Post-Doctoral Fellow, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1999-2017
PhD in Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, 1999
MSc in Embryology/Animal Physiology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1989
Invited Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior de Ciências Egas Moniz, Portugal (2010 – present)
3D organoids for the in vitro differentiation of hiPS cells for disease modelling and therapeutic purposes.
Gene editing by CRISPR/Cas9 for live imaging of pluripotent cell differentiation and disease modelling using isogenic hiPS cell lines.
Pereira, P.D., Serra-Caetano, A., Cabrita, M., Bekman, E., Braga, J., Rino, J., Santus, R., Filipe, P.L., Sousa, A.E., Ferreira, J.A. Quantification of cell cycle kinetics by EdU (5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine)-coupled-fluorescence-intensity analysis. Oncotarget 8(25):40514-40532 (2017).
Ferreira, A.R., Silva, R.C., Abranches, E., Bekman, E., Henrique, D., Amaral, I.F., Pego, A.P. The endothelial cell-neural stem cell cross talk in the context of the development of spinal cord tissue engineering strategies. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 8:367-368 (2014).
Abranches, E., Bekman, E., Henrique, D. Generation and Characterization of a Novel Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Line with a Dynamic Reporter of Nanog Expression. PLoS One 8(3):e59928 (2013).
Abranches, E., Silva, M., Pradier, L., Schulz, H., Hummel, O., Henrique, D., Bekman, E. Neural differentiation of embryonic stem cells in vitro: a road map to neurogenesis in the embryo. PLoS One 4(7):e6286 (2009).
Abranches, E., Bekman, E., Henrique, D., Cabral, J.M.S. Expansion of mouse embryonic stem cells on microcarriers. Biotechnol Bioeng 96(6):1211-1221 (2007).
Duarte, A., Hirashima, M., Benedito, R., Trindade, A., Diniz, P., Bekman, E., Costa, L., Henrique, D., Rossant, J. Dosage-sensitive requirement for mouse Dll4 in artery development. Genes Dev 18(20):2474-2478 (2004).
Bekman, E., Henrique, D. Embryonic expression of three mouse genes with homology to the Drosophila melanogaster prickle gene. Gene Expr Patterns 2(1-2):73-77 (2002).
