Filipa Marcelo

Filipa Marcelo is an Assistant Researcher at FCT-NOVA. Filipa Marcelo graduated in Chemistry from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa in 2003 and obtained the PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2009 doing a joint PhD at the Universidade de Lisboa and Université Pierre et Marie Currie Paris VI in the field of carbohydrate chemistry. In 2009, she moved to Dr. J. Jiménez-Barbero’s group at Centro Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC/Madrid) for a post-doctoral experience. During that period, she learned advanced NMR techniques and how to explore NMR to unveil molecular recognition events in distinct biological contexts, including in Glycoscience. In 2012 she returned to Portugal with a grant from Portuguese Foundation FCT to initiate a new research line in the field structural glycoscience in the NMR research group of Dr. E. Cabrita at FCT-NOVA. Since January 2017, she has an independent research line of research applied to structural glycochemistry, where she has been focused on the study of the molecular mechanisms of protein glycosylation and glycan molecular recognition through an integrative and multidisciplinary approach, combining high-resolution NMR-based methods with molecular modelling protocols, sustained by molecular biology, chemoenzymatic and glycopeptide synthesis and other biophysical and glycomics analysis.