Susana Gaudêncio

Susana P. Gaudêncio is the Head of the Blue Biotechnology and Biomedicine Lab (https://ucibio.pt/research-groups/lab/blue-biotechnology-biomedicine), at UCIBIO, FCT-NOVA. She graduated in Chemistry in 1998 at FCUL and she completed her PhD in Organic Chemistry at FCT-NOVA in 2006. She has great experience in marine natural product research and scientific work accomplished with several international and interdisciplinary groups (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5510-1170).Her research focuses on the discovery of natural products from marine-derived actinomycetes (Actinobacteria) as lead-like agents for drug discovery and other biotechnological applications, such as antifouling and antibiofilm uses. At FCTNOVA, she built a marine-derived actinomycete collection of over 1600 strains from the Azores and Madeira Archipelagos, the Canary Islands and Portugal mainland coast. More recently she started to use these actinomycetes strains for plastic degradation and bioplastic production.