QUT - Academic profiles - Dr Felipe Fenselau de Felippes

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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Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy

Personal details

Positions

Senior Research Associate
Faculty of Science,
School of Biology & Environmental Science

Keywords

Control of gene expression, small RNAs, Gene silencing, RNA interference, Plant biotechnology, Plant molecular and cell biology, Genomics, Genome Structure and regulation

Research field

Plant biology, Genetics, Other biological sciences

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020

Qualifications

PhD (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)

Teaching

Dr de Felippes is currently a lecturer at BVB317 - Principles of Genomics and Biotechnology

Publications

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., Wang, J. & Weigel, D. (2012). MIGS: miRNA-induced gene silencing. Plant Journal, 70(3), 541–547. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231738
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
de Felippes, F. & Waterhouse, P. (2023). Plant terminators: The unsung heroes of gene expression. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(7), 2239–2250. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241486
Asadyar, L., de Felippes, F., Bally, J., Blackman, C., An, J., Sussmilch, F., Moghaddam, L., Williams, B., Blanksby, S., Brodribb, T. & Waterhouse, P. (2024). Evidence for within-species transition between drought response strategies in Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytologist, 244(2), 464–476. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/250368
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
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
de Felippes, F., (2019). Gene Regulation Mediated by microRNA-Triggered Secondary Small RNAs in Plants. Plants, 8(5). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231751
Ranawaka, B., An, J., Lorenc, M., Jung, H., Sulli, M., Aprea, G., Roden, S., Llaca, V., Hayashi, S., Asadyar, L., LeBlanc, Z., Ahmed, F., Naim, F., Bolzan De Campos, S., Cooper, T., Fenselau de Felippes, F., Dong, P., Zhong, S., Garcia-Carpintero, V., Orzaez, D., Dudley, K., Bombarely, A., Bally, J., Winefield, C., Giuliano, G. & Waterhouse, P. (2023). A multi-omic Nicotiana benthamiana resource for fundamental research and biotechnology. Nature Plants, 9(9), 1558–1571. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241500
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

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2024

Ranawaka, B., An, J., Lorenc, M. T., Jung, H., Sulli, M., Aprea, G., Roden, S., Llaca, V., Hayashi, S., Asadyar, L., LeBlanc, Z., Ahmed, Z., Naim, F., de Campos, S. B., Cooper, T., de Felippes, F. F., Dong, P., Zhong, S., Garcia-Carpintero, V., Orzaez, D., Dudley, K. J., Bombarely, A., Bally, J., Winefield, C., Giuliano, G. & Waterhouse, P. M. (2024). Author Correction: A multi-omic Nicotiana benthamiana resource for fundamental research and biotechnology (Nature Plants, (2023), 9, 9, (1558-1571), 10.1038/s41477-023-01489-8). Nature Plants, 10(1), 193.
Hayashi, S., Souvan, J. M., Bally, J., de Felippes, F. F. & Waterhouse, P. M. (2024). Exploring the source of TYLCV resistance in Nicotiana benthamiana. Frontiers in Plant Science, Article 1404160, 15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/250367
Asadyar, L., de Felippes, F. F., Bally, J., Blackman, C. J., An, J., Sussmilch, F. C., Moghaddam, L., Williams, B., Blanksby, S. J., Brodribb, T. J. & Waterhouse, P. M. (2024). Evidence for within-species transition between drought response strategies in Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytologist, 244(2), 464–476. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/250368

2023

de Felippes, F. F. & Waterhouse, P. M. (2023). Plant terminators: The unsung heroes of gene expression. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(7), 2239–2250. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241486
Ranawaka, B., An, J., Lorenc, M., Jung, H., Sulli, M., Aprea, G., Roden, S., Llaca, V., Hayashi, S., Asadyar, L., LeBlanc, Z., Ahmed, F. Z., Naim, F., Bolzan De Campos, S., Cooper, T., Fenselau de Felippes, F., Dong, P., Zhong, S., Garcia-Carpintero, V., Orzaez, D., Dudley, K., Bombarely, A., Bally, J., Winefield, C., Giuliano, G. & Waterhouse, P. (2023). A multi-omic Nicotiana benthamiana resource for fundamental research and biotechnology. Nature Plants, 9(9), 1558–1571. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241500

2022

De Felippes, F. F., Shand, K. & Waterhouse, P. M. (2022). Identification of a Transferrable Terminator Element That Inhibits Small RNA Production and Improves Transgene Expression Levels. Frontiers in Plant Science, Article 877793, 13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231752

2021

Brosnan, C., Sawyer, A., Fenselau de Felippes, F., Carroll, B., Waterhouse, P. & Mitter, N. (2021). Intact double stranded RNA is mobile and triggers RNAi against viral and fungal plant pathogens. bioRxiv.

2020

Ranawaka, B., Hayashi, S., Waterhouse, P. M. & de Felippes, F. F. (2020). Homo sapiens: The superspreader of plant viral diseases. Viruses, 12(12). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231730
de Felippes, F. F. & Waterhouse, P. M. (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. L., Roden, S., Eamens, A. L., Finnegan, E. J. & Waterhouse, P. M. (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

2019

de Felippes, F. F. (2019). Gene Regulation Mediated by microRNA-Triggered Secondary Small RNAs in Plants. Plants, 8(5). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231751

2017

De Felippes, F. 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

2016

Todesco, M. & de Felippes, F. F. (2016). Why Benthamiana Went Viral. Trends in Plant Science, 21(1), 4–6. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231736

2014

Fenselau de Felippes, F., Azevedo, J. & Voinnet, O. (2014). The viral protein P19 requires host factors for successful suppression of RNA silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana. 41–42. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241516
Fenselau de Felippes, F. & Voinnet, O. (2014). Role of arginine methylation on AGO1 biology and the silencing pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana. RNA 2014: The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the RNA Society: Program and abstracts, 345. The RNA Society. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/241686

A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/felipe.felippes

Supervision

Supervision topics

Unleashing the full potential of terminators for the regulation of gene expression in plants

Dr Felipe Fenselau de Felippes

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