Liliana Sofia Oliveira da Silva (2917-7E04-291E)

Curriculum Vitae

Liliana Sofia Oliveira da Silva

Liliana Sofia Oliveira da Silva. Completed the Doutoramento in Biociências Moleculares in 2021/12/15 by Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Mestrado in Análises Clínicas in 2013/07/25 by Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia and Licenciatura in Ciências Bioanalíticas in 2011/07/15 by Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia. Is Postdoc in Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica. Published 5 articles in journals. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Post-doc in 1 project(s) and Research Fellow in 3 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Biochemistry. In their professional activities interacted with 29 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Bioengineering; Biotechnology and Biochemistry - Biochemistry and Biophysics; Campylobacter jejuni; Haem biosynthesis; Bacterial resistance; Gut microbiota; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Liliana Sofia Oliveira da Silva

Citation names

Silva, Liliana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2917-7E04-291E
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4914-9979

Email addresses

lsilva@itqb.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/05/01 - 2021/12/15 Concluded	Biociências Moleculares (Doutoramento) Major in Bioquímica Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal "Di-iron Proteins with Cell Repair Functions in Pathogens" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/10/01 - 2013/07/25 Concluded	Análises Clínicas (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2008/09/10 - 2011/07/15 Concluded	Ciências Bioanalíticas (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/03 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/05/01 - 2021/12/15	PhD Student - FCT fellowship SFRH/BD/118545/2016	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2017/01/15 - 2017/04/30	Research Fellowship - FCT project CBQ/04612	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2016/07/01 - 2017/01/14	Research Fellowship - FCT project PTDC/BBBBQB/ 5069/2014	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30	ITQB Research Fellowship - project ICV452	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2015/07/01 - 2015/12/31	"ITQB Bridge Fellowship" - FCT project INCENTIVO/EQB/LA0004/2014	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2014/04/01 - 2015/06/30	Research Fellowship - FCT project PTDC/BBB-BQB/0937/2012	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2013/11/01 - 2014/03/15	Volunteer Internship	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

2012/10/01 - 2013/06/30	Curricular Internship of the Master degree	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

2010/09/01 - 2011/01/31	Volunteer Internship	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/05/01 - 2021/12	Bacterial Di-iron Proteins with Cell Repair Functions SFRH/BD/118545/2016 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2017/01/14	Biosynthesis of modified tetrapyrroles in Staphylococcus aureus PTDC/BBB-BQB/5069/2014 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/07/01 - 2015/12/31	ITQB Bridge Fellowship INCENTIVO/EQB/LA0004/2014 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Concluded
2014/04/01 - 2015/06/30	Heme biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus:old bug new challenges info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/125676/PT Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/10/01 - Current	Role of bacterial haem biosynthesis in host-pathogen interaction PTDC/BIA-BQM/28642/2017 Post-doc Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Silva, Liliana; Pedro M. Matias; Célia V. Romão. "Structural and functional relationship of Repair of Iron Centre (RIC) proteins present in human pathogens". Paper presented in Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology - Microbiotec 2019, 2019.
Silva, Liliana; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Repair of Iron Centre (RIC) protein interact with DNA-binding Protein from Starved Cells (Dps)". Paper presented in Gordon Research Conference - Cell Biology of Metals, 2019.
Silva, Liliana; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Insights into the function of bacterial Repair of Iron Centre (RIC) proteins". Paper presented in 1st TIMB3 Training School Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, 2019.
Silva, Liliana; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "The role of RIC proteins in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli". Paper presented in 9th ITQB-NOVA PhD students meeting, 2018.
Silva, Liliana; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Functional studies of the Repair of Iron Centre proteins (RIC)". Paper presented in TIMB3 project kick-off meeting, 2018.
Silva, Liliana; Nobre, Lígia S.; Baptista, Joana M.; Andrews, Simon C.; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Study of RIC proteins – from structure to function". Paper presented in Lisbon Biophysics Networking Meeting, 2018.
Silva, Liliana; Nobre, Lígia S.; Mil-Homens, Dalila; Viscogliosi, Eric; Teixeira, Miguel; Fialho, Arsénio; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "RIC - A family of proteins that repair cellular damage caused by oxidative/nitrosative stress". Paper presented in 19th biennial meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research International, 2018.
Silva, Liliana; Mil-Homens, Dalila; Nobre, Lígia S.; Teixeira, Miguel; Viscogliosi, Eric; Fialho, Arsénio; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Functional role of Staphylococcus aureus and Trichomonas vaginalis RIC proteins". Paper presented in Bacterial Electron Transfer Processes and their Regulation Meeting, 2018.
Silva, Liliana; Teixeira, Miguel; Lousa, Diana; Soares, Cláudio M.; Saraiva, Lígia M.; Nobre, Lígia S.. "Structural studies of the diiron center of Escherichia coli RIC". Paper presented in Super-Resolution Microscopy in Infection and Immunity Symposium, 2015.
Silva, Liliana; Teixeira, Miguel; Lousa, Diana; Soares, Cláudio M.; Saraiva, Lígia M.; Nobre, Lígia S.. "Identification of the ligands binding the diiron center of RIC.". Paper presented in Electron Transfer Processes and their Regulation Meeting, 2015.

Journal article

Silva, Liliana S. O.; Matias, Pedro M.; Romão, Célia V.; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Repair of Iron Center Proteins—A Different Class of Hemerythrin-Like Proteins". Molecules 27 13 (2022): 4051. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules27134051.
Open access • Published • 10.3390/molecules27134051
Silva, Liliana S. O.; Matias, Pedro M.; Romão, Célia V.; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Structural Basis of RICs Iron Donation for Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.670681.
Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2021.670681
Silva, Liliana S. O.; Baptista, Joana M.; Batley, Charlotte; Andrews, Simon C.; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "The Di-iron RIC Protein (YtfE) of Escherichia coli Interacts with the DNA-Binding Protein from Starved Cells (Dps) To Diminish RIC Protein-Mediated Redox Stress". Journal of Bacteriology 200 24 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.00527-18.
10.1128/jb.00527-18
Videira, Marco A. M.; Lobo, Susana A. L.; Silva, Liliana S. O.; Palmer, David J.; Warren, Martin J.; Prieto, Manuel; Coutinho, Ana; et al. "Staphylococcus aureus haem biosynthesis and acquisition pathways are linked through haem monooxygenase IsdG". Molecular Microbiology 109 3 (2018): 385-400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi.14060.
10.1111/mmi.14060
Silva, Liliana O.; Nobre, Lígia S.; Mil-Homens, Dalila; Fialho, Arsénio; Saraiva, Lígia M.. "Repair of Iron Centers RIC protein contributes to the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus". Virulence 9 1 (2017): 312-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2017.1389829.
10.1080/21505594.2017.1389829
Diogo, Janina S.G.; Silva, Liliana S.O.; Pena, Angelina; Lino, Celeste M.. "Risk assessment of additives through soft drinks and nectars consumption on Portuguese population: A 2010 survey". Food and Chemical Toxicology 62 (2013): 548-553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2013.09.006.
Published • 10.1016/j.fct.2013.09.006

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020/07/10	Escherichia coli Repair of Iron Centres Protein YtfE interacts with DNA-binding protein from starved cells Dps	12th International BioMetals web-Symposium International Biometals Society (Grenoble, France)