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Natália Gonçalves da Silva

PhD student

Natália Silva has a bachelor’s degree in Aquatic Sciences and a master’s degree in Environmental Toxicology and Contamination (2018) from University of Porto. Currently she is working in the Biodiscovery for Health team of CIIMAR as a PhD student. Her investigation research focus is on bioactivity screening of marine cyanobacteria for the isolation and structure elucidation of novel compounds for obesity related co-morbidities. During the last 6 years she has developed and strengthened several skills, including in several microorganism cultures, natural products chemistry (isolation and structure elucidation), bioactivity screening assays and in vivo toxicological assays, and molecular characterization of compounds.

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