Raquel Figueiredo (C41E-ACAE-5CE0)

Curriculum Vitae

Raquel Figueiredo

Raquel Figueiredo (RF) is currently a Post-doctoral researcher in the group SPRED - Sexual Plant Reproduction and Development, integrated in Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, LAQV Requimte, Porto. RF holds a PhD in plant sciences (2011) from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências and Master degree (2003) in Plant Development and Reproduction by the same Institution. For most of her research life RF has engaged in the Natural Sciences field with emphasis on the area of Biological Sciences. RF published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals: Plant Molecular Biology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Experimental Botany; along with several communications in national and international meetings. During her PhD, RF has studied the functions of class III peroxidases (Prx) and their impact in plant cells and whole plant physiology. Together with her colleagues, RF has demonstrated that in the leaf of both Catharanthus roseus and Arabidopsis thaliana, the vacuolar couple Prx/phenols has a high H2O2 scavenging capacity, important for the overall H2O2 homeostasis in green leaves, and ultimately to contribute to fine-tune the cellular internal environment in response to external conditions. In parallel, RF has investigated the putative involvement of Prx activity from the leaves of C. roseus in the in vivo cross-linking of arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs) in the cell wall. During her Postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, USA (2012-14), RF has focused in the molecular basis of plant perception of bacterial pathogens. From 2015-18, RF moved to Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil, being awarded two consecutive individual post-doctoral fellowships from FAPESP and CNPq to study suberin biopolymer in the culm of sugarcane, a C4 bioenergy grass, with emphasis in suberin biosynthetic pathway and MYB transcription factor regulation in sugarcane. Currently, RF main project focuses in the male-female crosstalk towards fertilization in A. thaliana, in particular the AGPs role in the intricate molecular pathway driving to seed formation. Along with the scientific activity, RF has participated as instructor in programs of science communication. Namely, Programa Ciência Viva ¿ promoted by Agência Nacional para a Cultura Científica e Tecnológica and Junior University - a pioneer initiative of Univ. Porto, both promoting the engagement of high school students in science. RF has been a monitor of FOCO Programs oriented to high school teachers and has participated in short courses to elementary school pupils, a partnership between IBMC and Câmara Municipal do Porto.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Raquel Figueiredo

Citation names

Figueiredo, Raquel
Figueiredo, R.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C41E-ACAE-5CE0
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1029-6709

Email addresses

raquel.figueiredo@fc.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

220402780 Ext.: 70780 (Professional)

Addresses

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

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant sciences
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Botany

Languages

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

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011/07/12 Concluded	Biologia (Doutoramento) Major in Plant Sciences Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Functions of Class III Peroxidases in higher plants: multiple approaches using the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovada com Distinção
2003 Concluded	Plant Development and Reproduction (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal ""Pepper ringspotvirus as expression vector and GFP expression in S. tuberosum L."" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Muito Bom
2000 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	14 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/11/15 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

2015/08/01 - 2018/11/15	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Biologia, Brazil
	Universidade Estadual de Campinas Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Brazil
2012/01/02 - 2014/12/28	Postdoc (Research)	University of California Berkeley College of Natural Resources, United States
	University of California Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, United States

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2003/06/01 - 2004/09/01	Bolseira Técnica de Investigação	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

