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Andreia Figueiredo is an Associate Professor at the Plant Biology Department of Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Principal Investigator of the BioISI - Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute and the Leader of the Grapevine Pathogen Systems Lab (GPS Lab, established in 2019).
Since her PhD on Cellular and Molecular Biology (2007, FCUL) she dedicated her research to the study of plant-pathogen interactions focusing on grapevine through a systems biology approach by employing multi OMIC technologies, functional genomics, and biotechnology-based approaches (siRNAs, gene editing approaches). Her research group, the GPS Lab main aim is to unveil disease regulatory networks in grapevine but also to understand plant-pathogen and plant-microorganisms communication, ultimately focused on improve crop resistance and sustainable production.
To achieve this goal the GPS Lab seeks to define models for the key mechanisms that are early activated and de-activated, both on the host and pathogen sides, that might be a target for biotechnology-based approaches.
GPS Lab presents six main research areas: 1) identifying, characterizing and engineering plant proteases to improve crop protection; 2) evaluating lipid enrolment on grapevine-pathogen interactions and its impact on hormonal signaling; 3) characterizing host pathogen communication through cell compartments proteomics and metabolomics; 4) identifying the impact of epigenetic modulation (DNA methylation and histone deacetylation) on plant-pathogen cross-talk; 5) understanding the impact of tailoring soil and plant microbiome towards a higher production sustainability and testing different microbial consortia to improve abiotic and biotic stress resistance in crops; 6) defining new elicitor molecules to prime plants resistance.
Presently the GPS lab team comprises 2 Assistant Researchers (FCT CEEC 2021 and 2022 awardees), 6 PhD students, 3 Msc Students and 1 researcher.
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HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01 - 101135088
MAR-01.03.01-FEAMP-0047
PTDC/ASP-PLA/29779/2017
2020.00148.CEECIND
programa 02/SAICT/2017, código 30056
programa 02/SAICT/2017, código 28726
PEst-OE/BIA/UI4046/2014 - BioISI internal projects_b
PEst-OE/BIA/UI4046/2014 - BioISI internal projects
PEst-OE/BIA/UI4046/2014 - BioISI internal projects c
PTDC/AGR-GPL/119753/2010
PTDC/AGR-GPL/119753/2010
POCTI/2.3
POCTI/2.3
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