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Since my early days as a student I was puzzled and fascinated about the complexity of cells and how they would coordinate to build different organisms and accomplish such diverse functions in nature. This led me to take a degree in Biochemistry (Universidade de Évora). In my early scientific career, I worked two years in the field of microalgae biotechnology (Universidade do Algarve). I further shifted my interests to Development Biology. During my PhD, I focused on understating how different aspects of the cell cycle influence the development of a multicellular organism. I studied the influence of N-Alpha-Terminal acetyltransferases in cell cycle. I was supervised by Dr. Rui Martinho (IGC). I am currently a postdoc at the Cell Cycle Regulation lab supervised by Dr. Bettencourt-Dias M (IGC). Here I have studied centrosome stability using the knowledge I gathered during my PhD in Drosophila genetics. I have always been interested on how the cell cycle and the cytoskeleton are regulated in the context of development. As a Post-Doc I studied the mechanism responsible for centriole disappearance before meiotic division in the female germline, which ensures paternal inheritance of this structure. The results from this study showed the existence of a program that assures centriole maintenance, which is down-regulated in the female germline thus leading to centriole loss. In revealing this mechanism we: a) answered for the first time an old and interesting question, b) we challenge the view that centrioles are intrinsically stable structures and c) we showed novel and general functions for Polo kinase and the pericentriolar matrix (PCM) in centriole maintenance in eggs and somatic cells, highlighting the generality of this mechanism. This work leaded to the publication of an article in Science Journal where I am a main author. Moreover, it opened several avenues, some of which I have perused. My future research interests are mainly focused on understanding how the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton and it´s players are regulated in order to give rise to different cell types which accommodate specific functions throughout development.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Ana Rita Pimenta Falcão Marques

Nomes de citação

  • Marques, Ana
  • Pimenta-Marques, A

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
CC17-1A14-FE62
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6318-3922

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • ana.pmarques@nms.unl.pt (Profissional)

Telefones

Telefone
  • 214407925 (Profissional)

Moradas

  • NOVA Medical Schol / Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Rua Câmara Pestana nº 6 | Edifício CEDOC II, 1150-082, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia do Desenvolvimento
  • Ciências Médicas e da Saúde

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Português Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador elementar (A1) Utilizador elementar (A1)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2025/02 - 2025/05
Em curso
 Doctoral Supervision: An EUTOPIA Development Course on Best Practices (Outros)
Eutopia Foundation, Estados Unidos
2024/05 - 2024/05
Concluído
 LS4Future ERC Grant Writing Course (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

LS4Future - Life Sciences for a Healthy & Sustainable Future, Portugal
2024/01/30 - 2024/02/01
Concluído
 LS4FUTURE Leadership Course for young PIs (Outros)
LS4Future - Life Sciences for a Healthy & Sustainable Future, Portugal
2012/02/01 - 2018/09/30
Concluído
 Pós-Doutoramento - Centriole number regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (SFRH/BPD/79680/2011) (Pós-doutoramento)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011/09/16
Concluído
 Ph.D. in Developmental Biology (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Mitosis and Protein N-alpha-Terminal-Acetylation" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor (unanimidade)
2003/09
Concluído
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Identification of genes adjacent to the gene of flavoredoxin in the bacteria Desulfovibrio gigas" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 15/20
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2021/10/01 - Atual Investigador principal (carreira) (Investigação) iNOVA4Health, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
(...)
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/02/01 - 2018/09/30 Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2007/01/01 - 2011/09/15 Investigador (Investigação) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2005/01/01 - 2005/12/31 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2003/12 - 2005/12/30 Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal

