Personal identification

Full name

Fernando Jorge Teodoro Duarte Garcia Morais

Citation names

• Teodoro, Fernando

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

2517-06F1-0746

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5384-1469

Email addresses

• fjmorais@ualg.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

• 914220409 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
• Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2027 Ongoing	Doutoramento em cCências Biológicas (Doutoramento) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2017 - 2020 Concluded	Biotecnologia dos Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal "Neuroprotective activity of sulfated polysaccharides isolated from macroalgae in an in vitro model of Parkinson´s disease" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2014 - 2017 Concluded	Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura) Major in Biotecnologia Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal	16

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/04/01 - Current	PhD Student - Biological Science	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/09/13 - 2023/03/31	Research Fellow in the "SMARTCELL" project	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
	Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2021/06/30	COVID-19 Diagnostic Center of IPLeiria	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
2020/07/20 - 2021/01/20	Research Fellow in the "POINT4PAC" project	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/11/30	Research Fellow in the "Red2Discovery" project	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/09/13 - 2023/03/31	SMARTCELL ALG-01-0247-FEDER-047169 Research Fellow
2020/07/20 - 2021/01/20	POINT4PAC - Precision oncology and innovative therapies and technologies SAICTPAC/0019/2015 Research Fellow
2019/09/01 - 2019/11/30	Red2Discovery - Sphaerococcus coronopifolius and Asparagopsis armata macroalgae as targets for marine drug discovery PTDC/MAR-BIO/6149/2014 Research Fellow Instituto Politécnico de Leiria MARE, Portugal

Publications

Conference abstract

Teodoro, Fernando; Martins, Alice; Alves, Celso; Silva, Joana; Pinteus, Susete; Alves, Joana; Franco, Margarida; Gaspar, Helena; Pedrosa, Rui. "Antimicrobial And Antioxidant Activities Of Sulphated Polysaccarides Extracted From Macroalgae Collected Off Peniche". Paper presented in XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products|XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, Peniche, 2019., Peniche, 2020. Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md18010040 Alves, Joana; Gaspar, Helena; Silva, Joana; Alves, Celso; Pinteus, Susete; Teodoro, Fernando; Martins, Alice; Pedrosa, Rui. "Antioxidant and Antiinflammatory Potential of the Marine Sponge Cliona celata". Paper presented in XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products|XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products, Peniche, 2019, Peniche, 2020. Published

Journal article

Fernando Teodoro; Soukaina El-Guendouz; Rafaela Neves; Andreia Duarte; Miguel A. Rodrigues; Melo EP. "Enhancing cryopreservation of human induced pluripotent stem cells: Bottom-up versus conventional freezing geometry". Biotechnology Progress (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/btpr.70019. 10.1002/btpr.70019 Melo, Eduardo P.; El-Guendouz, Soukaina; Correia, Cátia; Teodoro, Fernando; Lopes, Carlos; Martel, Paulo J.. "A Conformational-Dependent Interdomain Redox Relay at the Core of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Activity". Antioxidants & Redox Signaling 41 4-6 (2024): 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2023.0288. Accepted • 10.1089/ars.2023.0288 Eduardo Pinho Melo; Tasuku Konno; Ilaria Farace; Mosab Ali Awadelkareem; Lise R. Skov; Fernando Teodoro; Teresa P. Sancho; et al. "Stress-induced protein disaggregation in the endoplasmic reticulum catalysed by BiP". Nature Communications (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30238-2. 10.1038/s41467-022-30238-2 Joana Alves; Helena Gaspar; Joana Silva; Celso Alves; Alice Martins; Fernando Teodoro; Patrícia Susano; Susete Pinteus; Rui Pedrosa. "Unravelling the Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Potential of the Marine Sponge Cliona celata from the Portuguese Coastline". Marine Drugs (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/md19110632. 10.3390/md19110632 Blanca de Juan Mora; Luís Filipe; Andreia Forte; Miguel M. Santos; Celso Alves; Fernando Teodoro; Rui Pedrosa; et al. "Boosting Antimicrobial Activity of Ciprofloxacin by Functionalization of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles". Pharmaceutics 13 2 (2021): 218-218. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13020218. 10.3390/pharmaceutics13020218 Andreia Forte; Sandra Gago; Manuela Lopes Ribeiro Carrott; Peter J. M. Carrott; Celso Alves; Fernando Teodoro; Rui Pedrosa; Isabel M Marrucho; Luis C Branco. "Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with Manganese and Lanthanides Salts: Synthesis, Characterization and Cytotoxicity studies". Dalton Transactions (2021): https://doi.org/10.1039%2Fd1dt00605c. 10.1039/d1dt00605c Rafaela Freitas; Alice Martins; Joana Silva; Celso Alves; Susete Pinteus; Joana Alves; Fernando Teodoro; et al. "Highlighting the Biological Potential of the Brown Seaweed Fucus spiralis for Skin Applications". Antioxidants 9 7 (2020): 611-611. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox9070611. 10.3390/antiox9070611 Fábio Gomes; Fernando Teodoro; Joana Silva; Susete Pinteus; Celso Alves; Susana Bernardino; Rui Pedrosa. "Biotechnological potential of Sulfated Polysaccharides isolated from macroalgae of the Peniche coast". Frontiers in Marine Science 5 (2018): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Fconf.fmars.2018.06.00164. 10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00164 Fernando Teodoro; Fábio Gomes; Susete Pinteus; Celso Alves; Joana Silva; Susana Bernardino; Rui Pedrosa. "Evaluation of the antimicrobial potential of sulfated polysaccharides from the marine invasive algae Asparagopsis armata (Harvey, 1855).". Frontiers in Marine Science 5 (2018): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Fconf.fmars.2018.06.00161. 10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00161 Joana Alves; Fernando Teodoro; Alexandra Cruz. "Evaluation of the growth potential and cellulase production in Cellulomonas sp. using Ulva lactuca as carbon source". Frontiers in Marine Science 5 (2018): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Fconf.fmars.2018.06.00155. 10.3389/conf.fmars.2018.06.00155