Curriculum vitae. Ana Isabel Faria Ribeiro

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1 Curriculum vitae Ana Isabel Faria Ribeiro

2 1. Dados pessoais 1. Personal data Nome completo Full name Ana Isabel Faria Ribeiro Morada institucional Institutional address ECO-BIO/IICT Quinta do Marquês (EAN) Oeiras PORTUGAL Contactos Contact data Telefone: /7 Fax: Endereço internet (url):

3 2. Formação académica 2. Academic degrees Ano Grau académico Instituição Classificação Year Academic degree Institution Classification 1997 Doctor (Plant Molecular Biology) Wageningen Agricultural University Master of Science (Biotechnology- Plant and Microbial Production) Wageningen Agricultural University 8/ Licenciatura (Agronomy-Crop production) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane 4/5 3. Actividades anteriores e situação actual em termos científicos e/ou profissionais 3. Previous and current scientific and/or professional activities Período Period Cargo ou categoria Position or category Researcher (Investigadora auxiliar) Instituição Institution Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal Invited researcher (Investigadora convidada) Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal Portuguese secretary Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Food engineering course coordinator Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal Post-doc Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal Assistant Professor (Professora auxiliar) Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal Post-doc ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal

4 4. Área de actividade científica 4. Area of scientific activity Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Actuais interesses de investigação Present research interests Molecular Plant - Environment Interactions 1) Molecular biology of nitrogen-fixing root-nodule symbioses: - Molecular and biochemical characterization and functional analysis of defense-related genes isolated from Casuarina glauca nodules induced by Frankia - Comparison between actinorhizal and legume symbioses through promoter studies 2) Molecular responses of coffee (Coffea arabica) to abiotic stresses: - Molecular characterization of coffee genes involved in the control of oxidative stress and photosynthesis during cold stress Outras competências/actividades Other skills/activities - Plant tissue culture and transformation - Genetic diversity studies - Genetic stability of in vitro and cryo-preserved plants 5. Experiência na orientação 5. Supervising experience Post-docs - Maria M. Romeiras - «Biodiversidade na região da Macaronésia: padrões de especiação e biogeografia das Ilhas de Cabo Verde» since September 2006 (IICT) (co-supervision) - Jingsi Liang - «Functional analysis of defense-related genes during symbiotic nitrogen fixation» since July 2006 (Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, IICT and ITQB) - Ana Sofia Fortunato «Identification of molecular markers for cold tolerance in Coffea sp.» since July 2006 (IICT) - Patrícia Conceição dos Santos «Role of defense-related- and resistance genes during the establishment of root-nodule symbioses» since April 2005 (IICT and ITQB) - Maria João Rijo-Johansen «Molecular alterations during Casuarina glauca nodulation» - October October 2003 (IICT and ITQB)

5 PhDs - Paula Cristina Eichler - «Respostas ao nível molecular na tolerância a baixas temperaturas positivas em Coffea sp.» - since May Jingsi Liang - «Heterologous gene expression in legume nodules of Medicago truncatula» concluded 2006 (ITQB/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Ana Sofia Fortunato «Involvement of defence-related genes during nodulation of Casuarina glauca» concluded 2006 (ITQB/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - Ana Maria Bessa «Genetic diversity of wild Helianthus populations» - July 2001-July Patrícia Conceição dos Santos «Molecular aspects of coffee leaf rust resistance» concluded 2005 (Universidade da Madeira) Undergraduate students (final year) - Alexandra Ferreira «Genetic diversity in wild Helianthus populations from Mozambique» - October October 2003 (degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget) - Eda Rita Machado «Chitinase gene expression in response to coffee leaf rust» - October October 2003 (degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget) - Bruno Antunes «Genetic characterization of Hemileia vastatrix, the causal agent of coffee orange rust» May - December 2002 (degree in Biotechnological Engineering, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) - Alfredo Tomás Magumisse - «Molecular and morphological characterization of wild Helianthus populations» - April - July 2002 (degree in Agronomy, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique) (co-supervision) - Renata Ferreira «Cloning of peroxidase coding genes from Casuarina glauca nodules» March 2001 May 2002 (degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget) - Inês Castelhano Graça «Cloning and characterization of coffee genes involved in the response to Colletotrichum kawawe e C. gloeoporioides» March January 2001 (degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget) - Sílvia Maria Cotrim Alves Tema: «Characterization of a lupin hidrolase» September September 2000 (degree in Food Engineering, Instituto Piaget) Capacity building - Inês Graça (degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences Biotechnology) «Molecular biology of Casuarina glauca and Frankia symbiosis», research grant (BI), since April Elisabete Carapuça (degree in Biotechnology) - «Genetic stability of in vitro and cryopreserved plants by RAPD», public administration training grant, since April 2006 (cosupervision) - Sofia van Harten (PhD student, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) - «RT-PCR with degenerate primers», November 2005 January 2005

