TÂNIA MANUELA RODRIGUES CABRITO

(PhD Student) *

 

Status at Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering:

·         Researcher of the Biological Sciences Research Group

Education:
  • Graduation in Biological Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2007 

Positions:
  • Ph.D student in Biotechnology under the supervision of Professor Isabel Sá-Correia and Professor Miguel Cacho Teixeira

Research Activities:

  • Yeast physiology and molecular biology, with emphasis on multidrug resistance.

  • Environmental stress response.

  • Transcriptomics and Proteomics.

Grants:

  • PhD Scolarship from "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/40885/2007).

Publications:

Book chapters:

T.R. Cabrito, E. Remy, M.C. Teixeira, P. Duque, I. Sá-Correia, “Resistance to herbicides in the model organisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana: the involvement of multidrug resistance transporters ” In: Herbicides and Environment (Kortekamp A, Ed), INTECH, Vienna, Austria, 623-640, 2011

T.R. Cabrito, M.C. Teixeira, I. Sá-Correia, “Global adaptive response and resistance to agricultural fungicides: lessons from yeast and phytopathogenic fungi” In: Fungicides: Chemistry, Environmental Impact and Health Effects (Columbus F, Ed), Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA, (in press).

Papers in international journals

Teixeira, M.C., Cabrito, T.R., Hanif, Z.M., Vargas, R.C., Tenreiro, S., Sá-Correia, I., Yeast response and tolerance to polyamine toxicity involving the drug:H+ antiporter Qdr3 and the transcription factors Yap1 and Gcn4. Microbiology, 157, 945-956, 2011

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

Cabrito T.R., Teixeira M.C., Duarte A.A., Duque P., Sá-Correia I., "Heterologous expression of a Tpo1 homolog from Arabidopsis thaliana confers resistance to the herbicide 2,4-D and other chemical stresses in yeast", Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 84, 927-936, 2009

Sá-Correia I., dos Santos S.C., Teixeira M.C., Cabrito T.R., Mira N.P., "Drug:H+ antiporters in chemical stress response in yeast". Trends in Microbiology, 17, 22-31, 2009 (abstract)

Thesis

Cabrito, T.R. (2007). Functional analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana multidrug resistance transporters involved in resistance to the herbicide 2,4-D, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.

Abstracts in national meetings

Mira, N.P., Teixeira, M.C., Cabrito, T.R., Sá-Correia, I. Role and transcriptional regulation of the multidrug resistance transporter Tpo1 in the yeast response to weak acids (Poster at the Congresso MICROBIOTEC'07, 30 November - 2 December 2007, Lisboa, Portugal, Book of Abstracts S3/P8).