Sanches Matilde

Predoctoral fellow @ Systems Biology of Yield

Matilde Sanches graduated in 2017 as master of Biodiversity and Plant Biotechnology at University of Coimbra, Portugal. During her master thesis, under the guidance of Prof. Jorge Canhoto, she studied developmental epigenetics throughout somatic embryogenesis of tamarillo plant (Solanum betaceum Cav.), performing experiments and developing skills (particularly immunofluorescence microscopy) at Pilar S. Testillano’s lab in CIB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain. After a one-year experience as Project Developer - DIVA project (H2020) and SKAN Platform activities - at INOVISA (Lisbon, Portugal) and at the Centre for Investigation and Transference of Technology to Community Development (CITT - Maputo, Mozambique), she enrolled in the “Plants for Life” Doctoral Program in 2019. Her PhD project, focussing on the study of quantitative genetics and mechanisms behind water stress tolerance in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), is currently being developed in collaboration between Dr. Carlota Vaz Patto’s lab (PlantX group, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal) and Prof. Frank Van Breusegem’s lab (Oxidative Stress Signalling group, PSB-VIB, Ghent, Belgium).

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Office: Technologiepark 71, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Email: matilde.sanches@psb.vib-ugent.be
Office Phone: +32(0)93313925

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