2003/01/01 - 2003/06/01	Estágio PRODEP III	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2018/11/15	Estudo da hidrofobicidade da parede celular do caule de cana-de-açúcar: biossíntese da lamela de suberina CNPq 104051/2018-3 Post-doc Fellow Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Biologia, Brazil	Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
2015/08/01 - 2018/07/31	Biopolímero da suberina na digestibilidade da parede celular de Cana Forrageira: estudos histoquímicos, bioquímicos e moleculares FAPESP 2015/05437-3 Post-doc Fellow Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Biologia, Brazil	Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo Concluded
2012/01/02 - 2014/12/28	Molecular Basis of NLR-Mediated Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana 2R01 GM069680-05A1 Researcher University of California Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, United States	National Institutes of Health Concluded
2007/01/01 - 2010/12/31	Functions of Class III Peroxidases in higher plants: multiple approaches using the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana SFRH/BD/28941/2006 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/07/26 - 2021/07/25	Male-female crosstalk towards fertilization - an intricate pathway of molecular wheels driving seed formation POCI-01-0145-FEDER-027839 Researcher Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2003/06/01 - 2004/05/31	Biogenesis of cardosins: studies of expression & biosynthetic pathways POCTI/BME/39765/2001 Research Technician Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Salvato, Fernanda; Figueiredo, Raquel; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Nuclei Enrichment from Sugarcane Stems for Proteomics Analyses". In Plant Secondary Metabolism Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, 79-87. Springer US, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-2185-1_7 Figueiredo, Raquel; Llerena, Juan Pablo Portilla; Cardeli, Bárbara Rocha; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Visualization of Suberization and Lignification in Sugarcane". In Plant Secondary Metabolism Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, 89-102. Springer US, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-2185-1_8 Llerena, Juan Pablo Portilla; Figueiredo, Raquel; Ferreira, Sávio Siqueira; Cesarino, Igor; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Isolation of Promoters and Transcription Factors Involved in the Regulation of Lignin Biosynthesis in Saccharum Species". In Plant Secondary Metabolism Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, 103-118. Springer US, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-1-0716-2185-1_9
Conference abstract	Figueiredo, Raquel; Carqueijeiro, Inês; Duarte, Patricia; Sottomayor, Mariana. "Multifunctional roles of two class III peroxidases from Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in 8th Plant Genomics European Meeting, Lisboa, 2009. Published Carqueijeiro, Inês; Figueiredo, Raquel; Duarte, Patricia; 5B17-0E0A-AAE3; Sottomayor, Mariana. "Class III peroxidases and plant defence in Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in XVI Congress of FESPB and Peroxidase-2008, Tampere, 2008. Published Amorim, Isabel; Figueiredo, Raquel; Pereira, Luis Gustavo; Duarte, Patricia; Sottomayor, Mariana. "Two highly homologous class III peroxidases of Catharanthus roseus with different patterns of expression". Paper presented in XV Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology Congress, Lyon, 2006. Published
Conference poster	Figueiredo, Raquel; Pereira, Ana Marta; Costa, Mónica; Carina Oliveira; Mariana Rocha; Marta Ferreira; Miguel Moreira; et al. "The role of the JAGGER GPI-anchor in Arabidopsis thaliana pistil function". Paper presented in The 31st International Conference on Arabidopsis Research - ICAR 2021, 2021. Mendes, Sara Foubert; Figueiredo, Raquel; Pereira, Luis Gustavo; Coimbra, Sílvia. "Pollen AGPs in development and fertilization - obtention and characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana quadruple knock-out/down mutant agp6agp11agp40agp23". