Affiliation: Lusofona University of Humanities and Tecnologies and CEMEARE, Lisbon

Dr. Patricia Rodrigues is a marine biologist turned embryologist who has always been passionate about cell communication and development. She stared working in reproduction and development in the Algarve University, in 1997 after completing her undergraduate in Marine Biology. Her work focused on checking the developmental stages of Norway lobsters gonads and trying to link it to female external body pigmentation for fishery application. She changed her area of research to mammals during her PhD under Dr. Rafael Fissore in the University of Massassuchtts – Amherst, in 1999. And continued till 2001 with Dr. Carlos Plancha at Lisbon University Medical School  and Dr. David Albertini in Tufts University - Boston, and Kansas University Medical Center – Kansas City. While finishing her PhD, Dr Rogrigues was invited to be an auxiliary professor of developmental biology in Lusofona University Lisbon. She has also started working in an assisted reproduction center in Lisbon – British Hospital Lisbon XXI, in 2008. Since then her time is divided between the work and researching as an embryologist at CEMEARE – Centro Médico de Assistência à Reprodução and teaching.