Maria do Carmo Fonseca is to be honoured with the Medal of Honour of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA), one of the institution’s highest distinctions. 🏅 The GIMM researcher is internationally recognised for her work in molecular biology.

It’s an honor to welcome Charles Rice from @rockefeller.edu at GIMM Fest 2026! His groundbreaking work on the hepatitis C virus will inspire over 3 days of discovery.💜 Can we count on you? 🔗Get your ticket: fest.gimm.pt #HorizonEU #ResearchImpactEU #EUInnovation

How do we stay resilient in a high-pressure world?🧠 May 14 at 4pm, the Out of Our Box welcomes Nuno Mendes Duarte, from Oficina de Psicologia, to talk on “Unlocking Resilience: mastering your inner world in a high-pressure world” 📍GIMM Oeiras & via Zoom: zoom.us/j/96126707326

🎟️Early Bird extended - last chance until May 8!⏳ Extra days to secure your spot at GIMM Festival 2026 at the best price. Be part of a dynamic platform for dialogue and discovery. 🔗Register now: fest.gimm.pt #HorizonEU #ResearchImpactEU #EUInnovation

The “la Caixa” Foundation has inaugurated the CaixaResearch Institute (@caixaresearch.bsky.social), a €100 million investment dedicated to accelerating research in cancer, infections, inflammatory diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Maria do Carmo Fonseca and her team have published in Nature Reviews Genetics 'Tools and tactics for studying alternative splicing', a review highlighting the advances in the study of alternative splicing, a process essential for transcriptome diversity and cellular function.

🎟️LAST CALL: Early Bird ending soon! ⏳ Do you want to be part of a dynamic platform for dialogue and discovery? Join GIMM Festival 2026 (17-19 September, Lisbon) and hear from: Charles Rice, Yasmine Belkaid and others shaping the future. 🔗Register now: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

📰🌐Are you an international journalist covering science? We’ve saved you a seat at GIMM Fest 2026! Up to 5 grants to engage directly with internationally recognised researchers, with travel and accommodation expenses covered. 🔗Apply until May 14th: fest.gimm.pt?page_id=406

Quirky Luísa brought colour to the fruit flies studied in Zita Carvalho-Santos’ lab! Using this model, the team studies how cellular metabolism and nutrient intake impact fertility and embryo development. Their goal is ultimately contributing to improved reproductive health.

Apply until May 3rd, 2026 Join GIMM for a PhD in Biology & Biomedicine (Jan 2027). 🧬 We advance research addressing complex biological questions while providing the foundational and professional skills required for multiple career paths. 🔗 gimm.pt/education-an...

Do you know the world inside a cell? 🤔 In this week’s episode of Curiosamente, with Edgar Gomes, we explore this universe and the importance of its organization for the proper functioning of the cell. 🔗 Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

🎟️Do you want to be part of a dynamic platform for dialogue and discovery? Register your Early Bird acess for GIMM Festival 2026, taking place 17–19 September in Lisbon, and hear from Charles Rice, Yasmine Belkaid and many others speakers. 🔗Register now: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

Mice are one of the most widely used models in scientific research, but why? 🐁 In this episode of Curiosamente, with Iolanda Moreira, we explore this and its important role in the development of medical interventions. 🔗Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

Precision changes everything, so the next @embo.org Practical Course explores how advanced bioimaging, innovative tissue processing and 3D microscopy techniques are redefining biological research and disease diagnostics. 🔬

Learning about fertility from the fruit fly? 🤰 Yes! In this episode of Curiosamente, with Zita Carvalho-Santos, we explore the impact of diet on fertility and how this animal is a key model for research. 🔗 Listen here: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

The next guest of the Out of Our Box seminar is Rodrigo Carvalho, the Co-Founder and Partner of Watermelon Productions. In this session, he will explore storytelling and creativity in an automated world, reflecting on how we can preserved authenticity in the age of AI.

EMBO Workshop The Rules of the Game is the perfect opportunity for an interdisciplinary exchange on how physical constraints, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary forces intersect to shape cellular evolution. 🧬

Step into the world of bees in this episode of Curiosamente! A conversation with Cláudia Campos about the microorganisms that inhabit the bee gut and the role they play in their health.🐝💜 🔗 Listen here: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

We’ve all heard about rare diseases, but what do they consist of? In this episode of Curiosamente with Susana Lopes da Silva, we explore the challenges of rare diseases’ diagnosis, with a special focus on immunodeficiencies.💜 🔗Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

Pablo Sartori brought physics into biology, and Quirky Luísa decided to join the party! 🧬🧪 This illustration highlights the research where they explore how cells constantly use energy to stay out of equilibrium in order to carry out essential functions.

Is counting cells in blood the simplest “math” in flow cytometry? Mariana Fernandes, head of the Flow Cytometry Platform, is this week’s guest on Curiosamente to talk to us about this technology and its daily use in research. 🔗 Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

This @embo.org Workshop is the perfect opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange about how physical constraints, molecular mechanisms, and evolutionary forces intersect to shape cellular evolution. 🧬 🔗Join us from June 2nd to 5th and register by March 1st: meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel...

Did you know that inflammation is essential for our body? @elmiguelche.bsky.social is this week’s guest on the Curiosamente podcast and will explain its importance and in which cases it can become a problem. 🔗 Listen on: linktr.ee/gimm_institute

A week focused on one essential structure that enables laboratories to explore the human body in greater depth: welcome to Biobank Week 2026. 🧪💜 This event is packed with talks, workshops and open visits to the biobanks.

GIMM Fest returns September 17–19 with three days dedicated to the future of science and health, this year focusing on microbes. 🦠 Join researchers and innovators for a programme designed to promote scientific exchange and collaboration.

