Where Ideas Grow
Catarina Meireles
Platform Head
Catarina Meireles did her bachelor in Microbiology at Escola Superior de Biotecnológia- Universidade Católica do Porto (2008), master at Universidade do Minho (2010) and she did her Ph.D. thesis at Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular of Universidade do Porto (2014-2018). Since 2016, Catarina Meireles holds the position of Team Coordinator of Translational Cytometry Scientific Platform at i3S.

Selected Publications

Meireles C., Ribeiro A.R., Pinto R.D., Leitão C., Rodrigues P.M., Alves N.L.,
Thymic crosstalk restrains the pool of cortical thymic epithelial cells with progenitor properties. European Journal of Immunology47(6):958-969, 2017. [Journal: Article] [CI: 23] [IF: 4,2]
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201746922 SCOPUS: 85017500745.


Ribeiro A.R., Meireles C., Rodrigues P.M., Alves N.L.,
Intermediate expression of CCRL1 reveals novel subpopulations of medullary thymic epithelial cells that emerge in the postnatal thymus. European Journal of Immunology44(10):2918-2924, 2014. [Journal: Article] [CI: 28] [IF: 4]
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201444585 SCOPUS: 84925298291.


Ribeiro A.R., Rodrigues P.M., Meireles C., Di Santo J.P., Alves N.L.,
Thymocyte selection regulates the homeostasis of IL-7-expressing thymic cortical epithelial cells in vivo. Journal of Immunology191(3):1200-1209, 2013. [Journal: Article] [CI: 72] [IF: 5,4]
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203042 SCOPUS: 84880685834.


Meireles C., Costa G., Guinote I., Albuquerque T., Botelho A., Cordeiro C., Freire P.,
Pseudomonas putida are environmental reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance to ß-lactamic antibiotics. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology29(7):1317-1325, 2013. [Journal: Article] [CI: 7] [IF: 1,4]
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-013-1295-3 SCOPUS: 84879129873.


Rodrigues P.M., Ribeiro A.R., Perrod C., Landry J.J.M., Araújo L., Pereira-Castro I., Benes V., Moreira A., Xavier-Ferreira H., Meireles C., Alves N.L.,
Thymic epithelial cells require p53 to support their long-term function in thymopoiesis in mice. Blood130(4):478-488, 2017. [Journal: Article] [CI: 27] [IF: 15,1]
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-12-758961 SCOPUS: 85026293874.


Rodrigues P.M., Ribeiro A.R., Serafini N., Meireles C., Di Santo J.P., Alves N.L.,
Intrathymic deletion of IL-7 reveals a contribution of the bone marrow to thymic rebound induced by androgen blockade. Journal of Immunology200(4):1389-1398, 2018. [Journal: Article] [CI: 8] [IF: 4,7]
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1701112 SCOPUS: 85044784393.