Artur Lourenço

(PhD Student) *

 

Status at Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering:

Education:

  • Graduation in Biological Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.

  • Research training at the Molecular Cell Biology laboratory, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (Belgium).

  • M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2006.

Positions:

  • Ph.D student in Biotechnology under the supervision of Professor Isabel Sá-Correia.

Research Activities:

  • Yeast physiology and Molecular Biology.

  • Environmental stress response.

  • Transcriptomics and Proteomics.

Grants:

  • ERASMUS-2004.

  • Grant at INESC-ID under the project DBYeast – POSI/EIA/57398/2004.

  • PhD Scholarship from "Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia" (SFRH/BD/23437/2005).

Publications:

Papers in international journals

Lourenço A.B., Ascenso J.R., Sá-Correia I., Metabolic insights into the yeast response to propionic acid based on high resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy. Metabolomics, doi: 10.1007/s11306-010-0264-1 (in press)

Abdulrehman D., Monteiro P.T., Teixeira M.C., Mira N.P., Lourenço A.B., dos Santos S.C., Cabrito T.R., Francisco A., Madeira S.C., Santos R., Oliveira, A.L., Sá-Correia I., Freitas A.T., “YEASTRACT: Providing a programmatic access to curated transcriptional regulatory associations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through a web services interface.” Nucleic Acids Research, 39, D136-140, 2011

M.C. Teixeira, L.R. Raposo, N.P. Mira, A.B. Lourenço and I. Sá-Correia, "Genome-wide identification of genes required for maximal tolerance to ethanol in yeast: important role of FPS1" ´Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 75: 5761-5772, 2009

N.P. Mira, A. Lourenço, A. Fernandes, J. Becker, I. Sa-Correia, The RIM101 pathway has a role in Saccharomyces cerevisiae adaptive response and resistance to propionic acid and other weak acids, FEMS Yeast Research,  9, 202-216, 2009 (abstract)

P. Monteiro, N. Mendes, M.C. Teixeira, S. d'Orey, S. Tenreiro, N.P. Mira, H. Pais, A. Francisco, A. Carvalho, A.R. Lourenço, I. Sá-Correia, A.L. Oliveira, A.T. Freitas.  "YEASTRACT-DISCOVERER: new tools to improve the analysis of transcriptional regulatory associations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Nucleic Acids Res. Database Issue, 36: D132-D136, 2008 (abstract)

An Van Nuland, Patrick Vandormael, Monica Donaton, Marta Alenquer, Artur Lourenço, Edgar Quintino, Matthias Versele and Johan M. Thevelein. (2006) Ammonium permease based sensing mechanism for rapid ammonium activation of the protein kinase A pathway in yeast. Mol Microbiol. 2006 Mar;59(5):1485-505.

Other interests:

Theatre, cinema, sports and travel.