Laura Silva Ferreira Regalado (5B13-78C9-36C3)

Curriculum Vitae

Laura Regalado has a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry (2019) and a Master's degree in Application in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology (2022), both from the University of Porto, and is currently enrolled in the Biology doctoral program (PhD) at the same institution. PhD grant awarded in the 2023 FCT call. Erasmus+ student at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona in 2021. Currently an integrated member of LAQV/REQUIMTE and Biopolis association. Her work focuses on phytopathology, namely microbial epidemiology, evolution, and characterization (resorting to several techniques such as NGS, comparative genomics, and transcriptomics), exploring new sustainable molecules to control plant bacterial diseases and insect pests. Currently co-supervising 1 undergraduate student. The first author of 1 published international research article and co-author of 4 published international research articles (WoS, Q1). Research member in 1 international project (VINE.PROTECT), 1 co-promotion national project (STOP.SUZUKII), and 1 FCT-funded national project (DrosuGreen). 3 research fellowships awarded: the first in 2019/2020 to explore the potential of antimicrobial peptides against phytopathogenic bacteria, the second during 2022/2023 in the scope of the STOP.SUZUKII project and the third in 2023 within the project OmicBots. Participated in 2 invited oral presentations, 1 oral presentation at an international conference, and as author and/or speaker in 7 oral and 3 panel presentations at national conferences.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Laura Silva Ferreira Regalado

Citation names

Regalado, Laura
Regalado, L.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5B13-78C9-36C3
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6278-9727
Scopus Author Id: 57222720175

Email addresses

up201604469@up.pt (Professional)
laura.regalado@fc.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Rua do Campo Alegre, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.ib2lab.com/team-3/laura-regalado (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023/10 - 2027/10/31 Ongoing	Biologia (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "PomeSafe: Improved sustainable management of Erwinia amylovora through integrative multi-omics, detection and green chemistry approaches" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/10/05 - 2022/12/13 Concluded	Mestrado em Aplicações em Biotecnologia e Biologia Sintética (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal "Harnessing the potential of peptides as bioinsecticides to control Drosophila suzukii " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2016/09/19 - 2019/07/11 Concluded	Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto, Portugal "Exploring the potential of antimicrobial peptides to tackle phytopathogenic bacteria." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/06/14 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

2019/11/01 - 2020/07/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10/01 - 2021/12/27	Erasmus+ Programme: "Training in peptide chemistry"	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
	Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Spain

