Catarina Madeira

Research Fellow

	BioEngineering Research Group Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering Department of Bioengineering Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Technical University of Lisbon Avenida Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal
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Status at Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering:

• Researcher Scientist (BioEngineering Research Group)

Education:

• Graduation in Technological Chemistry, FCUL, 1994
• M. Sc. in Biotechnology, IST, 2000
• Ph. D. in Biotechnology, IST, 2005
• Post-Doctorate, BERG, IST, 2005 – 2009
• Research Scientist, IST, IBB, 2009 -

Positions:

• Research Scientist

Research Activities:

• Stem Cell Bioengineering

Selected publications:

Articles

Madeira, C., Loura, L., Prieto, M., Fedorov, A., Aires-Barros, M. R., “Liposome complexation efficiency monitored by FRET: effect of charge ratio, helper lipid and plasmid size”, Eur. Biophys. J. Biophys., 36, 609-620 (2007)

Madeira, C., Fedorov, A., Aires-Barros, M. R., Prieto, M., Loura, L. M. S., “ Photophysical behavior of a dimeric cyanine dye (BOBO-1) within cationic liposomes”, Photochem. Photobiol., 81, 1450-1459 (2005)

Madeira, C., Loura, L., Aires-Barros, R., Fedorov, A., Prieto, M., “Characterization of DNA/Lipid Complexes by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ”, Biophys. J., 85, 3106-3119 (2003)

Pessoa, J. C., Cavaco, I., Correia, I., Duarte, M. T., Gillard, R. D., Henriques, R. T., Higes, F. J., Madeira, C., Tomaz, I., “Preparation and characterisation of new oxovanadium (IV) Schiff base complexes derived from amino acids and aromatic o-hydroxyaldehydes”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 293, 1-11 (1999)

Kiss, T., Petrohán, K., Buglyó, P., Sanna, D., Micera, G., Pessoa, J. C., Madeira, C., “Oxovanadium(IV)-promoted peptide-amide deprotonation in aqueous solution”, Inorg. Chem., 37, 6389-6391 (1998)

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