Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada
Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada was a Portuguese researcher in biochemistry. She was a research student at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science until 1973 and at the
Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology (IBPC), Paris from 1973 to 1979 and
Paris Diderot University. In 1979 she completed her PhD studies and in 1976 was employed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as an adjoint researcher at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science; in 1984 she was a senior researcher until 31 December 1999. In 2000 she moved to the Institute of Technology Chemical Biology as an invited full professor, where she launched the Genomics and Stress laboratory. She worked with
yeast to examine how the
fungi reacts to
environmental stressors, such as
Iron,
Arsenic, and
Nitric oxide, and thus how these stressors regulate cellular
homeostasis.
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