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/11/01 - 2027/10/31	PomeSafe: Improved sustainable management of Erwinia amylovora through integrative multi-omics, detection and green chemistry approaches 2023.01413.BD PhD Student Fellow	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2024/02/07 - Current	MiCropBiomes - Exploiting Plant-Microbiomes Networks and Synthetic Communities to improve Crops Fitness CA22158 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2023/07/01 - Current	BioFago - New strategies in the control of Fire Blight PRR-C05-i03-I-000179 Researcher Universidade do Minho, Portugal	Instituto de Financiamento da Agricultura e Pescas
2022 - Current	VINEPROTECT - Ecological survey for biological management and protection of Mediterranean vineyards facing climate changes S2_Call_2021 VINEPROTECT Researcher	European Union Ongoing
2023/08/01 - 2023/10/31	OmicBots: High-Throughput Integrative Omic-Robots Platform for a Next Generation Physiology-based Precision Viticulture PTDC/ASP-HOR/1338/2021 Research Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/06/15 - 2023/06/30	STOP.SUZUKII - FERRAMENTA OPERACIONAL PARA MELHORAR A PRODUÇÃO DE MIRTILO E COMBATER OS PREJUÍZOS CAUSADOS POR DROSOPHILA SUZUKII NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-047034 Research Fellow	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/13	Controlling the quarantine pest Drosophila suzukii through epidemiological studies and new Green biocontrol techniques PTDC/ASP-PLA/4477/2020 Master's dissertation performed within the scope of task 5. Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Mendes, Rafael J.; Regalado, Laura; Sario, Sara. "STOP.SUZUKII: an integrated operational tool for the sustainable control of Drosophila suzukii". Paper presented in XX Iberian Congress of Entomology, 2023. Viana, Vítor; Regalado, Laura; Teixeira, Cátia; Mariz-Ponte, Nuno; Mendes, Rafael J.; Martins, Leonor; Gomes, Paula; Tavares, Fernando; Santos, Conceição. "Bacterial canker and Fire blight disease as an emergent bacterial disease in Portugal: Screening process to evaluate Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs)". Paper presented in Congresso de Ciência, Conhecimentos D'Ouro, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2019. Regalado, Laura; Viana, Vítor; Martins, Leonor; Teixeira, Cátia; Mariz-Ponte, Nuno; Mendes, Rafael J.; Fagundes, Natália; et al. "Bioactivity of antimicrobial peptides on Xanthomas spp. phytopathogenic bacteria: a peptide function perspective". Paper presented in Congresso de Ciência, Conhecimentos D'Ouro, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 2019.
Journal article	Gomes, Anicia; Narciso, Rodrigo; Regalado, Laura; Cardeano Pinheiro, Margarida; Barros, Filipa; Sario, Sara; Santos, Conceição; Mendes, Rafael J.. "Disclosing the native blueberry rhizosphere community in Portugal—an integrated metagenomic and isolation approach". PeerJ (2023): https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15525. Published • 10.7717/peerj.15525 Regalado, Laura; Sario, Sara; Mendes, Rafael J.; Valle, Javier; Harvey, Peta J.; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Andreu, David; Santos, Conceição. "Towards a Sustainable Management of the Spotted-Wing Drosophila: Disclosing the Effects of Two Spider Venom Peptides on Drosophila suzukii". Insects (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14060533. Published • 10.3390/insects14060533 Pereira-Dias, Leandro; Oliveira-Pinto, P. R. ; Fernandes, Juliana; Regalado, Laura; Mendes, Rafael J.; Teixeira, Cátia; Mariz-Ponte, Nuno; Gomes, Paula; Santos, Conceição. "Peptaibiotics: Harnessing the potential of microbial secondary metabolites for mitigation of plant pathogens". Biotechnology Advances (2023): Published Mendes, Rafael J.; Regalado, Laura; Luz, João P.; Tassi, Natália; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Tavares, Fernando; Santos, Conceição. "In Vitro Evaluation of Five Antimicrobial Peptides against the Plant Pathogen Erwinia amylovora". Biomolecules 11 4 (2021): 554. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom11040554. Published • 10.3390/biom11040554 Mariz-Ponte, Nuno; Regalado, Laura; Gimranov, Emil; Tassi, Natália; Moura, Luísa; Gomes, Paula; Tavares, Fernando; Santos, Conceição; Teixeira, Cátia. "A Synergic Potential of Antimicrobial Peptides against Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae". Molecules 26 5 (2021): 1461. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26051461. Published • 10.3390/molecules26051461
Thesis / Dissertation	"Harnessing the potential of peptides as bioinsecticides to control Drosophila suzukii". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/147398.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/15	PomeSafe: deteção e inovação no controlo do fogo bacteriano em Portugal	A ciência como aliada no controlo de fogo bacteriano em Portugal: Implementação de ferramentas de última geração para perceber e controlar Erwinia amylovora COTHN - Centro Operacional e Tecnológico Hortofrutícola Nacional (Portugal)
2023/06/29	Targeted control of Drosophila suzukii Matsumura, 1931 (Diptera: Drosophilidae) using spider venom peptides	XX Iberian Congress of Entomology Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad (Alicante, Spain)
2023/05/10	Insecticidal activity and toxicity of two spider venom peptides for the control of Drosophila suzukii	16th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/05	Synthesis and bioactivity of two peptides as potential bioinsecticides for the control of Drosophila suzukii	15th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022	Exploring the potential of antimicrobial peptides to tackle plant pathogenic bacteria	European Peptide Symposium (Spain)
2021/05/05	Fighting kiwifruit bacterial canker disease with antimicrobial peptides	14th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/02/14	Antimicrobial peptides as a promising tool for kiwifruit bacterial canker disease control	13th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/02/05	Repurposing known antimicrobial peptides to combat phytopathogenic agentes	17th Iberian Peptide Meeting (Madrid, Spain)
2019/12/18	Alternative control measures of fire blight: first insights into AMPs applicability	IV Jornadas de Engenharia Agronómica Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current	Identification and characterization of potential Biological Control Agents (BCAs) associated with fire blight disease symptomatic trees Co-supervisor	Biologia (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021/05/29 - 2021/05/29	II Plant Abiotic Stress Forum: An Integrative Lens Over Plant Adaptation	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24	II Plant Pests and Diseases Forum: Redefining Concepts, Mechanisms & Management Tools	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/02/20 - 2020/02/20	I Plant Abiotic Stress Forum: From Soil Contamination to Climate Change	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/11/06 - 2019/11/06	I Plant Pests and Diseases Forum: Future Challenges	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/17	VII AEICBAS Biomedical Congress	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2018/03/23 - 2018/03/26	XI Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/04/28 - 2017/04/29	IV Jornadas de Bioquímica	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2017/04/07 - 2017/04/10	X Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica	Universidade do Minho, Portugal