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Temporal Control of Cell Differentiation Group

RAQUEL P. ANDRADE

About the Lab

HOW DO CELLS COUNT TIME?

Biorhythms underlie many aspects of our lives ensuring that all cellular processes occur in their optimal temporal niche. Molecular oscillators with circadian or ultradian (<24h) rhythms have been independently characterized in multiple organisms/cells and revealed to be crucial timekeeping mechanisms operating during DEVELOPMENT, AGEING AND DISEASE. Our group studies one such oscillator – the EMBRYO MOLECULAR CLOCK (EC) – which regulates the periodic formation of the vertebrate embryo axial skeleton precursors. EC gene expression oscillations are driven by negative feedback mechanisms and its periodicity depends on timely mRNA and protein turnover. We aim to answer the following questions:

  • What regulates the periodicity of the EC?
  • What is the functional role of EC gene expression oscillations?
  • How does the dysregulation of the EC impact tumorigenesis?

Team Members

Isabel Palmeirim
co-Principal Investigator
Rui Silva
Assistant Researcher

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Gil Carraco
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Ana Cristina Maia-Fernandes
PhD Student

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André Jesus
Master Student
Tomás Azevedo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nísia Martins
PhD Student
Leonardo Rodrigues
Master's Student
Gonçalo Cavaco
Master's Student
Thalita Carvalho
Research Technician

Selected Publications

2022 | Patricia Gomes de Almeida, Pedro Rifes, Ana Patrícia Martins-Jesus, Gonçalo G. Pinheiro,  Sólveig Thorsteinsdóttir* and Raquel P. Andrade*. 2022. Cell-fibronectin interactions and actomyosin contractility regulate the segmentation clock and spatio-temporal somite cleft formation during chick embryo somitogenesis. Cells 11:2003. doi: 10.3390/cells11132003.

2022 | Gil Carraco*, Ana P. Martins-Jesus* and Raquel P. Andrade. 2022. The Vertebrate Embryo Clock: Common Players Dancing to a Different Beat. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 10:944016. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.944016.

2022 | Isabel Duarte*, Gil Carraco*, Nayara T. D. de Azevedo, Vladimir Benes, Raquel P. Andrade. 2022. gga-miRNOME, a microRNA-sequencing dataset from chick embryonic tissues. Sci Data 9: 29. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01126-7.

2021 | Nóbrega A, Maia-Fernandes AC, Andrade RP. Altered Cogs of the Clock: Insights into the Embryonic Etiology of Spondylocostal Dysostosis. J Dev Biol. 9:5.

2020 | *Duarte, Isabel, *Liber, Marta, & Andrade, Raquel P. FrozenChicken: Promoting the meta-analysis of chicken microarray data. (Version1.0). 

2020 | Filipe Pinto, Ângela M. Costa, Raquel P. Andrade, Rui Manuel Reis. Brachyury Is Associated with Glioma Differentiation and Response to Temozolomide. Neurotherapeutics,17:2015–2027

2020 | Filipe Pinto, Ângela Costa, Gisele C de Almeida, Marcus M Matsushita, Sandra Costa, Viviane Silva, Vera Gonçalves, Celeste M Lopes, Carlos Clara, Aline Becker, Luciano Neder, Glaucia Hajj, Isabela Werneck da Cunha, Chris Jones, Raquel P Andrade, Rui M Reis. The T‐box transcription factor brachyury behaves as a tumor suppressor in gliomas. The Journal of Pathology, 251:87-99.

2015 | Analuce Gouveia1,2, Hugo M. Marcelino1,2, Lisa Gonçalves3,4, Isabel Palmeirim3,4 and Raquel P. Andrade1,2. 2015. Patterning in Time and Space: HoxB Cluster Gene Expression in the Developing Chick Embryo. Cell Cycle 14:135-45. 

2014 | Filipe Pinto1,2, Nelma Pértega-Gomes1,2, Márcia S Pereira1,2, José R Vizcaíno3, Pedro Monteiro4, Rui M Henrique5,6,7, Fátima Baltazar1,2, Raquel P Andrade1,2, Rui M Reis1,2,8. 2014. T-box transcription factor Brachyury is associated with prostate cancer progression and aggressiveness. Clin Cancer Res 20: 1–13.

2014 | Caroline J. Sheeba1,2, Isabel Palmeirim2* and Raquel P. Andrade1*. 2014. Limb patterning: from signalling gradients to molecular oscillations. J Mol Biol 426:780-4. 

2010 | Tatiana P. Resende1, Mónica Ferreira1, Ana Teresa Tavares2,3, Marie-Aimée Teillet4,5, Isabel Palmeirim6* and Raquel P. Andrade1*. 2010. Sonic hedgehog in temporal control of somite formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107:12907-12.

2007 | Caroline J. Sheeba, Isabel Palmeirim and Raquel P. Andrade. Chick Hairy1 protein interacts with Sap18, a component of the SIN3/HDAC transcriptional repressor complex. BMC Developmental Biology 7:83. 

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RAQUEL P. ANDRADE
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