Raquel Castelo Branco

PhD student at @leao_lab, @CiimarUp
RiPPs discovery, biosynthesis, cyanobacteria

[Leão Lab - CIIMAR (U.Porto) @leao_lab]

We’re happy to share our update to the fischerazoles story with the discovery of FshF, a SAM-dependent methyl transferase that catalyses an unusual fatty acid rearrangement 🧪

https://t.co/705ao3qTz3

[Anne Liong @AnneMLiong]

🚀 New paper & tool out: FAALPred - our AI tool to predict fatty acid chain-length specificity of FAAL enzymes from protein sequence.
🔗https://t.co/lGpAWLpNM7
@CiimarUp @ICBAS_UPorto @leao_lab @mattoslmp @pnleao @BlueBio4Future

📄 https://t.co/9HMDb4hS5t

[Leão Lab - CIIMAR (U.Porto) @leao_lab]

Check out our group’s just-published paper in @NatureComms: a macrocyclase with a built-in kinase domain that can phosphorylate peptides during RiPP biosynthesis and be swapped into other pathways 🧬 @BlueBio4Future @CiimarUp
https://t.co/Jx6vGSbYKT

[BlueBio4Future @BlueBio4Future]

🎉 The final day of @BlueBio4Future was a huge success!

Today’s open session featured amazing talks on topics ranging from protein structural prediction to the chemical ecology of ant-fungi symbiosis and genome mining tools!

Huge thanks to all who joined—let’s keep going! 🚀

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Happy International Women’s Day!

We’re celebrating women who have changed the world. Here are all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

Tell us about the women who inspire you the most - and why

#InternationalWomensDay

[Anne Liong @AnneMLiong]

🌟 Exciting News! Our review on Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAALs) in bacterial natural product biosynthesis has just been published in Natural Product Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry! 🎉
Special thanks to @pnleao @BlueBio4Future @CiimarUp @ICBAS_UPorto
https://t.co/YppFNzrGYO

[Nat. Prod. Reports @NatProdReports]

🔓Don't miss this article in our latest issue, part of our Emerging Investigators collection, by Silja Mordhorst & co @uni_tue on the opportunities and challenges of RiPP-based therapeutics

Check out the full #OpenAccess review on our website🔽
https://t.co/KypH43dUmd

[CIIMAR @CiimarUp]

🚨Registrations for the Short Course in Biocatalysis, promoted by @BlueBio4Future, end this Friday, May 3rd!

👉 Spots are limited, so sign up now: https://t.co/DrBNkBydBR

#CIIMARtraining #biocatalysis #biotechnology

[BlueBio4Future @BlueBio4Future]

🌿 Dive into the world of biocatalysis! Join us for a @BlueBio4Future three-day training session from May 20th to 22nd, 2024.

Discover the latest advancements and interact with research experts.

🧑‍🔬Apply now: https://t.co/axFP94rZAM

#Biocatalysis
@REA_research @CiimarUp

[ZiemertLab @ZiemertLab]

Exciting new preprint from our collaborators! It describes the data standard for tailoring enzymes and their reactions, currently utilized in creating a new database. Check it out below!

[Next Generation Chemistry @NGC_bio]

🚀 Exciting PhD Opportunity! 🎓

📅 Application Deadline: April 18, 2024
🔍 Theme: Exploring Marine Actinobacteria for Biosurfactant Production
🏢 Work Location: CIIMAR and NGC
📧 For inquiries and applications, email [email protected].

#PhD #Marine #Biosurfactants #CIIMAR #NGC

[Leão Lab - CIIMAR (U.Porto) @leao_lab]

🧪We are hiring a synthetic organic chemist with interests in natural products and biocatalysis for our ERC grant that just started! 🧪Please RT!! https://t.co/OyBRh6DzhH

[Marnix Medema @marnixmedema]

INVITATION
We are starting a new round of online community annotathons to populate v4.0 of the MIBiG repository with high-quality data. If you have relevant expertise in natural product genomics or chemistry, please participate!
Please register here: https://t.co/jlPef8rW8i

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Out today in @NatureBiotech! PhD students & postdocs: there's a trick – overlooked and underused – for having new ideas in the creative process. Talk science 1 on 1 with a science buddy that you trust and think of it as an improvisation. https://t.co/Xw7VpKHot2…
@MartinJLercher

[Timo Niedermeyer @Niedermeyer_Lab]

The cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola really is nasty, as we show in the most recent @PNASNews cover story (https://t.co/J8wyvW96r5). A thread… 1/

[LEGE-CC @LEGECC]

*SAVE THE DATE* 17th September 2023 #LEGECC from #CIIMAR and #BiobancoAzulPortugues will participate on the #CIIMARopenday in association with #InternationalMicroorganismDay Come and visit us Sunday!🦠 #LEGECC #CIIMARevents

[David Fewer @FewerLab]

Sila's paper on an unusual branched biosynthetic pathway for the production of microbial sunscreens out now in ACS Chemical Biology https://t.co/iAdKvwolSR

[CIIMAR @CiimarUp]

At the Blue Think Conference 2023 held yesterday at
@CiimarUp, we celebrated the talent of our students.

Diogo Oliveira, Nádia Silva, and Marco Sousa were awarded "Best Poster"; Marlene Pinheiro, Raquel Castelo Branco, and Jorge Cardoso won "Best Presentation".

[BlueBio4Future @BlueBio4Future]

The afternoon of the #ICMB was filled with enlightening talks from Tobias Gulder @techbiodd and Konrad Viehrig #biocatalysis, Eric Helfrich @Helfrich_lab and Adriana Rego #bioinformatics, and Maria Barbosa and Mariane Fagundes #bioprocess.

#horizoneurope #biotechnology

[BlueBio4Future @BlueBio4Future]

#ICMB is on!

#HorizonEurope