Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rita Teresa Pereira Teixeira
Citation names
- Teixeira, Rita Teresa
- Rita Teixeira
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7214-38D4-61DC
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9373-0760
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rePCG9kAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- I-6251-2013
- Scopus Author Id
- 8589449100
Email addresses
- rtteixeira@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- University of Lisbon Department of Plant Biology BioISI C2, Floor 1, room 2.1.46, 1749-016, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/bioisi-instituto-de-biossistemas-e-ci%C3%AAncias-integrativas-1 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Agrarian Sciences - Agrarian and Food Biotechnology
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Forestry
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2000/10/01 - 2005/02/21
Concluded
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Biologia (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Genetics and Plant Breeding
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Sweden
"Developmental Studies of Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Brassica napus lines." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1999/01/10 - 2000/06/30
Concluded
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Biologia Celular (Mestrado)
Major in Biotecnologia Vegetal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"“Histological and ultrastructural studies and molecular biology analysis on rice haploids”." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom |
1994/09/01 - 1998/12/10
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in científico
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"Histologic and Ultrastructural studies on embryogenic development (zygotic and somatic) of Feijoa
sellowiana Berg and Myrtus communis, L." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/09/01 - 2024/11/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
2021/09/20 - 2022/03/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Michigan State University College of Natural Science, United States |
Michigan State University College of Natural Science, United States | ||
2019/01/01 - 2021/08/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
2015/01/10 - 2018/10/09 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States | ||
2013/04/01 - 2014/03/31 | Researcher (Research) | Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement Centre Grand-Est Nancy, France |
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture l'Alimentation et l'Environnement Centre Grand-Est Nancy, France | ||
2008/03/01 - 2013/02/28 | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal | ||
2006/09/01 - 2008/02/29 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | ||
2005/04/01 - 2006/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | University of California Davis College of Biological Sciences, United States |
University of California Davis College of Biological Sciences, United States |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/12/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/02 - 2026/01 | O papel dos fosfoinositois e proteínas NET de ligação à actina na regulação do tráfego vesicular e secrecção em células vegetais
Provided by PTCRIS: 2022.06990.PTDC
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2005/04/01 - 2007/09/30 | ROLE OF CLASS III HD-ZIP GENE ACTIVITY AND AUXIN IN THE PROMOTION OF ROOT MERISTEM FUNCTION
SFRH/BPD/18838/2004
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
University of California Davis Agricultural & Resource Economics Library, United States |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2000/09 - 2004/08 | NUCLEAR-MITOCHONDRIAL GENETIC INTERACTIONS REGULATING FLOWER ORGANOGENESIS
Provided by PTCRIS: SFRH/BD/839/2000
SFRH/BD/839/2000
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/08/01 - 2028/07/31 | Not Available
CEECINST/00066/2021/CP1777/CT0002
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/09/24 - 2022/03/31 | Translational regulation and novel translated small ORFs in Arabidopsis ABA responses
Research Fellow
Michigan State University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, United States
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US National Science Foundation
Ongoing
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2019/01/01 - 2021/08/31 | Functional studies of plant membrane trafficking and secretion - the phosphoinositide pathway in the responses to abiotic
stress
Provided by PTCRIS: PTDC/BIA-FBT/28170/2017
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2015/01/01 - 2018/09/30 | abiotic stress networks converging on FT2 to control growth in Populus
ID-DE-SC0012574
Research Fellow
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, United
States
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US Department of Energy
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | Strategic project - UI 239 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/AGR/UI0239/2011
PEst-OE/BIA/UI4004/2011
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/01/01 - 2013/05/31 | Genetic analysis of suber differentiation in Quercus suber L.
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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2009/12/02 - 2011/07/31 | Cork oak ESTs Consortium - Cork quality
part of the team
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2009/10/01 - 2011/06/30 | Cork oak ESTs Consortium - Cork production
SOBREIRO/0017/2009
part of the team
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-Alimentar do Alentejo, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/02/01 - 2026/01/31 | The role of phosphoinositides and NET actin-binding proteins in the regulation of plant cell vesicle trafficking and secretion
2022.06990.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2012/02/01 - 2015/09/30 | DEVELOPMENT OF LONG MASTER TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES IN PORTUGAL - A TOOL FOR DATING ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDINGS AND ART PIECES
PTDC/HIS-ARQ/117099/2010
part of the team
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012/03/01 - 2015/05/31 | VitiShade - Abscission of seedless grapes: shedding the genes from the shade
PTDC/AGR-GPL/116923/2010
part of the team
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Florestais, Portugal Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Newspaper article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/03/21 | Gene editing in plants | 5º cycle on online seminars "genetically speaking with..."
