Romeu Viana

Education

• MSc in Microbiology, IST-ULisboa, 2018

• BSc in Biochemistry, FC-UPorto - ICBAS, 2016

Research Activities

• Mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance in Candida glabrata

• Systems biology tools for drug development

• Comparative genomics and transcriptomics

Selected Publications

Viana, R., Carreiro, T., Couceiro, D., Dias, O., Rocha, I., Teixeira, M.C., “Metabolic reconstruction of the human pathogen Candida auris: using a cross-species approach for drug target prediction” FEMS Yeast Research, 23: foad045, 2023.

Viana, R., Couceiro, D., Carreiro, T., Dias, O., Rocha, I., Teixeira, M.C., "A Genome-scale metabolic model for the human pathogen Candida parapsilosis and Early Identification of Putative Novel Antifungal Drug Targets", Genes, 13: 303, 2022.

Viana, R., Pais, P., Cavalheiro, M., Galocha, M., Teixeira, M.C., “Host-Induced Stress Response in Human Pathogenic Fungi”, In: Encyclopedia of Mycology (Zaragoza O. and Casadevall A., Ed.), Elsevier, chapter 35, 2021.

Viana, R., Dias, O., Lagoa, D., Galocha, M., Rocha, I., Teixeira, M.C., “Genome-scale metabolic model of the human pathogen Candida albicans: a platform for drug target prediction”, Journal of Fungi, 6: 171, 2020.

Pais, P., California, R., Galocha, M., Viana, R., Ola, M., Cavalheiro, M., Takahashi-Nakaguchi, A., Chibana, H., Butler, G., Teixeira, M.C., “Candida glabrata transcription factor Rpn4 mediates fluconazole resistance through regulation of ergosterol biosynthesis and plasma membrane permeability”, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 64: e00554-20, 2020.

Monteiro, P.T., Oliveira, J., Pais, P., Antunes, M., Palma, M., Cavalheiro, M., Galocha, M., Godinho, C.P., Martins, L.C., Bourbon, N., Mota, M.N., Ribeiro, R.A., Viana, R., Sá-Correia, I., Teixeira, M.C., “YEASTRACT+: a portal for cross-species comparative genomics of transcription regulation in yeasts”, Nucleic Acids Research, 48:D642-D649, 2020.

Galocha, M., Pais, P., Cavalheiro, M., Pereira, D., Viana, R., Teixeira, M.C., “Divergent approaches to virulence in C. albicans and C. glabrata: two sides of the same coin”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(9). pii: E2345, 2019.

Pais, P., Galocha, M., Viana, R., Cavalheiro, M., Pereira, D., Teixeira, M.C.,  “Microevolution of the pathogenic yeasts Candida albicans and Candida glabrata during antifungal therapy and host infection”, Microbial Cell, 6(3): 142 – 159, 2019.

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