Research Topics
The main research areas at the Faculty of Biotechnology:
Cancerogenesis and anti-cancer therapy: oncogenesis,
metastasis, signalling pathways, cancer environment, immunomodulation,
therapeutic proteins, protein drug conjugates, antibody drug conjugates,
nuclear receptors in anticancer therapy, carriers of anticancer drugs,
lipids and membrane rafts in cancer.
Protein biochemistry and engineering: protein modifications, protein structural studies, protein stability, protein design, glycosylation, metal binding proteins, growth factors and their receptors, nanobiosensors photoactivation, photosynthetic proteins, heme-binding proteins, protein-membrane interactions, protein-protein interaction.
- Dept. of Biochemistry
- Dept. of Biophysics
- Dept. of Protein Engineering
- Dept. of Chemical Biology
- Lab. of Medical Biology
- Dept. of Medical Biotechnology
- Dept. of Cellular Molecular Biology
Microbiology: mechanisms of virulence ( Porphyromonas gingivalis, Bacteroides fragilis and Candida spp,) genes expression, regulation of antibiotics production, cell cycle and bacterial chromosome (Mycobacteria and Streptomyces), genome stability (baker and fission yeast), production biosurfactants (Bacillus sp).
Genome organisation and bioinformatics: genome evolution, bacterial genome organisation, mitochondrial genome, nuclear proteins, laminopathies, gene therapies, genome stability and DNA repair.
- Dept. of Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Lab. of Nuclear Proteins
- Dept. of Molecular Microbiology
- Dept. of Cellular Molecular Biology
- Dept. of Biotransformation
Plant biology and modifications: plant engineering, regulation of metabolites biosynthesis, protection against infections, response to abiotic stress, regulation of gene expression, mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics.
Membranes biochemistry and biophysics: lipid signalling, membrane rafts, drug carriers: liposomes and emulsions.