Cargos e Funções

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2024 - Atual Substitute member of faculty Council. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2022 - 2024 Organizer of the weakly Chalk Talks given by al the Principal Researchers from Nova Medical School (NMS), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2016 - 2021 Team member within the ERC Consolidator Grant: Mechanisms of centriole inheritance and Maintenance (ERC-2015-CoG) European Research Council, Bélgica
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2006 - 2006 Team member within the project Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant 029165 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Team member within the project ALGINET QLK-CT-2002-021322 (European Union) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2002 - 2002 Team member within the Project INTERREG IIIB 159 SAL - Atlantic Salt Pans Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2024/01/01 - 2027/12/31 Mechanisms involved in the assembly and function of non-centrosomal based microtubule organizing centers in the Drosophila female germ-line (Supervisor PhD Grant).
2023.03665.BD
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2022/01/01 - 2024/03/14 Microtubule organization in human oocytes
EXPL/MED-OUT/0972/2021
Investigador responsável
iNOVA4Health, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Em curso
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Regulation of microtubule organizing centers during development
PTDC/BIA-BID/32225/2017
Investigador responsável
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2018/10/01 - Atual CENTRIOLE NUMBER REGULATION IN THE FRUIT FLY DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
GC-DL57NT-22
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2022/10/01 - 2027/09/30 Mechanisms Underlying the Reshaping of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton Along Development
2020.02842.CEECIND
Investigador responsável
iNOVA4Health, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Em curso
2012/02/01 - 2018/09/30 Centriole number regulation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
SFRH/BPD/79680/2011
Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2007/01/01 - 2011/12/31 DE NOVO FORMATION OF AN EPITHELIUM DURING DROSOPHILA BLASTODERM CELLULARIZATION: A GENETIC AND BIOCHEMICAL APPROACH
SFRH/BD/28767/2006
Bolseiro de Doutoramento
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2006/01/01 - 2006/12/31 Characterization of mutants defective for somatic cellularization during Drosophila melanogaster early embryonic development
029165
Bolseiro de Investigação
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluído
2003/12 - 2005/02 SAL - Salinas do Atlântico. Recovery of the identity of Atlantic salt pans (salinas). Recovery and promotion of the biological, economical, and cultural potential of humid coastal areas.
INTERREG IIIB 159 SAL - Atlantic Salt Pans
Bolseiro de Investigação
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluído
2003/03 - 2005/02 Microalgae as cell factories for chemical and biochemical productions.
ALGINET QLK-CT-2002-021322
Bolseiro de Investigação
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluído
2003/03 - 2005/02 Microalgae as cell factories for chemical and biochemical productions.
ALGINET QLK-CT-2002-021322
 N/A

