Marina Portoghese
Main Focus
Marina is focusing on the development of a dynamic living photonic pigment that exploits the structural colouration of the marine bacteria.
I am particularly interested in:
- Understanding the self-organisation of bacteria in liquid environments
- Develop a photonic pigment from living bacteria
Curriculum Vitae
Marina Portoghese is a PhD student in the Department of Sustainable and Bio-Inspired Materials, headed by Prof. Silvia Vignolini, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.
Marina obtained a BSc in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and a MSc in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Bari (Bari, Italy). During her BSc, she carried out a thesis internship in Prof. Gianluca Farinola's group where she worked on in vivo functionalization of diatoms. For her master's thesis internship, she worked in Prof. Omenetto’s lab at Tufts University (Boston, MA, USA) on silk fibroin-based adhesive fibres.
As a biotechnologist, Marina does have a very interdisciplinary background. For this reason, she finds herself particularly at ease when she is at the intersection between biology and material science.
Publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7690-129X