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Having graduated from the University of Porto in Biochemistry in 2018, I obtained a Master degree in Biochemistry from the same university 2 years later. My thesis focused on tackling the emerging infections caused by Mycobacterium avium using antimicrobial peptides as new alternatives to the currently used antibiotics. Afterwards, I undertook an ERASMUS+ internship at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. I am now a student of the BiotechHealth PhD programme in ICBAS and I am doing my research work at i3S and UCIBIO under the supervision of Tânia Silva, Sérgio Sousa and Salomé Gomes. My PhD project is based on the discovery of new antimycobacterial peptides active against both M. avium and M. abscessus using newly built QSAR models.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jorge Gabriel de Sousa Oliveira
Date of birth
1997/10/12
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Oliveira, Gabriel S.
  • Oliveira, Gabriel Sousa
  • Oliveira, Gabriel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
101A-DAE9-8884
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7496-533X

Email addresses

  • jorge.oliveira@ibmc.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 220408808 Ext.: 6112 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135, Porto, Paranhos, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31
Ongoing
 International Doctoral Programme in Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology Applied to Health Sciences (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"LFcin Refinery - Transforming a crude peptide sequence into valuable antimycobacterial products" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2023/12
Concluded
 Scientific Writing: How to streamline the process of writing a scientific paper (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/11
Concluded
 Advanced Training Course in Molecular Bioengineering - Supramolecular Peptide Hydrogels (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/09
Concluded
 Introductory Statistics for Biomedical Sciences (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/07
Concluded
 Experimental data analysis using business intelligence (Outros)
.what.if., Portugal
2023/04
Concluded
 Communication in Science (Outros)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/10
Concluded
 Introduction to Python and Machine Learning for the Biosciences, 4th Edition (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2022/06
Concluded
 High Content Screening (HCS) and Image Analysis for Biosciences, 6th Edition (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2022/04
Concluded
 Ferramentas de Microscopia de Luz Avançada no Estudo da Biologia Celular (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021/06/01 - 2021/11/29
Concluded
 ERASMUS+ Programme (Outros)
Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya, Spain
2020/12/13
Concluded
 Certificate in Advanced English (Outros)
Cambridge Assessment, United Kingdom
 C2
2018/09/13 - 2020/12/03
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Exploring novel approaches to tackle Mycobacterium avium" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2020/10
Concluded
 Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science, 27th Edition (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/07
Concluded
 XI Curso de Verão em Química Medicinal - Fármacos: como se obtêm, como atuam e porquê (Uma perspetiva da Química Farmcêutica Medicinal (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2015/09/25 - 2018/07/10
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"The impact of Ccl2 knock-out on iron metabolism and erythropoiesis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16/20
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current PhD Student REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
2022/01/01 - Current PhD Student Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021/06/01 - 2021/11/29 ERASMUS+ Internship Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya, Spain
2019/09/02 - 2020/12/04 Master's Internship Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/09/02 - 2020/12/04 Master's Internship REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal
2018/02/12 - 2018/07/10 First Degree's Internship Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 PEEC (Extra Curricular Internship) REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - Current MycoPepTalking - Refining Antimicrobial Peptides with cutting-edge strategies to tackle infections by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
PTDC/BIA-MIC/3458/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/06/01 - 2021/11/29 Coated liposome nanocomplexes as drug delivery systems for treatment of leishmaniasis.
201811-30
Researcher
Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya, Spain
 Fundació la Marató de TV3
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2024 - Current COST Action CA21145 – European Network for diagnosis and treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections (EURESTOP)
CA21145
Working groups 2 and 3 member
Ongoing
2024 - Current CA21164 - Towards an improvement in diagnostics and treatment strategies for TB control (ADVANCE-TB)
CA21164
Working groups 3 and 4 member
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Bento, Clara M.; Calster, K. V.; Piller, T.; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Vooght, L. D.; Cappoen, D.; Cos, P.; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia. "Mycobacterium abscessus double-reporter strains: new tools to fight mycobacterial infections". Paper presented in The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Microbiology, 2023.
    Published
  2. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Teixeira, Catia; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia. Corresponding author: Oliveira, Gabriel S.. "Transforming a crude peptide sequence into valuable antimycobacterial products". Paper presented in 17th Naples Workshop on Bioactive Peptides, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Bento, Clara M.; Geerts, Lisa; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia. "The response of macrophages to infection is dependent on mycobacterial growth phase". Paper presented in 48th FEBS Congress, 2024.
  2. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Bento, Clara M.; Pombinho, António; Reis, Rita; Calster, K. V.; Vooght, L. D.; Maia, André; et al. "Enhancing drug discovery against Mycobacterium abscessus: high-throughput screenings to tackle antimicrobial resistance". Paper presented in One Health PhD Forum, 2024.
  3. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Bento, Clara M.; Pombinho, António; Reis, Rita; Calster, K. V.; Vooght, L. D.; Maia, André; et al. "Mycobacterium abscessus double reporter strain as a readout of therapeutic efficacy – high-throughput screening development and validation". Paper presented in 6th Meeting on Medicinal Biotechnology, 2024.
  4. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Bento, Clara M.; Pombinho, António; Reis, Rita; Calster, K. V.; Vooght, L. D.; Maia, André; et al. "Mycobacterium abscessus double reporter strain as a readout of therapeutic efficacy – high-throughput screening development and validation". Paper presented in SLAS 2024 Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2024.
  5. Bento, Clara M.; Calster, K. V.; Piller, T.; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Vooght, L. D.; Cappoen, D.; Cos, P.; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia. "New tools for drug susceptibility testing against non-tuberculous mycobacteria". Paper presented in Brilliant PhDs, brighter future: Shaping Science together, 2023.
  6. Bento, Clara M.; Calster, K. V.; Piller, T.; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Vooght, L. D.; Cappoen, D.; Cos, P.; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia. Corresponding author: Silva, Tânia. "Characterization of novel double-reporter strains of Mycobacterium abscessus for drug discovery: A study in mScarlet". Paper presented in 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Mycobacteriology, 2023.
  7. Gomes, Leonor; Fonseca, Óscar; Pires, José Miguel; Oliveira, Gabriel Sousa; Ramos, Ana; Isabel Oliveira; Silva, Tânia; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Moreira, Ana C.. Corresponding author: Gomes, Leonor. "Ferritin Release During Mycobacterial Infection: a Role for Extracellular Vesicles?". Paper presented in MicroBiotec'23, 2023.
  8. Poonlaphdecha, Srisupaph; Roca-Geronès, Xavier; Román-Álamo, Lucía; Alcover, Mª Magdalena; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Fisa, Roser; Berenguer, Diana; et al. "Nano Coated Liposome Complexes as Parmomycin and Amphotericin B Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Leishmaniasis.". Paper presented in ALIVE 2022 - Animal Leishmaniosis International Veterinary Event, 2022.
  9. Román-Álamo, Lucía; Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Roca-Geronès, Xavier; Alcover, Mª Magdalena; Fisa, Roser; Allaw, Mohamad; Aroffu, Matteo; et al. "Drug delivery nanovesicles for the treatment of leishmaniasis". Paper presented in 14th IBEC Symposium: Bioengineering for Regenerative Therapies, 2021.
  10. Oliveira, Gabriel; Silva, Tânia; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Gomes, Paula; Teixeira, Cátia. "Designing a new antimycobacterial peptide to tackle Mycobacterium avium". Paper presented in ECMC 2020 6th Edition, 2020.
    10.3390/ecmc2020-07479
  11. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Silva, Tânia; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Gomes, Paula; Teixeira, Catia. "Antimicrobial peptides as a novel way to tackle Mycobacterium avium". Paper presented in IJUP - Meeting of young investigators, 13th Edition, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Oliveira, Gabriel S.; Costa, Raquel P.; Gomes, Paula; Gomes, Maria Salomé; Silva, Tânia; Teixeira, Cátia. "Antimicrobial Peptides as Potential Anti-Tubercular Leads: A Concise Review". Pharmaceuticals 14 4 (2021): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph14040323.
    Open access • 10.3390/ph14040323
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04 Development of complex in vitro models of mycobacterial infection for drug screening 10th MCBiology Symposium: a decade building science
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11 New tools for drug susceptibility testing against non-tuberculous mycobacteria 10th i3S Annual Meeting
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal)
2023/10/11 PepOnLyso - Unveiling the effect of an antimycobacterial Peptide On the macrophage Lysosome trafficking. ImmunoHUB
ImmunoHUB ERA Chair (Porto, Portugal)
2022/07 In vitro antileishmanial activity of pentamidine nano coated liposome complexes as drug delivery systems for treatment of leishmaniasis. SOCEPA - Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Parasitología
Sociedad Española de Parasitología (Madrid, Spain)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/02 - 2023/07 Exploring the potential of Algae's symbiotic microorganisms as a source for antimycobacterial compounds
Co-supervisor
 Ciências do Meio Aquático (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/01 - 2023/07 Member of the Organising Committee of the X BiotechHealth Symposium (2023/06/26 - 2023/06/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/05 - 2024/05 Interview given to students from the curricular unit “Communicate Science” from the PhD Program in Metabolism – Clinical and Experimental
Other
2023/05/19 - 2023/05/19 Participation in the final of the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) 2nd Edition competition, organised by the University of Porto, with the talk "LFcin Refinery - Transforming a crude peptide sequence into valuable antimycobacterial products". Three Minute Thesis, 2nd Edition Final
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2022/04/24 - 2022/04/24 Roundtable participation as an invited speaker - Event organized by "Núcleo de Estudantes de Bioquímica da Universidade do Porto".
Round table
 VII edição das Jornadas da Bioquímica
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024 - Current SLAS – Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Member
2023 - Current SPM – Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia Member
2023 - Current ESCMID – European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/02 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) - Microbiologia (First Degree in Ciências do Meio Aquático). Microbiologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/07/14 Interview given to JUP - Jornal Universitário do Porto about my participation and victory in the 2nd Edition of the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis), competition organized by the University of Porto. JUP - Jornal Universitário do Porto

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/05 - 2024/07 ERASMUS+ Internship Elisa Mura
2023/10 - 2023/12 Master thesis in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Antwerp, Belgium Lisa Geerts
2023/09 - 2023/09 Short-term scientific mission within the scope of ADVANCE-TB COST Action Gulsah Sevimli
2023/02 - 2023/07 First degree report in Biochemistry from the University of Porto Leonor Gomes
2022/09 - 2023/01 Cooperation agreement - Studies between Portugal and Brazil Juliana Fujikura
2022/02 - 2022/07 First degree report in Biochemistry from the University of Porto Ana Sofia Ramos
2022/02 - 2022/07 First degree report in Biochemistry from the University of Porto Nuno Duarte Pinto

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/03/04 - 2024/03/04 Expedition as an ambassador of "Cienciaetal" i3S Workshop - "A Herança dos Maias". An educational program that communicates science to students from schools. "A Herança dos Maias" is an interdisciplinary workshop that correlates "Os Maias" by Eça de Queiroz with molecular biology activities for 12th grade students. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco, Portugal
2024/02/23 - 2024/02/23 Expedition as an ambassador of "Cienciaetal" i3S Workshop - "A Herança dos Maias". An educational program that communicates science to students from schools. "A Herança dos Maias" is an interdisciplinary workshop that correlates "Os Maias" by Eça de Queiroz with molecular biology activities for 12th grade students. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Escola Básica e Secundária de Canelas, Portugal
2023/02/23 - 2023/02/23 Expedition as an ambassador of "Cienciaetal" i3S Workshop - "A Herança dos Maias". An educational program that communicates science to students from schools. "A Herança dos Maias" is an interdisciplinary workshop that correlates "Os Maias" by Eça de Queiroz with molecular biology activities for 12th grade students. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Escola Secundária da Boa Nova, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/02/01 Expedition as an ambassador of "Cienciaetal" i3S Workshop - "A Herança dos Maias". An educational program that communicates science to students from schools. "A Herança dos Maias" is an interdisciplinary workshop that correlates "Os Maias" by Eça de Queiroz with molecular biology activities for 12th grade students. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Escola Secundária da Boa Nova, Portugal
2023/01/30 - 2023/01/30 Expedition as an ambassador of "Cienciaetal" i3S Workshop - "A Herança dos Maias". An educational program that communicates science to students from schools. "A Herança dos Maias" is an interdisciplinary workshop that correlates "Os Maias" by Eça de Queiroz with molecular biology activities for 12th grade students. Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Escola Básica e Secundária do Padrão da Légua, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 IMAP 2024 Travel Bursary Awardee
King's College London, United Kingdom
2024 ITCG Grant
ADVANCE-TB Cost Action, Spain
2023 2nd Edition U.Porto 3MT® Winner
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021 FCT PhD Studentship Awardee - 2021.07335.BD
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal