Ana Preto
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Minho
Portugal
Biography
Ana Preto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and senior researcher at CBMA in the University of Minho, and Consultant Researcher at IPATIMUP/i3S. She graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1998 and completed her PhD in Human Biology by the Faculty of Medicine in 2004, both at the University of Porto. Ana Preto was a PhD student of the PhD Program GABBA and performed the PhD in IPATIMUP in collaboration with the Department of Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK (2000/2004). From 2004 to 2007 had a Post-Doc position at IPATIMUP. Ana Preto has been focusing in understanding the role of KRAS mutations signalling pathways in autophagy regulation in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival, towards identification of new molecular targets to metastatic CRC. Ana Preto has also been interested in unravelling in CRC, the mechanism of action of small chain fatty acids namely acetate produced by propionibacteria from diet. Ana Preto goal is the identification of new molecular targets for CRC, which could inspire other groups, with whom she collaborates, to the development of new drugs or nanoparticles for specific target of CRC cells.
Research Interest
Basics of Life - Cellular Responses to Environmental Stress
Publications
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Reis Filho JS, Preto A, Soares P, Ricardo S, Cameselle-Teijeiro J, et al. (2003) p63 in Solid cell nests: further evidence for a stem cell origin. Modern Pathology; 16 : 43-48.
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Preto A, Reis-Filho JS, Ricardo S, Soares P. (2002) P63 expression in papillary and anaplastic carcinomas of the thyroid gland: lack of an oncogenetic role in tumorigenesis and progression. Pathology-Research and Practice; 198 : 449-454.
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Zemzoumi K, Guilvard E, Sereno D, Preto A, Benlemlih M, et al. (1999) Cloning of a Leishmania major gene encoding for an antigen with extensive homology to ribosomal protein S3a. Gene; 240 : 57-65.