SPG - Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética (lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/09/18 | Phospholipases C (PLC5 and 7) on the endocytic machinery - Effects on the morphological, structural and metabolic properties of apical growing cells |
University of Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany)
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2017/02 | Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics of Populus Growth in Response to Daylength and Nutrient Availability. |
U.S. Department of Energy (Arlington, VA, United States)
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2016/07 | Abiotic stress networks converging on FT2 to control growth in Populus |
National Institute of Food and Agriculture UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (San Diego, United States)
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2012/08 | Ultrastructural studies of cork cells. | International Conference on Small Science (ICSS)
Open Access House of Science and Technology (OAHOST) (Orlando, FL, United States)
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2010/03 | Role of several vascular system genes under the control of two class III HD-ZIP promoters in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition (IBS-2008) (Rimini, Italy)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2020/01/01 - Current | Functional studies of membrane trafficking and secretion phosphoinositides in plant abiotic stress responses
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
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2008/01/01 - 2012/02/01 | Role of several vascular system genes under the control of two class III HD-ZIP promoters in Ara
bidopsis thaliana.
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2009/10/01 - 2011/09/20 | Study of the role of two class genes (Class III HD-Zip and KANADI) on the secondary root ontogeny.
Supervisor of Natacha Catarina Correia Rua Perpétuo
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Fundamentos de Ciências para Mestrados Bidisciplinares em Ensino das Ciências (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2009/10/01 - 2011/09/13 | Approaches to understand the role of CLE genes in xylem development using trans-activation.
Supervisor of Patrícia Caldeirinha, Master
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Fundamentos de Ciências para Mestrados Bidisciplinares em Ensino das Ciências (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28 | This event comprised a scientific approach where invited scientists presented their work, followed by shorter communications
given by graduated students. In parallel, several companies dealing with products made from fruits presented the most recent
productions (2023/04/28 - 2023/04/28)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2012/11/26 - Current | just as participant
Conference
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
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2011/10/21 - Current | 3 posters
¿ Rita Teresa Teixeira and Helena Pereira. Ultrastructural studies of cork cells.
¿ F. Nóbrega; I. Carrasquinho; R. Costa; C. Varela; S. Gonçalves, T. Almeida; A.M. Fortes, Rita Teixeira. CORK OAK ESTs CONSORTIUM:
Cork production.
¿ S. Gonçalves; T. Almeida; T. Capote; A.M. Fortes; Rita Teixeira; F. Nóbrega; I. Carrasquinho; R. Costa. CORK OAK ESTs CONSORTIUM:
Cork Quality.
Workshop
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
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2011/05 - Current | Poster - Bento, J., Machado, A., Teixeira, R, Ricardo, C.P. and Pinheiro, C. 2011. Relating Quercus suber cork quality with
the cork proteome. Plant Proteomics in Europe: where do we stand and where are we heading to?
Congress
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FINAL COST FA0603 MEETING |
2007/07 - Current | Poster - Teixeira, R and Canhoto, J. Genetic approach of stem secondary growth in Arabidopsis: understanding the development
of wood formation.
Conference
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Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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2001/09 - Current | Poster - Leino, M.; Teixeira, R. and Glimelius, K. A novel CMS system.
Conference
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Sweden
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1999/12/11 - Current | participant with one poster - Ultrastructural analysis of rice androgenesis leaves
Conference
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Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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1998/12/11 - Current | poster- analysis of somatic and zygotic embryos development at the ultrastructural level
Conference
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Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal
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2024/07/22 - 2024/07/26 | Being a scientist is a program in which a researcher welcomes a group of high school students in the lab for one week. During
this time, they develop a protocol and give a final presentation in the last day. I have welcomed 5 students which carried
out the following protocol: Use of confocal microscopy and molecular biology in plants.
Workshop
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Ser cientista
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2024/03/19 - 2024/03/22 | XXVI COENEB (Comissão Organizadora do XXVI Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia) is a national organization established
by biology students from all the universities in the country. I made a workshop by welcoming 5 students and showing the different
scientific activities performed in our scientific unit.
Workshop
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Biology Students national meeting
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2023/07/24 - 2023/07/28 | Being a scientist is a program in which a researcher welcomes a group of high school students in the lab for one week. During
this time, they develop a protocol and give a final presentation in the last day. I have welcomed 5 students which carried
out the following protocol: Use of confocal microscopy and molecular biology in plants.
Workshop
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Ser cientista
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2023/07/10 - 2023/07/13 | II Summer Course in plant Biotechnology, Innovation for sustainability. Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal.
Workshop
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Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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2023/05/03 - 2023/05/03 | This event is a faculty open day to high school students where they get the change to talk with researchers and address all
the questions they might have and show them how the university is organized.
Other
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Faculty open day - speed dating
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2017/03/27 - 2017/03/28 | Poster - Pinheiro C, Weinkoop S, Almeida JFM, Zarrouk O, Brunetti C, Planchon S, Gori A, Tattini M, Ricardo CP, Renaut J,
Teixeira RT. Quercus suber phellogen: what INFERNO reveals.
