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Joana Paes de Faria
Team Member
Joana Paes de Faria Monteiro completed the Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2007 by Universidade de Lisboa. She has a BSc in Microbiology and a Master's degree in Biotechnology (De Montfort University). She has joined IBMC in 2010 after a postdoc at UCL  in the laboratory of  Bill Richardson where her work focused on the regulation of oligodendrocyte lineage genes in the development of the central nervous system. At J. Relvas Lab (IBMC/I3s) her main interests are the signaling mechanisms mediated by integrins during myelination in the central and peripheral nervous system.