Outro

Designação Financiadores
2016 - Atual Mechanisms of centriole inheritance and Maintenance
ERC-2015-CoG
Investigador Pós-doutorado
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 European Research Council
Em curso
2008 - 2010 Caracterização da segregação da linha germinal durante o desenvolvimento embrionário de Drosophila melanogaster.
PPCDT/DG/BIA/82013/2006
Investigador
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
2008 - 2010 Caracterização dos mecanismos moleculares responsáveis pela indução de transcrição zigótica após a fertilização do oócito.
PTDC/BIA-BCM/69256/2006
Investigador
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Lince-Faria, Mariana; Ferreira-Silva, Ana; Pimenta-Marques, A. Autor correspondente: Pimenta-Marques, A. "The centriole stability assay: a method to investigate mechanisms involved in the maintenance of the centrosome structure in Drosophila cultured cells". Bio-Protocol (2024):
    Aceite para publicação
  2. Ana Pimenta-Marques; Tania Perestrelo; Patricia Reis-Rodrigues; Paulo Duarte; Ana Ferreira-Silva; Mariana Lince-Faria; Mónica Bettencourt-Dias. "Ana1/CEP295 is an essential player in the centrosome maintenance program regulated by Polo kinase and the PCM". EMBO Reports (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-023-00020-6.
    10.1038/s44319-023-00020-6
  3. Pimenta-Marques, Ana; Bettencourt-Dias, Monica. "Pericentriolar material". Current Biology 30 12 (2020): R687-R689. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30580-7.pdf.
    10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.064
  4. Werner, S.; Pimenta-Marques, A.; Bettencourt-Dias, M.. "Maintaining centrosomes and cilia". Journal of Cell Science 130 22 (2017): 3789-3800. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85034073416&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1242/jcs.203505
  5. Pimenta-Marques, A.; Bento, I.; Lopes, C.A.M.; Duarte, P.; Jana, S.C.; Bettencourt-Dias, M.. "A mechanism for the elimination of the female gamete centrosome in Drosophila melanogaster". Science 353 6294 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84974602778&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1126/science.aaf4866
  6. Cunha-Ferreira, I.; Bento, I.; Pimenta-Marques, A.; Jana, S.C.; Lince-Faria, M.; Duarte, P.; Borrego-Pinto, J.; et al. "Regulation of Autophosphorylation Controls PLK4 Self-Destruction and Centriole Number". Current Biology (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84886825785&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.037
  7. Guilgur, L.G.; Prudêncio, P.; Ferreira, T.; Pimenta-Marques, A.R.; Martinho, R.G.. "Drosophila aPKC is required for mitotic spindle orientation during symmetric division of epithelial cells". Development 139 3 (2012): 503-513. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84855420819&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1242/dev.071027
  8. van Damme, P.; Hole, K.; Pimenta-Marques, A.; Helsens, K.; Vandekerckhove, J.; Martinho, R.G.; Gevaert, K.; Arnesen, T.. "NatF contributes to an evolutionary shift in protein N-terminal acetylation and is important for normal chromosome segregation". PLoS Genetics 7 7 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960946480&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pgen.1002169
  9. Ramos, A.A.; Marques, A.R.; Rodrigues, M.; Henriques, N.; Baumgartner, A.; Castilho, R.; Brenig, B.; Varela, J.C.. "Molecular and functional characterization of a cDNA encoding 4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate reductase from Dunaliella salina". Journal of Plant Physiology 166 9 (2009): 968-977. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-67349093526&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jplph.2008.11.008
  10. Ramos, A.; Coesel, S.; Marques, A.; Rodrigues, M.; Baumgartner, A.; Noronha, J.; Rauter, A.; Brenig, B.; Varela, J.. "Isolation and characterization of a stress-inducible Dunaliella salina Lcy-ß gene encoding a functional lycopene ß-cyclase". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 79 5 (2008): 819-828. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-46549089329&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s00253-008-1492-4
  11. Pimenta-Marques, A.; Tostões, R.; Marty, T.; Barbosa, V.; Lehmann, R.; Martinho, R.G.. "Differential requirements of a mitotic acetyltransferase in somatic and germ line cells". Developmental Biology 323 2 (2008): 197-206. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-54849414607&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.08.021
  12. Broco, M.; Marques, A.; Oliveira, S.; Rodrigues-Pousada, C.. "Characterisation of the 11 Kb DNA region adjacent to the gene encoding Desulfovibrio gigas flavoredoxin". DNA Sequence - Journal of DNA Sequencing and Mapping 16 3 (2005): 207-216. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-24044519688&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/10425170500088296
Poster em conferência
  1. Ferreira-Silva, Ana; Pimenta-Marques, A. "Identifying new players in Human and Drosophila oocyte spindles". Trabalho apresentado em Drosophila Portuguese Meeting: DrosTuga, 2024.
  2. Cabrita, Jéssica; Pimenta-Marques, A. "Mechanisms for the regulation of non centrosomal microtubule organising centres in the Drosophila germline". Trabalho apresentado em Drosophila Portuguese Meeting, 2024.
Pré-impressão
  1. Ana Pimenta-Marques; Tania Perestrelo; Patricia Rodrigues; Paulo Duarte; Mariana Lince-Faria; Mónica Bettencourt-Dias. "Ana1/CEP295 is an essential player in the centrosome maintenance program regulated by Polo kinase". 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.06.487296.
    10.1101/2022.04.06.487296
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/11/07 Tailoring the Structure and Activity of Diverse Microtubule Organizing Centers 10th Meeting of Portugal Drosophila Research Community: DrosTuga.
Portugal Drosophila Research Community (Batalha, Portugal)
2023/08/02 Tailoring the structure and activity of diverse Microtubule Organizing Centres 1st General Meeting of Ls4Future Associated Laboratory
LS4future (Oeiras, Portugal)
2022/06/08 Selected to attend and give a talk (Ana1/CEP295 is an essential player in the centrosome maintenance program regulated by Polo kinase) at the EMBO meeting: Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems. EMBO meeting - Microtubules: from atoms to complex systems.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Alemanha)
2019/04/30 Invited lecture at the Chronic Diseases Research Centre of the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal). Title: Reshaping of the microtubule cytoskeleton along development Invited seminar
CEDOC – Chronic Disease Research Center (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017 Invited to give a talk about my work on Centriole stability at the Biochemical meeting of Universidade de Évora. Biochemical meeting of University of Évora
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2016/03 Invited to give a talk about my work on Centriole elimination in Drosophila oogenesis at the Biochemical meeting of Universidade de Évora. Évora, Portugal.
Universidade de Évora
2015 Selected to give a talk (Centriole elimination in Drosophila melanogaster oocytes) at the 2015 Portuguese Drosophila meeting. 2015 - Portuguese Drosophila meeting - DrosTuga
(Portugal)
2013/03 Selected to attend and give a talk (Centrosome disappearance in Drosophila oogenesis) at the IRB Barcelona BioMed Conference on "The microtubule cytoskeleton in development and disease". The microtubule cytoskeleton in development and disease
IRB Barcelona - Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona, Espanha)
2007/12 Selected to give a talk (Differential Requirements for mitotic sister-chromatid cohesion in the soma and in the germ-line embryonic development) at the Portuguese Drosophila meeting. 2007 - Drosophila Portuguese meeting - DrosTuga.
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC) (Porto, Portugal)
2006/12 Selected to give a talk (The putative acetyltransferase San is required for mitotic sister chromatid cohesion during Drosophila early embryonic development) at the Portuguese Drosophila meeting. 2006 - Portuguese Drosophila meeting - DrosTuga
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
2005/07 Selected to attend and give a talk at the 14th International Carotenoid Symposium (ClpC gene expression is induced under stress conditions leading to massive carotenoids accumulation in Dunaliella salina) 14th International Carotenoid Symposium
(Edinburgh)

