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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
César S Mendes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
601A-9F63-4964

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/01/01 - 2024/06/30 Muscle-Neuron-Glia Interactions in 3D: Contribution of Mechanical Forces and Signaling to Synaptic Structure and Function. -~50.000 €-
PTDC-01778/2022
Researcher
iNOVA4Health, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Anna F Hobbiss; Medeiros, Alexandra ; Cruz Franco, Mariana; Rosher, Charlotte; Mendes, Cesar S; Moita, Marta A.. "Actively Frozen - a novel pattern of leg muscle activity reveals flexible freezing states and anticipates movement onset in Drosophila". Paper presented in Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, 2023.
  2. Anna F Hobbiss; Medeiros, Alexandra ; Mendes, Cesar S; Moita, Marta A.. "Actively Frozen - Multiple immobility states revealed by novel patterns of leg muscle activity in Drosophila melanogaster". Paper presented in International Congress of Neuroethology, 2022.
  3. Alexandra M. Medeiros; Anna F. Hobbiss; Gonçalo Borges; Marta Moita; Mendes, Cesar. "Sustained motor activity triggered by direct mechanosensory stimulation". Paper presented in FENS Forum 2022, Paris, France, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Anna F Hobbiss; Mariana C Franco; Alexandra M. Medeiros; Charlie Rosher; Mendes, Cesar; Moita, Marta AP. Corresponding author: Mendes, Cesar. "Covert muscle activity reveals dynamic freezing states and prepares the animal for action". BioRxiv (2024): https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.26.622641.
    Published
  2. Carregosa, Diogo; Loncarevic-Vasiljkovic, Natasa; Feliciano, Raquel; Moura-Louro, Diogo; Mendes, Cesar S; dos Santos, Cláudia Nunes. "Locomotor and gait changes in the LPS model of neuroinflammation are correlated with inflammatory cytokines in blood and brain". Journal of Inflammation 21 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1186/s12950-024-00412-y.
    10.1186/s12950-024-00412-y
  3. Alexandra M. Medeiros; Anna F Hobbiss; Moita, Marta A.; Mendes, Cesar. "Mechanosensory bristles mediate avoidance behaviour by triggering sustained local motor activity in Drosophila melanogaster". Current Biology 34 (2024): 1-19.
    Open access
Preprint
  1. Anna F. Hobbiss; Mariana C. Franco; Alexandra M. Medeiros; Charlie Rosher; César S. Mendes; Marta A. Moita. "Covert muscle activity reveals dynamic freezing states and prepares the animal for action". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.26.622641.
    10.1101/2024.11.26.622641
Website
  1. Mendes, Cesar. GitHub repository. 2021. https://github.com/NeurogeneLocomotion/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/05/16 Neurogénica da locomoção: dos modelos genéticos à clinica XV Jornadas Nacionais de Cie^ncias Biome´dicas
Comissão Organizadora das Jornadas Nacionais de Ciências Biomédicas (Faro, Portugal)
2025/03/12 Neurogenetics of Locomotion: From sensory-driven movement to freezing behaviour. XVII Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia e das VII Jornadas Ibéricas de Genética y Biotecnología.
Núcleo de Estudantes de Genética e Biotecnologia (ADNGB) da Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). (Vila Real, Portugal)
2023/07/03 Role of proprioceptive feedback on locomotion and movement initiation Seminars in Neuroscience -University of Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich
University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
2022/12/16 The role of mechanosensation in movement Initiation: Hacking the motor network through sensory afferents 2022 Portuguese Drosophila Meeting
(Batalha, Portugal)