- biological physics
- bimolecular processes
- protein folding
- protein aggregation
- molecular simulation
- knotted proteins
Patrícia Faísca
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Departamento de FísicaSala/Gabinete 8.4.25
Ext. Principal 28425
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Email pffaisca@ciencias.ulisboa.pt
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Carreira Docente Universitário
Categoria Professor Auxiliar com Agregação
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Currículo Resumido
Patrícia F.N. Faísca is Assistant Professor (with habilitation) at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences (DF-FCUL), University of Lisbon, vice-coordinator and principal investigator at BioISI – Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute. She received a PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2002, as part of the Gulbenkian PhD Program in Biology and Medicine. She has a broad interdisciplinary education covering Physics, Biology and Mathematics. Her research on biological physics is focused on the computational study of biomolecular processes. Her current research interests include the folding of knotted proteins, and protein misfolding and aggregation in a disease-related context .
Interesses Científicos
Física interdisciplinar, física biológica (teoria e simulação de 'folding' e agregação de proteínas), física computacional, física estatística
Scientific Interests
Interdisciplinary physics, biological physics (theory and simulations of protein folding and aggregation), computational physics, statistical physics
Publicações selecionadas
- P Faísca, A Concise Introduction to Thermodynamics for Physicists, Taylor & Francis (2022)
- RJS Loureiro, D Vila-Viçosa, M Machuqueiro, E Shakhnovich, PFN Faísca, The early phase of β2-microglobulin aggregation mechanism: An integrative computational study based on the D76N mutant and ΔN6 variant, Biomolecules 9:366 (2019) (22 pp.)
- J Especial, A Nunes, A Rey, PFN Faísca, Hydrophobic confinement modulates thermal stability and assists knotting in the folding of tangled proteins, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21:11764-11775 (2019)
- PFN Faísca Knotted Proteins: A tangled tale of structural biology, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 13:459-468 (2015)
- H Krobath, A Rey, PFN Faísca, How determinant is N-terminal to C-terminal coupling for protein folding? Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics 17:3512-3524 (2015)