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Margarida Espada

Researcher (MED - Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)

Fixed-term employment contract

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Doctoral Degree: Biologia (Universidade de Évora - 2018)
Master Degree: Biologia Humana e Ambiente (Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa - 2010)
Bachelor's Degree: Biologia (Universidade de Évora - 2005)
MARE-UE - MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (Collaborating Member)
MED - Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Integrated Member with doctorate)
Molecular plant-parasite interactions
Molecular biology and genetics
Plant pathology
Next generation sequencing, transcriptomics
Nematology
My main research interest is in the molecular plant-nematode interactions. Functional characterisation of parasitism proteins from plant-parasitic nematodes and understanding their roles in the host-parasite interaction.
Molecular diagnostic of plant-parasitic nematodes | Diagnóstico de nemátodes fitoparasitas (Laboratório com certificação para análise do nemátode da madeira do pinheiro, organismo quarentena A2).

Plant Protection group (Protecção de Plantas), NemaLab


Linhas Temáticas: Sistema Agro-Silvopastoril, Horticultura

CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Laboratório Associado, Membro Investigador


MARE (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre), Membro colaborador

POCI-01-0246-FEDER-181308 / Portugal 2020
acrónimo: PRO.VITA
finished in 30/06/2023
PTDC/ASP-PLA/0197/2020 / FCT
acrónimo: Pratyomics
finished in 29/02/2024
ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-028724 / Portugal 2020 ,Portugal 2020 ,Portugal 2020 ,FCT
acrónimo: PineEnemy
finished in 14/10/2021
PTDC/AGR-PRO/2589/2014 / FCT
acrónimo: PRATYTECH
finished in 30/06/2019
PTDC/BIA-MIC/3768/2012 / FCT
acrónimo: MICRONEMA
finished in 30/09/2015
Curto M, Vicente CSL, Espada M. (2022). Functional characterization of parasitism-related genes from Bursaphelenchus xylophilus may suggest involvement on the nematode oxidative stress response. III International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics - Book of abstracts. University of Evora
Mendonça M, Vicente C, Barbosa P, Velada I, Vieira P, Faria J, Santos M, Nóbrega F, Eves-van den Akker S, Inácio ML, Mota M, Espada M. How parasitism genes are regulated: a motif to search for genes regulators in the plant parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Book of abstracts - VII Encontro de Estudantes de Doutoramento em Ambiente e Agricultura (2022).
Espada, M., Shinya, R., Li, H. M., Filipiak, A., Vicente, C. S. L., eds. (2022). Global Occurrence of Pine Wilt Disease: Biological Interactions and Integrated Management. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88976-867-7
Espada M, Filipiak A, Li H, Shinya R and Vicente CSL (2022). Editorial: Global occurrence of pine wilt disease: Biological interactions and integrated management. Front. Plant Sci. 13:993482. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.993482
Vicente CSL, Soares M, Faria JMS, Espada M, Mota M, Nóbrega F, Ramos AP, Inácio ML. Fungal Communities of the Pine Wilt Disease Complex: Studying the Interaction of Ophiostomatales With Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Front Plant Sci. 2022 Jun 14;13:908308. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.908308.
Vicente C, Faria J, Espada M, Nóbrega F, Bonifacio, L, Mota M, Bragança H, Sousa E, Inacio ML (2022) Nematode-Mycobiota interactions in Pine Wilt Disease. International Symposium IUFRO on Pine Wilt Disease. 22-26.12.2021
Barbosa P, Vicente C, Espada M, Figueiredo AC, Mota M (2021)Effects of nematicidal phytochemicals on potato germination. VI Encontro de Estudantes de Doutoramento em Ambiente e Agricultura.Évora
Vicente C, Faria, J, Nobrega F, Bragança H, Bonificio L, Naves P, Sousa E, Espada M, Mota M, Inacio ML (2020) Profiling mycobiota communities associated with the Pine Wilt Disease. 72 nd International Symposium of Crop Protection, Ghent
Vicente C et al. (2021)Plant Metabolomics for the control of the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans. Encontro com a Ciencia e Tecnologia em Portugal - Ciencia'21.
The role of Pratylenchus penetrans transthyretin-like protein in parasitism. M. Espada, C. Vicente, J. Branco, M. Mota, P. Vieira. Internacional Symposium of crop protection. 18 Maio 2021, Gent, Bélgica.
Helena Adão, Claúdia Vicente, Katarzyna Sroczy?ska, Margarida Espada, Paula Alvim, Mélanie Costa and Soraia Vieira (eds), 2019. Book of Abstracts, SeventIMCO - Seventeenth International Meiofauna Conference, Grand Auditorium, University of Évora, Portugal, 7-12 July, 2019, University of Évora, Special Publication.
Espada M. Interação nemátode-planta: abordagem transcriptómica revela novos genes de parasitismo no nemátode da madeira do pinheiro, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. 6ª Edição do "Investigar ICAAM - Um olhar sobre as interações em ecossistemas do Mediterrâneo". 18 Abril 2018, Universidade de Évora.
Espada, M., Sebastian Eves-van den Akker; Tom Maier; Vijayapalani Paramasivan; Thomas Baum; Manuel Mota; John T. Jones. 2018. STATAWAARS: A promoter motif associated with spatial expression in the major effector-producing tissues of the plant-parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. BMC Genomics 19: 553-565. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-4908-2.

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