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Presentation of review articles prepared by PhD students

21 dezembro 2012, 14:00 Isabel Sá-Correia

Presentation to the course students of the following two review articles prepared by PhD students on Molecular and Cellular Microbiology topics:

Genetic Engineering strategies for the development of low-alcohol-wine yeasts

Bacterial polyamines and their roles as stress response molecules


Presentation of review articles prepared  by PhD students

18 dezembro 2012, 08:30 Isabel Sá-Correia

Presentation to the course students of the following two review articles prepared by PhD students on Molecular and Cellular Microbiology topics:  

Posttranslational regulation in prokaryotes: the role of Hfq-like proteins in bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex.

The development of biomarkers of drug toxicity using toxicogenomics in yeasy


Presentation of scientific articles by MSc students

14 dezembro 2012, 14:00 Isabel Sá-Correia

Presentation of the following scientifc articles by MSc students

Article 23 – dos Santos, S.C., Teixeira, M.C., Cabrito, T.R., Sá-Correia, I., Yeast Toxicogenomics: genome-wide responses to chemical stresses with impact in Environmental Health, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. Frontiers in Genetics, 3, 63, 2012.

Article 24 – Coutinho, C.P., dos Santos, S.C., Madeira, A., Mira, N.P., Moreira, A.S., Sá-Correia, I., Long-term colonization of the cystic fibrosis lung by Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria: epidemiology, clonal variation and genome-wide expression alterations. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 1: 12, 2011.

 


Presentation of scientific articles by MSc students

11 dezembro 2012, 08:30 Isabel Sá-Correia

Presentation of the following scientifc articles by MSc students:

Article 19 – Teixeira, M.C., Godinho, C.P., Cabrito, T.R., Mira, N.P., Sá-Correia, I., Increased expression of the yeast multidrug resistance ABC transporter Pdr18 leads to increased ethanol tolerance and ethanol production in high gravity alcoholic fermentation, Microbial Cell Factories, 11, 98, 2012.

Article 20 – Palma M, Madeira S, Mendes-Ferreira A and Sá-Correia I, Impact of assimilable nitrogen availability in glucose uptake kinetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during alcoholic fermentation, Microbial Cell Factories, 11:99, 2012.

Article 21 – Remy, E., Cabrito, T.R., Baptista, R., Teixeira, M.C., Sá-Correia, I., Duque, P., The Pht1;9 transporter mediates inorganic Pi acquisition by the Arabidopsis thaliana root during phosphorus starvation. The New Phytologist, 195, 356–371, 2012. (to be presented in the perspective of using yeast as a model host)

 


Presentation of scientific articles by MSc students

7 dezembro 2012, 14:00 Isabel Sá-Correia

During class, the following scientific articles were presented by MSc students:

 

Article 14 – N.P. Mira, S. Henriques, G. Keller, M.C. Teixeira, R. Matos, C. Arraiano, D.R. Winge, I. Sá-Correia, Identification of a DNA binding site for the transcription factor Haa1p, required for Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to acetic acid stress. Nucleic Acids Research, 16: 6898-907, 2011.

 

 Article 17 – S.C. dos Santos, S. Tenreiro, M. Palma, J. Becker, I. Sá-Correia, “Transcriptomic profiling of the yeast response to quinine evidenced a glucose limitation response attributable-drug-induced inhibition of glucose uptake”,  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy , 53, 5213-5223, 2009 (read for complementary information: dos Santos, S.C., Sá-Correia, I., A genome-wide screen identifies yeast genes required for protection against or enhanced cytotoxicity of the antimalarial drug quinine. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 286(5-6), 333-46, 2011).

 

 Article 18Cabrito, T.R., Teixeira, M.C., Singh, A., Prasad, R., Sá-Correia, I., The yeast ABC transporter Pdr18 (ORF YNR070w) controls plasma membrane sterol composition, playing a role in multidrug resistance, Biochemical Journal, 440, 195-202.