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lab profile
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Renata Freitas IBMC
Rua do Campo Alegre 823
Porto, Porto 4150-180
Portugal
renata.freitas@ibmc.up.pt
+351 226099157 ext.2405
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| PI: |
YES |
| Taxa Studied: |
Vertebrate Animals |
| Techniques Employed: |
Degenerate PCR, Quantitative PCR (qPCR), Bioinformatics/Sequence Analysis, In Situ Hybridization, Antibody Staining, Sectioning for Histology, Confocal Microscopy, Transgenesis, Morpholinos |
| Research Description: |
Renata Freitas research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the evolution of animal design. She is also interested to explore how changes in those mechanisms lead to birth defects in humans. Most of her research was conducted under the paradigmatic question of how locomotory structures appeared and evolved in vertebrates. Pursuing this topic, she is currently studying developmental pathways associated with HoxD genes, which are transcription factors strongly involved in limb morphogenesis and patterning. These questions are being addressed using mainly zebrafish as model organism and combining functional genomics and developmental biology approaches. |
| Lab Web Page: |
http://https://www.ibmc.up.pt/node/4556 |
| Willing to Host Undergraduates: |
YES |
| Actively Seeking Undergraduates: |
YES |
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