6 - Sandra Marina Martins (degree in Biology) - «Cloning and characterization of defenserelated genes during Casuarina glauca nodulation», initiation to scientific research grant (BIC), January 2001-December Gabi Monteiro (Assistant, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique) - «Biomolecular techniques», April Edin Orozco Miranda (PhD student, Universidade de Lavras, Brazil) «RAPD e MSP-PCR techniques for genetic diversity studies», January - March Andreia Sofia B. C. Loureiro (PhD student, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - «RAPD e MSP- PCR techniques for genetic diversity studies», May May Ernesto Salcedo (degree in Agronomy, Cuba) - «Development of RAPD markers for assessing genetic diversity in Coffea sp.» - June - October Hilário Magaia (Assistant, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique) - «Biomolecular techniques and their application», July de Ana Isabel Carvalho (undergraduate student, 2 nd year, Biotechnological Engineering, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias) - «Biomolecular techniques and their application», March March Paula Pigozzo (undergraduate student, 2nd year, Agronomy, Universidade de Lavras, Brazil) - «Biomolecular techniques and their application», January - February Eda Rita Machado (undergraduate student, 4th year, Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget) - «Biomolecular techniques and their application», October May 2002 Other (Programa Ciência Viva) - Summer practical course to 6 high school students - «Plant genetic engineering» - July 31- August 4, Summer practical course to 6 high school students - «Biodiversity - molecular characterization of phytogenetic resources», August 29 - September 9, Docência e capacitação* 6. Lecturing and capacity building* Molecular responses of plants to abiotic stresses, MSc in Tropical Crop Production, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. - Biotechnology: genetic engineering and GMOs, to high school teachers, IICT, Oeiras, Portugal and Centro de Formação de Formadores Formar para Educar, Linda-a-Velha, Portugal* Plant-microbe interactions, MSc in Life and Hearth Sciences, Universidade da Madeira,

7 Funchal, Portugal Molecular responses of plants to abiotic stresses, MSc in Tropical Crop Production, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. - Plant genetic engineering, MSc in Tropical Animal Science, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Basic molecular biological techniques (nucleic acid extraction, PCR and gel electrophoresis), to university lecturers, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique* Genetics - Degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences de Ciências, Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal. - Microbiology - Degree in Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal Food Production and Technology Degree in Food Engineering, Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal Biomolecular Techniques, MSc in Biotechnology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 7. Participação em projectos 7. Participation in research projects As coordinator - Role of defense-related genes during the establishment of root-nodule symbioses between higher plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Funding: FCT (POCTI/AGR/55651/2004). June 2005 May Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: common features between actinorhizal and legume root nodules. Funding: FCT (POCTI/BME/36191/1999) and GRICES (616C2). January 2001 December Capacitação técnico-científica para o fomento da cultura do girassol em Moçambique. Funding: IPAD (0136/MA/01). April 2002-December Genetic variability in wild sunflower populations from Mozambique. Funding: GRICES/UEM

