ORCID: 0000-0003-1771-8994; Ciência ID: 0317-B81B-0D0D As a young researcher, S.Foubert-Mendes(MSc) is an integrated member of the Associated Laboratory LAQV-REQUIMTE in the (Bio)Chemistry & Omics group since 2020. Regarding education, S.Foubert-Mendes graduated in Biology from University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences(FCUP, 2020) with a final score of 17/20. After, she pursued a Master’s degree in Functional Biology and Biotechnology of Plants(FCUP, 2022), with a score of 19/20 achieving a perfect score of 20/20 in her dissertation. She started her scientific career early with an extra-curricular-internship, during her bachelor’s, focused on obtaining two Arabidopsis thaliana mutants (agp6agp11agp40agp23 and OVR1::GFP), under the supervision of Post-Doctoral researcher Raquel Figueiredo(SPReDLab/LAQV-Requimte), which proved to be crucial for kicking off her passion for biotechnology and plant development. A pivotal technique she acquired and, in the following years further improved, was bacterial/plant transformation through Agrobacterium-mediated gene-transfer. Still as an undergraduate, she performed another crucial internship in which her research focused on phenotyping the previously obtained mutants to unveil the functions of key cell-wall-proteins during pollen development and pollen tube growth. She worked at the laboratory of Prof. Sílvia Coimbra (SPReDLab/LAQV-Requimte), which has a strong emphasis on internationality, where she further developed her skills in several microscopy techniques (e.g.light and fluorescence microscopy) and molecular biology (e.g.extraction of nucleic acids, PCR/RT-qPCR, cDNA synthesis, etc.). She performed her Master’s Dissertation at SPReDLab, focusing on obtaining several mutants for cell-wall-proteins highly-expressed in pollen through CRISPR/Cas9 technology, as well as disclosing the functions of these proteins. Once again, she had the opportunity to refine her previous knowledge in plant physiology, molecular-biology, and microscopy as well to attain fundamental experience in cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas9 editing. After, she won an open call for an 18-month (September/2022-February/2024) research fellowship within the ongoing nationally funded research project PineWALL(PTDC/ASP-SIL/3142/2020), becoming an integrated-member of the investigation team. Here, she aimed to study the biochemical and anatomical effects of the pine-wood-nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) on several Pinus spp. under different climatic conditions. Her participation on this project revealed to be critical for her acquaintance with phytopathology, namely of woody species. Regarding publications she is a co-author of three Q1 published research papers. Furthermore, she has participated in four (inter)national congress: Mendes et al. (2020) poster communication at Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto; Mendes et al. (2022) oral communication at Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto; Mendes et al. (2022) oral communication at the 2nd Eugloh Plant Science Meeting; Foubert-Mendes et al. (2023) poster communication at Plant Cell Wall Meeting: XVI. Moreover, she was a co-author of two additional posters presented in international conferences. Regardind awards, she received the “Prémio Escolar Dr. António Leitão” in 2019 for her outstanding evaluation in a Plant Physiology course. Currently, she is a PhD student at iB2 laboratory.