{"id":624,"date":"2026-06-17T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/?page_id=624"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:17:10","slug":"pedro-carvalho","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/people\/pedro-carvalho\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Carvalho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2025\/04\/pedro_foto.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-571 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2025\/04\/pedro_foto.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2025\/04\/pedro_foto-222x300.jpeg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postdoctoral researcher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0760-323X\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/files\/2024\/07\/orcid.logo_.icon_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-442\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:35px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born in Coimbra, Portugal, where I earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Biology and decided to continue in science by pursuing a master\u2019s in Biomedical Research. However, after my first experience with animal experiments, I realized that biomedical science wasn&#8217;t the right path for me. I transitioned to a Plant Biotechnology master\u2019s program, where I worked on ectomycorrhizal fungi in maritime pine forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing my master\u2019s, I moved to Oeiras to pursue a PhD in the group of Dr. Nelson Saibo at ITQB. During my PhD, I focused on understanding the transcriptional regulation of a C4 promoter in rice, a C3 plant. In collaboration with Professor Jane Langdale\u2019s lab at the University of Oxford, I identified and characterized three rice transcription factors that regulate the spatial and temporal activity of the C4 promoter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After obtaining my PhD in 2023, I continued in the Saibo lab as part of the EU-funded project Photoboost, which aimed to enhance the photosynthetic performance of rice by introducing strategies to improve various aspects of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined the Mar\u00edn lab in April 2025, where I will combine my two scientific passions\u2014symbiotic relationships and transcriptional regulation. My current work focuses on uncovering the regulatory mechanisms involved in diffusion barrier formation and bacterial accommodation in root nodules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside the lab, I enjoy spending time with my family, playing video games, reading fantasy books, cooking, and discovering new places.<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1002739,"featured_media":0,"parent":587,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-624","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/624\/revisions\/630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/marinlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}