8 (4.1.3/UEM). January December Molecular aspects of coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease. Funding: FCT (ARIPIPI ). July 2000 June As team member - Studies on genetic and physiological characterization of sheep and rabbit adaptation to food restriction. Funding: FCT (POCTI/CVT/57820/2004). January 2005 December Stress physiology and gene expression. Acclimation of Coffea sp. to low temperatures and high irradiance. Funding: FCT (POCTI/AGG/43101/2001). January 2004 December Molecular and celular physiology of coffee leaf rust resistance Funding: GRICES (714-C2). January 2003 December Structural and mechanistic studies of fatty acid desaturases. Funding: FCT (POCTI/QUI/37413/2001). July 2002 June Resistance mechanisms of coffee (Coffea spp.) to orange rust (Hemileia vastatrix) and coffee berry disease (Colletotrichum kahawae). FCT (ARIPIPI ). July 2000 June Project Pinus for technological development. Funding: PEDIP program. September 1998 September Differential Gene Expression in Casuarina glauca nodules. Funding: Dutch NWO - WOTRO (Dutch Science and Technology Foundation). January 1994 April Gene Expression in Alnus glutinosa/frankia Symbiosis. Funding: EU (SC MA). May 1990 May Publicações 9. Publications Teses / Thesis - A.I.F. Ribeiro (1997). Plant genes involved in the establishement of an actinorhizal symbiosis. Ph.D thesis, Wageningen Agricultural University, ISBN , 108 pp. - A.I.F. Ribeiro (1993). Cloning and characterization of cdnas corresponding do genes from Alnus glutinosa nodules induced by Frankia ThR, Wageningen Agricultural University, 63 pp. Capítulos de livros / Chapters in books - V.M.P. Várzea, C.J. Rodrigues Jr., M.C. Silva, M. Gouveia, D.V. Marques, L. Guerra- Guimarães, A. Ribeiro (2002) Resistência do cafeeiro à H. vastatrix. In: O estado da arte de tecnologias na produção de café. L. Zambolin (ed.), Universidade Federal de Viçosa, pp

9 - K. Pawlowski, A. Ribeiro, C. Guan, A.M. Berry, T. Bisseling (1997). Actinorhizal nodules. In: NATO ASI Series, Vol. G39, Biological Fixation of Nitrogen for Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture. A Legocki, H Bothe, A Pühler (eds), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp K. Pawlowski, A. Ribeiro, T. Bisseling (1996) Nitrogen fixing root nodule symbioses: legume nodules and actinorhizal nodules. In: Biotechnology Annual Review Part II. MR El- Gewely (ed), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp Artigos em revistas de circulação internacional com arbitragem científica / Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees - A. Fortunato, P. Santos, I. Graca, M. Gouveia,S. Martins, C.P.P. Ricardo, K. Pawlowski and A. Ribeiro (2007). Isolation and characterization of cgchi3, a nodule-specific gene from Casuarina glauca encoding a class III chitinase. Physiologia Plantarum, in press. - M.M.C. Gouveia, A. Ribeiro, V.M.P. Várzea, C.J Rodrigues Jr (2005). Genetic diversity in Hemileia vastatrix based on RAPD markers, Mycologia 97 (2), M.P. Pinto, A. Ribeiro, A.P. Regalado, C. Rodrigues-Pousada, C.P.P. Ricardo (2005). Expression of Lupinus albus PR-10 during root and leaf development. Biologia Plantarum 49 (2), D. Fernandez, P. Santos, C. Agostini, M.C. Bon, A.S. Petitot, M.C. Silva, L. Guerra- Guimarães, A. Ribeiro, M. Nicole (2004). Identification of coffee (Coffea arabica) genes upregulated during the hypersensitive response to the rust pathogen (Hemileia vastatrix), Molecular Plant Pathology 5(6), S. Svistoonoff, L. Laplaze, J. Liang, A. Ribeiro, M. Gouveia, F. Auguy, P. Fevereiro, C. Franche and D. Bogusz (2004). Infection-related activation of the cg12 promoter is conserved between actinorhizal and legume-rhizobia root nodule symbiosis, Plant Physiology 136, Z.J. Chen, A. Ribeiro, M.C. Silva, P. Santos, L. Guerra-Guimarães, M.M.C. Gouveia, D. Fernandez, C.J. Rodrigues Jr. (2003). Heat shock-induced susceptibility of green coffee leaves and berries to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and its association to PR- and hsp70 gene expression, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 63(4): I. Vleghels, J. Hontelez, A. Ribeiro, P. Fransz, T. Bisseling, H. Franssen (2003). Expression of ENOD40 in tomato plant development, Planta 218: C. Santi, U. von Groll, A. Ribeiro, M. Chiurazzi, F. Auguy, D. Bogusz, C. Franche, K. Pawlowski. (2003). Comparison of nodule induction in legume and actinorhizal symbioses: the induction of actinorhizal nodules does not involve ENOD40, Molecular Plant Microbe- Interactions 16 (9): L. Laplaze, A. Ribeiro, C. Franche, E. Duhoux, F. Auguy, D. Boguz, K. Pawlowski (2000). Characterization of a Casuarina glauca nodule-specific subtilisin-like protease gene, a

