PhD researcher, Protection of Specific Crops

PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Lisbon

Areas of expertise:

Molecular and Cellular Biology; Biochemistry; Genetics; Microbiology

Previous positions:

Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK

Curator of Scientific Databases at the European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, UK

18 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 16

Two relevant publications:

Rato, C., Carvalho, M.F., Azevedo, C. and Oblessuc, P.R. (2021). Genome editing for resistance against plant pests and pathogens. Transgenic Research 30, 427-459
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-021-00262-x

Yan, Y.*, Rato, C.*, Rohland, L., Preissler, S. and Ron, D. (2019). MANF antagonizes nucleotide exchange by the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP. Nature Communications 10(1), 541
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08450-4

*The following also contributed to this work