Radiation in Bioanalysis

High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy: Absolute cross section measurements for low energy electron scattering from biomolecules (V. Lemelin and L. Sanche).- Synchrotron Radiation UV-VUV photoabsorption of gas phase molecules (Denis Duflot, Søren Vrønning Hoffmann, Nykola C. Jones, Paulo Limão-Vieira).- Fluorescence spectroscopy (Artur J. Moro and João Carlos Lima).- Raman biospectroscopy and imaging (Smilja Todorovic).- Circular Dichroism and Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism Applications to Biomaterials (Rohanah Hussain, Tamás Jávorfi, Charlotte S Hughes and Giuliano Siligardi).- Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) (Sven Falke and Christian Betzel).-  Pulsed Electron-Electron Double Resonance (PELDOR) and Electron Spin Echo Envelope Modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy in Bioanalysis (Bode, B. E., and Norman D. G.  [1]).- Mössbauer Spectroscopy (João Carlos Waerenborgh, Pedro Tavares, and Alice S. Pereira).- Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Selected Biological Applications (Carlos A. Salgueiro, Joana M. Dantas and Leonor Morgado).- Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) Spectroscopy of molecules of biological interest: from chemically pure to complex samples (G. Gerson. B. de Souza and Joselaine C. Gonzalez).- Electron impact spectroscopy (Alexander Dorn).- Charge Transfer Processes in Key Biological Systems (Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Mónica Mendes, Gustavo García and Paulo Limão-Vieira).-  Fast Kinetics - Stopped-flow and Rapid Freeze-Quench (Pedro Tavares, and Alice S. Pereira).-  Radiobiological effects induced by x-ray (LINAC) irradiation: experiments and modelling (A. Traoré-Dubuis, L. Ellis-Gibbings, K. Krupa, A. I. Lozano, R. Colmenares, A. Muñoz, J. C. Oller, F. Blanco, A. García Grande, M. J. Coronado, S. Rosado, E. Ramil, L. Núñez, P. Limão-Vieira and G. García Gómez-Tejedor).



 

Alice S. Pereira received her PhD from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in 1995 on Bioinorganic Chemistry. During that period, she worked on metalloenzymes from sulfate-reducing bacteria studying both structural and mechanistic aspects of several enzymes involved in the dissimilatory sulfate reduction. Subsequently she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of South Florida (1995) and at Emory University (1995-1997), USA. From October 1997 to March 2000 she was part of Centro de Qui¿mica Fi¿sica e Biotecnologia, Department of Chemistry, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry of Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 2000. She is actively involved in teaching biochemistry and biophysics at undergraduate and post-graduate levels, being the recipient of several consecutive best teachers awards, and in raising science awareness being involved in pioneering efforts for science dissemination to primary, middle and upper secondary school. Her research is currently focused on the study of metalloenzymes involved in iron metabolism. She has been successfully using spectroscopic tools, in particular UV/Visible, EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopies for biomolecule characterization, during her entire research career. (ResearcherID: D-7779-2013; ORCID: 0000-0001-5567-6073)

Pedro Tavares received his PhD from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in 1994 on Physical Biochemistry. His work focused on the structural characterization of iron-sulfur and non-heme iron proteins using mainly biochemical and spectroscopic tools such as EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopies. In 1995, he joined the Physics Department of Emory University, USA, as a postdoctoral research fellow. Since 1999, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He has been involved in teaching instrumental methods of analysis and applied spectroscopy to biochemistry undergraduate and post-graduate students. His