Nélson Micael Ferreira Alves

Nélson is a PhD student in Biology (FCUP) whose work is being performed in CIIMAR and University of Birmingham. His work intends to understand how certain emerging pollutants such as plasticizers and pharmaceuticals can interfere with epigenetic regulation in gonads and how these effects can be inherited in the following generations and perpetuated to non-exposed generations. He uses sequencing approaches such as RNA-seq and ChIP-seq to unravel these effects.