
Sofia Duarte has joined the team of the FCT-funded project "LactoSynt: Lactic Acid Bacteria as Cell Factories: a Synthetic Biology Approach for Plasmid DNA and Recombinant Protein Production". During the next three years Sofia will be responsible for engineering lactic acid bacteria and plasmid vectors with the goal of developing a flexible platform for biomolecule production. The project is a joint collaboration between iBB groups BERG (Gabriel Monteiro) and BSRG (Leonilde Moreira).