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PhD (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)
Dr de Felippes has focused most of his career studying the mechanism of RNA interference in plants, which plays a critical role in many physiological processes, from development to defense against viruses. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. He then joined the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Tübingen, Germany) as a Ph.D. student, and later worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2017, Dr de Felippes joined the group of Prof. Peter Waterhouse at the Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy (CAB) - QUT, as a Senior Research Associate. Since then, he has been engaged in research involving the RNA interference pathway, plant response to abiotic stress, protection against virus, gene regulation, and genomics.
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- De Felippes, F., Shand, K. & Waterhouse, P. (2022). Identification of a Transferrable Terminator Element That Inhibits Small RNA Production and Improves Transgene Expression Levels. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231752
- Ranawaka, B., Hayashi, S., Waterhouse, P. & de Felippes, F. (2020). Homo sapiens: The superspreader of plant viral diseases. Viruses, 12(12). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231730
- de Felippes, F. & Waterhouse, P. (2020). The Whys and Wherefores of Transitivity in Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231732
- F. de Felippes, F., McHale, M., Doran, R., Roden, S., Eamens, A., Finnegan, E. & Waterhouse, P. (2020). The key role of terminators on the expression and post-transcriptional gene silencing of transgenes. Plant Journal, 104(1), 96–112. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231734
- de Felippes, F., (2019). Gene Regulation Mediated by microRNA-Triggered Secondary Small RNAs in Plants. Plants, 8(5). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231751
- De Felippes, F., Marchais, A., Sarazin, A., Oberlin, S. & Voinnet, O. (2017). A single miR390 targeting event is sufficient for triggering TAS3-tasiRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(9), 5539–5554. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231735
- Todesco, M. & de Felippes, F. (2016). Why Benthamiana Went Viral. Trends in Plant Science, 21(1), 4–6. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231736
- De Felippes, F., (2013). Downregulation of plant genes with miRNA-induced gene silencing. In DJ. Taxman (Ed.), siRNA Design: Methods and Protocols (pp. 379–387). Humana Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231860
- De Felippes, F., Wang, J. & Weigel, D. (2012). MIGS: miRNA-induced gene silencing. Plant Journal, 70(3), 541–547. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231738