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem IJUP 2020, 2020. Rocha, Mariana; Oliveira, Carina; Figueiredo, Raquel; Melo, Paula; Coimbra, Sílvia. "Characterization of the importance of GPI anchor for the biological function of JAGGER (AGP4) and detailed subcellular characterization of JAGGER protein in Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in Encontro de Investigação Jovem IJUP 2020, 2020. Figueiredo, Raquel; Kiyota, Eduardo; Portilla Llerena, Juan P; Souza, Sarah R; Sodek, Ladislav; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Cell wall hydrophobicity in sugarcane stem: suberin lamellae biosynthesis". Paper presented in VIII Cell Wall Research Conference, Asilomar, California, USA, 2018. Figueiredo, Raquel; Pereira, Rui; Nunes, Judite; Bettencourt, Sara; Coimbra, Sílvia; Duarte, Patricia; Sottomayor, Mariana. "Cell wall and vacuolar arabinogalactanproteins are markers of cell differentiation in the leaves of the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus". Paper presented in XII Cell Wall Meeting, Porto, Portugal, 2010. Figueiredo, Raquel; Carqueijeiro, Inês; Duarte, Patricia; Sottomayor, Mariana. "Identification of class III peroxidases associated with senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in Gordon Research Conferences - Plant Senescence, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA, 2008.
Journal article	Figueiredo, Raquel; Portilla Llerena, Juan Pablo; Kiyota, Eduardo; Ferreira, Sávio Siqueira; Cardeli, Bárbara Rocha; de Souza, Sarah Caroline Ribeiro; dos Santos Brito, Michael; et al. "The sugarcane ShMYB78 transcription factor activates suberin biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana". Plant Molecular Biology 104 4-5 (2020): 411-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11103-020-01048-1. Published • 10.1007/s11103-020-01048-1 Llerena, Juan Pablo Portilla; Figueiredo, Raquel; Brito, Michael dos Santos; Kiyota, Eduardo; Mayer, Juliana Lischka Sampaio; Araujo, Pedro; Schimpl, Flavia Camila; et al. "Deposition of lignin in four species of Saccharum". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): 10.1038/s41598-019-42350-3 Figueiredo, Raquel; Araújo, Pedro; Llerena, Juan Pablo P.; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Suberin and hemicellulose in sugarcane cell wall architecture and crop digestibility: A biotechnological perspective". Food and Energy Security 8 3 (2019): e00163. 10.1002/fes3.163 Figueiredo, Raquel; Cesarino, Igor; Mazzafera, Paulo. "Suberin as an Extra Barrier to Grass Digestibility: a Closer Look to Sugarcane Forage". Tropical Plant Biology 9 2 (2016): 96-108. 10.1007/s12042-016-9166-3 Ferreres, Federico; Figueiredo, Raquel; Bettencourt, Sara; Carqueijeiro, Inês; Oliveira, Juliana; Gil-Izquierdo, Angel; Pereira, David M.; et al. "Identification of phenolic compounds in isolated vacuoles of the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus and their interaction with vacuolar class III peroxidase: an H2O2 affair?". Journal of Experimental Botany 62 8 (2011): 2841-2854. 10.1093/jxb/erq458 Sottomayor, Mariana; Duarte, Patricia; Figueiredo, Raquel; Ros Barcelo, Alfonso. "A vacuolar class III peroxidase and the metabolism of anticancer indole alkaloids in Catharanthus roseus: Can peroxidases, secondary metabolites and arabinogalactan proteins be partners in microcompartmentation of cellular reactions?". Plant signaling & behavior 3 10 (2008): 899-901. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=MEDLINE&KeyUT=MEDLINE:19704535&KeyUID=MEDLINE:19704535. EE1F-B3CE-1FA1; 7116-FC0C-A78B; 681D-6A3A-80A6; Figueiredo, Raquel; Duarte, Patricia; 7517-7369-62FE; Pereira, Susana. "From Flower to Seed Germination in Cynara cardunculus: A Role for Aspartic Proteinases". International Journal of Plant Developmental Biology 1 2 (2007): 274-281. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/82523. Figueiredo, R.; Duarte, P.; Pereira, S.; Pissarra, J.. "The embryo sac of Cynara cardunculus: Ultrastructure of the development and localisation of the aspartic proteinase cardosin B". Sexual Plant Reproduction 19 2 (2006): 93-101. 10.1007/s00497-006-0026-4 Duarte, P.; Figueiredo, R.; Pereira, S.; Pissarra, J.. "Structural characterization of the stigma-style complex of Cynara cardunculus (Asteraceae) and immunolocalization of cardosins A and B during floral development". Canadian Journal of Botany 84 5 (2006): 737-749. 10.1139/B06-029
Online resource	Figueiredo, Raquel; Mazzafera, Paulo. Saccharum hybrid cultivar R570 transcription factor MYB78 gene, complete cds. 2020. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT940241.
Thesis / Dissertation	Figueiredo, Raquel. "Functions of Class III Peroxidases in higher plants: multiple approaches using the medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2011.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/03	A Parede Celular do Caule das Monocotiledóneas	Mestrado em Biologia Funcional e Biotecnologia de Plantas Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências (Porto, Portugal)
