Researcher Daniel Machado won Best Poster Award

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Researcher Daniel Machado from the Centre of Biological Engineering at Minho University won the "Best Poster Award" in the 5th Annual Workshop on the Business-Government Interface: Systems and Synthetic Biology. Daniel Machado is a PhD student at Minho University under the MIT Portugal Program in the field of Bioengineering Systems.

His work is focused on systems biology and the objective is to develop mathematical and computational models that simulate the internal mechanisms of a cell to predict its behavior under different conditions.

Daniel Machado refers that the knowledge obtained with these models is fundamental for several biotechnology applications that use microorganisms, namely in factories that produce compounds used in the citizens daily life.

His work “Exploring the gap between dynamic and constraint-based models of metabolism” counted with the collaboration of researchers Rafael Costa, Isabel Rocha and Eugénio Ferreira, all from the Centre of Biological Engineering at Minho University and Bruce Tidor from MIT.