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Institutional address:

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Centro de Botânica Aplicada à Agricultura, Secção de Genética, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, PORTUGAL

Languages:

English: Fluent speaking and writing skills
Portuguese: Fluent speaking and writing skills
French: Some speaking and reading skills

Academic degrees:

Year Academic Degree Institution Classification
1995 Doctorate of Philosophy York University, Canada Honours and Distinction
1990 Honours Bachelor of Science York University, Canada Honours and Distinction

Previous and current scientific and/or professional activities:

Year Position or Category Institution
02/2002-present Post-Doctorate Instituto Superior de Agronomia
01/1996-09/1999 Post-Doctorate Instituto de Histologia e Embriologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Lisboa
09/1987-08/1994 Research Assistant York University, Toronto Canada
09/1991-07/1994 Teaching Assistant York University, Toronto Canada

Awards and fellowships :

Year Name of the prize or award Name of the granting entity
2007 FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2004 FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2002 EMBO course "Plant Development", Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras , PORTUGAL European Molecular Biology Organization and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
1998 National Science and Engineering Research Council, Research Fellowship National Science and Engineering Research Council, Government of Canada
1996 FCT/Praxis XXI Postdoctoral Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia/Praxis XXI
1994 Course "Neurobiology of Drosophila", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, USA Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, USA
1993 Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS-B) National Science and Engineering Research Council, Government of Canada
1992 York University Graduate Student Assistance Award York University , Toronto Canada


Participation in research projects (2002-2007):

Coordination of scientific projects :
Principal Investigator: Helena Sofia de Campos Pereira. Project entitled: Large scale screen for genes important in production associated phenotypes in Vitis. Reference: POCI/AGR/58320/2004. January 2006- January 2009

Participation in scientific projects :
Agro 187. Aplicação de Técnicas de Biologia Molecular à Caracterização das Variedades Portuguesas de Videira. February 2002- February 2005 (responsible from the ISA team coordinated by W. Viegas)

Participation in international research groups:
European Concerted Research Action-Cost Action 858. Viticulture:Biotic and abiotic stress. Grapevine defence mechanisms and grape development. 2006- present

ERA-NET Plant genomics platform. Grapevine functional genomics. 2006-present

Teaching experience:

2006/2007 Molecular Markers Module
Licenciatura em Biologia.
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
2006 Bioinformatics Module.
Licenciatura em Engenharia Agronómica.
Instituto Superior de Agronomia
2005/2006 Module on Molecular Markers
Licenciatura em Biotecnologia
Universidade Nova
2003 Module on Proteomics
Molecular Biology for Healthcare Professionals
Instituto de Medicina Tropical
1999 Module on Genetics
Mestrado em Biologia do Desenvolvimento
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
1998 Module on Genetics
Mestrado em Biologia do Desenvolvimento
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
1996/1997 Module on genetics and development.
PhD Program in Biomedicine
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
1991-1994 Genetics
Teaching Assistant- Bachelor of Science.
York University, Toronto Canada


Supervising experience:

Supervision of Honours Thesis:
João Rocha. Molecular Analysis of B chromosomes in Rye . Trabalho de Fim de Curso de Engenharia Biologia. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, March 2007 to present

José António Silva. Maracadores moleculares baseados em zonas repetitivas do genoma. Trabalho de Fim de Curso de Engenharia Agronómica Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Febuary 2006 to December 2007

Co-supervision of scientific projects:
Project entitled: Molecular Markers as tools to understand genome evolution induced by polyploidization. Student: Miguel M. Bento, August 2005 to present

Co-Supervised Honours Thesis:
Manuel Torcato Carruço de Belo Jorge. Análise Molecular de clones de Touriga Nacional. Relatório do Trabalho de Fim de Curso de Engenharia Agronómica. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Agronomia, July 2003

Please note: I will be co-supervising two Post-doctorates with projects in Grapevine genomics and abiotic stress starting October 2007

Publications:

Thesis

Ph.D. thesis title: Genetic characterization of foraging behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. 1995, York University, Toronto Canada