Orientação

Título / Tema
Papel desempenhado 		Curso (Tipo)
Instituição / Organização
2024/12/01 - Atual Identification of novel players involved in the interplay between Microtubules and Actin during meiotic spindle assembly in Drosophia oocytes.
Orientador
 Investigação Biomédica (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2024/01/01 - Atual Mechanisms involved in the assembly and function of non-centrosomal based Microtubule organizing centers in the Drosophila female germ-line.
Orientador de Jéssica Cabrita (Ciência ID: 5C19-AF28-1BD3)
 Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2024/01/09 Supervision of the master student Eugénia Grossu, which developed the project entitled: Importance of The Microtubule Cytoskeletal Structure in Oocyte Competence (Master project score: 17 out of 20).
Orientador de Eugénia Grosu
 Genética Molecular e Biomedicina (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/10/15 - 2023/03/28 Supervision of the master student Jéssica Cabrita, which developed the project entitled: Regulation of microtubule-organizing centers during development in Drosophila melanogaster (Master project score: 20 out of 20).
Orientador de Jéssica Irina Cabrita
 Biologia Molecular e Genética (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/10/15 - 2023/02/28 Supervision of the master student Ana Silva, which developed the project entitled: Identification and characterisation of new players involved in the assembly of the meiotic spindle in Human oocytes (Master project score: 19 out of 20).
Orientador de Ana Maria Silva (Ciência ID: F61E-DEB6-DDB0)
 Mestrado em Biologia Humana e Ambiente (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2021 Supervisor of a Post-Doc fellow within the scope of the project "Regulation of microtubule organizing centers during development" (PTDC/BIA/32225/2017)
Orientador de Pilar Okenve Ramos
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Supervisor at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência of the Master's Project entitled "Identification and characterization of new players involved in the centriole maintenance program"
Orientador de Patricia Rodrigues
 Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação) 		Instituição / Organização
2018/09 - 2019/09 Member of the organization committee of the 2019 Portuguese Drosophila meeting - DrosTuga. As main proponent I secured funding from the Company of Biologists (UK). Total: 2.000£. (2018/10 - 2019/09)
Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal

