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My research interests are related to Plants Genetics, Sexual Plant Reproduction and Plant Micropropagation. Plants regulate their reproductive processes splendidly, culminating in the successful seed formation, which is a key event in the life of plants and even in our life. On the other hand, somatic embryogenesis has been crucial for several applications in woody plants, including clonal propagation, synthetic seed production, germplasm conservation and cryopreservation. Understanding the factors regulating plant reproduction and somatic embryogenesis is an essential need to improve agricultural productivity. Therefore, a fine acquaintance of fundamental molecular processes, finely regulating plant reproduction and somatic embryogenesis, will allow increasing crop productivity and high-quality seed production, the most important source of food in our planet. I concluded my master's degree in Functional Biology and Plants Biotechnology with the theme "STK target genes crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana ovules and seed development" and I am now doing my PhD on "Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling pathway during Solanum betaceum and Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis".
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ricardo André Campos Ferraz
Date of birth
1997/08/26
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Ferraz, Ricardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B81A-5F54-23D0
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4631-9821

Email addresses

  • rikayferr@hotmail.com (Professional)
  • rafvile@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 969975741 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Av. S. José, 232, 3º dto, 4750-307, Barcelos, Barcelos, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/10/29 - 2025/08/31
Ongoing
 PhD in Biociences (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling pathway during Solanum betaceum and Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/09/11 - 2020/12/11
Concluded
 Biologia Funcional e Biotecnologia de Plantas (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"STK target genes crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana ovules and seed development" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015/09/08 - 2018/06/22
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Characterization of the double knock out mutant ckx6ckx7 (CYTOKININ OXIDASE / DEHYDROGENASE) in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Portugal
2021/08/31 - Current Researcher (Research) REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/02/01 - 2020/12/11 Member of the team: H2020-Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges (MSCA-RISE-2015) Grant Agreement number: 690946. Sexual Plant Reproduction - Seed formation, SexSeed. Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09/23 - 2019/12/20 Training period integrated in the 2nd year of M.Sc, at the Nagoya University under Tetsuya Higashiyama's supervision. The aim of this secondment was to increase the knowledge in CRISPR/Cas9 tecnhology Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Japan
Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Japan
2017/09/18 - 2018/06/22 Academic internship in SPReD Lab studying the "Characterization of the double knock out mutant ckx6ckx7 (CYTOKININ OXIDASE / DEHYDROGENASE) in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds". Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 Extracurricular internship in SPReD Lab "Characterization of the double knock out mutant ckx6ckx7 (CYTOKININ OXIDASE / DEHYDROGENASE) in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds." Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/07 - Current UID 4004 - Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet (CFE)
74720214759FAC
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/07 - Current UID 50006 - Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde - Tecnologias e Processos Limpos (REQUIMTE)
74720214787FAC
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/09 - 2025/08 Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling pathway during Solanum betaceum and Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis
80949DFA
2021.04958.BD
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/07 - 2022/07 Interações pólen-pistilo - uma rede complexa de vias moleculares conducentes à formação da semente
149202PRJ
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/03 - 2020/02 Sexual Plant Reproduction – Seed formation
690946
 European Commission
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Ferraz, Ricardo; Marinho, Cláudia; Fernandes, Patrícia; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia; Canhoto, Jorge. "Root growth and somatic embryogenesis induction are regulated by an rRNA methyltransferase family in Arabidopsis thaliana". Paper presented in Iberian Plant Biology Congress 2025, 2025.
  2. Ferraz, Ricardo; Marinho, Cláudia; Fernandes, Patrícia; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia; Canhoto, Jorge. Corresponding author: Ferraz, Ricardo. "rRNA methyltransferases: exploring their role in root growth and somatic embryogenesis induction". Paper presented in International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2025), 2025.
  3. Ferraz, Ricardo; Cação, Carlos; Ferreira, Joana S; Gameiro, Paulo; Coimbra, Sílvia; Correia, Sandra; Canhoto, Jorge. Corresponding author: Ferraz, Ricardo. "Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling pathway during tamarillo (Solanum betaceum Cav.) somatic embryogenesis: CLIP approach". Paper presented in EMBL Conference: The expanding world of RBPs: from posttranscriptional control to riboregulation, 2025.
