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Alexandra Moreira
PeerJ Editor
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Alexandra Moreira

PeerJ Editor

Summary

Alexandra Moreira obtained her D.Phil in Molecular Biology from Wolfson College at the University of Oxford in 1997. Her doctorate studies were conducted under Nick Proudfoot supervision at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford where she investigated the mRNA 3’ end formation mechanism of the human C2 complement. She was a postdoctoral fellow with Claudio Sunkel at the IBMC, and in 2003 formed the Group of Cell Activation and Gene Expression. She is currently a Professor in Molecular Biology and holds a Principal Investigator position at ICBAS, University of Porto. Together with her research activities, Alexandra Moreira is a member of the Scientific Board of the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD Program, University Porto. Since 2012 Alexandra Moreira is the Leader of the Group Gene Regulation at IBMC-i3S. The objective of her research group is to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in the integration between RNAPII transcription and alternative pre-mRNA processing, with a focus on polyadenylation, and on those events that are physiologically relevant in Eukaryotes.

Molecular Biology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Work details

Head of Gene Regulation group

IBMC - i3S, University of Porto
Gene Regulation
The main objective of our group is to understand and elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in regulating gene expression at the pre-mRNA processing level, in particular in polyadenylation and alternative splicing, with a specific interest in inflammatory and cancer cells. We mainly use molecular biology methodologies and take advantage of different model systems, in particular Drosophila melanogaster and human cells.

Professor

ICBAS - Instituto Ciencias Biomédicas Abel Salazar
Dept Molecular Biology
Lecturer in Molecular Genetics to Vet students and member of the Scientific Committee of the MCBiology PhD Program.

Websites

  • Moreira Lab
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PeerJ Contributions