In the media
Interviews, podcasts and articles about my work, mostly in Portuguese.
- Podcast
David Aragão: fotografar proteínas com alta definição
How you “photograph” a protein at atomic resolution, what a day on a synchrotron beamline is like, and working with Brian Kobilka’s group on membrane proteins. Also on Apple Podcasts.
- Online article
Diamond scientist awarded Royal Society of Biology Fellowship
Diamond’s news story on my Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology, covering my move from membrane protein research to instrument science, lipidic cubic phase methods, seven years on the SCANZ executive and supporting the COVID Moonshot on I04.
- Online article
ITQB NOVA alumnus doubly recognized for work in crystallography
My old institute on my election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and, earlier, of the British Crystallographic Association, looking back from my PhD in Oeiras to beamlines in Grenoble, Melbourne and Oxfordshire.
- Podcast
Química e Estruturas pelo Mundo: A Viagem Científica de David Aragão
From FCT NOVA and a PhD between ITQB NOVA and the ESRF to France, Ireland, Australia and the UK: the projects I’m involved in, and how science at large facilities speeds up discoveries in biology and health. Also on Apple Podcasts.
- Podcast
Como funciona a ciência aberta em tempos de Covid-19?
How open science works in a pandemic: groups around the world sharing structures and data on the coronavirus as soon as they had them, and building on each other’s work. Also on YouTube.
- TV
Particle physics comes to the aid of global bid to find COVID-19 drug
A report on how Diamond turned its beamlines over to studying the coronavirus and helping drug discovery, with an interview with me.
- Radio
Covid-19. Cientistas procuram conhecer como funciona e como reage o vírus
How scientists around the world were working out how the new coronavirus works, including our work at the synchrotron in the UK.
- TV
Cientista português envolvido na luta contra o novo coronavírus
A report on working at a British particle accelerator as part of the worldwide effort to find a medicine for Covid-19.
- Newspaper
Um cientista português a tentar avariar o coronavírus
Diamond’s early work on the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, how open science let groups around the world build on each other’s results, and my appeal to Portuguese researchers to use Diamond for their Covid-19 work. The full article needs a Público subscription.
- Radio
Investigação quer fechar a porta da célula ao ADN dos vírus
How Hendra and Nipah viruses sneak into the cell nucleus, explained as a book being smuggled into a house’s library.
- Online article
On Nobel Prizes and Membrane Proteins
ITQB on the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the lipidic cubic phase, and the 2011 Nature paper I co-authored with Kobilka’s group.
- Newspaper
O português que trabalhou com o Nobel da Química 2012
About my membrane protein crystallography work, including the β2 adrenergic receptor structure with Brian Kobilka’s group. Kobilka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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- Online article
David Guerra Aragão, ex-aluno da FCT/UNL, publicou na Nature com Brian Kobilka, Prémio Nobel da Química
My old faculty on the 2011 Nature paper with Brian Kobilka’s group, after he shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Radio
David Aragão, Melbourne, Austrália
A radio interview from Melbourne about life as a Portuguese scientist abroad: the joint PhD with Grenoble on an FCT scholarship, Ireland, and solving a human receptor structure.
- Online article
Up to speed: David Aragao
A short profile when I joined the MX beamlines in Melbourne.