📰🌐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.
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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.
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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.
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🎟️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.
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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.
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Join us from July 3rd to 9th and register by April 25th.
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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.
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Join us on March 19th, at 4pm, at GIMM Oeiras or online via Zoom: zoom.us/j/98666756856
The conference is open to the public and will be held in English. 👋
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.
⏳ Last chance to register! Secure your spot and join us from June 2nd to 5th. Registration closes March 19th.
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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.🐝💜
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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.💜
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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.
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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.
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Bringing together researchers, technicians and postgraduate students seeking an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of biobanks. Join us to explore the role of biobanks in health research and swipe to see the open sessions.
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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.
Two days of scientific discussion and networking will be followed by a day open to the public — reinforcing our commitment to sharing research with society.
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🎟️ Early bird special rates
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.
He will share his journey in point-of-care diagnostics, from immunoassays and hematology to host-response diagnostics based on mRNA and machine-learning models.
Join us on February 11th, at 16h, at GIMM Oeiras! The conference is open to the public. (It will be held in Portuguese). 👋
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. 💜
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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? 😊
This immersive week will cover the full workflow, from sample preparation and experimental design to data analysis and biological interpretation. Designed for both biologists and bioinformaticians.
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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. 🧫
Maria do Carmo-Fonseca from GIMM and FMUL and Ana Berta Sousa from ULSSM and FMUL are leading a project focused on improving the diagnosis of hereditary breast cancer by using long-read sequencing technologies and allele-specific assays to identify genetic variants missed by traditional approaches.