  4. Ferraz, Ricardo; Marinho, Cláudia; Fernandes, Patrícia; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Canhoto, Jorge. "Exploring an rRNA methyltransferases gene family during Arabidopsis somatic embryogenesis and development". Paper presented in 5th European Horticulture Congress, 2024.
  5. Ferraz, Ricardo; Marinho, Cláudia; Fernandes, Patrícia; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Canhoto, Jorge. "Exploring the role of an rRNA methyltransferases gene family during somatic embryogenesis in dicot species". Paper presented in In Vitro Culture of Woody Crops: Problem-Solving by New Approaches, 2024.
  6. Ferraz, Ricardo; Marinho, Cláudia; Fernandes, Patrícia; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Canhoto, Jorge. "Exploring an rRNA methyltransferases gene family during Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis". Paper presented in Iberian Plant Biology 2023 congress, 2023.
  7. Ferraz, Ricardo; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Correia, Sandra; Canhoto, Jorge. "Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling path way during tamarillo somatic embryogenesis". Paper presented in Innovative Woody Plant Cloning, 2023.
  8. Ferraz, Ricardo; CASIMIRO, BRUNO; Cordeiro, Daniela; Correia, Sandra; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Canhoto, Jorge. "Non-embryogenic cells transformation and identification of NEP-TC RNA targets in tamarillo". Paper presented in III International Meeting of the Portuguese Genetics Society, 2022.
  9. Ferraz, Ricardo; Lopes, Ana (5511-7FC1-EC00); Tetsuya Higashiyama; Colombo, Lucia; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6). "STK target genes crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana ovules and seed development". Paper presented in 26th International Conference on Sexual Plant Reproduction, 2022.
  10. Lopes, Ana (5511-7FC1-EC00); Pereira, Ana Marta; Ferraz, Ricardo; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6). "AGPs as target genes in the puzzling signalling cascade of SEEDSTICK". Paper presented in XV Cell Wall Meeting, 2019.
  11. Lopes, Ana (5511-7FC1-EC00); Pereira, Ana Marta; Ferraz, Ricardo; Pereira, Luís (CF1E-5A9B-D465); Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Ferraz, Ricardo. "Stay stick: how to fit each tile in the SEEDSTICK TF control frame?". Paper presented in SEB Plant Satellite Meeting: Advances in plant reproduction - from gametes to seeds, 2018.
  12. Lopes, Ana (5511-7FC1-EC00); Pereira, Ana Marta; Ferraz, Ricardo; Sousa, Patrícia; Pereira, Luís (CF1E-5A9B-D465); Mendes, Marta; Masiero, Simona; Colombo, Lucia; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6). "Stay stick: how to fit each tile in the SEEDSTICK TF control frame?". Paper presented in 25th International Conference on Sexual Plant Reproduction, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Ferraz, Ricardo; CASIMIRO, BRUNO; Cordeiro, Daniela; Canhoto, Jorge; Correia, Sandra. Corresponding author: Canhoto, Jorge. "Mediated Transformation of Tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) Callus Cell Suspension Cultures: A Novel Platform for Biotechnological Applications". Plants 14 7 (2025): https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/14/7/1028.
    Open access • Published
  2. Ferraz, Ricardo; Coimbra, Sílvia; Correia, Sandra; Canhoto, Jorge. "CRISPR/Cas". Revista de Ciência Elementar 11 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.24927/rce2023.009.
    10.24927/rce2023.009
  3. Lopes, Ana; Moreira, Diana; Pereira, Ana Marta; Ferraz, Ricardo; Foubert-Mendes, Sara; Pereira, Luís (CF1E-5A9B-D465); Colombo, Lucia; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6). "AGPs as molecular determinants of reproductive development". Annals of Botany 131 5 (2023): 827-838. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad046.
