People
Waldan K. Kwong
Group Leader
Microbial Genomics and Symbiosis Lab
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PhD Yale Univ.
‣Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
BSc Univ. of British Columbia
‣Biology & Physics
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Interests: microbes, evolution, functional genomics, visual media & scicomm
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Cláudia Campos
Lab Manager
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PhD Univ. of Geneva
‣Developmental Biology
MSc Univ. of Aveiro
‣Advanced Biomolecular Methods
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Interests: host-microbe interactions, methods development, sustainability in science
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Samuel Acheampong
IBB PhD Student​
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MPhil Univ. of Ghana
‣Molecular Biology
BSc Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Science and Technology
‣Biochemistry
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Interests: host-microbe interactions, bacterial secretion, digital art
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saacheampong@igc.gulbenkian.pt
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Rodney Eyles
Postdoctoral Fellow
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PhD Australian National Univ.
‣Plant Science
BSc Australian National Univ.
‣Molecular Biology
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Interests: host-microbe signalling, non-coding RNA, transcriptomics
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Ana Barradas
Postdoctoral Fellow​
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PhD Univ. of Manchester
‣Bioinformatics
MSc Univ. of Algarve
‣Ecology & Marine Conservation
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Slipa Kanungo
IBB PhD student​
(co-advised with Karina Xavier)
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MSc Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech.
‣Applied Microbiology
BSc Trident Academy of Creative Tech.
‣Biotechnology
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Ramya Ganesan
Postdoctoral Fellow
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PhD Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz & MPI for Chemical Ecology
‣Insect Symbioses
BTech SASTRA Univ.
‣Biotechnology
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Interests: animal-microbe symbiosis and ecology, sci-art, and comics.​
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Matilde Amador
MSc student
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MSc Univ. of Aveiro
‣Molecular and Cellular Biology
BSc Univ. of Lisboa
‣Biochemistry
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Margarida Moreira
Technician/MSc student
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MSc Inst. Superior Técnico
‣Biotechnology
BSc Univ. of Coimbra
‣Biochemistry
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2023
2023
2025
