ricardo.almeida 
ucsf.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
University of California, San Francisco
University of Edinburgh, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Publications
Icaac, R.S., Jiang, F., Doudna, J.A., Lim, W.A., Narlikar, G.J., Almeida, R.. "Nucleosome breathing and remodeling constrain CRISPR-Cas9 function." eLife Apr 28; 10.7554/eLife.13450.
Chen, B., Hu, J., Almeida, R., Liu, H., Balakrishnan, S., Covill-Cooke, C., Lim, W.A., Huang, B. "Expanding the CRISPR imaging toolset with Staphylococcus aureus Cas9 for simultaneous imaging of multiple genomic loci." Nucl. Acids Res. May5; 44, e75-e75.
Zalatan, J.G., Lee, M.E., Almeida, R.., Whitehead, W.H., La Russa, M., Tsai, J.C., Weissman, J.S, Dueber, J.E., Qi, L.S., Lim, W.A. "Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds." Cell Jan 15; 160(1-2): 339-350.
Breitkreutz, A.*, Choi, H.*, Sharom, J.R.*,Boucher, L.*, Neduva, V.*, Larsen, B., Lin, Z., Breitkreutz, B.J., Stark, C., Liu, G., Ahn, J., Dewar-Darch, D., Reguly, T., Tang, X., Almeida, R., Qin, Z.S., Gingras, A.C., Nesvizhskii, A.I., Tyers, M. "A Global Protein Kinase and Phosphatase Interaction Network in Yeast." Science 328, 1043-1046 (2010). (*equal contribution)
Kagansky, A.*, Folco, H.D.*, Almeida, R.*, Pidoux, A.L., Boukaba, A., Simmer, F., Urano, T., Hamilton, G.L., Allshire, R.C. "Synthetic Heterochromatin Bypasses RNAi and Centromeric Repeats to Establish Functional Centromeres." Science 324, 1716-1719 (2009). (*equal contribution)
Almeida, R. & Allshire, R.C. "RNA silencing and genome regulation." Trends in Cell Biology 15, 251-258 (2005).