SCAN:Applications of Proteomics in Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
André Martinho de Almeida Researcher of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical /invited Researcher of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the ITQB
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21 Dec, 2011
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12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
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SCAN- Seminar
Title: Applications of Proteomics in Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
Affiliation: Researcher of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical and invited Researcher of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the ITQB
Abstract:
The study of the proteome, i.e. the set of proteins expressed in a given fluid, tissue, organ or organism, is a key feature to understand a multitude of biological phenomena, from the less complex biochemical pathway to large population biology studies. From a agricultural and veterinary science perspectives, proteomics studies are relevant in numerous areas of economic importance such as production traits, product quality assessment and characterization, physiology or the development of vaccines, just to name a few. During the last six years we have been applied proteomics to animal and plant sciences. An effort has been put on the conduction of studies of interest to agriculture and veterinary related issues. Specifically three, very diverse research projects have been focused: i) physiology of tolerance to seasonal weight loss in rabbits, sheep and goats; ii) the characterization of the cattle tick borne disease pathogen Ehrlichia ruminantium and iii) the study of somatic embryogenesis in the model legume, Medicago truncatula. In this seminar, a brief overview of the context, the conducted studies and major results will be provided for each of these three areas of research.
Short Biography
André de Almeida has a Degree in Animal Science by the University of Évora (1998), an MSc in Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (2000) by the Veterinary Faculty of the Technical University of Lisbon and a PhD in Biology (2005) by the ITQB/UNL. Since 2008, AM Almeida is a researcher at the IICT - Tropical Research Institute and an Invited Researcher with the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the ITQB/UNL. His research interests lay in the applications of proteomics and mass spectrometry to animal and plant sciences in the context of agriculture and veterinary sciences. AM Almeida has worked in Portugal, Spain, South Africa and Australia and has presently research collaborations with several institutions in Spain, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Slovakia.