    10.1093/aob/mcad046
  4. Daniela Cordeiro; Ana Alves; Ricardo Ferraz; Bruno Casimiro; Jorge Canhoto; Sandra Correia. "An Efficient Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation Method for Solanum betaceum Cav. Embryogenic Callus". Plants (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12051202.
    10.3390/plants12051202
  5. Ferraz, Ricardo; Coimbra, Sílvia (BB10-C9B4-01B6); Correia, Sandra; Canhoto, Jorge. Corresponding author: Ferraz, Ricardo. "RNA methyltransferases in plants: Breakthroughs in function and evolution". Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 194 (2023): 449-460.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.12.001
  6. Ferraz, Ricardo André Campos; Lopes, Ana Lúcia Gonçalves; da Silva, Jessy Ariana Faria; Moreira, Diana Filipa Viana; Ferreira, Maria João Nogueira; de Almeida Coimbra, Sílvia Vieira. "DNA–protein interaction studies: a historical and comparative analysis". Plant Methods 17 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13007-021-00780-z.
    Published • 10.1186/s13007-021-00780-z
  7. Silva, Jessy; Ferraz, Ricardo; Dupree, Paul; Showalter, Allan M.; Coimbra, Sílvia. "Three Decades of Advances in Arabinogalactan-Protein Biosynthesis". Frontiers in Plant Science 11 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.610377.
    Published • 10.3389/fpls.2020.610377
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferraz, Ricardo. "STK target genes crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana ovules and seed development". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, 2020.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07/01 Root growth and somatic embryogenesis induction are regulated by an rRNA methyltransferase family in Arabidopsis thaliana 4th PhD Meeting in Plant Biology
Spanish Society of Plant Biology (Murcia, Spain)
2025/06/05 Exploring the role of rRNA methyltransferases in tamarillo (Solanum betaceum Cav.) somatic embryogenesis VI International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics
Portuguese Society of Genetics, ITQB (Oeiras, Portugal)
2025/05/12 Exploring the role of rRNA methyltransferases in tamarillo (Solanum betaceum Cav.) somatic embryogenesis Trees for the future: Cloning and beyond
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/07/09 Exploring an rRNA methyltransferases gene family during Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis 3rd PhD Meeting in Plant Science
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2021/11/29 Exploring the rRNA methyltransferases signalling pathway during Solanum betaceum and Arabidopsis thaliana somatic embryogenesis 1st EUGLOH Plant Science Meeting
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Oporto, Portugal)
2020/12/02 STK target genes crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana ovules and seed development. 4º Encontro em Biologia Funcional e Biotecnologia de Plantas
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências (Porto, Portugal)
2018/10/19 Characterization of the double knock-out mutant for CKX6 CKX7 (CYTOKININ OXIDASE/DEHYDROGENASE) in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana. 2º Encontro em Biologia Funcional e Biotecnologia de Plantas
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências (Porto, Portugal)
2018/02/07 Characterization of the double knock-out mutant for CKX6 CKX7 (CYTOKININ OXIDASE/DEHYDROGENASE) in the development of Arabidopsis thaliana. 11ª Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina (Porto, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2015/05/02 - 2015/05/03 Drones programming contest.
Workshop
 iDroneCup
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/10/24 - Current CopyTree, Cost Action https://www.copytree.eu/ PhD student
2019/04 - Current Marie Curie Alumini Association PhD Student
2018/03/17 - 2024/03/16 Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) PhD Student
2020/02/16 - 2022/02/16 International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research PhD Student
Distinctions

Award

2025 AAB Travel Grant
Association of Applied Biologists, United Kingdom
2018 Company of Biologists Travel Fund
Society for Experimental Biology, United Kingdom
2015 First place in Rede dos Pequenos Cientistas
Escola Secundária de Barcelos, Portugal
2014 First place in Rede dos Pequenos Cientistas
Escola Secundária de Barcelos, Portugal
2014 11th grade merit award
Erasmus Plus, Belgium
2013 First place in Rede dos Pequenos Cientistas
Escola Secundária de Barcelos, Portugal
2012 Second place (merit) in Rede dos Pequenos Cientistas
Escola Secundária de Barcelos, Portugal