How far can diagnostics go when science and AI work together? João Garcia da Fonseca will helps us find the answer. 🧬🤖 The next guest of the Out of Our Box seminar is the CTO at Inflammatix and Chairman and founder of biosurfit.

300 scientists, researchers, and clinicians turning science into hope. Today and every day at GIMM, we push research forward, develop new treatments, and make discoveries to better understand cancer. 💜 #DiaMundialdoCancro #WorldCancerDay

Can we say that Quirky Luísa made the thymus look better than ever? This was her interpretation of Ana Espada de Sousa’s lab work on immunodeficiency and how T cells develop in the thymus. 💜 Did this make it easier to understand the important work we do? 😊

Learn from leading experts how to generate and analyze single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data at the next @embo.org Practical Course, taking place in Oeiras from May 18th to 23rd. 🧫

Two projects from the clinical and research teams of ULS Santa Maria, GIMM, and Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa were each awarded Flagship Research Project funding of up to €200,000. A big step forward for sepsis and hereditary cancer! 💜

How does ageing influence the way our bodies handle infection? go.nature.com/4sMZuqW

📢 Join us in sunny Lisbon 🇵🇹 2-5 June for the @embo.org workshop ☀️ “The rules of the game: biophysical & molecular principles in cellular evolution” Apply by March 1st! Please repost to help spread the word! meetings.embo.org/event/26-cel... #EMBORulesOfTheGame @gimmfoundation.bsky.social

New research led by @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social at 🇵🇹 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social demonstrates that a harmless strain of 🦠 #Klebsiella – discovered by chance in 🧫 laboratory experiments – can eliminate #infections and reduce gut inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. #IBD

Depois de anos de muito trabalho, tive a honra de ser premiada com Melhor Trabalho de PhD na ULisboa. 🏅 Agradeço aos meus orientadores João Lacerda, Rita Azevedo e Maria Soares, aos voluntários, ao JLacerda Lab, à FMUL, e à @gimmfoundation.bsky.social. Em breve, a defesa para fechar este ciclo! 👩‍🔬

@EMBO Practical Course Pipetting scRNA-seq data into computational cells 18 – 23 May 2026 | Oeiras/Lisbon, Portugal @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Registration open!

🧑‍🔬🏆Joe Paton & @minuttilab.bsky.social from @champalimaudf.bsky.social and 7 other PIs from @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, @ucoimbra.bsky.social and @i3suporto.bsky.social have won #CaixaResearch funding 👏 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/caixare... @caixaresearch.bsky.social

The lack of specific targets in many tumours ⬇️ the effectiveness of immunotherapies. With a #HealthResearch grant ➕ FCT João Lacerda (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social#HealthResearch is developing CAR-T cells that target a molecule found almost exclusively in tumours to improve therapies. https://tinyurl.com/ykbcmcjv

Damage to telomeres, the ends of chromosomes, can initiate cancerous processes. With a #HealthResearch grant, Claus Maria Azzalin (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social#HealthResearch is studying the role played by TERRA RNA in telomere repair, which could improve our understanding of cancer. https://tinyurl.com/yjh7j59c

Front row view of our Maria smoothly presenting her MSc dissertation work on the isoform-specific impact of mutations in CDKN2A in cancer at the Oncobiology Club @gimmfoundation.bsky.social. 💻🧬👏

Podcast com Isabel Gordo, Group Leader no Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (@gimmfoundation.bsky.social): "Como é que um medicamento mata bactérias?" YouTube: youtu.be/wRyYYa2D5i0 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1AqQ...

EU-LIFE Strategy Meeting 2025 wrapped up in #Basel with strong support, constructive exchanges and a very positive atmosphere. A big thanks to the @fmiscience.bsky.social team for fostering a welcoming environment for productive, forward-looking discussions! Read more 🔗 eu-life.eu/newsroom/new...

🧵 Thrilled to share our new work in @embojournal! Over a century after Metchnikoff recognized macrophages as central to organismal homeostasis, we reveal how they act as metabolic guardians through an unexpected mechanism. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... (1/9)

Nice to meet the representatives of the Kochard Foundation @gimmfoundation.bsky.social and spend the afternoon talking about T cells and mucosal immunology, shared interests and potential collaborative projects.

We also visited Isabel Gordo's lab at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social (Oeiras) and ran into a familiar face, @martalourenco21.bsky.social former PhD candidate at our lab

This picture was taken right before The Boss' presentation at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social We initially thought people were just a bit shy but, as it turned out, we were participating in the mandatory drills due to high seismic activity in the area 🤔 Safety first!!

Now published on @plos.org Computational Biology! Same findings as the preprint, with improved analyses suggested by reviewers! Check it out and let us know how RepliFlow works for you! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

What a pleasure visiting @gimmfoundation.bsky.social in Lisboa -huge thanks to Leonor Saúde for the warm hospitality! Loved exchanging ideas w students, postdocs & faculty about all things #devbio & #regeneration, and meeting old friends in a place that always inspired my curiosity -until next time!

🔬 Community Workshop #1: "Intro to Instrumentation QC in Light Microscopy" 🔹 Learn to monitor laser power 🔹 Record & inspect PSFs 🔹 Analyze data using FIJI + MetroloJ_QC 👩‍🔬Facilitators from @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, @crg.eu & Nova Medical School (NMS). Let’s build better #microscopy! #SPAOM2025

Next, Leonor Saude, from @gimmfoundation.bsky.social, talked about her work using zebrafish and the evolutionary comparisons with mice to pursue spinal cord regeneration in mammals.