Step into the world of bees in this episode of Curiosamente! A conversation with Cláudia Campos about the microorganisms that inhabit the bee gut and the role they play in their health.🐝💜
🔗 Listen here: linktr.ee/gimm_institute
We’ve all heard about rare diseases, but what do they consist of? In this episode of Curiosamente with Susana Lopes da Silva, we explore the challenges of rare diseases’ diagnosis, with a special focus on immunodeficiencies.💜
🔗Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute
Pablo Sartori brought physics into biology, and Quirky Luísa decided to join the party! 🧬🧪
This illustration highlights the research where they explore how cells constantly use energy to stay out of equilibrium in order to carry out essential functions.
Is counting cells in blood the simplest “math” in flow cytometry? Mariana Fernandes, head of the Flow Cytometry Platform, is this week’s guest on Curiosamente to talk to us about this technology and its daily use in research.
🔗 Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute
This @embo.org Workshop is the perfect opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange about how physical constraints, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary forces intersect to shape cellular evolution. 🧬
🔗Join us from June 2nd to 5th and register by March 1st: meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel...
Did you know that inflammation is essential for our body? @elmiguelche.bsky.social is this week’s guest on the Curiosamente podcast and will explain its importance and in which cases it can become a problem.
🔗 Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute
Bringing together researchers, technicians and postgraduate students seeking an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of biobanks. Join us to explore the role of biobanks in health research and swipe to see the open sessions.
🔗 Find more details here: care.gimm.pt/biobank-week/
A week focused on one essential structure that enables laboratories to explore the human body in greater depth: welcome to Biobank Week 2026. 🧪💜
This event is packed with talks, workshops and open visits to the biobanks.
Two days of scientific discussion and networking will be followed by a day open to the public — reinforcing our commitment to sharing research with society.
Secure your ticket!
🔗 Get your ticket: fest.gimm.pt
🎟️ Early bird special rates
GIMM Fest returns September 17–19 with three days dedicated to the future of science and health, this year focusing on microbes. 🦠
Join researchers and innovators for a programme designed to promote scientific exchange and collaboration.
He will share his journey in point-of-care diagnostics, from immunoassays and hematology to host-response diagnostics based on mRNA and machine-learning models.
Join us on February 11th, at 16h, at GIMM Oeiras! The conference is open to the public. (It will be held in Portuguese). 👋
How far can diagnostics go when science and AI work together? João Garcia da Fonseca will helps us find the answer. 🧬🤖
The next guest of the Out of Our Box seminar is the CTO at Inflammatix and Chairman and founder of biosurfit.
300 scientists, researchers, and clinicians turning science into hope. Today and every day at GIMM, we push research forward, develop new treatments, and make discoveries to better understand cancer. 💜
#DiaMundialdoCancro #WorldCancerDay
Can we say that Quirky Luísa made the thymus look better than ever? This was her interpretation of Ana Espada de Sousa’s lab work on immunodeficiency and how T cells develop in the thymus. 💜
Did this make it easier to understand the important work we do? 😊
This immersive week will cover the full workflow, from sample preparation and experimental design to data analysis and biological interpretation. Designed for both biologists and bioinformaticians.
🔗 Register by February 15th and learn more here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-scrna
Learn from leading experts how to generate and analyze single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data at the next @embo.org Practical Course, taking place in Oeiras from May 18th to 23rd. 🧫
Maria do Carmo-Fonseca from GIMM and FMUL and Ana Berta Sousa from ULSSM and FMUL are leading a project focused on improving the diagnosis of hereditary breast cancer by using long-read sequencing technologies and allele-specific assays to identify genetic variants missed by traditional approaches.
@elmiguelche.bsky.social from GIMM and Daniel Costa Gomes from ULSSM and FMUL are leading a project aimed at developing a multi-omics atlas for sepsis patients to identify cellular mechanisms that lead to organ failure.
Two projects from the clinical and research teams of ULS Santa Maria, GIMM, and Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa were each awarded Flagship Research Project funding of up to €200,000.
A big step forward for sepsis and hereditary cancer! 💜
How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection?
go.nature.com/4sMZuqW
📢 Join us in sunny Lisbon 🇵🇹 2-5 June for the @embo.org workshop ☀️
“The rules of the game: biophysical & molecular principles in cellular evolution”
Apply by March 1st!
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#EMBORulesOfTheGame @gimmfoundation.bsky.social
New research led by @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social at 🇵🇹 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social demonstrates that a harmless strain of 🦠 #Klebsiella – discovered by chance in 🧫 laboratory experiments – can eliminate #infections and reduce gut inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. #IBD
Depois de anos de muito trabalho, tive a honra de ser premiada com Melhor Trabalho de PhD na ULisboa. 🏅
Agradeço aos meus orientadores João Lacerda, Rita Azevedo e Maria Soares, aos voluntários, ao JLacerda Lab, à FMUL, e à @gimmfoundation.bsky.social.
Em breve, a defesa para fechar este ciclo! 👩🔬
@EMBO Practical Course
Pipetting scRNA-seq data into computational cells
18 – 23 May 2026 | Oeiras/Lisbon, Portugal @gimmfoundation.bsky.social
Registration open!
🧑🔬🏆Joe Paton & @minuttilab.bsky.social from @champalimaudf.bsky.social and 7 other PIs from @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, @ucoimbra.bsky.social and @i3suporto.bsky.social have won #CaixaResearch funding 👏
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/caixare...
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
The lack of specific targets in many tumours ⬇️ the effectiveness of immunotherapies.
With a #HealthResearch grant ➕ FCT João Lacerda (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social) is developing CAR-T cells that target a molecule found almost exclusively in tumours to improve therapies.
https://tinyurl.com/ykbcmcjv
Damage to telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, can initiate cancerous processes.
With a #HealthResearch grant, Claus Maria Azzalin (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social) is studying the role played by TERRA RNA in telomere repair, which could improve our understanding of cancer.
https://tinyurl.com/yjh7j59c
Front row view of our Maria smoothly presenting her MSc dissertation work on the isoform-specific impact of mutations in CDKN2A in cancer at the Oncobiology Club @gimmfoundation.bsky.social. 💻🧬👏
Podcast com Isabel Gordo, Group Leader no Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social):
"Como é que um medicamento mata bactérias?"
YouTube: youtu.be/wRyYYa2D5i0
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1AqQ...
