People

Waldan K. Kwong
Group Leader
Microbial Genomics and Symbiosis Lab
PhD Yale Univ.
‣Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
BSc Univ. of British Columbia
‣Biology & Physics
Interests: microbes, evolution, functional genomics, visual media & scicomm

Cláudia Campos
Lab Manager
PhD Univ. of Geneva
‣Developmental Biology
MSc Univ. of Aveiro
‣Advanced Biomolecular Methods
Interests: host-microbe interactions, methods development, sustainability in science

Samuel Acheampong
IBB PhD Student
MPhil Univ. of Ghana
‣Molecular Biology
BSc Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Science and Technology
‣Biochemistry
Interests: host-microbe interactions, bacterial secretion, digital art
saacheampong@igc.gulbenkian.pt

Rodney Eyles
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Australian National Univ.
‣Plant Science
BSc Australian National Univ.
‣Molecular Biology
Interests: host-microbe signalling, non-coding RNA, transcriptomics

Ana Barradas
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Univ. of Manchester
‣Bioinformatics
MSc Univ. of Algarve
‣Ecology & Marine Conservation

João Santos
Research Technician
MSc Univ. of Lisbon
‣Marine Ecology
BSc Univ. of Lisbon
‣Ecology
Visitors

Asunción Lago-Lestón
Sabbatical Visitor, 2022–2023
Group Leader, Laboratory of Metagenomics, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada
Project: Deep sea sediment microbiomes

Feb. 2023

