João Miguel Ferreira Costa earned his bachelor's degree in biology from University of Algarve in 2015. Afterwards he was accepted as lab manager at the GPlantS group from ITQB NOVA. There he managed the stock and purchase of equipment, materials, and consumables for 6 months. Other responsibilities included the transformation of Oryza Sativa via Agrobacterium tumefaciens and subsequent tissue culture for several researchers, which produced a publication that has been published in PNAS entitled: "The Evening Complex integrates photoperiod signals to control flowering in rice" https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122582119 . Later he was hired as a researcher for the FCT funded project:" Qual a função das proteinas que interagem com os fitocromos na resposta das plantas de arroz à luz e temperatura" (02/SAICT/2017) where he would continue doing tissue culture but would also design CRISPR-CAS9 single guides, plant genotyping and do molecular biology related to the construction of the transformation vectors. João decided to enroll in the Biochemistry for Health master's degree to deepen his knowledge about protein biochemistry and more specifically structural biochemistry. This interest led him to do his master¿s thesis in the Macromolecular x-ray crystallography unit at ITQB with the title: "Structural and functional characterization of human sulfurtransferase". There João also had the opportunity to collaborate in several other projects, resulting in a publication: "Human Cystathionine-Lyase Is Inhibited by s-Nitrosation: A New Crosstalk Mechanism between NO and H2S" and supervise bachelor and master students. While still writing his thesis, João was hired as a research assistant for Merck KGaA at iBET. His expertise's currently lie in the expression and purification of proteins being able to perform several chromatographical tecnhiques and design purification strategies based on the peptide characteristics. João frequently volunteers for science dissemination events such as the Feira Internacional da Ciência ( FIC.A) where joão had the opportunity to help Oeiras municipy and ITQB by hosting scientific demonstrations on structural biology, the importance of quercus suber and oryza sativa for Portugal and accompany and monitor several classes of students that attended the event.