IBB Alumni
Our graduates are dispersed around the globe in renowned research institutions or leading successful careers in the private sector. The IBB keeps in touch with its alumni and loses no opportunity to connect them with our current students.
IBB 2016
Thesis: Thymus autonomy
Supervised by Vera Martins
Current Position: Postdoc at Institut Curie, Paris, France
Thesis: Co-option of immune response mechanisms by the metamorphosis hormonal signalling system
Supervised by Élio Sucena
Current Position: Postdoc at Imperial College, United Kingdom
Thesis: Regulation of the microbiota in the gut of Drosophila melanogaster
Supervised by Luís Teixeira
Current position: Postdoc at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Thesis: De novo centriole biogenesis during spermatogenesis in the model bryophyte Physcomitrium patens
Supervised by Jörg Becker and Mónica Bettencourt-Dias
Current Position: Postdoc at University of Geneva, Switzerland
IBB 2015
Thesis: Interspecies interactions in recovery of gut microbiota functions
Supervised by Karina Xavier
Current Position: Postdoc at IGC
Thesis: Immunity-related GTPases (IRGs) in the house mouse and the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in South America
Supervised by Jonathan Howard and Luis Teixeira
Current position: Postdoc at IMM
Eleonora Tulumello
Thesis: Robust tolerance out of volatile Regulatory T cells: Lessons from mathematical modelling
Supervised by Jorge Carneiro and Jocelyne Demengeot
Current Position: Postdoc at LIP
Thesis: Organismal homeostasis in sepsis: The role of mitochondrial function and metabolism
Supervised by Luis Ferreira Moita
Current Position: Postdoc at Cemm, Vienna
Thesis: Oxytocinergic modulation of social information use in threat perception in zebrafish
Supervised by Rui Oliveira
Current Position: Postdoc at University of Calgary, Canada (Jaideep Bains Lab)
Thesis: Responses to liver damage: Macrophage plasticity in tissue recovery and dysbiotic drifts
Supervised by Carlos Penha-Gonçalves
Current Position: Postdoc at CEDOC, Nova Medical School and Champalimaud Foundation
Thesis: The role of the gut microbiota in the subsistence of antibiotic resistance
Supervised by Isabel Gordo
Current Position: Postdoc at Max Von Peuter Institute LMU, Munchen
Thesis: Transcription factor-dependent regulation of neural stem cell identity throughout mitosis
Supervised by Diogo Castro and Raquel Oliveira
Current Position: Postdoc at i3ES, Portugal
Thesis: Innate and vasoregulatory crosstalk at the maternal-fetal interface during placental malaria
Supervised by Carlos Penha-Gonçalves
Current Position: Postdoc at IMM, Portugal
IBB 2014
Thesis: Dissecting the rules underlying de novo centrosome biogenesis
Supervised by Mónica Bettencourt-Dias and Ivo Telley
Current Position: Junior Microscopist at MPI-CBG - Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Thesis: How to make a single structure per cell? Lessons from X chromosome inactivation and antigen receptor gene recombination
Supervised by Jorge Carneiro
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at Unbabel
Thesis: Understanding fitness from molecular mechanisms - a step towards predicting evolution
Supervised by Lília Perfeito
Current Position: Data Scientist at NOS SGPS
Thesis: Regulation of celular signalling by trafficking control: Molecular control of proteolysis on the cell surface by the iRhom/TACE sheddase complex
Supervised by Colin Adrain
Current Position: Postdoc at Genentech, San Francisco, USA
Thesis: Thymic activities in the establishment of tumor immune tolerance
Supervised by Jocelyne Demengeot
Current Position: Postdoc at Imperial College, United Kingdom
Thesis: Exploring the role of Sympathetic Nervous System activity in the control of Body-Size and Metabolism
Supervised by Ana Domingos
Current Position: Postdoc at Max Planck , Germany
Thesis: Cohesion failure and Mitosis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Organismal Consequences
Supervised by Raquel Oliveira
Current Position: Postdoc at ETH Zurich, Institute of Biochemistry, Switzerland