Curriculum Vitae
Constança Lourenço Pimenta
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Constança Lourenço Pimenta
Citation names
- Pimenta, Constança
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 3613-1EA4-2248
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0005-8805-658X
- Researcher Id
- JMB-1045-2023
- Scopus Author Id
- 58782857300
Email addresses
- clpimenta@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2022/09 - 2024/11/22
Concluded
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Biologia Molecular e Genética (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"The role of post-translational modifications in the dimerization between the alpha and beta splicing isoforms of Signal Transducer
and Activation of Transcription 3 (STAT3) and RelA " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 |
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2019/09 - 2022/06
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Biologia Molecular e Genética
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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17 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/02/01 - Current | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01 - 2023/07 | Laboratory Internship | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
| Cell Structure and Dynamics Laboratory, Portugal | ||
| 2022/02 - 2022/06 | Laboratory Internship | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Biotox Laboratory, Portugal | ||
| 2021/09 - 2022/02 | Project development in the discipline of Complementar Cell Biology | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2021/07 - 2021/08 | Laboratory Internship | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Bioadhesion & Biomimicry Research Group, Portugal |
Projects
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/11 - 2024/04 | The role of post-translational modifications in the dimerization between the alpha and beta splicing isoforms of Signal Transducer
and Activation of Transcription 3 (STAT3) and RelA
UIDB/04046/2020
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/26 | The role of post-translational modifications in the dimerization of alpha and beta splicing isoforms of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (STAT3) | 6th Students Meeting of Mind-Brain College of ULisboa
Mind-Brain College (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2024/06/27 | The role of post-translational modifications in the dimerization of alpha and beta splicing isoforms of STAT3 | 4th Chem&Biochem Students Meeting |
| 2024/02/28 | Article presentation entitled "Spatial atlas of the mouse central nervous system at molecular resolution: an Overview of the Mouse Brain Cell Census" | Mega-journal club: Mouse Brain Cell Census
BioISI (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/25 - 2024/09/25 | Organization of the "Dia Internacional das Ataxias", where scientists, medical professionals and patients where brought together
to discuss ataxias and rare motor diseases. (2024/09/25 - 2024/09/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/01 - Current | Member of the team of Autonomia21@FCUL |
Associação Pais21 - Down Portugal, Portugal
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| 2025/06/20 - 2025/06/20 | Participation in "Ensino Superior para estudantes com dificuldades intelectuais e desenvolvimentais" | Ensino Superior para estudantes com dificuldades intelectuais e desenvolvimentais
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2025/02/26 - 2025/02/26 | Participation in "Synergies 2025 Workshop"
Workshop
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Synergies 2025 Workshop
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2025/02/17 - 2025/02/19 | Participation in "From Protein Nano-assemblies and Materials to Biotechnology" Training School from Twin2Pipsa.
Workshop
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From Protein Nano-assemblies and Materials to Biotechnology
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2024/07/29 - 2024/08/02 | Participation in the event "Ser Cientista 2024" as a bench tutor for the project "A estrutura interna das células humanas". "Ser Cientista 2024" is a summer program intended for high school students. The aim is to give them an idea of how science is done by completing a week-long project, from running the experiments to analyzing the data and finalizing the week with a presentation of the results. | Verão da ULisboa
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2024/02/04 - 2024/02/04 | Participation in "Tagging endogenous proteins with CRISPR/Cas9 to study protein-protein interactions"
Workshop
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Tagging endogenous proteins with CRISPR/Cas9 to study protein-protein interactions
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
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| 2024 - 2024 | Theoretical training on Flow Cytometry
Workshop
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Flow Cytometry Theoretical Training
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
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| 2023/11/07 - 2023/11/07 | Participation in "2nd Workshop on The Biochemistry of Ageing" | 2nd Workshop on The Biochemistry of Ageing
Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica, Portugal
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| 2023/10/17 - 2023/10/17 | Participation in training session about Basic Life Suport, organized by Associação dos Estudantes of FCUL and Faculdade de
Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, in partnership with Gabinete de Segurança, Saúde e Sustentabilidade de Ciências and the
Regimento de Bombeiros Sapadores de Lisboa
Workshop
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Suporte Básico de Vida
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2023/07/22 - 2023/07/22 | Participation in "World Brain Day"
Other
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World Brain Day
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal
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| 2023/07/13 - 2023/07/13 | Participation in "3rd Chem&Biochem Students Meeting"
Congress
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3rd Chem&Biochem Students Meeting
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2023/07 - 2023/07 | Participation in the event "Ser Cientista 2023" as a bench tutor for the project "A estrutura interna das células humanas".
"Ser Cientista 2023" is a summer program intended for high school students. The aim is to give them an idea of how science
is done by completing a week-long project, from running the experiments to analyzing the data and finalizing the week with
a presentation of the results.
Other
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Ser Cientista 2023
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2023/07 - 2023/07 | Participation in the event "Verão da ULisboa" as a bench tutor for the Biochemistry and Chemistry Department. "Verão da ULisboa"
is a summer program intended for high school students. The aim is to give them an idea of how science is done by doing simple
experiments.
Other
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Verão da ULisboa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2022/07/14 - 2022/07/14 | Participation in the course of "Introdução à Epigenética 2022"
Seminar
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Introdução à Epigenética 2022
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2021/07/24 - 2021/07/24 | Participation in "Comunicar Ciência nas Redes Sociais: como chegar a todos"
Seminar
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Comunicar Ciência nas Redes Sociais: como chegar a todos
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2021/06/25 - 2021/06/26 | Participation in “Seminário de Especialização em
Medicina Forense- Genética Forense II”
Seminar
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Seminário de Especialização em Medicina Forense- Genética Forense II
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário CRL, Portugal
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| 2021/06/18 - 2021/06/19 | Participation in "Seminário de Especialização em Medicina Forense- Genética Forense I"
Seminar
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Seminário de Especialização em Medicina Forense- Genética Forense I
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário CRL, Portugal
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| 2021/03/19 - 2021/03/20 | Participation in “Seminário de Especialização em Medicina Forense- Patologia Forense”
Seminar
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Seminário de Especialização em Medicina Forense- Patologia Forense
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário CRL, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/02 - Current | "Bioquímica Experimental IV" taught in Bachelor of BiochemIstry in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2025/02 - Current | "Bioquímica" taught in Bachelor of Biology in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2024/02 - 2024/05 | Voluntary assistance in teaching "Bioquímica Experimental IV" taught in Bachelor of Biochemistry in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, which involved the preparation of bioinformatic and laboratorial material. | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/06 - Current | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture, immunoblotting and microscopy techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Paola Luchesi |
| 2024/09 - Current | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture, immunoblotting and microscopy techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Sílvia Landeau |
| 2024/02 - 2024/08/01 | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture and immunoblotting techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Catarina Violante |
| 2024/03 - 2024/06 | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture, immunoblotting and microscopy techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Maria Eduarda Ferreira |
| 2024/03 - 2024/06 | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture, immunoblotting and microscopy techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Joana Santinha |
| 2023/06 - 2023/09 | Voluntary bench tutor in cell culture, immunoblotting and microscopy techniques to a master's student in CSD laboratory | Ana Teresa Figueiredo |
| 2020/09 - 2022/07 | Tutoring for new students in BSc in Biology | Marta Santos |
Distinctions
Award
| 2021 | Academic Merit |