10 homolog of Alnus glutinosa ag12. Molecular Plant Microbe-Interactions 13 (1): C-H. Guan, A. Ribeiro, A. D.L. Akkermans, Y. Jing, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, K. Pawlowski (1996). Nitrogen metabolism in actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa: Expression of glutamine synthetase and acetylornithine transaminase. Plant Molecular Biology 32: M. van Ghelue, A. Ribeiro, B. Solheim, A. Akkermans, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, K. Pawlowski (1996). Sucrose synthase and enolase expression in actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa: comparison with legume nodules. Molecular and General Genetics 250: A. Ribeiro, A. Akkermans, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, K. Pawlowski (1996). Identification of agthi1, whose product is involved in biosynthesis of the thiamine percursor thiazole, in actinorhizal nodules of Alnus glutinosa. Plant Journal 10(2): A. Ribeiro, A. Akkermans, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, K. Pawlowski (1995): A nodulespecific gene encoding a subtilisin-like protease is involved in early stages of actinorhizal nodule development, Plant Cell 7: Artigos em revistas nacionais com arbitragem científica / Papers in national periodicals with referees V.M.P. Várzea, M.C. Silva, L. Guerra-Guimarães, A. Ribeiro, M. Gouveia, H. Azinheira, C.J. Rodrigues Jr (2004). Coffee leaf rust: a brief review, Revista Portuguesa de Biologia Vegetal e Agro-Industrial, vol 1, Publicações em actas de encontros científicos / Papers in conference proceedings - A. Loureiro, V. Várzea, L. Guerra-Guimarães, A. Ribeiro, M.C. Silva, B. Bertrand (2006). Characterization of Colletotrichum kahawae variabilty. 21 st International Conference on Coffee Science, Montpellier, France. 8p (CD-ROM). - P. Eichler, P. Santos, M.M. Gouveia, F.C. Lidon, M.M. Chaves, A. Ribeiro, J.C. Ramalho (2006) Cold tolerance evaluation in Coffea sp. Impact on the photosynthetic apparatus and the control of oxidative stress assessed by gene expression analysis. 21 st International Conference on Coffee Science, Montpellier, France. 4p (CD-ROM). - J.C. Ramalho, A.E. Leitão, P. Eichler, P. Santos, I.P. Pais, P.S. Campos, F.C. Lidon, A.P. Rodrigues, M.M. Chaves, A.I. Ribeiro (2006) An integrative approach to study environmental stress tolerance in Coffea sp.- from leaf to gene. 21 st International Conference on Coffee Science, Montpellier, France. 10 p (CD-ROM). - J.C. Ramalho, A.P. Rodrigues, I.P. Pais, A.E. Leitão, A.I. Ribeiro, M.J. Silva, M.M. Chaves, F.C. Lidon (2005). Maintenance of respiration activity and sugar balance account for chilling tolerance in Coffea sp. XII Congresso Latino-Americano de Fisiologia Vegetal, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 5 p (CD-ROM). - P. Santos, E. Machado, M. Gouveia, F.C. Lidon, M.A. Nunes, J.C. Ramalho, A.I. Ribeiro

