Ana Rita Pereira Oliveira (5B1F-B1C6-DE1D)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Rita Pereira Oliveira

I am a young researcher with a multidisciplinary background focused on Biochemistry, with great joy for learning and face new challenges in science. I completed the Master in Applied Biochemistry in March 2015 and Bsc in Biochemistry in July 2012 both by University of Minho - School of Sciences. Right now, I am a PhD student at ITQB-NOVA, in the program of Molecular Biosciences, and I am studying a high-activity W-Formate dehydrogenase as a biocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to formate, a sustainable fuel. Until now I published 12 articles in peer-review international journals.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Rita Pereira Oliveira
Date of birth: 1991/03/08
Gender: Female

Citation names

Oliveira, Ana Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5B1F-B1C6-DE1D
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7828-4152

Email addresses

ana.rpo@itqb.unl.pt (Professional)
ana.rpo@outlook.pt (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone

912028476 (Personal)

Addresses

Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier - ITQB NOVA. Avenida da República, 2780-157, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)
Rua da Ponte Velha nº56 2º Dtº, 4820-008, Fafe, Fafe, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Biocatalysis
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Electrochemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/09/01 - 2021/06/27 Concluded	Biociências Moleculares (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal "Biocatalytical reduction of carbon dioxide for sustainable biofuel production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/03/27 Concluded	Bioquímica Aplicada (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Diet and exercise – impact on lipid metabolism and involvement of epigenetic mechanisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18.3
2012/07/26 Concluded	Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Evaluation of potential new anticancer benzocoumarins" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15.9

