Personal identification

Full name

Raquel Santos

Citation names

• Santos, Raquel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

241E-852C-09CE

ORCID iD

0000-0003-0702-0349

Researcher Id

rid65324

Knowledge fields

• Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

	Degree	Classification
2022/05/01 - 2026 Ongoing	Bioquímica (Doutoramento) Major in Genética e biologia molecular/ Systems Biolody Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "Unveiling the role of DNA methylation in periderm formation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09 - 2021/12/09 Concluded	Tecnologias Clínico-Laboratoriais (Mestrado) Major in Epigenética Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal "Uso de Epigalocatequina-3-galato e Genisteína como potenciais indutores epigenéticos da hemoglobina fetal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19
2020/09 - 2021/10 Concluded	Introdução à Epigenética (Outros) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal	20
2015/10 - 2019/07 Concluded	Ciências Biomédicas Laboratoriais (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/05/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/08 - 2021	Research Trainee (Research)	H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal
	H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/11/23 - 2021/07/22	Técnico de 2ª Classe (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Técnico de Análises Clínicas e de Saúde Pública)	Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca EPE, Portugal
	Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca EPE, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/09 - Current	PLASCOGEN IDICA (IPL/2021/ PLASCOGEN /ESTeSL) Researcher H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Concluded
2021/09 - Current	EpiResisSA - Resistance modulation and epigenetic divergence in resistant phenotypic profiles of Staphylococcus Aureus IDICA (IPL/2019/ EpiResisSA/ESTeSL) Researcher H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal	Concluded
2021/07/01 - Current	Unveiling the role of DNA methylation in periderm and lenticel formation PTDC/ASP-SIL/1717/2020 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/08 - Current	HemoFet - Compostos naturais com capacidade de reativação do gene da gama globulina e indução da hemoglobina fetal - Teste in vitro IDICA (IPL/2019/ HemoFet /ESTeSL) Researcher H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Concluded
2020/08 - 2021/12/09	Hemofet - Natural compounds potential for reactivation of ¿-globin gene expression and fetal hemoglobin induction - An in vitro approach IDI&CAIPL/2019/HemoFet/ESTeSL Other H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, Portugal	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/09 - 2019/07	Impacto do uso de fucsina básica aquosa na deteção de Bactérias Alcóol-ácido Resistentes N.A. Projeto de Licenciatura Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal	Concluded

Publications

Conference abstract	Santos, Raquel. "Impacto do uso de fucsina básica aquosa na detecção de bacilos álcool-ácido resistentes". Paper presented in III Congresso Nacional de Ciências Médicas Laboratoriais, Lisboa, 2019.
Conference paper	Santos, Raquel. "Testing the impact of DNA methylation in periderm development". Paper presented in 6th International Symposium on Plant Apoplastic Diffusion Barriers, Girona, 2024. Santos, Raquel. "Cork development – an epigenetic view". Paper presented in Workshop – Epigenetic in Woody Plants organized by EPICATCH European Cost action CA1925., Orléans, 2023. Santos, Raquel. "EpiCORK: Unveiling the role of DNA methylation in periderm formation". Paper presented in 3rd EPI-CATCH (EPIgenetic Mechanisms of Crop Adaptation to Climate cHange) Conference, Sofia, 2023.
Conference poster	Santos, Raquel. "Uncovering the relationship between DNA methylation and periderm formation". Paper presented in 3rd EUGLOH Plant Science Meeting., 2023. 6210-34B7-D48A. "EpiCORK: Unveiling the role of DNA methylation in periderm formation.". Paper presented in 4th edition Ciências Research Day,, 2022.
Journal article	Raquel Santos. "Epigenetics at the crossroads of secondary growth regulation". Frontiers in Plant Science 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.970342. 10.3389/fpls.2022.970342 "Epigenetic and Transcriptional Modulator Potential of Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and Genistein on Fetal Hemoglobin Reactivators Genes". Clinical Complementary Medicine and Pharmacology 2 2 (2022): 100034-100034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccmp.2022.100034. 10.1016/j.ccmp.2022.100034 Gomes, A.; Amaral, P.; Santos, R.; Santos, S.; Tortosa, F.; Mendonça, P.; Marques-Ramos, A.. Corresponding author: Marques-Ramos, A.. "GASMoC method: a phenol-free technique to detect acid-fast bacilli". Histochemistry and Cell Biology 153 1 (2019): 63-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00418-019-01825-0. 10.1007/s00418-019-01825-0
Thesis / Dissertation	"Uso de epigalocatequina-3-galato e genisteína como potenciais indutores epigenéticos da hemoglobina fetal". Master, H&TRC - Health and Technology Research Center of Lisbon, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/14080.