CEO

Invited Full Professor, Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon (ITQB NOVA), June 2021

PhD, Professor with Habilitation (2003) in Molecular and Cell Biology, by ITQB NOVA

PhD in Cellular Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL – 1992)

Areas of expertise:

Molecular Plant Biology; Plant Biotechnology; Molecular Plant Biodiversity; Plant Genomics and Enzyme Technology

Other current positions:

Director of the Plant Cell Biotechnology Laboratory at ITQB NOVA

Professor in the Master of Biotechnology for Sustainability and the PhD Program “Plants for Life” (ITQB NOVA)

Member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (named by the Portuguese Biologists Association)

Previous positions:

Deputy Director of the GREEN-IT Research Unit

Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

President of CiB – Biotechnology Information Center

First President of the Portuguese Biologists Association

Member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (2003-2010)

103 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 30

Two relevant publications:

Trindade, I., Capitão, C., Dalmay, T., Fevereiro, P., dos Santos, D.M. (2010) miR398 and miR408 are up-regulated in response to water deficit in Medicago truncatula. Planta, 231(3), pp. 705-716 – 259 citations
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-009-1078-0

Santos C, Duarte S, Tedesco S, Fevereiro P., and Costa RL (2017) Expression profiling of Castanea genes during resistant and susceptible interactions with the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi reveal possible mechanisms of immunity. Front. Plant Sci. 8:515.
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00515