| Current members | links | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Luana Salgado Moura, MSc student | |||
 | Mariana Barbosa dos Santos Moura, MSc student | |||
 | Paulo Silva, PhD student | cienciavitae Google Scholar | ||
 | Humberto Pereira, PhD student | cienciavitae Google Scholar | ||
 | Björn Johansson, PI | CBMA page Dept page CIÊNCIAVITAE CIÊNCIA ID FCT Public Key (chave pública) J005395QL1Q Github BjornFJohansson Google Scholar ORCID 0000-0002-7723-074X ResearcherID A-3523-2012 SCOPUS 55984151300 ResearchGate Stackoverflow | ||
| Former members | ||||
 | Tatiana Pozdniakova, Post-Doc | cienciavitae | ||
 | Flavio de Azevedo, PhD student | Google Scholar | ||
 | Maria João Mogadouro Lopes, 2019 | Eight week projects “UC Projeto” | ||
 | Miguel Pacheco, MSc | |||
 | Filipa Pereira, PhD | |||
 | Ângela Carvalho, MSc | |||
 | Gabriela Ribeiro, PhD | |||
| Short visits | ||||
 | Juliana Cabrini Carmello, PhD student | Google Scholar | ||
 | Ana Poveda, PhD | Google Scholar |
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Education: PhD in Applied Microbiology, Lund University/Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden (2002). Advisor: Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal Nonscientific interests: Long distance running, Python programming My PhD work involved metabolic engineering of D-xylose fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain especially the importance of the non-oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and cellular NADPH supply for high ethanol yields.
My current research and that of my group involves efficient metabolism of pentoses and pentose sugar polymers as well as production of new biotechnologically interesting molecules. This work often involves assembly and expression of large (15-20 genes) heterologous pathways. We developed the yeast pathway kit in order to aid the planning and assembly large yet compact metabolic pathways. Our tool and others like it are necessary for further advancing synthetic biology in this important industrial microorganism.
We hope that our work will contribute towards the future development of a green economy through the production of fine chemicals by fermentation processes.