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Check the latest article from Megan Carey’s research group at Champalimaud Research, first authored by Catarina Albergaria, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “Cannabinoids modulate associative cerebellar learning via alterations in behavioral state”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61821

Check it digested at: http://magazine.ar.fchampalimaud.org/rethinking-the-link-between-cannabinoids-and-learning/

Check the latest article from Rui Costa’s research group at Champalimaud Research and Zuckerman Institute, first authored by Paolo Botta, a former postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “An Amygdala Circuit Mediates Experience-Dependent Momentary Arrests during Exploration”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.023

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Check the latest article from Maria Luísa Vasconcelos’s research group at Champalimaud Research, first authored by Cecilia Mezzera, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “Ovipositor Extrusion Promotes the Transition from Courtship to Copulation and Signals Female Acceptance in Drosophila melanogaster”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.071

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Check the latest article from Rosalina Fonseca’s research group at CEDOC-NMS, first authored by Natália Madeira, a PhD student in the lab: “Temporal Gating of Synaptic Competition in the Amygdala by Cannabinoid Receptor Activation”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa026

Check it digested at: http://cedoc.unl.pt/solutions-view/fonseca-lab-temporal-gating-of-synaptic-competition-in-the-amygdala-by-cannabinoid-receptor-activation/

Check the latest article from Cláudia N. Santos’ research group at CEDOC-NMS, first authored by Ana Raimundo, a PhD student in the lab: “Unprecedented yeast models support the relevance of immature forms of IAPP for aggregation and cytotoxicity”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.02035

Check the latest review article from Duarte Barral’s research group at CEDOC-NMS in collaboration with Marta Pojo from IPO, Lisbon: “Subversion of Ras Small GTPases in Cutaneous Melanoma Aggressiveness”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.575223

Check the latest article from Ana Coroadinha’s research group at iBET, first authored by Ana Filipa Rodrigues, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “Cell Bank Origin of MDCK Parental Cells Shapes Adaptation to Serum-Free Suspension Culture and Canine Adenoviral Vector Production”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21176111

Check the latest article from Catarina Brito’s research group at iBET, first authored by Ana Luisa Cartaxo, a PhD student in the lab: “A novel culture method that sustains ER alpha signaling in human breast cancer tissue microstructures”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-020-01653-4

Check the latest article from Pedro Matias’ research group at iBET and ITQB-NOVA, first authored by Sónia Zacarias, a PhD student in the lab: “Exploring the gas access routes in a [NiFeSe] hydrogenase using crystals pressurized with krypton and oxygen”. 

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-020-01814-y

Check the result of the joint effort from the Raquel Oliveira’s research group at ICG and the Lars Jansen’s research group, previously at IGC and now at University of Oxford: “Reprogramming of human cells to pluripotency induces CENP-A chromatin depletion”. This work was first authored by Inês Milagre, a joint postdoctoral researcher between these two labs. 

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.200227

Check it digested at: https://gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/news/stem-cells-new-insights-for-future-regenerative-medicine-approaches/

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Check the latest article from Elena Baena-González’ research group at ICG, first authored by Borja Belda-Palazón, Mattia Adamo, two PhD students, and Concetta Valerio, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “A dual function of SnRK2 kinases in the regulation of SnRK1 and plant growth”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00778-w

Check it digested at: https://gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/news/to-grow-or-not-to-grow/

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Check the latest article from Luís Ferreira Moita’s research group at ICG, first authored by Henrique Colaço, a former PhD student in the lab: “Tetracycline Antibiotics Induce Host-Dependent Disease Tolerance to Infection“

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.09.011

Check it digested at: https://gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/news/new-tricks-for-old-antibiotics/

Check it in the news: https://www.publico.pt/2020/10/15/ciencia/noticia/cientistas-portugueses-identificam-antibioticos-conferem-proteccao-sepsis-1935327

Check the latest article from Marc Veldhoen’s research group at iMM, first authored by Patrícia Campos, a PhD student, and Birte Blankenhaus, a senior postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “Seroprevalence of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in COVID‐19 patients and healthy volunteers up to six months post disease onset”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.202048970

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Check the latest review article from Bruno Silva-Santos’ research group at iMM, first authored by Julie Ribot, a Staff Scientist in the lab: “γδ T cells in tissue physiology and surveillance”

Read the review article at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-00452-4

Check the latest article from the clinical researchers Rita Cruz Machado and Elsa Vieira de Sousa from João Eurico Fonseca’s research group at iMM in collaboration with Fernando Pimentel’s research group at CEDOC: “Effect of biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs targeting remission in axial spondyloarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa268

Check the latest article from Cristina Silva Pereira’s research group at ITQB-NOVA, first authored by Carlos Moreira, a PhD student, and Artur Bento, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab: “An Ionic Liquid Extraction That Preserves the Molecular Structure of Cutin Shown by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.20.01049

Check the digest of this article at: https://www.itqb.unl.pt/news/biopolymers-unravelling-the-next-generation-materials

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Check the latest article from Cecília M. Arraiano’s research group at ITQB-NOVA, first authored by Ricardo F. dos Santos, a PhD student in the lab: “Hfq and RNase R Mediate rRNA Processing and Degradation in a Novel RNA Quality Control Process”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02398-20

Check the digest of this article at: https://www.itqb.unl.pt/news/proteins-partner-for-crucial-cellular-quality-control-system

Check the latest article from Miguel Teixeira’s research group at ITQB-NOVA in collaboration with Martin-Verstreaet’s research group at Institut Pasteur: “How the Anaerobic Enteropathogen Clostridioides difficile Tolerates Low O2 Tensions”

Read the full article at: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01559-20

Check the digest of this article at: https://www.itqb.unl.pt/news/in-your-gut-how-bacteria-survive-low-oxygen-environments