{"id":16739,"date":"2020-03-22T22:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?post_type=iplantprotect_member&#038;p=179"},"modified":"2020-03-22T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:15:36","slug":"pedro-february","status":"publish","type":"iplantprotect_member","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/iplantprotect_member\/pedro-fevereiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Executive Director<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invited Full Professor, Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (ITQB NOVA), June 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor with a PhD (2003) in Molecular and Cellular Biology, ITQB NOVA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD in Cell Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL - 1992)<\/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\">Molecular Plant Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Molecular Plant Biodiversity, Plant Genomics and Enzyme Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Other current functions:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director of the Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory at ITQB NOVA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor in the Biotechnology for Sustainability master's degree program and the \u201cPlants for Life\u201d PhD program (ITQB NOVA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Member of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (appointed by the Order of Biologists)<\/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\">Deputy Director of the Green-IT Research Unit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of CiB - Biotechnology Information Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First President of the Order of Biologists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Member of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences (2003-2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>103 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 30<\/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\">Trindade, I., Capit\u00e3o, C., Dalmay, T., <strong>February, P.<\/strong>, dos Santos, D.M. (2010) miR398 and miR408 are up-regulated in response to water deficit in <em>Medicago truncatula<\/em>. <em>Plant<\/em>, 231(3), pp. 705-716 - 259 citations<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00425-009-1078-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00425-009-1078-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santos C, Duarte S, Tedesco S, <strong>February P.<\/strong>, and Costa RL (2017) Expression profiling of <em>Castanea<\/em> genes during resistant and susceptible interactions with the oomycete pathogen <em>Phytophthora cinnamomi<\/em> reveal possible mechanisms of immunity. <em>Front. Plant Sci.<\/em> 8:515. <br \/>doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fpls.2017.00515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.3389\/fpls.2017.00515<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2799,"template":"","class_list":["post-16739","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\/16739","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/16739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}