NMorais Lab

On World Cancer Day, @francisca_xb's PhD project was awarded an Oncology Research Grant by the Portuguese League Against Cancer (Southern Regional Center) and the Benfica Foundation, to support her work on testing predictive biomarkers of therapeutic response in rectal cancer. 🙏

🚨 Now at @GIMM_Institute, Mafalda Dias & Jonathan Frazer, from @CRGenomica talking about how we can read #evolutionary constraints with #deep #learning. #EUfunded #BIOMICS #EvoMG

Happening now 🚨 BIOMICS Seminar by Manuel Irimia on “Evolutionary landscapes of zygotic genome activation across animals” 📍 In-person at GIMM Lisboa + live on Zoom #BIOMICS #Seminar #Genomics

@UMinho_Oficial @AKaizeler @francisca_xb @ritamtbs

The Lab was well represented at the Bioinformatics Open Days @UMinho_Oficial, with Nuno giving a keynote lecture and @AKaizeler, @francisca_xb, and @ritamtbs presenting posters.

What comes after academia? 🤔 At our latest #BIOMICS workshop @GIMM, 17 participants explored career paths beyond the lab — working hands-on on CVs & LinkedIn profiles 💼 Thanks to our partners from @CRG_Barcelona 🙌 🇪🇺 #HorizonEurope #FundedByEU #BeyondAcademia #PhDLife

We proudly have a new Master! 🥳 Our Daniel stellarly defended his MSc dissertation, evaluated with a perfect 20/20! 🤓👏

On 25 Feb, Nuno introduced the Lab to our new colleagues in a seminar entitled "Thinking critically about big data at NOVA Medical School". It was very well attended (don't be fooled by the empty first couple of rows) and received. We feel very welcome at @nova_medschool ! 😊

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬

Nuno will, proudly and enthusiastically, repeat as one of the lecturers of the pioneering ISCTE EE Postgraduate Course in Critical Thinking for Decision Making (execed.iscte-iul.pt/en/applied-o...), brilliantly coordinated by @pimenteljm.

We are proud of the Lab's participation in the CAML & GIMM PhD Meeting this week: @AKaizeler, @ritamtbs and @francisca_xb eloquently presented their work to the @GIMM_Institute / FMUL community 👏. @ritamtbs won the Award for Best Poster Presentation by a 4th year PhD student! 🥇

Wrapping up the year with a big thank you to the BIOMICS community for the collaboration and shared achievements. Wishing everyone a restful festive season and an inspiring year ahead ✨ #OpenScience #HorizonEurope #Bioinformatics

Following the @Bioconductor package, the @biorxivpreprint preprint: "Exploring molecular signatures of senescence with markeR, an R toolkit for evaluating gene sets as phenotypic markers". 💻🧬📰 👏 @ritamtbs 💪 biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Our Maria successfully defended her MSc dissertation on Tuesday afternoon and still found the energy to present her work on the isoform-specific impact of mutations in CDKN2A in cancer again the following morning, at the 9th Annual Conference of ULisboa redeSAÚDE. 💻🧬 👏🍾 💪

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 @GIMM_Institute. 💻🧬👏

Do you want to know more on what the PhD with us @GIMM_Institute is about? 🙂 We are still looking for the perfect candidate! 🔎 Please spread the word! 🙏 evomg-dn.eu

Starting the afternoon of “Science meets the Media” with inspiring success stories about scientists who communicate science! A big thank you to Ana Santos-Almeida for sharing her experience 🎥 📱 📸

Happening now at GIMM Lisbon 🧠✨ Our "Science meets the Media" workshop is underway - featuring the experienced and inspiring contributions of our collaborators Oana Stroe (EMBL-EBI), Omar Jamshed (CRG), and Sara Sá (GIMM). #BIOMICS #GIMM #ScienceCommunication #Bioinformatics

Superb work by our @ritamtbs! 👏