Hello! I am a PhD student in Portugal. My research is linked to the evolution and adaptation in the lab of bacteria to terpenes. I already grew the bacteria for 600 generations and now I am studying the genome, transcriptome and performance of the adapted bacteria in comparison to the ancestor strain. My main goal is to identify genes necessary for the catabolism of terpenes as well as to isolate high-performance strains and characterize them. Later, such strains may be engineered and allow the accumulation of certain high-vallued terpenoids produced during the catabolism of terpenes in such bacteria.