Centro Champalimaud, Portugal

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento 		Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2024/12/11 - 2024/12/12 iNOVA4Health retreat to focus on the direction of the research unit by stimulating discussion of strategic issues.
Encontro
 i4H Strategic Retreat, 2024
iNOVA4Health, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/10/29 - 2024/10/30 Discussion on Leadership and Supervision to promote the exchange of experiences that could improve the professional growth of LS4Future Associate Laboratory PIs, promoting good interactions with their team while advancing their research work.
Mesa-redonda
 LS4Future 2nd PI Retreat
LS4Future - Life Sciences for a Healthy & Sustainable Future, Portugal
2023/03/22 - 2023/03/23 First PI Retreat of the Associated Laboratory LS4FUTURE, focused on collaboration, strategy, and research leadership.
Encontro
 1st LS4Future PI Retreat
LS4Future - Life Sciences for a Healthy & Sustainable Future, Portugal
2019/11 - 2019/11 I gave a talk to undergraduate students at Escola da Moita to talk about my scientific path and how it is to be a scientist.
Seminário
 O que é ser um cientista?
2019 - 2019 I was invited, along with other 108 female scientists, to participate in a photobook developed by Ciência Viva. The goal of this project was to show the faces of female scientists from different scientific fields of research across Portugal. http://www.cienciaviva.pt/mulheresnaciencia/segunda-edicao/index.asp?id=841
Exposição
 Mulheres na Ciência - 2.ª Edição 2019
Ciência Viva, Portugal
2018/10 - 2018/10 Speaker in “À Conversa com Cientistas” - an initiative, part of the Gulbenkian Institute’s Open Day, that fosters dialogue between scientists and the general public. Topic of the session: Reproduction and fertility: what can cells teach us? Gulbenkian Institute’s Open Day
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Júri de grau académico

Tema
Tipo de participação 		Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau)
Instituição / Organização
2024/10 Main thesis arguer in the public test for the defense of the Master dissertation leading to the attribution of the Master degree in Technologias Clínico - Laboratoriais, to the student Ana Neves. Thesis entitled: The Role of Microtubules in Bouton Initiation and Outgrowth.
Arguente principal
 Ana Catarina Gomes das Neves (Mestrado)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/01/24 Thesis arguer in the public test for the defense of the doctoral dissertation leading to the attribution of the doctorate degree in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine to the student Margarida Araújo. Thesis entitled: Endoplasmic Reticulum membranes are continuously required to maintain mitotic spindle size and forces.
Arguente
 Margarida Maria Mimoso Reis Araújo (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2021/06/07 Main arguer in the public test for the defense of the Master's Dissertation leading to the attribution of the Master's degree in Biochemistry for Health (Mestrado em Bioquímica da Saúde) to the student Cristina Teixeira Manuel. Thesis entitled : The role of ciliogenesis in carbon-monoxide induced astrocyte cytoprotection.
Arguente principal
 Cristiana Teixeira Manuel (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em conferência

Nome da conferência Local da conferência
2018 - 2019 2019 - Portuguese Drosophila annual meeting - DrosTuga. Batalha, Portugal. (http://drosophilameeting.pt/2019) IGC, I3S, CEDOC, CCU

