Inês Ferreira

Post-doctoral fellow (ERC)

I finished my degree in Environmental Biology at FCUL (Lisbon) in September 2004. Following it I worked during 9 months as a laboratory manager at the Mitosis Group headed by Professor Álvaro Tavares (IGC). During this period I developed an interest on the regulation of cell cycle progression and enjoyed greatly the interdisciplinary environment, critical mass and facilities at the IGC.

My interest in cell cycle regulation and in experimenting new scientific environments led me to apply for a Marie Curie Training Fellowship in the group of Professor David Glover in the Department of Genetics of the University of Cambridge. There, I worked closely with Dr. Mónica Bettencourt-Dias. My work has focused since on understanding the factors that are involved in the control of centriole biogenesis and how SAK levels are regulated throughout the cell cycle.

I have now started my PhD in the Cell Cycle Regulation group, continuing my work on the regulation of centriole number.

Publications

Dzhindzhev NS, Yu QD, Weiskopf K, Tzolovsky G, Cunha-Ferreira I, Riparbelli M, Rodrigues-Martins A, Bettencourt-Dias M, Callaini G, Glover DM. (2010) Asterless is a scaffold for the onset of centriole assembly. Nature. 467(7316):714-8. more

Cunha-Ferreira I, Rodrigues-Martins A, Bento I, Riparbelli M, Zhang W, Laue E, Callaini G, Glover DM, Bettencourt-Dias M. (2009) The SCF/Slimb ubiquitin ligase limits centrosome amplification through degradation of SAK/PLK4. Curr Biol. 19(1):43-9. more

Cunha-Ferreira I, Bento I, Bettencourt-Dias M. (2009) From zero to many: Control of centriole number in development and disease. Traffic. 10(5):482-98. more

Rodrigues-Martins A*, Bettencourt-Dias M*, Riparbelli M*, Ferreira C, Ferreira I, Callaini G, Glover DM. (2007) DSAS-6 organizes a tube-like centriole precursor and its absence suggests modularity in centriole assembly. Curr Biol. 17(17):1465-72. more
*These authors contributed equally to this work.