Marta Filipa Simões

中秋節快樂! 🌕✨ Happy Moon Festival! May the moon’s light guide your thoughts, warm your heart, and remind us all that no matter where we are, we’re looking up at the same sky. #MoonFestival #MidAutumn #Macau 🥮🌝😊

Today, another chapter came to a close: He Yang has successfully defended her #PhD. 🌟 It’s been a journey of growth and discovery. May the future bring her everything she dreams of. 😊🔬🦠🪐🌏✨#PhDDefense #NewBeginnings #Astrobiology #Macau @extremophilus.bsky.social

Time flew! 🌟 We were thrilled to host Hamnah for her summer #internship with the FAR Group at the SKLplanets. She explored the role of #Fungi in #Astrobiology. Wishing her all the best & may our paths cross again in the cosmos of science ! 😊🚀🌍 #Astromycology #Macau 🇲🇴

Planetary Science MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026 Crowd sourced list of people who are looking for MS/PhD students to help connect prospective students with advisors so we can do even more fabulous planetary science! (Submitting a response indicates ...

I am community sourcing a list of people who are actively in search of MS/PhD students in planetary science/astrobiology/exoplanets for Fall 2026. If you are such a person, please fill out the following google form:
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🌟 Exciting news! 😊 We're thrilled to welcome our new summer intern, Hamnah Bin Amir, who'll be joining us for the next couple of weeks. Fresh ideas, curious minds, and great conversations ahead! 🚀 Welcome aboard! 👩‍🔬🧪✨ #Astromycology #Research #Macau #SKLPlanets

Thanks to Vice-Rector Ip Kuai Peng and Prof João Simões for having me at the "#Scientific and #Technological Cooperation between #China and #Portuguese-speaking Countries" symposium last week. @CityUMacau 🙏 😊 #Macau #Astromycology #ScienceWithoutBorders 👩‍🔬 🔬 🔭 🪐 @extremophilus.bsky.social‬

Fodinibius alkaliphilus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from an inland saltern in central Portugal and reclassification of Aliifodinibius salipaludis as Fodinibiu... A novel moderately halophilic and alkaliphilic Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, bacterial strain (N2T) was isolated from an inland saltern in central Portugal. The taxonomic position of this iso...

A step forward in understanding extremophiles! 🔬😊 New paper: doi.org/10.1099/ijse... #Microbiology #Taxonomy #Halophiles #Extremophiles #Portugal #NewSpecies @extremophilus.bsky.social‬ 🦠

It’s been over a week, but I had the pleasure of co-chairing the session “ #Fungi in #OneHealth” with Dr Chris Wong (UMAC) at the 11th #Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences 2025! 🌍 🔬 Grateful for the invitation, the amazing talks, and all the new friends 😊 — a fantastic symposium! 🇲🇴 #Mycology

A little late, but no less heartfelt! 😊
I’m happy to officially welcome @alirezar93.bsky.social and @filipalenha.bsky.social to the #AstromycologyResearchGroup from #SKLPlanets ! 🎉👏 I’m sure your journey in #Macau will be full of discovery and growth. 🪐🔬🧬🔭 We’re very lucky to have you both! 😊

🚀 Huge congratulations to Dr. JiaHui Wu, 🎉 who successfully defended her PhD at SKLPanets from Macau University of Science and Technology, on: “New computer-based tools development for exploring data and creating paths for discoveries in #astrobiology and #space”. 😊🪐👏👏 #ProudSupervisor

What a fantastic way to celebrate China's 10th #Space Day! 🌌 I had the honour of speaking about #fungi in space at the "Innovative Women in Science" event hosted by #AustCham #Macau. Thank you for the warm invitation and the wonderful evening! 🌟 #WomenInScience #Astromycology

2025 Call for PhD Studentships – Regular Line of Application - FCT

🚀 📢 Exciting opportunity! 2025 FCT PhD Studentships (fct.pt/en/concursos...). If you're interested in researching astrobiology/astromycology at the
Sklplanets (www.must.edu.mo/en/ssi, MUST), Macau (China) contact me. 🌍🔬 Deadline: April 16.

#InPortuguese Ainda vão a tempo de se inscrever: forms.office.com/e/dhQvhEUpkx !! 😁 Falta pouco!!

11 fevereiro é Dia Internacional das Mulheres e Raparigas na Ciência 2025
O Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, o Planetário do Porto e o Grupo Lusófono de Astronomia para o Desenvolvimento (PLOAD) associam-se às celebrações globais com 2 sessões online:

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This week we say farewell to Junjie Zhang as he embarks on a new journey in Beijing! 🎉 Your contributions in Macau and SKLplanets have been invaluable, and we're excited to see all the amazing things you'll achieve in your new position. Wishing you all the best! 🌟🚀 #NewBeginnings #CareerGrowth

And also Luísa Custódio and Maria João Rodrigues (CCMAR, Portugal), and also Chengsen Cui (Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, CAS, China), among many others! 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🧬🔬🧪😊 It was great to meet you all! ❤️

Last week was packed with excitement at two conferences in Macau! ❤️ I had the pleasure of meeting incredible researchers and fascinating individuals: Bernard Foing (@esa.int), Paul Hartogh (@mpsgoettingen.bsky.social), and Yunzhao Wu (Purple Mountain Observatory, China). 😁🚀🌔🔭 #SKLPlanets!

From November: www.the-microbiologist.com/opinion/cop29-doomism-is-turning-audiences-off-climate-action-so-lets-share-the-success-stories/4601.article ➡️ COP29: Doomism is turning audiences off climate action - so let’s share the success stories #MicrobiologySociety

Bioprospecting of Mangrove Filamentous Fungi for the Biodegradation of Polyethylene Microplastics The accumulation of microplastics (MPs) in the environment has been a bottleneck for scientific society. Several approaches have been described as possibilities for reducing MPs in aquatic and terrest...

Bioprospecting of Mangrove Filamentous Fungi for the Biodegradation of Polyethylene Microplastics www.mdpi.com/2953712 #mdpijmse

Estudo investiga uso de fungos de manguezal para degradar microplástico Capacidade de micro-organismos de viverem em ambientes de alta salinidade, pouco nutritivos e com baixa concentração de oxigênio chamou atenção de estudiosos. Avaliação em laboratório identificou um t...

#Mangrove #fungi #Microplastics 🌎❤️🧪🔬 jornal.unesp.br/2024/12/04/e... 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇲🇴

Safer and Sustainable Space Missions

1st post 😁: #Astromycology @SKLPlanets!!! Safer and Sustainable Space Missions with #Fungi and fungal products 🚀🔭 iesresearch.solutions/safer-and-su... 🔬❤️ 😊🌟#Macau🇲🇴