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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Isabel Marinho Carvalho Bjørge

Citation names

  • Bjørge, Isabel Marinho

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9D16-6B45-609D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7996-183X

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Norwegian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Danish Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Swedish Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/01 - 2021/09/01
Ongoing
 Materials Science and Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/06/16
Concluded
 Integrated Master of Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Degradation of Calcium Gels of Alginate and Periodate Oxidised Alginate" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/11/01 - 2017/08/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2016/06/16 Research Trainee (Research) University of Sydney, Australia
2015/08/01 - 2015/12/19 Research Trainee (Research) Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norway

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - Current PhD Candidate Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2011/07/01 - 2011/08/01 Summer internship Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2011/08/01 Summer internship Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2016/11 - Current ATLAS - Bioengineered autonomous cell-biomaterials devices for generating humanised micro-tissues for regenerative medicine
ERC-2014-AdG-669858
Research Fellow
European Research Council
Ongoing
2016/11 - 2017/08 ELASTISLET - Tailored Elastin-like Recombinamers as Advanced Systems for Cell Therapies in Diabetes Mellitus: a Synthetic Biology Approach towards a Bioeffective and Immunoisolated Biosimilar Islet/Cell Niche
H2020-NMP-10-2014
Research Fellow
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Line Aa. Omtvedt; Marianne Ø. Dalheim; Bjørge, Isabel; Finn L. Aachmann; Berit L. Strand. "Mechanical Properties of Alginate Gels Containing Grafted Alginates". Paper presented in 9th Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials, Reykjavik, 2016.
Conference poster
  1. Bjørge, Isabel; Salmerón-Sánchez, M.; Correia, Clara R.; Mano, João F.. "Cell behaviour within nanogrooved sandwich-culture models". Paper presented in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-European Chapter Meeting, 2020.
  2. Bjørge, Isabel; Correia, Clara R.; Mano, João F.. "Patterned Microfilms for Bone Tissue Engineering". Paper presented in CICECO Jornadas, 2019.
  3. Bjørge, Isabel; Correia, Clara R.. "Nanopatterned micro-scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications". Paper presented in European Society for Biomaterials, 2018.
  4. Bjørge, Isabel; Costa, A. M. S.; Silva, A. Sofia; Vidal, J. P. O.; J. Miguel Nóbrega. "Spheroidal hydrogel particles as vehicles for cell and drug encapsulation". Paper presented in European Society for Biomaterials, 2018.
  5. Bjørge, Isabel; Correia, Clara R.; Mano, João F.. "Advanced Injectable Nanopatterned Micro-Scaffolds for Modular Bone Tissue Engineering". Paper presented in TERMIS World Congress, 2018.
  6. Bjørge, Isabel; Costa, A. M. S.; Silva, A. Sofia; Vidal, J. P. O.; Nóbrega, J. M.; Mano, João F.. "Tuneable Spheroidal Hydrogel Particles for Cell and Drug Encapsulation". Paper presented in TERMIS World Congress, 2018.
  7. Bjørge, Isabel; Costa, A. M. S.; Silva, A. Sofia; Vidal, J. P. O.; Nóbrega, J. M.. "Spheroidal hydrogel particles with controllable shape for cell and drug encapsulation". Paper presented in CICECO Jornadas, 2018.
  8. Bjørge, Isabel. "Nanopatterned micro-scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications". Paper presented in European Society for Biomaterials, 2018.
  9. Correia, Clara R.; Gaspar, V. M.; Bjørge, Isabel; Mano, João F.. "Bioactive microfactories for tissue engineering". Paper presented in International Symposium on Bioinspired Macromolecular Systems, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Clara R. Correia; Bjørge, Isabel Marinho; Sara Nadine; João F. Mano. "Minimalist tissue engineering approaches using low material-based bioengineered systems". Advanced Healthcare Materials (2021):
    Accepted
  2. Bjørge, I.M.; Salmeron-Sanchez, M.; Correia, C.R.; Mano, J.F.. "Cell Behavior within Nanogrooved Sandwich Culture Systems". Small 16 31 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85087220805&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/smll.202001975
  3. Clara R. Correia; Isabel M. Bjørge; Jinfeng Zeng; Michiya Matsusaki; João F. Mano. "Liquefied Microcapsules as Dual-Microcarriers for 3D+3D Bottom-Up Tissue Engineering". Advanced Healthcare Materials (2019): 1901221-1901221. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201901221.
    Published • 10.1002/adhm.201901221
  4. Marianne Ø. Dalheim; Line Aa. Omtvedt; Isabel M. Bjørge; Anita Akbarzadeh; João F. Mano; Finn L. Aachmann; Berit L. Strand. "Mechanical Properties of Ca-Saturated Hydrogels with Functionalized Alginate". Gels (2019): https://doi.org/10.3390/gels5020023.
