Catarina Guerreiro-Oliveira is a research fellow at the Bioenergetics Lab at BioISI, FCUL, and has recently been awarded an FCT PhD Studentship. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from NOVA School of Science and Technology, during which she received an Initiation Research Fellowship to study the antimicrobial activity of organometallic compounds at the Microbial Stress Lab at UCIBIO. She conducted her Bachelor’s final project at the Human Microbiota-Xenobiotics Interactions Lab at ITQB NOVA, where she investigated the effects of acarbose and zinc and iron depletion directly or indirectly affecting the growth of bacteria from the human gut microbiota. She obtained her Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology (specialization in Neurobiology) at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra. Her dissertation, titled “The role of a-synuclein in neuronal innate immunity activation: Implications to Parkinson's disease”, was developed at the Gut-Brain Axis Lab at CNC-UC. She has experience in a variety of techniques, such as bacterial and mammalian cell culture, qPCR, western blot, ELISA assays, immunocytochemistry, and confocal microscopy. She has co-authored two research papers and five scientific posters, including one as first author.