Mariana Pinho#
| Membership Number: | 6047 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.itqb.unl.pt/research/biology/bacterial-cell-biology/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7132-8842 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2013 Associate Professor at ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- 2013 - 2014 Sabbatical at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
- 2006 - 2013 Principal Investigator at ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- 2001 - 2004 Post-doctoral fellow at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
- 1997 - 2001 PhD student at The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Bacterial cell division and morphogenesis
- Antibiotic resistance
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Bacterial cell biology
- Fluorescence microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2020 Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM)
- 2018 ECR consolidator grant
- 2018 Pfizer award given by Sociedade de Ciências Médicas de Lisboa
- 2013 ERC starting grant
- 2002 EMBO long term fellowship