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/04/20 - 2017/08/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2015/11/01 - 2016/01/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/06/01 - 2022/06/27	PhD Student	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2019/11/17 - 2019/12/04	Visitor Student	CNRS Délégation Provence et Corse, France
	CNRS Délégation Provence et Corse, France
2019/06/03 - 2019/06/28	Visitor Student	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2017/09/11 - 2017/10/06	Visitor Student	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/09/01 - 2022/06/30	Biocatalytical reduction of carbon dioxide for sustainable biofuel production SFRH/BD/116515/2016 COVID/BD/151766/2021 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2017/04/20 - 2019/12/20	Reduction of CO2 for sustainable biofuel production. PTDC/BBB-EBB/2723/2014 Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Oliveira, Ana; Oliveira, Ana Rita; Cátia Machado; Carla Sá; Marisa Azevedo; Prof. Dr. Cristina Pereira-Wilson. "Effects of luteolin 7–glucoside and its aglycone luteolin in liver lipid metabolism and plasma lipoproteins". Paper presented in 62nd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), Guimarães, 2014. Published • 10.1055/s-0034-1394877
Conference poster	Cristiano Mota; Oliveira, Ana Rita; Diana S. Gesto; Marino F. A. Santos; Teresa Santos-Silva; Inês A. C. Pereira; Maria João Romão. "The crystal structure of an oxygen-tolerant and highly efficient W-formate dehydrogenase". Paper presented in The XI Molybdenum & Tungsten Enzyme Conference 2019 - Potsdam, Germany, 2019. Oliveira, Ana Rita; Cláudia Mourato; Inês A. C. Pereira. "The D. vulgaris W-Formate dehydrogenase as a biocatalyst for CO2 reduction". Paper presented in Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems Course - Carcavelos, Portugal, 2019. Melanie Miller; William E. Robinson; Oliveira, Ana Rita; Nina Heidary; Nikolay Kornienko; Julien Warnan; Inês A. C. Pereira; Erwin Reisner. "Interfacing formate dehydrogenase with metal oxides for selective solar-driven CO2 reduction and in-depth study of the interface". Paper presented in 12th International Conference on Hydrogenases and other redox (bio)catalysts for energy conservation - Lisboa, Portugal, 2019. Oliveira, Ana Rita. "Oxygen-Tolerant and Highly Active W-Formate Dehydrogenase for Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2". 2018. Melanie Miller; William E. Robinson; Oliveira, Ana Rita; Inês A. C. Pereira; Erwin Reisner. "Solar-Driven CO2 Reduction to Formate with Formate Dehydrogenase". Paper presented in 6th UK Solar Fuels Symposium - University of York, United Kingdom, 2018. Oliveira, Ana Rita; Cláudia Mourato; Inês A. C. Pereira. "A high-activity W-containing Formate Dehydrogenase for Biocatalytic Reduction of CO2". Paper presented in Bacterial Electron Transfer Processes and Their Regulation – Stain-Tropez, France, 2018. Oliveira, Ana Rita; Cláudia Mourato; Inês A. C. Pereira. "Reduction of carbon dioxide for sustainable biofuel production". Paper presented in 2nd General Meeting of Green-it - Oeiras, Portugal, 2016. Oliveira, Ana Rita; Cátia Machado; Carla Sá; Marisa Azevedo; Prof. Dr. Cristina Pereira-Wilson. "Effects of naturally occurring dietary flavones in liver lipid metabolism and plasma lipoproteins". Paper presented in II Conference of Doctoral Program on Molecular and Environmental Biology - Braga, Portugal, 2014.
Journal article	Ana Rita Oliveira; Cristiano Mota; Kateryna Klymanska; Frédéric Biaso; Maria João Romão; Bruno Guigliarelli; Inês Cardoso Pereira. "Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of Reduced Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough W-FdhAB Reveals Stable Metal Coordination during Catalysis". ACS Chemical Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00336. 10.1021/acschembio.2c00336 Vivek M. Badiani; Samuel J. Cobb; Andreas Wagner; Ana Rita Oliveira; Sónia Zacarias; Inês A. C. Pereira; Erwin Reisner. "Elucidating Film Loss and the Role of Hydrogen Bonding of Adsorbed Redox Enzymes by Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance Analysis". ACS Catalysis (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c04317. 10.1021/acscatal.1c04317 Esther Edwardes Moore; Samuel J. Cobb; Ana Margarida Coito; Ana Rita Oliveira; Inês A. C. Pereira; Erwin Reisner. "Understanding the local chemical environment of bioelectrocatalysis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114097119. 10.1073/pnas.2114097119 Oliveira, Ana Rita. "A Semi-artificial Photoelectrochemical Tandem Leaf with a CO 2 -to-Formate Efficiency Approaching 1¿%". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 50 (2021): 26303-26307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202110867. 10.1002/anie.202110867 Marta Meneghello; Ana Rita Oliveira; Aurore Jacq-Bailly; Inês A. C. Pereira; Christophe Léger; Vincent Fourmond. "Formate Dehydrogenases Reduce CO 2 Rather than HCO 3 - : An Electrochemical Demonstration". Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202101167. 10.1002/anie.202101167 Julia Alvarez-Malmagro; Ana R. Oliveira; Cristina Gutiérrez-Sánchez; Beatriz Villajos; Inês A.C. Pereira; Marisela Vélez; Marcos Pita; Antonio L. De Lacey. "Bioelectrocatalytic Activity of W-Formate Dehydrogenase Covalently Immobilized on Functionalized Gold and Graphite Electrodes". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 10 (2021): 11891-11900. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c21932. 10.1021/acsami.0c21932 Oliveira, Ana Rita; Mota, Cristiano; Mourato, Cláudia; Domingos, Renato M.; Santos, Marino F. A.; Gesto, Diana; Guigliarelli, Bruno; et al. "Toward the Mechanistic Understanding of Enzymatic CO2 Reduction". ACS Catalysis (2020): 3844-3856. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c00086. Published • 10.1021/acscatal.0c00086 Julian Szczesny; Adrian Ruff; Ana R. Oliveira; Marcos Pita; Inês A. C. Pereira; Antonio L. De Lacey; Wolfgang Schuhmann. "Electroenzymatic CO2 Fixation Using Redox Polymer/Enzyme-Modified Gas Diffusion Electrodes". ACS Energy Letters (2020): 321-327. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02436. 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02436 Oliveira, Ana Rita. "Reversible and Selective Interconversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide into Formate by a Semiartificial Formate Hydrogenlyase Mimic". Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b09575. 10.1021/jacs.9b09575 Melanie Miller; William E. Robinson; Ana Rita Oliveira; Nina Heidary; Nikolay Kornienko; Julien Warnan; Inês A. C. Pereira; Erwin Reisner. "Interfacing Formate Dehydrogenase with Metal Oxides for the Reversible Electrocatalysis and Solar-Driven Reduction of Carbon Dioxide". Angewandte Chemie 131 14 (2019): 4649-4653. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201814419. 10.1002/ange.201814419 Sokol, Katarzyna P.; Robinson, William E.; Oliveira, Ana R.; Warnan, Julien; Nowaczyk, Marc M.; Ruff, Adrian; Pereira, Inês A. C.; Reisner, Erwin. "Photoreduction of CO2 with a Formate Dehydrogenase Driven by Photosystem II Using a Semi-artificial Z-Scheme Architecture". Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 48 (2018): 16418-16422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b10247. Published • 10.1021/jacs.8b10247 Sá, Carla; Oliveira, Ana Rita; Machado, Cátia; Azevedo, Marisa; Pereira-Wilson, Cristina. "Effects on Liver Lipid Metabolism of the Naturally Occurring Dietary Flavone Luteolin-7-glucoside". Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 (2015): 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/647832. 10.1155/2015/647832

