Curriculum Vitae
Rodrigo Miguel de Sousa Barriga Alves
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rodrigo Miguel de Sousa Barriga Alves
- Date of birth
- 1999/05/20
- Gender
- Male
Citation names
- Barriga, Rodrigo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 381C-1072-CC11
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4439-1157
Email addresses
- rodrigobarriga@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-barriga-alves-3332201a5/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2023/10 - 2027
Ongoing
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Farmácia (Doutoramento)
Major in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2020/09/03 - 2023/02
Concluded
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Biochemistry for Health (Mestrado)
Major in Computacional Biophysics/Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Simulating substrate binding sites in the S. aureus Type II NADH Dehydrogenase" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2017/09/09 - 2020/08/31
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Major in Biochemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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18 |
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2014/09/01 - 2017/08/31
Concluded
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Sciences and Techonology (Ensino secundário)
Major in Biologia e Geologia + Física e Química A
Escola Secundária Sebastião e Silva, Portugal
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18 |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/10/01 - 2027/09/30 | Discovery of multi-targeting small-molecule agents targeting TIGIT and PD-L1 checkpoint pathways
2023.01201.BD
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/07 | Ligand-based drug design for novel TIGIT inhibitors in cancer therapy | XV iMed.ULisboa Meeting
iMed.ULisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2024/05 | "Designing the future of cancer immunotherapy: a computational strategy for dual inhibition of TIGIT and PD-L1 proteins" | 4th Biophysics Festival
Universidade da Beira-Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
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| 2022/12/21 | Oral presentation in the 3D-BioInfo-PT Meeting: "Simulating substrate binding sites in the S. aureus Type II NADH Dehydrogenase" | 3D-BioInfo-PT Annual Meeting
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (Oeiras, Portugal)
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| 2022/11 | Parameterisation of nucleotides and quinones using Martini 3 force field parameters | Martini developer's meeting
Martini Malta's group (Valletta, Malta)
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| 2022/02 | Simulating substrate binding sites in bacterial respiratory enzymes | Jornadas Intercalares do Mestrado
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07 - 2024/07 | XV iMed.ULisboa Meeting (2024/07 - 2024/07)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
| 2024/05 - 2024/05 | 4th Biophysics Festival (2024/05 - 2024/05)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
| 2022/12 - 2022/12 | 3D-BioInfo PT Workshops - December 19 and December 20;
Workshops of Structural Computational Biology tools (2022/12/19 - 2022/12/20)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
| 2022/12 - 2022/12 | 3D-BioInfo PT Meeting - December 21; National Meeting of Structural Computational Biology Portuguese groups (2022/12/21 - 2022/12/21)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
| 2022/09 - 2022/09 | Computational Biology workshop held at ITQB NOVA - member of the Organising Committee (3D-BioInfo-PT), in which applicants
developed basic computational skills. (22nd and 23rd, September 2022) (2022/09/22 - 2022/09/23)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/07 - 2024/07 | Poster: "Ligand-based drug design for novel TIGIT inhibitors in cancer therapy"
Congress
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XV iMed.ULisboa Meeting
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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| 2024/06 - 2024/06 | Visualizing Science with PyMOL 3
Workshop
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Visualizing Science with PyMOL 3
Schrödinger GmbH, Germany
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| 2024/05 - 2024/05 | Poster: "Structural Insight into TIGIT inhibition for cancer treatment - a comprehensive review"
Congress
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4th Biophysics Festival
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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| 2024/04 - 2024/04 | 3D-BioInfo-PT Advanced Workshop
Workshop
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3D-BioInfo-PT Advanced Workshop
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2024/02 - 2024/02 | Poster: “TIGIT/PD-L1 dual inhibition: small molecules to fight cancer”
Congress
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XVth Spanish-Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery - New Horizons in Drug Delivery
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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| 2024/01 - 2024/01 | P01: "TIGIT/PD-L1 dual inhibition: finding small molecules to fight cancer"
Congress
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15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
| 2023/12 - 2023/12 | Workshop "Introduction to AI and Machine Learning for Biomedical Research"
Workshop
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Introduction to AI and Machine Learning for Biomedical Research
VAIA - Flanders AI Academy, Netherlands
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| 2023/11 - 2023/11 | Workshop on Ageing and Cancer
Workshop
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Ageing and Cancer
Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica, Portugal
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| 2023/08 - 2023/09 | Introduction to Bioinformatics
Workshop
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Introduction to Bioinformatics |
| 2022/10 - 2022/10 | Cambridge exam (C1, Advanced)
Other
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LinguaSkill
Cambridge Assessment, United Kingdom
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| 2022/07 - 2022/07 | P-06.3-001: "The analysis of Staphylococcus aureus’ NDH-2 Coarse-Grain simulations might be the beginning to unveil a future
therapeutical target"
Congress
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IUBMB–FEBS–PABMB Congress
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Netherlands
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| 2022/07 - 2022/07 | P49: The analysis of Staphylococcus aureus’ NDH-2 Coarse-Grain simulations might be the beginning to unveil a future therapeutical
target
Conference
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2nd Chem And Biochem Students Meeting
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2021/10 - 2022/07 | NowClub - C1: one year English course, in which I got a score of 18 out of 20
Other
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NowClub
NowClub, Portugal
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| 2022/06 - 2022/06 | P35: "The analysis of Staphylococcus aureus' NDH-2 Coarse-Grain simulations might be the beginning to unveil a future therapeutical
target"
Congress
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2nd Meeting of Portuguese Young Biophysicists
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2022/04 - 2022/04 | Thesis Masterclass
Other
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Thesis Masterclass
Speak and Lead, Portugal
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| 2021/12 - 2021/12 | Computational Biology Workshop at Coimbra (EJIBCE)
Workshop
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VIII EJIBCE (Encontro de Jovens Investigadores de Biologia Computacional Estrutural)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2021/12 - 2021/12 | Poster: "Parameterization of nucleotide cofactors and metabolites for the Martini 3 Coarse-Grain force field"
Congress
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VIII EJIBCE (Encontro de Jovens Investigadores de Biologia Computacional Estrutural)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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| 2021/03 - 2021/11 | We got a silver medal. We were the only Portuguese team competing in this global synthetic biology contest, iGEM. We enrolled
with the Microplastics theme. The main goal of this contest is to make aware of environmental issues and find ways to surpass
them.
Other
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iGEM
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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| 2021/10 - 2021/10 | VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) Workshop
Workshop
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Visual Molecular Dynamics Workshop
Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Química, Portugal
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| 2020 - 2020 | 1st Edition of the National Biochemistry Olympics - 19th place
Other
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1st Edition of the National Biochemistry Olympics - 19th place
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2019/03 - 2019/09 | Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica (ENEBIOQ): a meeting of all Biochemistry students from all our country aiming
networking, sharing ideas, etc. Forensics Toxicology workshop.
Meeting
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Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Bioquímica (ENEBIOQ)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2019/03 - 2019/03 | Semana da Bioengenharia by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Prototyping and 3D printing workshop from JUNITEC. Electrocardiogram
(ECG) workshop.
Workshop
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Semana da Bioengenharia
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2018/03 - 2018/03 | Emotional Intelligence Google - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; a workshop of self-knowledge and emotional management developed
by Google (to Gulbenkian Mais grant holders)
Workshop
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Emotional Intelligence Google
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2023/01 - Current | Portuguese Young Biophysicists - association in charged of organising the "Biophysics Festival" every year | |
| 2022/04 - Current | SPB - Portuguese Biochemical Society or “Sociedade Portuguesa da Bioquímica” and SPBf, composed of members of the SPB that work in Biophysics - Portuguese Biophysics Society) | |
| 2018/05 - 2022/06 | BioqUL | Member of the former association of Biochemistry students from FCUL |
| 2020/09 - 2022/05 | NuPride | LGBTQ+ association member from FCT |
| 2018/05 - 2019/07 | OutCiências | LGBTQ+ association member from FCUL |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02 - 2024/07 | Bachelor's Project | Afonso Machado and Carolina Rocha |
| 2022/07 - 2022/07 | Summer Science ITQB NOVA | Guilherme Silva |
Distinctions
Award
| 2021 | Silver medal iGEM 2021
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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| 2020 | 1st Edition of the National Biochemistry Olympics - 19th place
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2019 | Academic award 2018/2019 - 17.90 out of 20
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2018 | Academic award 2017/2018 - 18.75 out of 20
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Title
| 2017 | Gulbenkian Mais Grant Holder
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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