{"id":16731,"date":"2020-03-22T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?post_type=iplantprotect_member&#038;p=167"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:24:52","slug":"cristina-azevedo","status":"publish","type":"iplantprotect_member","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/iplantprotect_member\/cristina-azevedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Azevedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong>Director<\/strong>, Plant Protection<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD in Plant-Pathogen Interactions from the University of East Anglia, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom (UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Areas of expertise:<\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biopesticides; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Plant-Pathogen Molecular Interactions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Previous positions:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researcher at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (LMCB), University College London (UCL), UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-Doc Scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Center, Norwich Research Park, UK (2004-2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>31 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 20<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Two relevant publications:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Azevedo, C.<\/strong>, Livermore, T. and Saiardi, A. (2015). Protein polyphosphorylation of lysine residues by inorganic polyphosphate. <em>Molecular Cell<\/em>, 58 (1), 71-82. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/molecular-cell\/fulltext\/S1097-2765(15)00102-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1097276515001021%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.1016\/j.molcel.2015.02.010<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Azevedo, C<\/strong>., Sadanandom, A., Kitagawa, K., Freialdenhoven, A., Shirasu, K. and Schulze-Lefert, P. (2002). The RAR1 interactor SGT1, an essential component of R gene-triggered disease resistance. <em>Science<\/em>, 295 (5562), 2073-2076. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2002\/02\/14\/science.1067554\/tab-article-info?versioned=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.1126\/science.1067554<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responsible for transforming the British LMCB, University College London, into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/sustainable\/case-studies\/2019\/nov\/lmcb-and-sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sustainable center<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":21419,"template":"","class_list":["post-16731","iplantprotect_member","type-iplantprotect_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/16731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/iplantprotect_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/16731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21801,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/16731\/revisions\/21801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}