    Published • 10.3390/gels5020023
  5. Isabel M. Bjørge; Insung S. Choi; Clara R. Correia; João F. Mano. "Nanogrooved microdiscs for bottom-up modulation of osteogenic differentiation". Nanoscale (2019): https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR06267J.
    Published • 10.1039/C9NR06267J
  6. Bjørge, I.M.; Choi, I.S.; Correia, C.R.; Mano, J.F.. "Nanogrooved microdiscs for bottom-up modulation of osteogenic differentiation". Nanoscale 11 35 (2019): 16214-16221. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85072134254&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1039/c9nr06267j
  7. I. M. Bjørge; S. Y. Kim; J. F. Mano; B. Kalionis; W. Chrzanowski. "Extracellular vesicles, exosomes and shedding vesicles in regenerative medicine – a new paradigm for tissue repair". Biomaterials Science 6 1 (2018): 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7BM00479F.
    Published • 10.1039/C7BM00479F
  8. Isabel M. Bjørge; Ana M. S. Costa; A. Sofia Silva; João P. O. Vidal; J. Miguel Nóbrega; João F. Mano. "Tuneable spheroidal hydrogel particles for cell and drug encapsulation". Soft Matter (2018): https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM00921J.
    Published • 10.1039/C8SM00921J
  9. Bjørge, I.M.; Costa, A.M.S.; Silva, A.S.; Vidal, J.P.O.; Nóbrega, J.M.; Mano, J.F.. "Tuneable spheroidal hydrogel particles for cell and drug encapsulation". Soft Matter 14 27 (2018): 5622-5627. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049930826&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1039/c8sm00921j
  10. Hang Pham, L.B.; Yoo, Y.-R.; Park, S.H.; Back, S.A.; Kim, S.W.; Bjørge, I.; Mano, J.; Jang, J.-H.. "Investigating the effect of fibulin-1 on the differentiation of human nasal inferior turbinate-derived mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts". Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A 105 8 (2017): 2291-2298. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019549472&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1002/jbm.a.36095
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Bjørge, Isabel. "Degradation of Calcium Gels of Alginate and Periodate Oxidised Alginate". Master, 2016.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/10 Biodegradable microparticles as cell supports for bottom-up tissue engineering Aveiro-Osaka Universities joint symposium on advanced biomaterials and cell-based bioengineering strategies
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/05 Patterned discoidal microfilms modulate osteogenic differentiation Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-European Chapter Meeting
(Rhodes, Greece)
2019/05 Liquefied capsules as 3D co-culture static and dynamic systems for bone regeneration Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society-European Chapter Meeting
(Rhodes, Greece)
2017/07 Electrosprayed capsules co-encapsulating cells and microparticles as minimally invasive active cell microfactories Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society- European Chapter Meeting
(Davos, Switzerland)
2017/02 Biomateriais: Da Modificação Química aos Ensaios Celulares Jornadas de Engenharia Biomédica
(Braga, Portugal)
2016/07 Mechanical properties of alginate gels containing grafted alginates Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials
(Reykjavik, Iceland)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/08 ENBA COST Action on “Biomimetic Adhesive Polymers and Hydrogels” (2018 - 2018)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/12/10 - 2017/12/15 ENBA COST Action training school on “Biomimetic Adhesive Polymers and Hydrogels” (2017 - 2017)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/11/06 - 2017/11/08 International Symposium on Bioinspired Macromolecular Systems (ISBMS) (2017 - 2017)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2013/11/20 - 2013/12/11 Computer-Aided Design (AutoCAD) Training Course
Workshop
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012/11 - 2012/12 Java Training Course
Workshop
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011/11/03 - 2011/12/08 SolidWorks Training Course
Workshop
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 Congress Presentation Grant
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020 Best Pitch Award
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2020 FLAD International Mobility Research Grant
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
2017 Excellency Award
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Other distinction

2020 Selected Mentee for Network of Talent & Innovation 2020/2021
IMFAHE (International Mentoring Foundation For The Advancement Of Higher Education), United States
2016 BEAM Project Grant
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy

Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I - Biowissenschaften, Germany

Queensland University of Technology, Australia