12-05-2014
On April 8th, Viviana Correia, from the Protein Crystallography & GlycoLab Group from FCT-NOVA, awarded the Prize for Best Poster with the poster entitled “Implementation of the Microarray Technology for studying molecular interactions of the bacterial Cellulosome”, in the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day, that took place in Leiria's Polytechnic Institute.
The awarded work (http://xtal.dq.fct.unl.pt/ENURS_book_page28.pdf) focuses on the implementation of the microarray technology for studying molecular interactions of the Cellulossome, work that had the supervision of Dr. Angelina Palma and Benedita Pinheiro. The Cellulosome is a bacterial multi-enzymatic complex, highly efficient in plant cell wall polysaccharide biodegradation. The microarrays will allow studying, in a sensitive and high-throughput manner the specificity of molecular interactions (protein-protein and protein-carbohydrate) which are important for Cellulosome function. The newly identified complexes will be further characterized at an atomic level by X-Ray Crystallography. More information about the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day meeting available at http://issuu.com/enurs/docs/final_enurs_book/1.
