Beatriz Ferreira Gomes

Bea did her Bachelors in Biology in the University of Lisbon, Portugal. As part of the last year, she learned Matlab and fell in love with programming.

She then did a Master’s in Bioinformatics in the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal where she got to know centrosomes from an imaging point of view and set up to know what they are made of.

To that aim, she did a PhD in the Hyman Lab in MPI-CBG in Germany. She got immersed in the protein world from a biochemistry perspective and got to know what centrosomes are made of through in vitro reconstitution of the C. elegans centrosome. The centrosome is a biomolecular condensate that phase separates from the cytoplasm without the need of a membrane, like many other compartments in the cell.