Education
PhD, ITQB-UNL, Portugal, 2017
Lab information
Gillian Douce Lab
Research focus
Clostridium, Virulence and persistence, Immunity in the Intestinal tract
Publications
1. The invertebrate lysozyme effector ILYS-3 is systemically activated in response to danger signals and confers antimicrobial protection in C. elegans. M.J. Gravato-Nobre, F. Vaz, S.R. Filipe, R. Chalmers and J. Hodgkin. Plos Pathog, 2016 Aug 15;12(8):e1005826.
2. Cell shape dynamics during the staphylococcal cell cycle. J.M. Monteiro*, P.B. Fernandes*, F. Vaz, A.R. Pereira, A.C. Tavares, M.T. Ferreira, P.M. Pereira, H. Veiga, E. Kuru, M.S. VanNieuwenhze, Y.V. Brun, S.R. Filipe and M.G. Pinho. Nature Communications, 2015 6:8055.
3. Analysis of Cell Wall Teichoic Acids in Staphylococcus aureus. G. Covas, F. Vaz, G. Henriques, M.G. Pinho and S.R. Filipe. 'Bacterial Cell Wall Homeostasis' in Methods in Mol Bio, 2016;1440:201-13.
4. Preparation and Analysis of Crude Autolytic Enzyme Extracts from Staphylococcus aureus. F. Vaz and S.R. Filipe. Bio-protocol, 2015 Vol 5, Iss 24.
5. Bacterial autolysins trim cell surface peptidoglycan to prevent detection by the Drosophila innate immune system. M.L. Atilano*, P.M. Pereira*, F. Vaz, M.J. Catalão, P. Reed, I.R. Grilo, R.G. Sobral, P. Ligoxygakis, M.G. Pinho and S.R. Filipe. Elife, 2014 Apr 1;3:e02277.