Dr Nidia Oliveira

I manage and provide molecular and cell culture support for the Stern Lab. I started my career in a lab that used chickens as sentinels for mosquito borne encephalitic viruses in the north of Western Australia. I am gaining invaluable experience in embryonic stem cells and the world of development through the chicken model. The lab continues to provide its daily challenges and surprises, giving me more than plenty to do. Telephone (Office): 020 3108 4045 Email: n.oliveira@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

1992-1998 PhD in Arbovirology, UWA
1991 BSc (Hons) in Arbovirology, UWA
1988-1990 BSc Microbiology/Molecular Biology, Microbiology Department, The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Previous Employment

2007-2011 Post Doctoral Research Assistant, HIV Laboratory
Centre for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London
2002-2007 Fogarty International Visiting Research Fellow, NIMH
National Institutes of Health, USA
2001-2002 Consultant, The Ministry of Health (MoH) of East Timor
MoH Headquarters, Dili, East Timor

Publications

• Anderson C, Khan MA, Wong F, Solovieva T, Oliveira NM, Baldock RA, Tickle C, Burt DW, Stern, CD. 2016. A strategy to discover new organizers identifies a putative heart organizer. Nat Commun. 7:12656. Pubmed
• 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. 14:54-67. Pubmed
• Torlopp A, Khan MA, Oliveira NM, Lekk I, Soto-Jiménez LM, Sosinsky A, Stern CD. 2014. Pitx2 positions the embryonic axis and regulates twinning. eLife. 3:e03743. Pubmed
• Marno KM, Ogunkolade BW, Pade C, Oliveira NM, O'Sullivan E, McKnight Á. 2014. Novel restriction factor RNA-associated early-stage anti-viral factor (REAF) inhibits human and simian immunodeficiency viruses. Retrovirology. 11:3. 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 novel calcium channel modulator essential for initiation of neural plate development. Nat Commun. 4:1837. Pubmed
• Liu L, Oliveira NM, Cheney KM, Pade C, Dreja H, Bergin AM, Borgdorff V, Beach DH, Bishop CL, Dittmar MT, McKnight A. 2011. A whole genome screen for HIV restriction factors. Retrovirology. 8:94. Pubmed
• Oliveira NM, Trikha R, McKnight Á. 2010. A novel post-entry restriction of Murine Leukaemia virus in human cells is Ref1/TRIM5a independent. Retrovirology 7:81. Pubmed

Conferences and Meetings

• 2nd HIV Symposium, QMUL, Whitechapel, London, UK 2010

• Centennial Retrovirus Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic 2010

• Society for General Microbiology, Spring Meeting, Edinburgh, UK 2010

• 34th Annual Retrovirus Meeting, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, USA 2009