Dulce Almeida
(MEng) - Research student
Center for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine (CBME)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology
University of Algarve
Phone: + 351 289 244 403 (extn. 7177)
Academic Degrees
2012: M.Eng. in Biological Engineering (5 years Master Programme), University of Algarve, Portugal
Experience
2011-2012: intern at "Projecto Querenca" - Responsible for Biotechnology and Food Engineering projects aiming to develop inovative ideias, transforming local raw materials into new products with economic value. University of Algarve, Portugal
2011: Master Thesis - "Improved Extraction of Arabinoxylans from Rye Bran and Production of Health Beneficial Oligosaccharides". LTH, Lund University, Sweden
Research
"The Role and Regulation of alpha-sinuclein Phosphorylation in both Pathological and Physiological Conditions " PTDC/BIA-BCM/117975/2010 - Identification and characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying Parkinson's Disease with Bioinformatics measures and by combining methods in computational biology, functional genomics and molecular biology
Publications
Ravi K. Kalathur, José P. Pinto,Miguel A. Hernández-Prieto, Rui S.R. Machado, Dulce Almeida, Gautam Chaurasia and Matthias Futschik (2014) UniHI 7: an enhanced database for retrieval and interactive analysis of human molecular interaction networks, Nucleic Acids Research, Database issue, 42 (D1): D408-D414. (html, pdf)