2017	O papel da suberina em plantas	BV882 – Fisiologia Vegetal-Ambiental do curso de Graduação em Ciências Biológicas Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Biologia (Campinas, Brazil)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019 - 2020	Obtenção e caracterização de um mutante knock-out/down quadruplo para as AGPs 6, 11, 40 e 23 no desenvolvimento do pólen de Arabidopsis thaliana Co-supervisor of Sara Foubert Mendes	Biologia (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Caracterização da importância da âncora GPI para a função biológica da JAGGER (AGP4) e obtenção de linhas marcadoras com GUS/GFP para o promotor do gene AT3g45860 em Arabidopsis thaliana Co-supervisor of Mariana Santos Rocha	Biologia (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Localização da expressão subcelular de JAGGER (PROTEÍNA ARABINOGALACTÂNICA 4) e obtenção de uma linha marcadora GFP para o seu interator OvR2 Co-supervisor of Carina Oliveira	Biologia (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Clonagem do gene At5g03350 de Arabidopsis thaliana e respetiva fusão com o gene repórter GFP Co-supervisor of Lucas da Silveira Pacheco	Biologia (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2009 - 2010	Study of the functions of class III peroxidases in Arabidopsis thaliana by functional genetics Co-supervisor of Ana Luísa Guimarães e Ivo Dias	Research Integration Grant (FCT, Ministry of Education and Science, Portugal) (Scientific initiation) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2014/06/09 - 2014/06/13	QB3 Lab Fundamentals Bootcamp 2014 (2014/06/02 - 2014/06/20) Workshop (Co-organisor)	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, United States
2013 - 2013	PMB Postdoc Lunches Foster Camaraderie, Professional Presentations (2013) Meeting (Co-organisor)	University of California Berkeley Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, United States
2010 - 2010	Careers in Science: Life after a PhD (2010) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015	Science Outreach Activity: communication about the Cell Wall Biology. "Jornadas de Ciência de Arouca" are integrated in an educative program aiming to bring the science made in the laboratories to the general public, with a particular focus in high-school students and teachers. Seminar	I Jornadas da Ciência de Arouca
2014 - 2014	QB3/GE Bioprocessing Course Summer 2014 - Separation and Purification Strategies for Biotechnology Products Workshop	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, United States
2010 - 2010	Science Outreach Activity: participation in the play "As esferas" Other	Researcher’s Night '10, Porto Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2006 - 2010	Science Outreach Activity: Instructor of several workshops integrated in the program "Porto de Crianças", oriented to elementary school students (1º ciclo). Workshop	Porto de Crianças Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal Câmara Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2009 - 2009	Introductory Programming for Bioinformatics (Python) Workshop	University of California Berkeley Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, United States
2005 - 2005	Science Outreach Activity: Instructor of the Course "Molecular Biology - protein expression in transgenic systems", oriented to high-school students Workshop	Universidade Junior Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2004 - 2004	Advanced Light Microscopy in Living Cells Workshop	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2004 - 2004	Science Outreach Activity: Instructor of the Course "Plant cell and tissue cultures in vitro ", oriented to high-school teachers (Cursos de Formação Contínua de Professores) Workshop	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2003 - 2003	Science Outreach Activity: Instructor of the Course "Expression of aspartic proteases in plants" integrated in the program "Scientific occupation for teenagers in summer vacation" Workshop	Scientific occupation for teenagers in summer vacation - Ciência Viva Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal Ciência Viva, Portugal
1997 - 1997	“Darwinism Heritage and its Today Expansions” por Stephen Jay Gould Seminar	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020/10/06 - 2020/10/20	Journal of Experimental Botany (1460-2431)

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction (IASPRR)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019 - 2020	Biologia Celular (Práticas Laboratoriais)	Biologia Celular (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal