Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- João Pessoa
Citation names
- Pessoa, JP
- Pessoa J
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6A13-E4C9-49E3
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9202-5728
- Researcher Id
- AAL-2879-2021
Email addresses
- joao.pessoa@ua.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Department of Medical Sciences and Institute of Biomedicine - iBiMED, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/people/j-pessoa (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=9chLPyEAAAAJ (Scholar)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo%C3%A3o-pessoa-3250b388/ (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2009/12/31 - 2014/11/28
Concluded
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Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Cyclic nucleotide regulation in a potassium channel: ligand selectivity and conformational change" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado com Distinção |
2007/10/01 - 2008/12/23
Concluded
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Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Structural and Functional Studies on Arabidopsis thaliana Transthyretin-like Protein" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores |
2003/10/01 - 2007/09/12
Concluded
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Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Effect of metals on the AtPreP1 peptidasome activity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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15 valores |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/09/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal |
2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
2015/01/01 - 2021/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal | ||
2018/09/04 - 2018/11/03 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Argentina |
Instituto de Fisiología Biología Molecular y Neurociencias, Argentina | ||
2007/10/01 - 2014/11/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal | ||
2007/03/01 - 2007/08/15 | Research Trainee (Research) | Stockholms Universitet Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik, Sweden |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/03/01 - Current | Self-employed | Wuhan EditSprings Technology and Culture co., Ltd, China |
2022/03/01 - 2023/08/31 | Self-employed | Medical Joyworks, LLC, United States |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | Telomeric R-loop-mediated recombination in the alternative lengthening of telomeres pathway: towards designing novel therapeutic
avenues for cancer therapy
PTDC/MED-ONC/28282/2017
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2015/01/01 - 2021/02/28 | Keeping stem cells undifferentiated: the role of a long non-coding RNA
SFRH/BPD/102323/2014
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Making sense of antisense transcription
PTDC/BEX-BCM/5899/2014
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018/09/01 - 2018/11/03 | LysoMod - Genetic and Small Molecule Modifiers of Lysosomal Function
734825
Post-doc Fellow
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European Commission
Concluded
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2009/10/01 - 2013/09/30 | The molecular details of cyclic nucleotide regulation in a potassium channel
SFRH/BD/60274/2009
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/09/01 - 2026/08/31 | Transient pluripotent states as novel reservoirs of cancer-specific antigens
2022.01199.PTDC
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2021/09/01 - 2022/02/28 | VISCERAL: The role of extrahepatic fructose metabolism in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028147
Post-doc
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Working paper |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/01/12 | Distinct effects of fat and sugar on the mouse gut microbiome | Inflammaging: From Societal to Clinical Challenges 3rd Metabolism Aging and Disease Meeting
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2018/07/06 | Live cell visualization of extra-chromosomal telomeric repeats in human ALT cancer cells | FEBS Young Scientists' Forum 2018
FEBS - Federation of European Biochemical Societies (Prague, Czech Republic)
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2009/02/26 | A functional study of Arabidopsis thaliana transthyretin-like protein | IJUP - Second Meeting of Young Researchers of U. Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2008/02/21 | Effect of metals on the AtPreP1 peptidasome activity | IJUP - First Meeting of Young Researchers of U. Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2021/11/18 - 2021/11/18 | Chairman at the “Science out of the box” 2nd Metabolism, Aging and Disease (MAD) Retreat (Coimbra, Portugal) (2021/11/18 - 2021/11/18)
Symposium (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
2020/12/07 - 2020/12/07 | Roundtable discussion moderator at Cell Bio Virtual 2020: an online ASCB|EMBO meeting (2020/12/07 - 2020/12/07)
Round table
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2019/05/17 - 2019/05/17 | Chairman at the 13th Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML) PhD Students Meeting, Lisboa (Portugal), an annual scientific
meeting organized by and for PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (2019 - 2019)
Symposium (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
2017/05/18 - 2017/05/18 | Chairman at the 11th Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML) PhD Students Meeting, Lisboa (Portugal), an annual scientific
meeting organized by and for PhD students at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (2017 - 2017)
Symposium (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2015/06/18 | Utilização do sistema CRISPR-Cas para gerar deleção do gene Ago3 em células pluripotentes
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Rita Teixeira Poim (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2024/01/21 - Current | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) | Nature Publishing Group |
2023/11/05 - Current | Frontiers in Medicine (2296-858X) | Frontiers Media S.A. |
2023/08/02 - Current | Foods (2304-8158) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/06/04 - Current | Neural Regeneration Research (1673-5374) | Wolters Kluwer Medknow |
2023/05/11 - Current | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (1090-2104) | Elsevier B.V. |
2023/05/05 - Current | Antioxidants (2076-3921) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/05/03 - Current | Nutrients (2072-6643) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/05/03 - Current | Mitochondrion (1567-7249) | Elsevier B.V. |
2023/05/03 - Current | Microorganisms (2076-2607) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/04/17 - Current | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (1422-0067) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/04/06 - Current | Medicina (1648-9144) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/04/05 - Current | Pharmaceuticals (1424-8247) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/04/02 - Current | Frontiers in Immunology (1664-3224) | Frontiers Media S.A. |
2023/03/28 - Current | Nature Nanotechnology (1748-3395) | Springer Nature |
2023/03/21 - Current | Current Issues in Molecular Biology (1467-3045) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/03/17 - Current | Nano Biomedicine and Engineering (2150-5578) | Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press |
2023/03/09 - Current | Molecules (1420-3049) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/02/17 - Current | Children (2227-9067) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2023/01/27 - Current | Microchemical Journal (1095-9149) | Elsevier B.V. |
2022/03/08 - Current | Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (ISSN 2296-634X) | Frontiers Media S.A. |
2021/03/15 - Current | Frontiers in Oncology (2234-943X) | Frontiers Media S.A. |
2021/03/07 - Current | European Journal of Clinical Investigation (1365-2362) | John Wiley & Sons |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2023/02/01 - Current | Portuguese Society of Diabetology | Member |
2018/11/01 - Current | Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) | Member |
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 | The Protein Society | Member |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2022/02/26 - 2022/02/26 | Juri of the 2022 Annual International Medical Students (AIMS) Meeting Research Competition poster session
Evaluator
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2020/12/14 | 3 Questions with João Pessoa https://www.photonics.com/Articles/3_Questions_with_Joo_Pessoa/p1/vo201/i1267/a66502 | BioPhotonics magazine |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022/11/25 - Current | Metabolites (2218-1989) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2022/01/25 - Current | Journal of Visualized Experiments (1940-087X) | MyJove Corp. |
2021/02/22 - Current | Frontiers in Oncology (2234-943X) | Frontiers Media S.A. |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | Certificate of Honor 'Outstanding Editor'
Wuhan EditSprings Technology and Culture co., Ltd, China
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2018 | FEBS Young Scientists' Forum (YSF) Award
Federation of European Biochemical Societies, United Kingdom
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2017 | Finn Wold / Protein Science Travel Award
Protein Society, United States
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