11 (2005). Expression analysis of Chitinase coding genes in response to low non-freezing temperatures. XII Congresso Latino-Americano de Fisiologia Vegetal, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. 5p (CD-ROM). - D. Ganesh, A-S. Petitot, R. Alary, P. Santos, A. Ribeiro, M.C. Silva, L. Guerra-Guimarães, D. Fernandez (2004). Characterization of the early response of coffee to Hemileia vastatrix using real-time quantitative RT-PCR. 20 th International Conference on Coffee Science, Bangalore, India, 8p (CD ROM). - P. Santos, M.C. Silva, L. Guerra-Guimarães, A. Ribeiro, D. Fernandez (2004). Identificação de genes envolvidos na resistência do cafeeiro à ferrugem alaranjada. 4º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia, Faro, Portugal, pp A. Ribeiro, A. Bessa, A. Magumisse, T. Faria (2002). Avaliação da diversidade genética de populações selvagens do género Helianthus: resultados preliminares. 1º Simpósio Nacional de Investigação Agrária, Maputo, Moçambique, in press. - D. Fernandez, P. Santos, M.C. Bon, C. Agostini, M.C. Silva, L. Guerra-Guimarães, A. Ribeiro (2001). Construction of libraries of coffee cdna sequences early expressed during the hypersensitive response to the rust pathogen Hemileia vastatrix, using subtractive suppressive hybridization. 11 th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, September 17-20, Évora, Portugal, pp K. Pawlowski, A. Ribeiro, C. Guan, A.M. Berry, T. Bisseling (1998). Comparison of nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbioses. In: Biological nitrogen fixation for the 21st century. 11 th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, July 20-25, Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp K. Pawlowski, A. Ribeiro, C. Guan, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, and A.M. Berry (1996). Sequential gene induction during actinorhizal nodule development. 8th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. G Stacey, B Mullin, PM Gresshoff (eds), International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, St. Paul, Minnesota, pp A. Ribeiro, A. Akkermans, A. van Kammen, T. Bisseling, K. Pawlowski (1995). A nodulespecific gene encoding a subtilisin-like protease is involved in early stages of actinorhizal nodule development. In: Nitrogen fixation: Fundamentals and applications. IA Tikhonovich, NA Provorov, WE Romanov, WE Newton (eds), Kluwver Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, Boston, London, p K. Pawlowski, C. Guan, A. Ribeiro, A. van Kammen, A. Akkermans, T. Bisseling (1994). Genes involved in Alnus glutinosa nodule development. 1 st European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, GB Kiss, G Endre (eds), Officina Press, Szeged, pp K. Pawlowski, A. Ribeiro, C. Guan, A. van Kammen, A. Akkermans, T. Bisseling (1993). Differential gene expression in root nodules of Alnus glutinosa. 6 th International Symposium on Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Non-Legumes, NA Hegazi. M Fayez, M Monib (eds), The American University in Cairo Press, pp