Conference
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
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2003/06/27 - 2003/07/17 | The Cold Spring Harbor Course on “Arabidopsis molecular genetics”
Other
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States
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2002/09/01 - 2002/09/06 | 2 poster:
¿ Teixeira, R.; Farbos, I.; Leino, M. and Glimelius, K. Histological and ultrastructural studies of alloplasmic CMS lines
derived from Brassica napus (+) Arabidopsis thaliana somatic hybrids.
¿ Teixeira, R.; Lopes, M.L.; Dias, J.D.; Cruz, G.S. and Canhoto, J. The problem of albinism in rice androgenesis: Ultrastructural
comparison between albino and green leaves.
Congress
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15th International Congress on Electron Microscopy |
2002/04/03 - 2002/04/19 | formation course - EMBO/Gulbenkian Biology Course in Plant Development
Other
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2000/04/27 - 2000/04/27 | just as participant |
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
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1999/05/06 - 1999/05/07 | Poster – Rita Teresa Teixeira, M.L. Lopes; J.D. Dias; J. F. Mesquita; G.S. Cruz and J.M. Canhoto. Androgenesis in rice (Oryza
sativa L.): cytological analysis of the regenerated plants.
Workshop
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Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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1999/05/06 - 1999/05/07 | just as participant
Workshop
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Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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1997/12/11 - 1997/12/12 | Poster - ultrastructural study of somatic embryos development in Myrtus Communis and Feijoa Sellowiana.
Conference
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Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2023 | Morphogenesis and organogenesis during in vitro cultures of Pinus pinea L. (Stonepine).
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Catarina de Barros Mendes (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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2010/06/18 | Embriogénese somática em Feijoa sellowiana Berg.: optimização e origem.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Adelaide João Silva Machado (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021/10/01 - Current | Biochemical genetics (0006-2928) | Springer Nature |
2021/03/05 - Current | Agriculture (2077-0472) | MDPI |
2020/08/18 - Current | Plant Biology (1438-8677) | Wiley |
2019/08/20 - Current | Food and Energy Security (2048-3694) | Wiley |
2019/08/19 - Current | Biomolecules (2218-273X) | MDPI |
2019/04/05 - Current | Forests (1999-4907) | MDPI |
2019/04/02 - Current | Molecules (1420-3049) | MDPI |
2019/03/04 - Current | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (1422-0067) | MDPI |
2019/02/13 - Current | Genes (2073-4425) | MDPI |
2019/01/01 - Current | Plants (2223-7747) | MDPI |
2018/12/08 - Current | Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica (1745-7270) | Oxford University Press |
2018/06/07 - Current | Plant Direct (2475-4455) | Wiley |
2018/01/23 - Current | New Phytologist (1469-8137) | Wiley |
2013/05/08 - Current | Frontiers in plant science (1664-462X) | Frontiers |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2011/05 - Current | XXXVI Jornadas Portuguesas de Genética (JPG) | Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2019/09/01 - 2023/12/29 | 62806 - Biologia Celular Complementar | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
2020/02/01 - 2021/06/19 | 62819 - Engenharia Genética | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
2019/01/29 - 2021/05/19 | Cell Biology | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2020/01/01 - 2020/06/30 | 62841 - Estudo Orientado em Biologia Molecular e Genética Aluna: Inês Camões trabalho: CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE PROCESS OF INFECTION OF THE EUROPEAN CHESTNUT BY THE PATOGEN PHYTOPHTHORA CINAMOMI | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
2017/01/04 - 2017/03/30 | Special Study “Plant Microscopy Techniques” | plant sciences (Postgraduate Certificate) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States |
2009/09/26 - 2012/02/25 | Plant Genetic Transformation | (Mestrado) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2009/10/01 - 2010/02/20 | Bioinformics | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2008/03/02 - 2008/06/18 | Plant Development I | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2008/03/01 - 2008/06/17 | Plant Biotechnology | Biologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2014/06/01 - Current | Project reviewer, Executive Agency for Higher Education, Romania. https://www.brainmap.ro/profile/Rita-
Teixeira
Evaluator
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Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2014/10/02 | Article following the publication of the paper: Teixeira, R.T.,* Fortes, M., Pinheiro, C., Pereira, H. 2014. Comparison of good- and bad-quality cork: application of high-throughput sequencing of phellogenic tissue. J Exp Bot 65 (17): 4887-4905 | sciencenews |
Scientific expedition
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/03/01 - 2023/07/31 | Colaboration with the AiR351 arts organization by supporting the artist Kim Schoen with her work with BioISI. Kim Schoen is an America artist performing different footages approaches to reality. In this project i have been helping Kim making a comparation of artificial and natural fruits/flowers. For that, several microscopy/imaging assistance was provided to Kim as well as scientific discussions. https://air351.art/residencies/kim-schoen/?preview=true | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2023 | Professor of the semester 2023-2024
NEBFCUL - Nucleo de Estudantes de Biologia da FCUL, Portugal
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