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Presentation and discussion of monographic works by PhD students

13 dezembro 2017, 09:00 • Isabel Sá-Correia

Two PhD students presented and discussed their monographic works.

Two groups of MSc students finished the presentation and discussion of the corresponding selected scientific papers. 

Presentation and discussion of scientific papers

11 dezembro 2017, 08:30 • Isabel Sá-Correia

The following scientific papers were presented an discussed by 3 groups of 2-3 students each:


-Hird, SM, Evolutionary Biology Needs Wild Microbiomes, Frontiers Microbiology, 25 April 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00725

-Yook WahChoiaHuiminZhaoabMeng HowTancdEe LuiAnga, ShuoboShia , Discovery and engineering of a 1-butanol biosensor in  Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Bioresource Technology (in press,  Available online 23 June 20) 

-Remy, E., Niño-González, M., Godinho, C., Cabrito, T.R., Teixeira, M.C., Sá-Correia, I., Duque, P., Heterologous expression of the yeast Tpo1p or Pdr5p membrane transporters in Arabidopsis confers plant xenobiotic tolerance, Scientific Reports, 7, article number 4529, 2017

Presentation and discussion of scientific papers by students

6 dezembro 2017, 09:00 • Isabel Sá-Correia

The following three scientific papers were presented and discussed by students:

- Bak1. Ebbe N., Michael G. Larsen, Ralf Moeller, Silas B. Nissen, Lasse R. Jensen, Per Nørnberg, Svend J. K. Jensen and Kai Finster, Silicates Eroded under Simulated Martian Conditions Effectively Kill Bacteria—A Challenge for Life on Mars, Frontiers in Microbiology, 12 September 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01709 

- Rochman, Fauziah F., Andriy Sheremet1, Ivica Tamas, Alireza Saidi-Mehrabad, Joong-Jae Kim, Xiaoli Dong, Christoph W. Sensen, Lisa M. Gieg1 and Peter F. Dunfield, Benzene and naphthalene degrading bacterial communities in an oil sands tailings pond, Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01845

-Strauss, C,  Hongan Long, Caitlyn E. Patterson, Ronald Te, Michael Lynch, Genome-Wide Mutation Rate Response to pH Change in the Coral Reef Pathogen Vibrio shilonii AK1,  mBio vol. 8 no. 4, 2017, e01021-17 

Presentation and discussion of scientific papers by students

4 dezembro 2017, 08:30 • Isabel Sá-Correia

The following scientific papers were presented and discussed by 3  groups of 3 students each:

-Mickel L. A. Jansen, Jasmine M. Bracher, Ioannis Papapetridis, Maarten D. Verhoeven, Hans de Bruijn, Paul P. de Waal, Antonius J. A. van Maris, Paul Klaassen, Jack T. Pronk; Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for second-generation ethanol production: from academic exploration to industrial implementation, FEMS Yeast Research, 17, 5, 2017 

-Brickwedde,A., Marcel van den Broek, Jan-Maarten A. Geertman, Frederico Magalhães, Niels G. A. Kuijpers, Brian Gibson, Jack T. Pronk and Jean-Marc G. Daran, Evolutionary Engineering in Chemostat Cultures for Improved Maltotriose Fermentation Kinetics in Saccharomyces pastorianus Lager Brewing Yeast, Frontiers in Microbiology, 08 September 2017  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01690

-Henriques, S.F., Mira, N.P., Sá-Correia, I., Genome-wide search for candidate genes for yeast robustness improvement against formic acid reveals novel susceptibility (Trk1 and positive regulators) and resistance (Haa1-regulon) determinants, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 10:96, 2017

Presnetation and discussion of scientific papers by students

29 novembro 2017, 09:00 • Isabel Sá-Correia

The following three papers wee presented by 3 groups of 3 students each:


-Belenky, Peter, Jonathan D. Ye, Caroline B. M. Porter, Nadia R. Cohen, Michael A. Lobritz, Thomas Ferrante, Saloni Jain, Benjamin J. Korry, Eric G. Schwarz, Graham C. Walker, James J. Collins. Bactericidal antibiotics induce toxic metabolic perturbations that lead to cellular damage. Cell Reports, 13(5): 968–980, 2015

-  Vestergaard a M., Katrine Nøhr-Meldgaard a, Martin Saxtorph Bojer a, Christina Krogsgård Nielsen b, Rikke Louise Meyer c, Christoph Slavetinsky d, Andreas Peschel d, Hanne Ingmer a, Inhibition of the ATP Synthase Eliminates the Intrinsic Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus towards Polymyxins, mBio vol. 8 no. 5, 2017, e01114-1 7

-Zhao Y, Jaber V, Lukiw WJ. Secretory Products of the Human GI Tract Microbiome and Their Potential Impact on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD): Detection of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in AD Hippocampus. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2017;7:318.