User:Margarida Gama-Carvalho

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Margarida

• Margarida Gama-Carvalho
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lisbon
• BioFIG - Center for Functional and Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Sciences
• Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Edifício C8, Gabinete 8.2.53
• 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
• Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

• 2003, PhD in Biomedical Sciences/Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon
• 2000, MS in Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon
• 1994, BS in Biology/Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

Positions

• Since 2011: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lisbon
• Since 2009: Head of the Gene Expression and Bioinformatics Unit and RNA Biology and Bioinformatics Lab, BioFIG Center, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
• 2003 to 2011: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon
• 2003: Visiting post-doctoral fellow, Pam Silver's lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School
• 1996 to 2003: Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon

Research interests

1. Post-transcriptional control of gene expression by RNA binding proteins and microRNAs
2. Development of therapeutical applications
3. Bioinformatics
4. Systems and synthetic biology

Publications

Papers

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Book Chapters

Gama-Carvalho M., and Carmo-Fonseca, M. (2006). Heterokaryon assays. In "Cell Biology – a Laboratory Handbook", ed. Julio Celis, Academic Press, London, UK.

Gama-Carvalho M., and Carmo-Fonseca, M. (2007). Tráfego de RNA e patogénese. In “O Mundo do RNA: Novos desafios e Perspectivas Futuras”, ed. Cecília M. Arraiano e Arsénio M. Fialho, Lidel, Lisboa, Portugal.

Lab page

• Under construction

Teaching

Undergrad courses

• Molecular Biology - Health Sciences
• Biochemistry

Notebooks

• Teaching support

External links

http://biofig.fc.ul.pt/
http://www.fc.ul.pt