Raquel Monteiro Marques da Silva

Assistant Researcher

Raquel Monteiro Marques da Silva

Assistant Researcher

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PhD in Biology from the University of Aveiro in 2005, with the study of the molecular mechanisms involved in the evolution of a genetic code alteration.
Was Research Associate in the Population Genetics group from IPATIMUP (2008-2013), working in the dynamics of the NAD metabolic network and its roles in health and disease. These enzymes have been implicated in aging, infection, and are the targets of a novel class of antitumor drugs.
Was Invited Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences, and researcher in the Bioinformatics group from IEETA and in iBiMED, University of Aveiro (2013-2019). Developed bioinformatics tools to detect genome rearrangements and pathogen signatures, with implications for diagnosis and therapeutics. In collaboration, participates in additional lines of investigation that address the mechanisms of anti-fungal resistance in clinical isolates, and computational methods to predict the impact of human mutations.
Currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and researcher in CIIS (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health), in the platform SalivaTec, focused on biomarker research and diagnosis in saliva.

Areas of Research:

Medicine and Biomedicine

Sub-areas of Research:

Biochemistry

Publications

Paper

A genetic code alteration generates a proteome of high diversity in the human pathogen Candida albicans

Raquel Monteiro Marques da Silva (with Gomes, A.C.). 2007. Genome Biology

O Futuro da Medicina Dentária em Portugal, na voz de Rita Noites

Inteligência Artificial, Deep Learning e Imagiologia - Axians e Universidade Católica no diagnóstico e prognóstico da COVID-19

SUMMER DENTAL CLINIC 2024 – Registration open until June 14

Raquel Monteiro Marques da Silva

Raquel Monteiro Marques da Silva

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A genetic code alteration generates a proteome of high diversity in the human pathogen Candida albicans

A transcriptomics approach to unveiling the mechanisms of in vitro evolution towards fluconazole resistance of a Candida glabrata Clinical Isolate

An alignment-free method to find and visualise rearrangements between pairs of DNA sequences

Comparative context analysis of codon pairs on an ORFeome scale.

Comparing reverse complementary genomic words based on their distance distributions and frequencies

Critical roles for a genetic code alteration in the evolution of the genus Candida

Dissimilar symmetric word pairs in the human genome

Distribution of Distances Between Symmetric Words in the Human Genome: Analysis of Regular Peaks

DNA word analysis based on the distribution of the distances between symmetric words

Environmental azole fungicide, prochloraz, can induce cross-resistance to medical triazoles in Candida glabrata

Epidemiology and susceptibility profile to classic antifungals and over-the-counter products of Malassezia clinical isolates from a Portuguese University Hospital: A prospective study

Essential genetic findings in neurodevelopmental disorders

Evolution of the genetic code in yeasts

Evolution of the NET (NocA, Nlz, Elbow, TLP-1) protein family in metazoans: Insights from expression data and phylogenetic analysis

Exosomal Aβ-Binding Proteins Identified by “In Silico” Analysis Represent Putative Blood-Derived Biomarker Candidates for Alzheimer´s Disease

Extensive regulation of nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase (NAPRT) expression in human tissues and tumors

FALCON-meta: A method to infer metagenomic composition of ancient DNA

FKS1 mutation associated with decreased echinocandin susceptibility of Aspergillus fumigatus following anidulafungin exposure

FKS2 mutations associated with decreased echinocandin susceptibility of Candida glabrata following anidulafungin therapy

Fluconazole and voriconazole resistance in Candida parapsilosis is conferred by gain-of-function mutations in MRR1 transcription factor gene

Gains, losses and changes of function after gene duplication: Study of the metallothionein family

Impact of ERG3 mutations and expression of ergosterol genes controlled by UPC2 and NDT80 in Candida parapsilosis azole resistance

Improving the in silico assessment of pathogenicity for compensated variants

In vivo and in vitro acquisition of resistance to voriconazole by Candida krusei

Influence of saliva interaction on surface properties manufactured for rapid osseointegration in dental implants

Malassezia species retrieved from skin with pityriasis versicolor, seborrhoeic dermatitis and skin free of lesions: a comparison of two sampling methods

Mechanisms of acquired in vivo and in vitro resistance to voriconazole by Candida krusei following exposure to suboptimal drug concentration

Merging microarray studies to identify a common gene expression signature to several structural heart diseases

Methodology to identify a gene expression signature by merging microarray datasets

Mining clinical attributes of genomic variants through assisted literature curation in Egas

Molecular mechanisms of ischemia and glutamate excitotoxicity

Molecular Techniques and Target Selection for the Identification of Candida spp. in Oral Samples

Nampt and Naprt1: Novel polymorphisms and distribution of variants between normal tissues and tumor samples

Naprt expression regulation mechanisms: Novel functions predicted by a bioinformatics approach

Overview of the interactive task in BioCreative V

Population wide testing pooling strategy for SARS-CoV-2 detection using saliva

Study of NAD-interacting proteins highlights the extent of NAD regulatory roles in the cell and its potential as a therapeutic target

The Evolutionary Portrait of Metazoan NAD Salvage

The exceptional genomic word symmetry along DNA sequences

The role of NAD metabolism in neuronal differentiation

The Role of Recombination in the Origin and Evolution of Alu Subfamilies

The transcription factor Ndt80 is a repressor of Candida parapsilosis virulence attributes

The yeast PNC1 longevity gene is up-regulated by mRNA mistranslation

Three minimal sequences found in Ebola virus genomes and absent from human DNA

Tracking the functional meaning of the human oral-microbiome protein-protein interactions

Transcriptional profiling of azole-resistant Candida parapsilosis strains

Yeast as a model organism for studying the evolution of non-standard genetic codes.

Yeast proteome map (update 2006)