News
May 15-17 Peter Varnai is visiting our group!
Peter Varnai from University of Sussex is visiting our group. He will deliver a seminar entitled "Novel approaches to characterise biomolecular interactions using computer simulations" on May 17, 15h00, at room B2-01.
May 4 Contributed talk at ProStab!
Patrícia sucssessfully delivered a talk about our work on the spc-SH3 at the ProStab conference that took place at Instituto Superior Técnico.
April 27 New paper in PLoS ONE!
Why do protein folding rates correlate with metrics of native geometry?
Patricia F. N. Faísca, Rui D.M. Travasso, Andrea Parisi & Antonio Rey, PLoS One 7(4):e35599 (2012)
February 22 Metallica, our cluster, started working for us!!!
We can now count with a 80-processor machine to help us fold our proteins! Thank you Zé!
January 14 Patrícia & Sílvia returned from California!!!
Patrícia and Sílvia returned from Ventura (CA) in the USA where they attended both the GRS (Topics in Protein Folding and Aggregation) and the GRC (Protein Folding Dynamics), and delivered one talk and presented two posters! Rui Travasso, our collaborator from the University of Coimbra, joined us at the GRC where he also presented a poster. A really nice and profitable trip!
January 3 Abiram joined our group!!!
We welcome Abiram in our group! Abiram will do research on fundamental aspects of protein folding and in protein aggregation. We wish him a great time at the University of Lisbon!
October 10 Miguel Soler joined our group!!!
We welcome Miguel in our group! Miguel will collaborate with us in the folding of knotted proteins and also in protein aggregation. We wish him a great time at the University of Lisbon!
September 15 Contributed talk in the SimBioMa conference!!!
Congratulations to Heinrich! His poster contribution to the SimBioMa conference has just been upgraded to a contributed talk.
September 1 Best Poster Prize!!!
Congratulations to Silvia for winning the British Biophysical Society Poster Prize at the conference Dynamics within and between proteins. Silvia presented our work entitled "Amyloidogenic mutants of the Spc-SH3 protein domain: A Discrete Molecular Dynamics investigation", where we identify and structurally characterize an intermediate state of the Spc-SH3 domain that is prone to aggregate. This work sheds lights on the early stage of the amyloidogenesis mechanism, and was done in collaboration with Prof. Eugene Shakhnovich from Harvard University. More conference photos here!!!
