Ivette Pacheco (Msc.) - Researcher

Centre for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine (CBME)

Faculty of Sciences and Technology (building 8)

University of Algarve

Phone: + 351 289 800 100 (extn. 7292)

Academic Degrees

• 2007: Masters in Biochemical Sciences - Biotechnology Institute, UNAM, México.

• 2002: BSc in Chemical Engineering - Veracruz University, México.

Positions

• 2010-2014: PhD Student at Biomedicine Sciences Program -University of Algarve, Portugal.

• 2009 - 2010: Researcher at Animal Cell Technology Unit -ITQB, Portugal.

• 2004 - 2007: Master student at Bioprocess engineering group -Biotechnology Institute, UNAM, México.

• 2003 - 2004: Bachelor in Chemical Pharmaceutical and Biology -Veracruz University, México.

• 2002- 2003: Research Student in Food Technology Laboratory -Veracruz University, México.

Publications

A. C. Matias, Ivette Pacheco-Leyva, G. Machado-Oliveira, D. V. Oliveira, J. Bragança. Células estaminais pluripotentes induzidas - elenco promissor para o futuro da medicina. Boletim de Biotecnologia. 2013. Sept.; 4:34-36.

D. Marçal, B. Pinto, C. Almeida, D. Silva, Ivette Pacheco-Leyva, J. F. da Cruz, J. M. Damas, L. Medeiros, R. Sequeira, R. Costa, S. Batista Leite. Toda a Ciência (Menos as Partes Chatas). GRADIVA Ed, Portugal, 2013. ISBN: 978-989-616-526-0 http://cientistasdepe.pt/

José P. Pinto, Ravi K. Kalathur, Daniel V. Oliveira, Tânia Barata, Rui S. R. Machado, Susana Machado, Ivette Pacheco-Leyva, Isabel Duarte and Matthias E. Futschik (2015). StemChecker: a web-based tool to discover and explore stemness signatures in gene sets, Nucleic Acids Research 43 (W1): W72-W77 (pdf + html)

Teaching

Work experience in mentoring BSc Alumni, Medical Students at laboratorial trainee, and in undergraduate teaching.