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Isa Catarina RIBEIRO
PhD student
Date of Birth: 07-01-1986
Nationality: Portuguese
Address: ITQB, Av. da Républica - EAN, 2780-157 Oeiras (Portugal)
Telephone: +351214469656
E-mail: isaribeiro@itqb.unl.pt
Academic Qualifications
2007 Degree in Biology (Scientific area) (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto). Classification: 16/20
2008 Master in Biology (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto). Classification: 18/20
Previous and current scientific and/or professional activities
Since April 2011 – PhD Fellowship - “Impact of soil water availability on chickpea seed production and food protein allergenicity”, supervised by Carla Pinheiro, Plant Biochemistry, ITQB, Oeiras and Jenny Renaut, CRP - Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg.
November 2010 to March 2011 – Research Fellowship - “Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the Mediterranean region - SWUP-MED”, supervised by Carla Pinheiro, Plant Biochemistry, ITQB, Oeiras.
March to May 2010 - Short-Term Scientific Mission: “BN-PAGE characterization of the root plasma membrane of beet wild relatives under extreme salinity”, hosted by Lutz Eichacker, at the Center for Organelle Research, Stavanger, Norway, sponsored by COST Office.
November 2008 to October 2010 – Research Fellowship - “The wild relatives of Beta: genetic diversity assessment and biochemical studies”, supervised by Carla Pinheiro and Cândido Pinto Ricardo, Plant Biochemistry, ITQB, Oeiras.
October 2007 to September 2008 - Research Fellowship (BI) – “Regulation of Glutamine synthetase by phosphorylation and protein-protein interaction in Medicago truncatula” Paula Melo and Helena Carvalho, Molecular Biology of Nitrogen Assimilation, IBMC, Porto
September 2006 to October 2007 - Scientific Internship - “Function and subcellular sorting of Arabidopsis thaliana peroxidases - anti-Prx12 and anti-Prx42 antibody production”, supervised by Isabel Amorim and Mariana Sottomayor, Functional Plant Biology, IBMC and Botany Department of Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Research Area of Interest
Plant biochemistry and physiology
Grain legume seed production, nutritional quality and food safety
Abiotic stress response (drought, salinity) in grain legumes and crop wild relatives
Current research interests
Seed nutritional quality and safety for human consumption
Physiologic and biochemical response to environmental stress
Proteomics
Metabolomics
Other skills/activities
Physiological characterization of plant responses to stress (Gas exchange, water status and biomass measurements)
Membrane and soluble protein extraction from crop wild relatives
Metabolite extraction from crop wild relatives
Membrane protein analysis: Blue-Native PAGE
Soluble protein analysis: IEF, SDS-PAGE
Nuclear Magnetic Ressonance analysis of hydrophilic metabolite extracts
Molecular biology (PCR, RT-PCR, Nucleic acid electrophoresis)
Plant in vitro culture
Publications
PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS WITH REFEREES
Melo P. M., Silva L. S., Ribeiro I. C., Seabra A. R. and Carvalho H. G. (2011). “Glutamine synthetase is a molecular target of nitric oxide in root nodules of Medicago truncatula and is regulated by tyrosine nitration.” Plant Physiol. 157, 1505-1517.
Felisberto-Rodrigues C., Ribeiro I. C., Veloso M., Pinto Ricardo C. and Pinheiro C. (2010). "Germination under aseptic conditions of different ecotypes of wild beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp maritima)." Seed Sci. & Technol. 38, 517-521.
THESIS
Ribeiro, I.C. (2008). “Post-translational Regulation of Glutamine synthetase in Medicago truncatula”. Master in Biology thesis. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto.
Ribeiro, I.C. (2007). “Function and subcellular sorting of Arabidopsis thaliana peroxidases - anti-Prx12 and anti-Prx42 antibody production”. Degree in Biology (final report). Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Ribeiro, I.C., Chaves, M.M., Freire, J.B. and Pinheiro, C. (2011). “Genotype influence on chickpea seed protein digestibility and allergenicity”. 2nd International Congress on Analytical Proteomics. Ourense, Spain, 18th to 20th July 2011.
Ribeiro, I.C., Reisinger, V., Ricardo, C. P., Pinheiro, C. and Eichacker, L. (2011). Application of the Blue Native DIGE methodology to the study of the membrane proteome of a beet wild relative in response to salt stress. Final COST meeting “Plant Proteomics in Europe: where do we stand and where are we heading to? ”. Dijon, France, 26th to 27th May 2011.
Ribeiro, I.C., Pinheiro, C. and Pinto Ricardo, C. (2009). “Metabolism of water deficit resistance”. COST dynamic training school “Forest and water stress in a changing environment: from cell to ecosystems”. Orvieto, Italy, 20th to 23rd May 2009.
Sottomayor, M., Carqueijó, I., Ribeiro, I. C., Ramos, S. B., Figueiredo, R. and Duarte, P. (2007). “Subcellular sorting of class III peroxidases. Studies in the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus and in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana”. 1º National Platform for Functional Plant Genomics Meeting. July 2007.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Ribeiro, I.C., Freire, J.B., Simões, N., Duarte, I., Chaves, M.M., and Pinheiro, C. (2011). “Chickpea seed production, seed quality and digestibility – genotype and environmental effects”. XII Hispano-Luso Congress of Plant Physiology. Castelló de la Plana, Spain. 21st to 24th June 2011.
Ribeiro I.C., Reisinger V., Ricardo C.P., Pinheiro C. and Eichacker L. (2010). “Leaf membrane proteome under salinity: application of the Blue Native DIGE methodology”. EuPA/ProCURA meeting. Estoril, Portugal. October 2010.
Ribeiro, I.C., Carvalho, H. and Melo, P. (2008). “In vitro inactivation of plant glutamine synthetase by tyrosine nitration”. XVI Congress of the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology. Tampere, Finland. August 2008.
Ribeiro, I.C., Carvalho, H. and Melo, P. (2008). Glutamine synthetase from Medicago truncatula is regulated by tyrosine nitration. XVI International Congress of Biochemistry, National Biochemistry Society. São Miguel, Azores, Portugal. October 2008.
