bissau

Supervisors: Mónica Sebastiana, Filipa Monteiro

Contact: mgsebastiana@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Isolamento e identificação de microrganismos endófitos da raiz de plantas de regiões áridas e avaliação do seu potencial para aumentar a tolerância de plantas agrícolas à seca

Supervisors: Mónica Sebastiana, Margarida Barata

Contact: mgsebastiana@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

A combined PTC read-through and NMD inhibition approach for PTC mutations in CFTR

Supervisor: Luka A. Clarke

Contact: laclarke@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

A variação natural da formação de cortiça na adaptação climática dos genomas de Arabidopsis thaliana

Supervisors: Célia Miguel, Ana Milhinhos

Contact: cmmiguel@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Functional characterization of specific miRNAs associated to the molecular pathways regulating embryogenesis in plants

Supervisor: Célia Miguel

Contact: cmmiguel@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Trafficking defects in Cystic Fibrosis – protein interactions and membrane insertion

Supervisor: Carlos M. Farinha

Contact: cmfarinha@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Regulation of the alternative splicing of RAC1B in tumor cells

Supervisors: Vânia Gonçalves, Peter Jordan

Contact: vania.goncalves@insa.min-saude.pt

 Workplace: INSA, Lisboa

Improved drug discovery: towards an energy-based criterion to characterize protein-ligand interactions

Supervisors: Paulo J. Costa, Bruno L. Victor

Contact: pjcosta@fc.ul.pt; blvictor@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Identification of Corrector Drugs for the A561E-CFTR Traffic Mutant

Supervisors: Miquéias Lopes-Pacheco, Margarida D. Amaral

Contact: mlpacheco@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Estudo computacional da inserção dependente do pH do péptido pHLIP em modelos de membranas eucariótica

Supervisor: Miguel Machuqueiro

Contact: machuque@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Estudo computacional do efeito do pH na actividade catalítica da β-glucosidase

Supervisor: Miguel Machuqueiro

Contact: machuque@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

New antitumor Ru-based compound derivatives optimized using in silico methods

Supervisor: Miguel Machuqueiro

Contact: machuque@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Avaliação computacional de novos derivados da isoniazida com ação antitubercular

Supervisors: Miguel Machuqueiro, Filomena Martins

Contact: machuque@ciencias.ulisboa.pt;
filomena.martins@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Functional analysis of DRIF, RAD and DIV genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Supervisors: Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa, Rómulo Sobral

Contact: manuela.costa@bio.uminho.pt

 Workplace: UMinho, Braga

The mechanism of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay and its players

Supervisor: Luísa Romão

Contact: luisa.romao@insa.min-saude.pt

 Workplace: INSA, Lisboa

Characterization of Models to Study CFTR-dependent Ion Channel Activity in Cystic Fibrosis

Supervisors: Iris Silva, Margarida D. Amaral

Contact: iasilva@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Development of computational methods to characterize human diseases through the analysis of biomolecular networks

Supervisor: Francisco R. Pinto

Contact: frpinto@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Antimicrobial nanocomposite coatings for bio-threats prevention

Supervisors: Elisabete R. Silva, Ana P. Carapeto

Contact: ersilva@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Extracellular regulation of Tau aggregation and amyloid cross-interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Cláudio M. Gomes

Contact: cmgomes@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Molecular Mechanisms of Amyloid Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Supervisor: Nuno Galamba

Contact: njgalamba@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Regulation of HIV gene expression by small non-coding RNAs

Supervisor: Margarida Gama-Carvalho

Contact: mhcarvalho@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Gene Expression Regulatory Networks Established by Motor Neuron disease proteins

Supervisor: Margarida Gama-Carvalho

Contact: mhcarvalho@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Role of CFTR in Epithelial Differentiation, Regeneration and Cancer

Supervisor: Ines Pankonien, Margarida D. Amaral

Contact: ipankonien@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Restoring truncated protein function by protein complementation in rare neurodegenerative disorders

Supervisor: Federico Herrera, Margarida Castro-Caldas

Contact: fherrera@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

The role of underexplored post-translational modifications on STAT3 interactions in living cells

Supervisor: Federico Herrera

Contact: fherrera@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Understanding the molecular basis of mitochondrial neurological diseases – Studies on aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase disease variants

Supervisors: Bárbara J. Henriques, Cláudio M. Gomes

Contact: bjhenriques@fc.ul.pt; cmgomes@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Mutation database design for mitochondrial rare diseases

Supervisors: Bruno L. Victor, Bárbara J. Henriques

Contact: blvictor@fc.ul.pt; bjhenriques@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Development of a new hybrid therapeutic agent against malaria by targeting the Aquaglyceroporin from Plasmodium spp

Supervisors: Bruno L. Victor, Paulo J. Costa

Contact: blvictor@fc.ul.pt; pjcosta@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

A Synthetic Portugal to Model COVID-19 Spread

Supervisors: Ana Nunes, Ganna Rozhnova

Contact: amnunes@fc.ul.pt; g.rozhnova@umcutrecht.nl

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Making the most out of data in fighting COVID-19

Supervisors: Ana Nunes, Ganna Rozhnova

Contact: amnunes@fc.ul.pt; g.rozhnova@umcutrecht.nl

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Developing machine learning approaches to discover gene-disease associations from biological network data

Supervisors: Hugo Martiniano, Astrid Vicente

Contact: hugo.martiniano@insa.min-saude.pt; astrid.vicente@insa.min-saude.pt

 Workplace: INSA, Lisboa

Developing machine learning tools for the analysis of genetic sequencing data

Supervisors: Hugo Martiniano, Francisco Couto

Contact: hugo.martiniano@insa.min-saude.pt; fjcouto@edu.ulisboa.pt

 Workplace: INSA, Lisboa

Investigação estrutural e funcional de quinona reductases de Staphylococcus aureus

Supervisor: Manuela M. Pereira

Contact: mmpereira@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Exploring respiratory enzymes from Staphylococcus aureus

Supervisor: Manuela M. Pereira

Contact: mmpereira@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Oxaloacetate decarboxylase complex from Vibrio cholerae

Supervisor: Manuela M. Pereira

Contact: mmpereira@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Development of a non-contact method to measure soft matter viscoelasticity

Supervisors: Mário Rodrigues, Federico Herrera

Contact: mmrodrigues@fc.ul.pt

 Workplace: FCUL, ULisboa

Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for enhancing cork oak sustainability

Supervisors: Teresa Lino Neto, Francisca Reis

Contact: tlneto@bio.uminho.pt; franciscareis@bio.uminho.pt

 Workplace: UMinho,Braga