Cláudia Vilhena
@claudiasjv7
Junior Group Leader @UniFAU 🦠 EVs 🧬 pneumococcus 🧫🔬 Associate Editor @ISEV_Journals Former @LMU_Muenchen, @LeibnizHKI & @NatureBiotech 🇵🇹📚🦁(she/her)
Exciting news! 🚀 I'll be starting my own independent junior research group at @UniFAU Erlangen this fall! 🎉😍 We'll be studying our beautiful #pneumococcus 🔬🦠 and diving into the world of #extracellularvesicles biogenesis 🧬 Can't wait to see where this journey takes us!

Know a rising star who studies host-microbe interactions? Nominate an exceptional early-career scientist to author a minireview in #IAIJournal’s 2026 New Voices in Microbiology Collection. Submit your nomination by Aug. 18: asm.social/2vO
A strategy for treating chronic multidrug-resistant staphylococcal infections kills bacteria by encasing them in a calcium shell #NBTNV go.nature.com/3TLH8Gm rdcu.be/exy4X
The first preprint of our #BIDlab!! 🤩 Short story on our favorite organism #streptococcuspneumoniae and our beloved #extracellularvesicles! #newPI #fingerscrossed
Environmental cues shape extracellular vesicles biogenesis and function in Streptococcus pneumoniae biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio
I asked ChatGPT to draw a blebbisome. The first extracellular vesicle with a personality indeed :-) #CellBiology nature.com/articles/s4155…
De-extinction: debate continues around tech to ‘resurrect’ lost species nature.com/articles/s4158…
We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…
Really excited to share this Perspective from John Danial covering how technology is moving the field of fluorescence microscopy toward structural biology. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Excited to welcome Dr. Malika Jeffries-EL to #WIS25! ✨ She designs next-gen organic semiconductors, powering innovations in solar cells, OLEDs, and flexible electronics. ⚡📱 #womeninscience #womeninSTEM
⏬ watch out for this #specialissue @ISEV_Journals
📢Call for papers!📢 #JExBio is pleased to announce its first Special Issue 'The Biomolecular Corona of Extracellular Vesicles'. Guest Edited by Professors Massimo Bottini, Benedetta Bussolati, and Annalisa Radeghieri. isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/27…
Excited to have Dr. Joanna Jankowska at #WIS25! 🧠💡 A theoretical photochemist designing molecular switches, machines, and materials for solar energy applications — all powered by quantum chemistry! ⚛️ #womeninscience #womeninSTEM
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O mundo do futebol está de luto. Muita força para os familiares e amigos. Até sempre, Diogo Jota 🤍
Meet the speakers of our anniversary symposium "Advances in Structural Analysis of Biomolecules: From Subcellular Imaging to Drug Design" cbc-cpc2025.org October 23-24, 2025, Berlin Please like and share! #ChemBioPhys2025
July issue of @TrendsMicrobiol is now online, with our review by Xinming Xu @neftalyl @CajaDinesen @AdelePioppi on Composing a microbial symphony and a matching cover illustration by @Lizah_Aart #SynCom #PlantMicrobiome #MicrobiomeEcology at @LeidenBiology
Say hello to Dr. Luzia Gyr, #WIS25 speaker tackling the rise of resistant pathogens! 💥 Her team uses the robotic platform JenXplor to discover new antimicrobials against human-pathogenic fungi and bacteria.🤖🔬 #womeninscience #womeninSTEM
Check out our short interview for ACS axial 😁🙌🏻 @ACS_Infectious #BIDlab #newPI #extracellularvesicles #infectionbiology axial.acs.org/medicinal-chem…

#Pneumy is ready for the poster session! 🤓🦠 Stop by #60 and #252 from the #BIDlab 🙌🏻 #EESMicrobiology #streptococcuspneumoniae #extracellularvesicles #newPI

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🎉Presenting the new Editors-in-Chief at #JEV! 🎉 Jennifer Jones, Hang Hubert Yin and Pascale Zimmermann. We look forward to exciting times ahead and the continued success of JEV under your leadership. 👏👏👏