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/10/01	Insights on the role of selenocysteine on the properties of W-Sec-Formate dehydrogenase	2nd TIMB3 Annual Meeting TIMB3 (Online Meeting)
2021/09/30	Flash poster - The role of selenocysteine in catalysis and oxygen-tolerance of the W-formate dehydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris.	XII Molybdenum & Tungsten Enzyme Conference 2021 Online Meeting
2021/02/18	A highly active and oxygen-tolerant W-Formate dehydrogenase for biocatalytic reduction of CO2: kinetic and structural insights. A. R. Oliveira, C. Mota, C. Mourato, B. Guigliarelli, M. J. Romão and I.A. C. Pereira – 11th ITQB-NOVA PhD students Meeting. Feb 2021 (Online meeting) Oeiras, Portugal	11th ITQB-NOVA PhD students Meeting. ITQB-NOVA (Oeiras, Online Meeting)
2019/12/05	Microbial biocatalysis of CO2 reduction and H2 production	Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019 Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia & Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/07/07	Flash poster - A highly active oxygen-tolerant formate dehydrogenase for CO2 reduction.	XI Molybdenum & Tungsten Enzyme Conference Silke Leimkühler, Universität Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany)
2019/07/07	Catalytic and structural characterization of the W/Se-FdhAB formate dehydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough	XI Molybdenum & Tungsten Enzyme Conference Silke Leimkühler, Universität Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany)
2019/03/31	Flash poster - ”A highly active oxygen-tolerant W-Formate dehydrogenase for CO2 reduction”	12th International Conference on Hydrogenases and other redox (bio)catalysts for energy conservation Inês A. C. Pereira, ITQB-NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06/23	Formate metabolism in sulfate reducing bacteria	X Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes Conference Sharon Burgmayer, Bryn Mawr College (Santa Fe, United States)
2014/10/29	Effects of naturally occurring dietary flavones in liver lipid metabolism and plasma lipoproteins	VI Symposium on Metabolism - Biomarkers in metabolic syndrome Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto - FMUP (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/03/01 - 2018/12/12	Organization of the 9th PhD Meeting of ITQB-NOVA (2018/11/07 - 2018/11/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2014/08/31 - 2014/09/04	Collaboration as part of the organizing staff on the 62nd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA). (2014/08/31 - 2014/09/04) Congress (Other)	Universidade do Minho Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/10/26 - 2019/10/26	Participation on ITQB NOVA Open Day, doing a guided tour through the Laboratory of Bacterial Energy Metabolism. Exhibition	ITQB NOVA Open Day Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2019/05/12 - 2019/05/19	Participation on the Training course on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems Workshop	Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2018/09/17 - 2018/09/17	Presenting photocatalytic experiments using bacteria and biometals Exhibition	II International Microorganisms Day
2018/07/12 - 2018/07/13	Participation on the Biosciences Analysis Tools Iberian Meeting Meeting	Biosciences Analysis Tools Iberian Meeting Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2017/05/27 - 2017/05/27	Participation on the Open Day ITQB-NOVA Exhibition	ITQB NOVA Open Day Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2016/09/30 - 2016/09/30	Presenting simple science experiments to kids Workshop	European Resercher Night

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2018/04/06 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/01/02 - Current	Supervision of research fellow	Rita Rebelo Manuel
2019 - Current	Supervision of undergraduate students (3) -	Maria Carolina Godinho; Cláudio Colaço; Gabriela Ricardo
2020/09/06 - 2021/10/26	Supervision of master student	Diogo Grilo

Distinctions

Award

2019	2nd place – Best Poster Prize Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2014	Best Poster Prize at the XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Biochemical Society Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica, Portugal
2014	Scholarship for School Merit for best classification in the 2nd year of Master Governo da República Portuguesa Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal