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I am a last-year PhD candidate in Molecular Biosciences, focusing on metabolomics and systems biology. My research leverages Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics to explore biological responses across various systems, ranging from healthy newborns to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and currently, the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus epidermidis. In 2022, I received an award from the SymbNET network to conduct complementary work aligned with my PhD in the field of systems biology. My work has led to three peer-reviewed publications, four oral presentations at international conferences, and several poster presentations.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Elisabete Morais

Citation names

  • Morais, E

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D11C-2753-0FDD
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2264-3026

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/01/01 - 2025/01/01
Ongoing
 Biociências Moleculares (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2024/02/06 - 2024/02/09
Concluded
 OLISSIPO Winter School | Mathematical modelling of inter-cell and communities’ interactions with a focus on metabolism. (Outros)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
2021/09/13 - 2021/09/17
Concluded
 14th CERMAX practical course on basic NMR (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2020/09
Attended
 Biomedicina (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Erythrocyte-based metabolic signature of dementia: potencial tool in the diagnosis of this pathology?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09/01 - 2018/07/31
Attended
 Biomedicina (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/01/31
Concluded
 Certificação em investigação Clínica – Nível 1 (Outros)
Associação para a Formação Profissional e Investigação da Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2015/09/22 - 2015/09/25
Concluded
 Curso de técnicas analíticas LC-MS/MS (20h) (Outros)
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2015/07/31
Concluded
 Formação profissional em Implementação e Certificação de Sistemas HACCP (35h) (Outros)
ZONAVERDE, Portugal
2013/08/28 - 2014/12/12
Concluded
 Mestrado em Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Major in Especialização em Métodos Biomoleculares
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"ESTUDO DAS ALTERAÇÕES LIPÍDICAS INDUZIDAS POR NANOPARTÍCULAS DE PRATA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16 valores
2014/12
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Métodos Biomoleculares
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Estudo das Alterações Lipídicas Induzidas por Nanopartículas de Prata" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2009/09/16 - 2013/06/26
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Estudo metabolómico de urina de recém-nascidos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14 valores
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/01 - Current PhD student (PD/BD/150980/2021) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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2025/06/01 - 2025/09/30 Visitor researcher European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
2025/02/19 - 2025/05/20 Research fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2020/09/30 Research Fellow - ICON project (CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000013) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Elucidation of Staphylococcus epidermidis response to skin endogenous antimicrobial fatty acids
PD/BD/150980/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/05/17 - 2023/05/17 Investigating the determinants of Staphylococcus epidermidis pathogenicity with multi-omics-based modelling
952537
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

