People

Margarida Borges
senior researcher
Research Group
Position
Assistant Professor (since 2010)
Personal Website
Email
mborges@ff.up.pt
Phone number
(+351) 22 0420 8500 (ext: 8565)
ORCID
Ciência Vitae
Recent publications
- Carina Brito; Tânia MSilva; Maria MCastro; Weronika Wyrwas; Bárbara Oliveira; Bruno MFonseca; Pedro Oliveira; Craig WRoberts; Natércia Teixeira; Margarida Borges. 2020. Toxoplasma gondii infection reduces serum progesterone levels and adverse effects at the maternal‐foetal interface. PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY, DOI: 10.1111/pim.12690
- Mariana Resende; Marcos SCardoso; Ricardo Fróis-Martins; Margarida Borges; Michael BJordan; António Gil Castro; Rui Appelberg. 2019. TNF-Mediated Compensatory Immunity to Mycobacterium avium in the Absence of Macrophage Activation by IFN-γ. The Journal of Immunology, ji1801594, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801594
Main research interests
- Immunopathology of Infection
- In vitro models of parasite and bacterial infection
- In vivo model of T. gondii vertical transmission
- Screening of anti-parasitic and anti-bacterial agents
- Search of vaccines avoiding parasite replication and invasion