Honours BSc. thesis title: Behavioural differences in Drosophila melanogaster adults. 1990, York University, Toronto Canada

Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees

Almadanim, M.C., Baleiras-Couto, M.M., Pereira, H.S., Carneiro, L.C., Fevereiro, P., Eiras-Dias, J.E., Morais, L., Viegas, W. and Veloso, M.M. 2007. Genetic diversity of the grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cultivars most utilizedfor wine production in Portugal . Vitis 46:116-119

Pereira, H.S., Barão, A., Delgado, M., Leonor Morais-Cecílio, L., and Viegas, W. 2005. Genomic Analysis of Grapevine Retrotransposon 1 (Gret1) in Vitis vinifera. Theor. and Appl. Genet. 111:871-878

Custódio, N., Carmo-Fonseca, M., Geraghty, F., Pereira, H.S., Grosveld, F., and Antoniou, M. 1999. Inefficient processing impairs release of RNA from the site of transcription. The EMBO Journal. 10:2855-2866

Osborne, K., Robichon, A., Burgess, E., Butland, S., Shaw, R.A.,Coulthard, Pereira , H.S., Greenspan, R.J. and SokolowskI, M.B. 1997. Natural behavior polymorphism due to a cGMP-dependent protein kinase of Drosophila. Science 277: 834-836.

Sokolowski, M.B., Pereira, H.S., and Hughes, K.D. 1997. Evolution of foraging behaviour in Drosophila by density dependent selection. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA. 94: 7373-7377

Pereira, H.S., MacDonald, D.E., Hilliker, A.H., and Sokolowski, M.B. 1995. Chaser (Csr), a new gene affecting larval foraging behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 140: 263-270

Pereira, H.S., and Sokolowski, M.B. 1993. Larval foraging mutations in Drosophila melanogaster affect adult foraging behavior. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. USA. 90: 5044-5046

Papers in progress (expected to be published 2007/2008)

Pereira , H.S., Barão, A., Delgado, M., and Viegas, W. Constructing an atlas of meiosis in Vitis vinifera : A tool for chromosome mapping. Submitted to Vitis

Miguel Bento, M., Pereira H.S., Rocheta, M., Gustafson, P.,Viegas, W., and Silva, M. Polyploidization as a force in plant genome evolution: sequence rearrangements in triticale. Submitted to Theor. and Appl. Genet.

Pereira , H.S., Silva, Z. and Wanda Viegas. Genomic distribution of Gret1 (grapevine retrotransposon 1) and its effects on phenotypic variability in grapevine. In prep

Pereira, H.S., Delgado, M., Rocha, J., Jones, N., and Viegas, W. Molecular analysis of a B-specific sequence in the rye B chromosome. In prep

Papers in conference proceedings:
Pereira, H.S., Barão, A., Delgado, M., Leonor Morais-Cecílio, L., and Viegas, W. Grapevine Retrotransposon 1 (Gret1): Distribution and application as a molecular marker in Vitis vinifera. International Grape Genomics Symposium. St. Louis, Missouri, July 12-14, 2005. pp. 113-116

Almandanim, M.C., Baleiras-Couto, M., Pereira, H.S., Melo, E., Fevereiro, P., Eiras-Dias, J.E., Morais, L., Viegas, W., and M.M. Veloso. Os Microssatélites na Identificação de Variedades de Videira. 6o Simpósio de Vitivinicultura do Alentejo. Évora, Portugal. May 26-28, 2004. Vol. 1, pp. 23-29

Communications:

Oral communications by invitation
Pereira , H.S., Burgess, E., Campos , A., Greenspan, R., Osborne, K., Robichon, A., and M.B Sokolowski. Genetic and molecular analysis of foraging behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster. Symposium on heredity, nervous system and behaviour. Richmond Virginia , USA . June 3-4, 1995

Other oral communications
Miguel Bento, M., Pereira H.S., Rocheta, M., Gustafson, P.,Viegas, W., and Silva, M. Polyploidization as a force in plant genome evolution: sequence rearrangements in triticale. 16 th International Chromosome Conference, Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 25-29, 2007

