Researcher interests: Developmental biology. Hair follicle development. Runx family genes and and their evolution. Spider silk fiber formation. The sea-anemone Nematostella as a new model system for evolutionary development.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Science
Selected Publications
composicoes e metodos para fabricar seda sintetica de fio de teia de aranha (2018)|
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the novel cthrc gene family in the development and regeneration of the sea anemone nematostella vectensis (2017)|
Mechanisms of Development|
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a transcriptional time course analysis of oral vs aboral whole body regeneration in the sea anemone nematostella vectensis (2016)|
BMC Genomics|
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rbm28 a protein deficient in ane syndrome regulates hair follicle growth via mir 203 and p63 (2015)|
Experimental Dermatology|
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identification basic characterization and evolutionary analysis of differentially spliced mrna isoforms of human yap1 gene (2012)|
Gene|
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the evolutionary history of yap and the hippo yap pathway (2011)|
Molecular Biology and Evolution|
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synthetic dragline spider silk like proteins (2011)|
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a proposed model for dragline spider silk self assembly insights from the effect of the repetitive domain size on fiber properties (2010)|
Biopolymers|
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a chromatin immunoprecipitation screen in mouse keratinocytes reveals runx1 as a direct transcriptional target of δnp63 (2008)|
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry|
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transcriptional activation of a subset of hair keratin genes by the nf κb effector p65 rela (2008)|
Differentiation|
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