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Irene De Almeida is a long-standing
member of the lab. After doing the work for her PhD in neural induction under
Claudio's supervision, Irene took a four year career break to have a family and
pursue other interests. She returned to the Lab in 2011 and, as a research
associate, has been working in various projects, ranging from calcium signaling
and extracellular matrix proteins in neural induction to somitogenesis. Currently
Irene is working towards understanding embryonic regulation and the
establishment of polarity in the early chick embryo. Telephone (Office): 020 3108 4045 Email: i.almeida@ucl.ac.uk |
Publications
- Jean C, Oliveira NM, Intarapat S, Fuet A, Mazoyer C, De Almeida I, Trevers K, Boast S, Aubel P, Bertocchini F, Stern CD, Pain B. 2015. Transcriptome analysis of chicken ES, blastodermal and germ cells reveals that chick ES cells are equivalent to mouse ES cells rather than EpiSC. Stem Cell Res. 14(1):54-67. Pubmed
- Dias AS*, de Almeida I*, Belmonte JM, Glazier JA, Stern CD. 2014. Somites without a clock. Science. 343: 791-795. * equal contributions. Pubmed
- Papanayotou C*, De Almeida I*, Liao P*, Oliveira NM, Lu SQ, Kougioumtzidou E, Zhu L, Shaw A, Sheng G, Streit A, Yu D, Wah Soong T, Stern CD. 2013. Calfacilitin is a calcium channel modulator essential for initiation of neural plate development. Nat Commun. 4:1837. * equal contributions. Pubmed
- Linker C, De Almeida I, Papanayotou C, Stower M, Sabado V, Ghorani E, Streit A, Mayor R, Stern CD. 2009. Cell communication with the neural plate is required for induction of neural markers by BMP inhibition: evidence for homeogenetic induction and implications for Xenopus animal cap and chick explant assays. Dev Biol 327(2):478-486. Pubmed
- de Almeida I, Rolo A, Batut J, Hill C, Stern CD, Linker C. 2008. Unexpected activities of Smad7 in Xenopus mesodermal and neural induction. Mech Dev. 125:421-43. Pubmed