Pereira , H.S., Barão, A., Delgado, M., and Viegas,W. Constructing an atlas of meiosis in Vitis vinifera: A tool for chromosome mapping. 9th International Conference on Grape Genetics and Breeding, Udine, Italy, July 2-6, 2006

Miguel, M.B., Pereira, H.S., Silva, M., Gustafson, J.P., and Viegas, W. Molecular Markers as a tool to understand genome evolution induced by polyploidization. II Encontro Nacional sobre Marcadores Moleculares, Estação Zootécnica Nacional, Santarém, October 27-28, 2005

Pereira, H.S., Barão, A., Delgado, M., Leonor Morais-Cecílio, L., and Viegas, W. Genomic Analysis of Grapevine Retrotransposon 1 (Gret1) in Vitis vinifera. International Grape Genomics Symposium. St. Louis, Missouri, July 12-14, 2005

Almandanim, M.C., Baleiras-Couto, M., Pereira, H.S., Melo, E., Fevereiro, P., Eiras-Dias, J.E., Morais, L., Viegas, W., and M.M. Veloso. Caracterização Molecular das Castas Portuguesas de Videira. 2o Colóquio do projecto Agro 187. Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal. January 21, 2004

Almandanim, M.C., Baleiras-Couto, M., Pereira, H.S., Melo, E., Fevereiro, P., Eiras-Dias, J.E., Morais, L., Viegas, W., and M.M. Veloso. Os Microssatélites na Identificação de Variedades de Videira. 6o Simpósio de Vitivinicultura do Alentejo. Évora, Portugal. May 26-28, 2004

Almandanim, M.C., Baleiras-Couto, M., Pereira, H.S., Melo, E., Fevereiro, P., Eiras-Dias, J.E., Morais, L., Viegas, W., and M.M. Veloso. Aplicação de Técnicas de Biologia Molecular à Caracterização das Variedades Portuguesas de Videira. 1o Colóquio do projecto Agro 187. Estação Vitivinícola Nacional, Dois Portos, Portugal. January 24, 2003

Custódio, N., Carmo-Fonseca, M., Geraghty, F., Hurst , J., Pereira , H.S., and M. Antoniou. Efficient RNA processing is essential for release from the site of transcription. Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function. Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA. October 7-11, 1998

Pereira , H.S., Yang, P., Hilliker, A.J., Gundelfinger, E. and Sokolowski, M.B. Molecular
characterization of foraging behaviour. 6th European Symposium on Drosophila Neurobiology. Regensburg, Germany. September 15-19, 1996

Pereira , H.S., and M.B. Sokolowski. Dissecção genética do comportamento alimentar em Drosophila melanogaster. XXX Reunião Annual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Microscopia Electrónica e Biologia Celular. Porto, Portugal. December 14-15, 1995

Posters in conferences
Pereira, H.S., Delgado, M., Rocha, J., Jones, N., and Viegas, W. Molecular analysis of a B-specific sequence in the rye B chromosome. 16 th International Chromosome Conference, Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 25-29, 2007

Ribeiro, T., Pereira , H.S., Pires, N. Barão, A., Rocheta, M., Viegas, W., Morais-Cecilio, L. Molecular and physical analysis of Quercus Suber retrotransposon genes in members of the Fagaceae family. 5. Plant Genomics European Meetings, Venice, Italy, October 11-14, 2006

Pereira, H.S., Hilliker, A.H., and Sokolowski, M.B. Interactions with the foraging locus: the Chaser gene. 4th European Symposium on Drosophila Neurogenetics. Glasgow, Scotland. September 6-10, 1992

Pereira, H.S., and Sokolowski, M.B. Adult and larval foraging behavioural patterns are influenced by the foraging gene of Drosophila melanogaster. 36th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Canada . Queens University , Kingston , Ontario . June 11-14, 1991

Pereira, H.S., and Sokolowski, M.B. Rover and sitter strains of Drosophila melanogaster differ in two adult behavior patterns: foraging and courtship. 3rd European Symposium on Drosophila Neurogenetics. St.Remy, France. October 28-November 1, 1990

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