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2024 - Atual Communications Biology (2399-3642) Nature Publishing Group
2020 - Atual Current Biology (1879-0445 ¿) Cell Press Group
2014 - Atual Molecular Biology of the Cell (1939-4586) American Society for Cell Biology

Comissão de avaliação

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de assessoria 		Instituição / Organização Entidade financiadora
2024 - Atual Evaluator for the French National Research Agency (ANR) - 2025 Call for proposals
Avaliador
 Agence nationale de la recherche, França Agence nationale de la recherche

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

Disciplina Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2022/10 - Atual I teach the modules "General concepts of molecular biology" and "Cell cycle and DNA repair" within the curricular unit Cell Regulation of the NOVA Biomedical Research Master's Program (Mestrado em Investigação Biomédica). Nova Biomedical Research Master Program (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/09 Invited to give a class on the subject Forward and Reverse Genetics in an introductory course to Drosophila Genetics organized by the Portuguese Consortium for Genetically Tractable Organisms (https://congento.org/training-and-events/). Portugal
2019/07/02 - 2019/07/22 I participated as a teaching assistant on the renowned Physiology course organized by the Marine Biological Laboratory of the University of Chicago, USA (3 weeks). Marine Biological Laboratory, Estados Unidos
2016/10/02 - 2016/10/03 Lecturer of the Master's on Biochemistry (University Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Technological). Lecture: Cell Cycle. Mestrado em Bioquímica (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

Descrição da atividade Jornal / Forum
2018/03 Interviewed by the Magazine Conversas Íntimas (Grupo Cofina Media) to talk about “how it is to be a female researcher in Portugal” Conversas Íntimas (Grupo Cofina Portugal)
2017 Interviewed by the Journal Diário do Sul regarding study study I developed during my Postdoc and which was published in the international journal: science (2016) and was further awarded by the Medals of Honor L’Ore´al Portugal for Women in Science. Diário do Sul
2017 Interviewed by Diário de Noticias regarding the work I developed and which was awarded by Medals of Honor L’Oréal for Women in Science. Diário de Noticias

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

Programa Tema
2017/02/08 - Atual Interviewed at the Radio show “Manhãs da Renascenca” regarding the work I developed and which was awarded by Medals of Honor L’Oréal for Women in Science.
2016/06 - Atual I was interviewed at the national TV channel RTP in the program “Bom dia Portugal” to talk about the work I developed during my Postdoc and which was published in the international journal: science (2016).

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2009 - Atual Portuguese Biochemical Society (SPB) Member
2008 - Atual Member of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (Portugal) Member

Outro júri / avaliação

Descrição da atividade Instituição / Organização
2024/11/07 - 2024/11/08 Evaluator for the Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 - Portuguese Drosophila Meeting: DrosTuga.
Distinções

Prémio

2020 ASSISTANT RESEARCH CONTRACT (CEEC-IND) - from FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
iNOVA4Health, Portugal
2016 Medals of Honor L’Oréal Portugal for Women in Science 2016 (Only 4 medals were awarded out of more than 80 applicants) (15.000€ awarded by L’Oréal, UNESCO and FCT)

Outra distinção

2021 Prize for 3rd best oral communication ate the Portuguese Drosophila Meeting - DrosTuga 2021
2021 Awarded with funding as a PI with a Exploratory Grant from FCT (EXPL/MED-OUT/0972/2021; 50.000€)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 Awarded with a meeting organization grant (as main proponent) from the Company of Biologists (UK). Total: 2.000£
The Company of Biologists, Reino Unido
2017 Awarded with funding as a PI with a grant from FCT (PTDC/BIA/32225/2017; 239.000€)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 Salary grant (postdoctoral fellowship) from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/79680/2011)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2009 Travel Grant (500€) from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) to attend and present work at the “FEBS Practical Course on Protein interaction modules”.
Federation of European Biochemical Societies, Reino Unido
2007 Salary grant (Ph.D. fellowship) from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/28767/2006)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal