Célia Miguel – Forest Biotech Lab

  • IBET - 2009/2014: "Resposta Biotecnológica ao Problema do Nemátodo da Madeira do Pinheiro” Autoridade Florestal Nacional (Coordinator: Marta Vasconcelos, ESB – Univ. Católica do Porto)
  • IBET - 2009/2010: "Cork oak ESTs Consortium – fruit and embryo development”(SOBREIRO/0029/2009) (Coordinator: Célia Miguel)
  • IBET - 2010/2013: "Gene Regulatory Networks Underlying Phellogen Activity” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/098369/2008) (Coordinator: Célia Miguel)
  • IBET - 2010/2013: "Transcriptomics of maritime pine embryogenesis” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/102877/2008) (Coordinator: Célia Miguel)
  • IBET - 2010/2013: "Genomic tools in maritime PINE for enhanced biomass production and SUSTAINable forest management” (Program "Transnational PLant Alliance for Novel Technologies – towards implementing the Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy in Europe" - Plant-KBBE) (Coordinator: Francisco Cánovas, Univ. Malaga, Spain)
  • IBET - 2010-2013: "Assessment of genetic and genomic resources of Cork Oak: the basis towards a prospective management ” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/104966/2008) (Coordinator: Dora Batista, Fac. Ciências, Univ. Lisboa)

Cândido Pinto Ricardo – Plant Biochemistry

  • IBET -2009-2010: "Cork oak ESTs consortium - Abiotic stress: Heat and cold stresses" (SOBREIRO/0035/2009) (Coordinator: C. Pinto Ricardo)
  • ITQB - 2007-2010: "The wild relatives of Beta: genetic diversity assessment and biochemical studies” (PTDC/AGR-AAM/73144/2006) (Coordinator: Cristina Duarte-IICT/MCTES)
  • ITQB - 2009-2012: "Genetic analysis of suber differentiation in Quercus suber L." (PTDC/AGR-AAM/100465/2008) (Coordinator: Rita Teixeira-ISA/UTL)
  • ITQB - 2010-2013: "IMPROVIRON: Improved productivity and iron nutrition in legume grains" (PTDC/AGR-GPL/102861/2008) (Coordinator: Marta Vasconcelos-ESB-Univ. Católica do Porto)
  • ITQB - 2008-2012: "Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the Mediterranean region" EU Project (KBBE-2008-212337)

Jorge Almeida – Plant Developmental Genetics

  • ITQB "AsyFlower - Evolução da rede de genes que controlam a assimetria dorsoventral floral". Projecto PTDC/AGR-GPL/098873/2008

Manuela Chaves: - Plant Molecular Ecophysiology

  • ITQB -2007-2010: "Molecular Evaluation and Characterization of Tolerance Mechanisms to Adverse Environmental Conditions in Coffea sp. - Central Role of the Oxidative Stress Control at Leaf Level" (PTDC/AGR-AAM/64078/2006) (Coordinator: J. C. Ramalho, Inst. Investigação Científica Tropical)
  • ITQB -2008-2012: "Sustainable water use securing food production in dry areas of the mediterranean region" EU Project (KBBE-2008-212337) (Coordinator: S. Jacobsen, Univ. Copenhagen)
  • ITQB -2010- 2013 PTDC/AGR-ALI/100636/2008 GrapeBerryFactory - Sugars, acids, phenolics and water on grape berry development and ripening (Coordinator: H. Gerós, Univ. Minho, Braga)
  • ITQB -2010- 2013 PTDC/AGR-AAM/099154/2008 AQUAVITIS - Understanding water transport in Vitis vinifera: biochemical characterization of aquaporins upon their heterologous expression in yeast (Coordinator: M.C. Loureiro Dias, Institute of Agronomy, Lisbon)
  • ITQB -2010-2013 POCI/BIA-BEC/099323/2008 Esferas de resposta do Ecosistema ao azoto: um caso de estudo num ecosistema do tipo Mediterranico no sul de Portugal. (Coordinator: C. Cruz, Fac. Ciências, Univ. Lisboa)
  • ITQB -2010- 2013 PTDC/AGR-CFL/099614/2008 Phenotypic plasticity of maritime pine to climate change. (Coordinator: Isabel Correia, Inst. Nacional Recursos Biológicos)

Margarida Oliveira – Genomics of Plant Stress

  • ITQB - 2010-2012: "Identification of genes responsible for drought tolerance in Jatropha curcas, an emerging biodiesel plant" (PTDC/AGR-GPL/101435/2008) (Coordinator: M. Margarida Oliveira)
  • ITQB - 2010-2012: "Functional analysis of new transcriptional regulators involved in abiotic stress responses in rice” (PTDC/BIA-BCM/099836/2008) (Coordinator: Nelson Saibo)
  • ITQB - 2010-2013: "Breeding for salinity tolerance in rice and identification of key genes/proteins affecting seed set under salt stress" (PTDC/AGR-AAM/099234/2008) (Coordinator: Sónia Negrão)
  • ITQB - 2010-2013: "T. caespititius chemotypes: molecular, genetic and biotechnological approaches to understand chemical polymorphism” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/101334/2008) (Coordinator: Helena Trindade-FCUL)
  • ITQB - 2010-2013: "Transgeneration evaluation of rice transcriptomic/proteomic alterations caused by genetic modifications and other stresses" (PTDC/EBB-BIO/098983/2008) (Coordinator: Rita Batista-INSA)
  • IBET - 2010-2013: "Assessment of genetic and genomic resources of Cork Oak: the basis towards a prospective management ” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/104966/2008) (Coordinator: Dora Batista, Fac. Ciências, Univ. Lisboa)
  • ITQB -2011-2013: Effect of environmental stresses on rice epigenome. (PTDC/BIA-BCM/111645/2009) (Coordinator: Ana Paula Santos)
  • IBET -2009-2010: "Cork oak ESTs consortium - Abiotic stress: Heat and cold stresses" (SOBREIRO/0035/2009) (Coordinator: C. Pinto Ricardo)
  • IBET - 2009/2010: "Cork oak ESTs Consortium – fruit and embryo development”(SOBREIRO/0029/2009) (Coordinator: Célia Miguel)

Phil Jackson: - Plant Cell Wall

  • ITQB -2007-2010: "Molecular Evaluation and Characterization of Tolerance Mechanisms to Adverse Environmental Conditions in Coffea sp. - Central Role of the Oxidative Stress Control at Leaf Level” (PTDC/AGR-AAM/64078/2006)

Ricardo Boavida Ferreira – Disease and Stress Biology

  • ITQB - 2007-2010:"Tannin polymerase, a novel and previously unknown enzyme that is required by obligate pathogens to invade grapevine tissues" (PTDC/AGR-AAM/65611/2006) (Coordinator: Ricardo Ferreira)
  • ITQB- 2008-2011:"Determining the role of dirigent proteins during grapevine/Uncinula necator interactions" (PTDC/BIA-QOR/68211/2006) (Coordinator: Ricardo Ferreira)
  • IBET-2010-2012:"Fundo EDP Biodiversidade 2009 - Conservação e Valorização da Flora Endémica Ameaçada em Portugal". (Coordinator: Cláudia Santos)
    2009-2012 "TOM.ESCA" (Agência de Inovação/QREN/5580) (Coordinator: Ricardo Ferreira)
  • ITQB -2011-2014:” Polyphenols as protective agents in cellular models of alpha-synucleinopaties, in particular Parkinson’s disease” (PTDC/BIA-BCM/111617/2009) (Coordinator: Ricardo Ferreira)
  • IBET 2011-2014 EUBerry—"The sustainable improvement of European berry production, quality and nutritional value in a changing environment: Strawberries, Currants, Blackberries, Blueberries and Raspberries” (FP7-KBBE-2010-4, CP-265942) (Coordinator: Bruno Mezzetti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy)

Rita Abranches – Plant Cell Biology

  • ITQB -2010-2012: "The pathogen’s perspective of molecular plant-microbe interactions: genes expressed during the infection process of coffee leaf rust - Hemileia vastatrix". FCT Project PTDC/AGR-GPL/114949/2009 (Coordinator: Pedro Talhinhas, CIFC-IICT).
    COST Action FA0804: Molecular farming: plants as a production platform for high value proteins (2009-2012). Rita Abranches (ITQB), Portuguese representative and member of the Management Committee.

Andreas Bohn - Systems Biodynamics

  • IBET - 2011: Statistical Database Analysis (Consulting project)
  • ITQB - 2009 - 2011: "Cork Oak ESTs consortium - Bioinformatics Plataform"  (SOBREIRO/0030/2009) (Coordinator: A. Bohn)
  • ITQB - 2008 - 2011: " Multilevel modeling of physical and biochemical processes in phototrophic biofilms" (PTDC/BIA-MIC/72512/2006) (Coordinator: A. Bohn)