FEBS Open Bio Editorial Office, Cambridge, UK.
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal.
FEBS Open Bio. 2023 Jun;13(6):954-956. doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.13604. Epub 2023 Apr 19.
Professor Cecília Maria Arraiano directs a research group named 'Control of Gene Expression' at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal. She started her scientific journey at the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in Biology, before completing her PhD in Genetics as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA. After a postdoc in the USA, she returned to Lisbon to establish her own lab. She has authored close to 200 publications mainly in the field of RNA degradation mechanisms, with a focus on enzymes and RNA chaperones that mediate RNA decay in microorganisms. She has received several prizes and is an active member of prestigious organizations. Namely, she is an EMBO member, Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences. In addition, Prof Arraiano has chaired the FEBS Working Group on Women in Science from 2014 to 2022. In this fascinating interview, she discusses her research, her experience working in the USA and Portugal, and the importance of initiatives to support women in science.
葡萄牙诺瓦蒂尔克技术化学与生物研究所的 Cecília Maria Arraiano 教授领导着一个名为“基因表达控制”的研究小组。她在里斯本大学开始了她的科研生涯，在那里她获得了生物学学位，然后作为富布赖特-海斯研究员在美国佐治亚大学完成了遗传学博士学位。在美国完成博士后研究后，她回到里斯本建立了自己的实验室。她撰写了近 200 篇主要关于 RNA 降解机制的出版物，重点研究在微生物中介导 RNA 降解的酶和 RNA 伴侣。她获得了多个奖项，是多个著名组织的活跃成员。具体而言，她是欧洲分子生物学组织的成员、欧洲微生物学会的研究员、美国微生物学会的研究员以及葡萄牙科学院的成员。此外，Arraiano 教授还于 2014 年至 2022 年担任 FEBS 妇女科学工作组主席。在这个引人入胜的采访中，她讨论了她的研究、她在美国和葡萄牙的工作经验，以及支持女性参与科学的倡议的重要性。
