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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rafaela Morais Ribeiro

Citation names

  • Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5A18-F4BB-37FE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7653-9825

Email addresses

  • id9016@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)
  • rm4021@cumc.columbia.edu (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+1) 6469160509 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
  • Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY, United States (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English
Education
Degree Classification
2019/12 - 2025
Ongoing
 Medicina (Doutoramento)
Major in Medicina
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
"The role of hippocampal interneurons in spatial memory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014/09 - 2025
Ongoing
 Medicina (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020/02
Concluded
 Laboratory Animal Science course (Outros)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2011 - 2014
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologias (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária de Monserrate, Portugal
 18,80
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/01 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, United States
2019 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Marcelo Dias; Alexandra Santos; Francisco Almeida; Nataliya Trushina; Sara Calafate; Roland Brandt; Steven Siegelbaum; Tiago Gil Oliveira. "The role of interneurons in spatial memory". Paper presented in 14th Symposium of the Bial Foundation, 2024.
  2. Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Ana Coelho; Tiago Gil Oliveira. "Differential atrophy along the longitudinal hippocampal axis in Alzheimer’s disease". Paper presented in SPN 2021, 2021.
  3. Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Ana Coelho; Tiago Gil Oliveira. "Differential hippocampal atrophy along the longitudinal axis in normal aging". Paper presented in FENS 2020, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Almeida, Francisco C.; Coelho, Ana; Oliveira, Tiago Gil. "Differential atrophy along the longitudinal hippocampal axis in Alzheimer's disease". European Journal of Neuroscience 59 12 (2024): 3376-3388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16361.
    Published • 10.1111/ejn.16361
  2. Calafate, Sara; Özturan, Gökhan; Thrupp, Nicola; Vanderlinden, Jeroen; Santa-Marinha, Luísa; Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Ruggiero, Antonella; et al. "Early alterations in the MCH system link aberrant neuronal activity and sleep disturbances in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease". Nature Neuroscience 26 6 (2023): 1021-1031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01325-4.
    Published • 10.1038/s41593-023-01325-4
  3. Quintas-Neves, Miguel; Teylan, Merilee A.; Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; Almeida, Francisco; Mock, Charles N.; Kukull, Walter A.; Crary, John F.; Oliveira, Tiago Gil. "Divergent magnetic resonance imaging atrophy patterns in Alzheimer's disease and primary age-related tauopathy". Neurobiology of Aging 117 (2022): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.04.013.
    Published • 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.04.013
  4. Santa-Marinha, Luísa; Castanho, Isabel; Silva, Rita Ribeiro; Bravo, Francisca Vaz; Miranda, André Miguel; Meira, Torcato; Morais-Ribeiro, Rafaela; et al. "Phospholipase D1 Ablation Disrupts Mouse Longitudinal Hippocampal Axis Organization and Functioning". Cell Reports 30 12 (2020): 4197-4208.e6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.102.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.102
Distinctions

Award

2022 Pfizer Award 2022 – for the published work “Divergent magnetic resonance imaging atrophy patterns in Alzheimer's disease and primary age-related tauopathy”

Other distinction

2024 FLAD Grant 2024 – Research Internship in the USA – Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, New York
2021 SPN Grant – SPN 2021 Meeting
2020 FENS-IBRO/PERC grant - FENS 2020 Virtual Forum