Education:

• Graduation (2000-2005), Biology, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal

PhD (2006 –         ): Biology, Laboratory of Biotechnology and Cytomics, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Supervisor: Prof. Conceição Santos) and the Institute of  Molecular Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark, (co-supervisor: Prof. John Mundy))

PhD Thesis: " Salicylic acid and Ethylene as mediators during plant cell death: cytomic and molecular studies "

Research Interests:

• Flow Cytometry:

  - Genome size estimations in plant species;
  
  - Ploidy stability of in vitro cultures;
  
  - Methodological issues (analyses of the effect of cytosolic compounds, nuclear isolation buffer's comparison, best practices, etc.)

  - Programmed cell death studies.

• Toxicology
• Plant Physiology
• Molecular biology

• Plant necrobiology

Papers in International Journals:

-Brito G., Loureiro J., Lopes T., Rodriguez E., Santos C. (in press) Genetic characterisation of olive trees from Madeira Archipelago using flow cytometry and microsatellite markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.

 

-Loureiro J., Rodriguez E., Dolezel J., Santos C. (in press) Two new nuclear isolation buffers for plant DNA flow cytometry – a test with 37 species. Annals of Botany.

 

-Loureiro J., Rodriguez E., Gomes A., Santos C. (2007) Genome size estimation on Ulmus minor Mill., Ulmus glabra Huds. and Celtis australis L. using flow cytometry. Plant Biology. 9, 541-544.

-Castro S., Loureiro J., Rodriguez E., Silveira P., Navarro L., Santos C. (2007) Evaluation of polysomaty and estimation of genome size in Polygala vayredae and P. calcarea using flow cytometry. Plant Science. (in press),

- Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Costa A, Santos C (2007) Nuclear DNA content estimations in wild olive (Olea europaea L. ssp. europaea var. sylvestris) and Portuguese cultivars of O. europaea using flow cytometry (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, in press);

- Loureiro J, Capelo A, Brito G, Rodriguez E, Silva S, Pinto G, Santos C (2007). Micropropagation of Juniperus phoenicea L. adult plants and ploidy stability analyses in micropropagated plants using flow cytometry. Biologia Plantarum 51(1):7-14;

- Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Dolezel J, Santos C (2006). Flow cytometric and microscopic analysis of the effect of tannic acid on plant nuclei and estimation of DNA content. Annals of Botany 98: 515-527;

- Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Dolezel J, Santos C (2006). Comparison of four nuclear isolation buffers for plant DNA flow cytometry. Annals of Botany 98:679-689;

- Leal F, Loureiro J, Rodriguez E, Pais MS, Santos C, Pinto-Carnide O (2006). Nuclear DNA content of Vitis vinífera cultivars and ploidy level analyses of somatic embryo derived plants obtained after anther culture. Plant Cell Reports 25:978-985;

Organization of scientific meetings:

- Organization of the Practical Course - Flow cytometric and microscopic analysis of male reproductive cells that took place in the Department of Biology, University of Aveiro from 20th to 21st May 2005.

- Organization of the Advanced Course - Flow cytometry applied to plant structural cytomics that took place in the Department of Biology, University of Aveiro from 20th to 21st May 2005.

- Participation in the organization of the XXXIX Reunion of the Portuguese Society of Electron Microscopy and Cell Biology that took place in University of Aveiro from 4th to 6th of November 2004.

- Organization of the Seminar - Applications of flow cytometry in Biology, Health and Environment that took place in University of Aveiro in 5th of May 2004.

- Organization of the Seminar - GMO: what present, what future? that took place in University of Aveiro in 14th of April 2004.