12 Outras publicações / Other publications Ribeiro A.I. ( ) Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira - Século XXI, Ed. Verbo, Lisboa, S. Paulo. Texts in Biology and Biochemistry: Vol. 29: Vector de clonagem (p. 151) Vol. 28: Tetraplóide (p. 100), Ti (plasmídio) (p. 138), Topoisomerases (p. 410), Totipotência (p. 490), Tradução (p. 536), Transcrição (pp ), Transcrição (factores de) (p. 593), Transcrição reversa (p. 593), Transcriptase reversa (pp ), Transcripto (p. 594), Transdução (pp ), Transformação (pp ), Translocação (pp ), Transposição (p. 650), Transposões (p. 651), Tripleto (p. 836), Triplóide (p. 837), Trissomia (pp ), trna (p. 866), trna metilases (p. 866) Vol. 27: Síntese do DNA (p.10), Síntese do RNA (p. 16), Somaclonal (variação) (p. 396), Somática (mutação) (p. 402), Somática (recombinação), Southern (análise) (p. 490), Splicing (pp ), Taq polimerase (p. 1002), TATA (caixa) (pp ), TATA (proteína de ligação) (p. 1037), T-DNA (p. 1092), Telofase (p. 1228), Telomerase (p. 1228), Telómeros (p. 1228) Vol. 26: Satélite DNA (p. 394), Segregação independente (p. 610), Self-splicing RNA (p. 674, Semi-conservativa (replicação) (p. 706), Sequência de Intervenção (IVS) (p. 826), Silenciamento genético (p. 1132) Vol. 25: Reparação do DNA (pp ), Replicação (pp ), Replicão (p. 132), Replicases (p. 132), Repressão (pp ), Repressor (p. 149), Restrição (enzimas de) (pp ), Restrição (fragmentos) (p. 326), Restrição (mapa) (p. 326), Retrotransposão ( p. 365), Ribonucleases (pp ), Ribonucleoproteínas (p. 526), Ritmo circadiano (p. 650), RNA (ligase, maturase, polimerase, replicase, sintetase) (p. 671) Vol. 24: R (plasmídeos) (p. 681), Rab (proteínas) (p. 683), Ras (genes) (p. 861), Ras (proteínas) (p. 861), Redundância (código genético) (p ), Regulação da expressão genética (pp ), Vol. 23: Poliadenilação (do mrna) (pp ), Polimerases (de DNA e de RNA) (pp ), Pré-mRNA, -rrna, -trna (p. 1151), Primer (pp ) Vol. 22: Plasmídeo (p.1307).

13 10. Comunicações orais 10. Oral Communications por convite / by invitation Functional genomics: principles and applications (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) The Biology of actinorhizal symbiosis (Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal) Molecular strategies to study the main coffee diseases: orange rust and coffee berry disease (Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil) Molecular aspects of the coffee-rust interactions (Instituto Piaget, Almada, Portugal) Heterologous expression of actinorhizal nodulin gene promoters in Medicago truncatula (Plant biotechnology lab, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal) Comparison between actinorhizal and legume root nodules (Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Cellular-IBMC-Oporto, Portugal) Evaluation of genetic diversity of wild Helianthus species: preliminary results (1º Simpósio Nacional de Investigação Agrária, Maputo, Mozambique) Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: common aspects between actinorhizal and legume root nodules (Plant seminars, ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal) Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: common features between actinorhizal and legume root nodules (Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, UEM, Maputo, Mozambique) Outras / Other Pawlowski K, Zdyb A, Grzeganek P, Göbel C, Hause B, Liang J, Ribeiro A, Feussner I and Demchenko K. Jasmonate biosynthesis in root nodules. 15 th International Conference on Nitrogen Fixation, January, Cape Town, South Africa, selected speaker (Presentation by first author) Fortunato A, Santos P, Graca I, Gouveia M, Martins S, Ricardo CP, Pawlowski K and Ribeiro A. Molecular characterization of cgchi3, a nodule-specific gene from Casuarina glauca. 14 th International Conference on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants, July, Umea, Sweden, selected speaker (Presentation by last author) Santos P, Fortunato A, Graca I, Gouveia M, Auguy F, Ricardo CP, Franche C, Bogusz D, Pawlowski K and Ribeiro A. Identification of a NDR1 homologue from Casuarina glauca nodules. 14 th International Conference on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants, July, Umea, Sweden, selected speaker (Presentation by first author) Liang J, Gouveia M, Fevereiro P, Ribeiro A. Activation of actinorhizal nodulin gene promotors in legume nodules of Medicago truncatula. XXXI Jornadas Portuguesas de Genética, ITQB-UNL, Oeiras, Portugal, selected speaker (Presentation by last author)

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