EMBL Heidelberg Genome Biology, Germany
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2017/09/01 - 2020/09/30 Interdisciplinary Challenges On Neurodegeneration - ICON
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000013
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
 Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2020/09/30 R&D Project of the Strategic Plan of the Health Sciences Research Centre
UID/Multi/00709/2019
Research Fellow
2013/09/01 - 2014/12/12 Metabolic profiling: a novel tool for evaluation of the toxicological and biological effects of nanomaterials
PTDC/SAU-TOX/120953/2010
Other
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Morais, E. "Glycine betaine role in Staphylococcus epidermidis pH adaptation and pathogenecity.". Paper presented in Congress of Microbiology and Biotechology, 2024.
  2. Morais, E. "Integration of exometabolomics and genome-scale modelling to study metabolic features of Staphylococcus epidermidis pathogenicity". Paper presented in SymbNET International Conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis, 2024.
  3. Morais, E. "Time series exometabolomics depict metabolic features of Staphylococcus epidermidis pathogenicity". Paper presented in Microbiotec'23, 2023.
  4. Morais, E. "Characterization of the differential antimicrobial activity of human endogenous fatty acids in pathogenic/commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis". Paper presented in Congress of Microbiology and Biotechology, 2023.
  5. Morais, E. "Metabolic modelling reveals pH-dependent differences in pathogenic and non-pathogenic Staphylococcus epidermidis strains". Paper presented in 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2023.
  6. "Comparative metabolomic study indicates a metabolic re-route of a pathogenic Staphylococcus epidermidis strain at blood pH". Paper presented in Microbiotec'21, 2021.
  7. Morais, Elisabete. "1H-NMR-based erythrocyte's metabolomic signature in Alzheimer's disease: development of a new protocol.". Paper presented in III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Trends in Aging and Cancer, 2019.
  8. Oliveira, Nádia; Ana Saraiva Amaral; Morais, E; Conde, Ricardo; Adriana Sousa; Rosa Marina Afonso; Cruz, Carla; Ignacio Verde. "Metabolomic analysis of plasma of EBICohort individuals with different Framingham stroke risk scores [Author]". Paper presented in III International Congress in Health Sciences Research Towards innovation and entrepreneurship: Trends in aging and cancer, 2019.
  9. Morais, Elisabete. "1H-NMR-BASED METABOLOMIC STUDY OF ERYTHROCYTES IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: A PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION". Paper presented in XIV ANNUAL CICS-UBI SYPOSIUM 2019, 2019.
  10. Oliveira, Nádia; Morais, E; Conde, Ricardo; Renato Boto; Carla Fonseca; Cruz, Carla; Ignacio Verde. "NMR-based urinary metabonomic studies to identify diaper and cotton ball contaminations [Author]". Paper presented in XIII Annual CICS-UBI Symposium (Covilhã), 2018.
  11. Morais, Elisabete. "NMR-based urinary metabonomic studies to identify diaper and cotton ball contaminations". Paper presented in XIII ANNUAL CICS-UBI SYPOSIUM 2018, 2018.
  12. Diaz, Silvia O.; Morais, Elisabete. "NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS OF FETAL AND NEWBORNS DISORDERS THROUGH URINE METABOLOMICS". 2013.
Journal article
  1. Sousa, Adriana; Oliveira, Nádia; Conde, Ricardo; Morais, Elisabete; Amaral, Ana Paula; Embade, Nieves; Millet, Oscar; Verde, Ignacio. "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis Seeking for Metabolic Markers of Hypertension in Human Serum". Molecules 30 10 (2025): 2145. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30102145.
    10.3390/molecules30102145
  2. Ricardo Diogo Alves Conde; Nádia Oliveira; Elisabete Morais; Ana Paula Amaral; Adriana Sousa; Gonçalo Graça; Verde I. "NMR analysis seeking for cognitive decline and dementia metabolic markers in plasma from aged individuals.". Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (2023): 115815-115815. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115815.
    10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115815
  3. Diaz, Sílvia O.; Pinto, Joana; Barros, António S.; Morais, Elisabete; Duarte, Daniela; Negrão, Fátima; Pita, Cristina; et al. "Newborn Urinary Metabolic Signatures of Prematurity and Other Disorders: A Case Control Study". Journal of Proteome Research 15 1 (2015): 311-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00977.
    Published • 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00977
Preprint
  1. Elisabete Morais; Ana M Gil; Maria Miragaia; Luís G Gonçalves; Ana V Coelho. "Dynamic exometabolomics reveals metabolic adaptations of Staphylococcus epidermidis to pH-mimicking skin and bloodstream". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.11.664416.
    10.1101/2025.07.11.664416
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Morais, Elisabete. "Estudo das alterações lipídicas induzidas por nanopartículas de prata". Master, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14236.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/06/10 Integration of exometabolomics and genome-scale modelling to study metabolic features of Staphylococcus epidermidis pathogenicity SymbNET Final Meeting
SymbNET
2023/06/21 Integration of proteomics and metabolic modelling to study the pH-dependent response of pathogenic and commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis strains ProteoAix 2023
(Aix-en-Provence, France)
2023/03/03 Dynamic exometabolomics reveals the adaptation of Staphylococcus epidermidis to host blood pH. Building Bridges in Biology
(Oeiras, Portugal)
2022/05/12 Differences and similarities on metabolic response to pH by commensal and pathogenic Staphylococcus epidermidis strains ProteoVilamoura
(Vilamoura)
2014/05/21 Peroxidação lipídica induzida por nanopartículas de prata: estudo em modelos biomiméticos lipossómicos e celulares 3rd Workshop in Lipidomics
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/04/15 - 2019/06/30 Avaliação do perfil metabólico dos eritrócitos de doentes de Alzheimer
Co-supervisor
 Ciências Biomédicas (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/11/14 - 2019/11/16 3rd edition of the International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship 'Trends in Aging and Cancer' (2019/11/14 - 2019/11/16)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/07/04 - 2018/07/05 XIII ANNUAL CICS-UBI SYMPOSIUM 2018 (2018/07/04 - 2018/07/05)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018/01/11 - 2020/09/30 CAD CICS-UBI
Member
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - 2020/01/30 NEUROFISIOLOGIA Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2019/07/30 SEMINÁRIO Ciências Biomédicas Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Microbiologia geral
Distinctions

Award

2023 EMBL CPP Scientific Visitors Fellowship
2023 Travel grant to attend ProteoAix 2023
2022 SymbNET PhD Project Award
2013 Best poster award in X CICECO Meeting