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
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
Slipa Kanungo
IBB PhD student
(co-advised with Karina Xavier)
MSc Kalinga Inst. of Industrial Tech.
‣Applied Microbiology
BSc Trident Academy of Creative Tech.
‣Biotechnology
Ramya Ganesan
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz & MPI for Chemical Ecology
‣Insect Symbioses
BTech SASTRA Univ.
‣Biotechnology
Interests: animal-microbe symbiosis and ecology, sci-art, and comics.
Matilde Amador
MSc student
MSc Univ. of Aveiro
‣Molecular and Cellular Biology
BSc Univ. of Lisboa
‣Biochemistry
Laura Velosa
Technician/BSc student
BSc NOVA Univ. Lisbon
‣Cell and Molecular Biology
Thiago Dietrich
BSc visiting student/FAPESP fellow
BSc São Paulo State University
‣Biological Sciences
2023
2025
