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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Diana Maria Patacas Viegas Vieira

Citation names

  • Vieira, Diana
  • D. V. Vieira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8110-74BC-7FE4
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7388-6904

Email addresses

  • dianamvieira@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09 - 2024/05
Concluded
Project Management / Gestão de Projeto (Pós-Graduação)
ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
2009/01/01 - 2014/12/16
Concluded
Bioquímica (Doutoramento)
Major in Bioquímica Estrutural e Funcional
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2007 - 2008
Concluded
Biotecnologia (Mestrado)
Major in Biotecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
18
2002 - 2007
Concluded
Química Aplicada (Licenciatura)
Major in Biotecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2018/01/08 - 2022/11/30 Postdoc (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/06 - 2013/12 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Research Complex at Harwell, United Kingdom
2011 - 2011 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/03/15 - 2024/08/31 Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010 - 2014/12/16 Structural characterization of mRNA localization mechanisms
SFRH/BD/62415/2009
PTDC/BIA-PRO/80486/2006
PhD Student Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal

Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014 - 2014 Amidation of the peptidoglycan of Gram-positive bacteria: an unexplored potential target for antibiotics
PTDC/BIA-MIC/3195/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal

Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/10 - 2022/11 Dynamic mRNA-protein interactions and the establishment of anterior oocyte polarization in Drosophila.
Post-doc
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017 - 2017 Reconstitution of Insect Fertilization to study Bacteria Transmission
PTDC/BBB-EBI/0861/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Araújo, Margarida; Tavares, Alexandra; Vieira, Diana V.; Telley, Ivo A.; Oliveira, Raquel A.. "Endoplasmic reticulum membranes are continuously required to maintain mitotic spindle size and forces". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39489.
    10.26508/lsa.202201540
  2. Ojas Deshpande; Jorge de-Carvalho; Diana V. Vieira; Ivo A. Telley. "Astral microtubule cross-linking safeguards uniform nuclear distribution in the Drosophila syncytium". Journal of Cell Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202007209.
    10.1083/jcb.202007209
  3. Francisco Leisico; Diana V. Vieira; Teresa A. Figueiredo; Micael Silva; Eurico J. Cabrita; Rita G. Sobral; Ana Madalena Ludovice; et al. "First insights of peptidoglycan amidation in Gram-positive bacteria - the high-resolution crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus glutamine amidotransferase GatD". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22986-3.
    10.1038/s41598-018-22986-3
  4. Vieira, D.; Figueiredo, T.A.; Verma, A.; Sobral, R.G.; Ludovice, A.M.; De Lencastre, H.; Trincao, J.. "Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of GatD, a glutamine amidotransferase-like protein from Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan". Acta Crystallographica Section F:Structural Biology Communications 70 5 (2014): 632-635. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84905435586&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1107/S2053230X14007298
  5. Galesio, M.; Vieira, D.V.; Rial-Otero, R.; Lodeiro, C.; Moura, I.; Capelo, J.L.. "Influence of the protein staining in the fast ultrasonic sample treatment for protein identification through peptide mass fingerprint and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry". Journal of Proteome Research 7 5 (2008): 2097-2106. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-52049105684&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1021/pr700850w
Preprint
  1. Diana V. Vieira; Rita R. Carlota; Jorge de-Carvalho; Ivo A. Telley. "Pulse-chase experiments reveal dynamics of RNA binding protein Exuperantia inDrosophila melanogaster eggchambers". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.06.519343.
    10.1101/2022.12.06.519343
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Crystallographic studies of proteins involved in the mRNA localization mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster and amidation of the peptidoglycan residues in Staphylococcus aureus". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, 2014. https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/14632.
  2. Vieira, Diana Maria Patacas Viegas. "Estudos cinéticos em reacções de hidrólise enzimática de proteínas acelerada por ultrasons". Master, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/13884.

Other

Other output
  1. Astral microtubule crosslinking by Feo safeguards uniform nuclear distribution in the Drosophila syncytium. 2019. Ojas Deshpande; Jorge de-Carvalho; Diana V. Vieira; Ivo A. Telley. https://doi.org/10.1101/859975.
    10.1101/859975
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021/02 - 2021/06 Role of Exuperantia protein in mRNA transport during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis.
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/02 - 2021/02 PostDoc Committee Member of the board
2012 - 2013 PARSUK - Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/08 - 2019/08 Protein expression in bacterial cells and purification using AKTA system. Rafael Prazeres
2019/01/21 - 2019/02/22 Large scale expression and purification of soluble targets. Daniel Mendes
2018/06 - 2018/07 Drosophila husbandry and crossing genetics. Daniela Silva
2013/06 - 2013/07 Amidation of Glutamic Acid Residues in the Peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus Joseph
2011 - 2011 Structural studies in mRNA localization mechanisms: expression and purification of Exuperantia. Fábio Lampreia
2011 - 2011 Structural studies in mRNA localization mechanisms: expression and purification of Ypsilon-Schachtel. Cristiana Santos
2010 - 2010 mRNA Localization in Drosophila melanogaster: study of Ypsilon-Schachtel protein. Joana Nabais
2009 - 2009 Structural studies of RNA localization mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster Hugo Correia
Distinctions

Award

2018 30 Year Anniversary Award to attend Drosophila Genetics and Genomics Course
Wellcome Genome Campus, United Kingdom