Sandra de Macedo Ribeiro#
| Membership Number: | 6937 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.i3s.up.pt/research-group.php?groupid=7 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7698-1170 |
| Twitter: | @ProtCrys |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-de-macedo-ribeiro-a334a537 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 -2024 Deputy Director of Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Since 2023 Associate Researcher and Group Leader at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Porto, Portugal
- 2019 - 2022 Deputy Coordinator of the Neurosciences and Neurologic Diseases Programme (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde - i3S)
- 2011 - 2016 Coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Unit (Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular - IBMC)
- 2009 - 2022 Associate Researcher and Group Leader at IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Porto, Portugal
- 2008 - 2014 Invited Assistant Professor at the Biology Department, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- 2006 - 2009 Assistant Researcher at IBMC, Porto, Portugal
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Researcher at Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Coimbra, Portugal
- 2001 - 2002 Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
- 2000 - 2001 Post-Doctoral Fellow at IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
- 1999 - 2000 Max-Planck Society Fellow at MPI fuer Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
- 1994 - 1999 PhD Student at MPI fuer Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Amyloid
- Polyglutamine repeats in function and disease
- Structural biology
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3
- Protein crystallography
- Protein aggregation
- Genetic code alterations in Candida albicans
- Protein liquid-liquid phase separation
Honours and Awards
- Since 2023 Member of the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC) Scientific Advisory Board
- Since 2022 Member of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Scientific Advisory Committee
- Since 2020 Member of the Directive Board of the Portuguese Biophysics Society
- 2020-2022 Member of the Portuguese Scientific Council for Life and Health Sciences
- 2017 National Ataxia Foundation Seed Money Award. "New therapeutic approaches for Machado-Joseph Disease: Chaperoning protein self-assembly"
- 2010 National Ataxia Foundation Seed Money Award. "Understanding the ubiquitin code in disease: From protein function to protein structure"
- 2005 Prize Crioestaminal/Associação Viver a Ciência, Portugal for the work “Tackling early events in ataxin-3 aggregation pathway”
