Paulo Pereira is the leader of the Cell Growth and Differentiation Group at the i3S since 2013. He has a PhD degree in Cell Biology by the University College London (2002), and during his Ph.D, he was a recipient of a "Gulbenkian Foundation PhD Program in Biology and Medicine" fellowship. During his post-doc with Fernando Casares (IBMC, Porto - CABD, Seville) he studied Drosophila eye development and established a genetic model to study basic mechanisms in cancer. P. Pereira has nearly 20 years of expertise in the Drosophila field, combining functional genomics with molecular approaches to study the control of cell proliferation and differentiation. Mainly focusing on the developing retina as a model, he has contributed to the characterisation of novel signaling mechanisms and genetic regulators, in particular of the Myc and TGFbeta pathways. He is also interested in neuron-glia crosstalk and in using Drosophila as a model to human disease. P. Pereira published 17 articles in journals, 8 as senior author. Supervised 5 PhD theses (2 as co-supervisor), and 3 Post-docs.
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00099-19 SCOPUS: 85066485467.
García-Morales D., Navarro T., Iannini A., Pereira P.S., Míguez D.G., Casares F.,
DOI: 10.1242/dev.176933 SCOPUS: 85065344120.
Eusebio N., Tavares L., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.07.018 SCOPUS: 85050401082.
Tavares L., Correia A., Santos M.A., Relvas J.B., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006647 SCOPUS: 85016620416.
Neto M., Naval-Sánchez M., Potier D., Pereira P.S., Geerts D., Aerts S., Casares F.,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04936-7 SCOPUS: 85021927654.
Martins T., Eusebio N., Correia A., Marinho J., Casares F., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160258 SCOPUS: 85012931855.
Tavares L., Pereira E., Correia A., Santos M.A., Amaral N., Martins T., Relvas J.B., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22806 SCOPUS: 84928206519.
Marinho J., Martins T., Neto M., Casares F., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.02.003 SCOPUS: 84876321493.
Caldeira J., Simões-Correia J., Paredes J., Pinto M.T., Sousa S., Corso G., Marrelli D., Roviello F., Pereira P.S., Weil D., Oliveira C., Casares F., Seruca R.,
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2011-300427 SCOPUS: 84863719147.
Marinho J., Casares F., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1242/dev.054411 SCOPUS: 78751553525.
Martin D., Pantoja C., Fernández-Miñán A., Valdes-Quezada C., Moltó E., Matesanz F., Bogdanovic O., De La Calle-Mustienes E., Domínguez O., Taher L., Furlan-Magaril M., Alcina A., Cañóon S., Fedetz M., Blasco M.A., Pereira P.S., Ovcharenko I., Recillas-Targa F., Montoliu L., Manzanares M., Guigo R., Serrano M., Casares F., Gómez-Skarmeta J.L.,
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2059 SCOPUS: 79958834622.
Pereira P.S., Teixeira A., Pinho S., Ferreira P., Fernandes J., Oliveira C., Seruca R., Suriano G., Casares F.,
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl093 SCOPUS: 33745184835.
Tavares L., Grácio P., Ramos R., Traquete R., Relvas J.B., Pereira P.S.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.02.002 SCOPUS: 85101016149.