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
Guilherme Zambon
BSc Intern
BSc NOVA School of Science and Technology
‣Cell and Molecular Biology
Jessie Dolliver
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Univ. of Oxford
‣Biology
MSc Trinity College Dublin
‣Zoology
BA Trinity College Dublin
‣Botany
2023
2025
