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Catarina Costa has defended her Ph D thesis in Biotechnology at Instituto Superior Técnico, tuesday the 9th December 2014. During the last years, and under the supervision of Miguel Cacho Teixeira from BSRG-IBB, Catarina unveiled novel mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs in pathogenic yeasts. The title of her thesis is “Antifungal drug resistance in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata: emphasis on the role of the uncharacterized drug:H+ antiporters”.