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Catarina Antunes Angélico Pinto Nabais completed her PhD in Cell biology in 2019 from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica and obtained her Masters degree in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa in 2011. She is currently a Post-doc Researcher at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina Antunes Angélico Pinto Nabais

Citation names

  • Nabais, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6E1E-9CAC-9462
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7817-3054

Email addresses

  • catarina.p.nabais@gmail.com (Professional)
  • cnabais@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciências. Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/01/12 - 2019/04/12
Concluded
 2019 StartUp Research Program (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Innovation in Biotech, Start-up Project Development
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019/03
Concluded
 Biologia Celular (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Biologia Celular
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Dissecting the rules underlying de novo centrosome biogenesis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011
Concluded
 Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Genomic insights from the Squalius alburnoides complex in the confined Quarteira drainage population: what’s new?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2009
Concluded
 Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04 - 2020/10/31 Postdoc (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/11/01 - Current Imaging Specialist Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Germany
2014 - 2019 PhD Student - funded by Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/11/01 - 2013/12/31 Research Trainee - Cell cycle regulation of centriole biogenesis Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2012/06/30 Research Technician - Evolutionary ecology and eco-epidemiology relevance of antibody detection in wild host-parasite systems Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, France
2009/09/01 - 2010/06/30 Research Trainee - Phylogenetic study of an insect species from the Canary Archipelago using molecular markers Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2009/08/31 Research Trainee - Optimisation of blood cell’s culture protocol for Cytogenetic studies in freshwater fishes Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/04 - Current Mechanisms of centriole inheritance and Maintenance
ERC-2015-CoG-683258-Birth&Death
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 European Research Council
Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2013/12 Control of Centriole Structure And Number
ERC-2010-StG-261344-CentriolStructure&Number
Research Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 European Research Council
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. de-Carvalho, J.; Deshpande, O.; Nabais, C.; Telley, I.A.. "A cell-free system of Drosophila egg explants supporting native mitotic cycles". 233-257. 2018.
    10.1016/bs.mcb.2018.03.011
Journal article
  1. ID Stoev, F Huhn, N Maghelli, E Erben, ST Bundschuh… - Imaging & Microscopy, 2022. "FLUCS-Focused Light-Induced Cytoplasmic Streaming: Optically controlled microflows for biology and the life sciences". Imaging & Microscopy 24 2 (2022): https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/article-do/flucs---focused-light-induced-cytoplasmic-streaming.
    Published
  2. Nabais, Catarina; Peneda, Catarina; Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica. "Evolution of centriole assembly". Current Biology 30 10 (2020): R494-R502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.036.
    10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.036
  3. Nabais, Catarina; Pereira, Sónia Gomes; Bettencourt-Dias, Mónica. "Noncanonical Biogenesis of Centrioles and Basal Bodies". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/869.
    10.1101/sqb.2017.82.034694
  4. Zitouni, S.; Francia, M.E.; Leal, F.; Montenegro Gouveia, S.; Nabais, C.; Duarte, P.; Gilberto, S.; et al. "CDK1 Prevents Unscheduled PLK4-STIL Complex Assembly in Centriole Biogenesis". Current Biology 26 9 (2016): 1127-1137. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84963938391&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.055
  5. Zitouni, S.; Nabais, C.; Jana, S.C.; Guerrero, A.; Bettencourt-Dias, M.. "Polo-like kinases: Structural variations lead to multiple functions". Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 15 7 (2014): 433-452. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84904601445&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/nrm3819
  6. Nabais, C.; Rampin, M.; Collares-Pereira, M.J.. "Comparative cytogenetics of two endangered leuciscine fish, Squalius aradensis and S. torgalensis(Teleostei, Cyprinidae), from the Iberian Peninsula". Comparative Cytogenetics 7 1 (2013): 33-42. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877958485&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3897/CompCytogen.v7i1.4672
  7. Nabais, C.; Pereira, C.; Cuñado, N.; Collares-Pereira, M.J.. "Synaptonemal complexes in the hybridogenetic Squalius alburnoides fish complex: New insights on the gametogenesis of allopolyploids". Cytogenetic and Genome Research 138 1 (2012): 31-35. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866561975&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1159/000339522
Newspaper article
  1. Catarina Nabais; Delphine Pessoa; Jorge de-Carvalho; Thomas van Zanten; Paulo Duarte; Satyajit Mayor; Jorge Carneiro; Ivo Telley; Monica Bettencourt-Dias. "Plk4 triggers autonomous de novo centriole biogenesis and maturation", 2021, https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202008090.
    10.1083/jcb.202008090
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Nabais, Catarina Antunes Angélico Pinto, 1988-. "Genomic insights from the Squalius alburnoides complex in the confined Quarteira drainage population: what's new?". Master, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/4532.

Other

Other output
  1. The 3D architecture and molecular foundations of de novo centriole assembly via bicentrioles. 2020. Sónia Gomes Pereira; Ana Laura Sousa; Catarina Nabais; Tiago Paixão; Alexander. J. Holmes; Martin Schorb; Gohta Goshima; et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.21.423647.
    10.1101/2020.12.21.423647
  2. Plk4 triggers autonomous de novo centriole biogenesis and maturation. 2020. Nabais, Catarina; Jorge de-Carvalho; Delphine Pessoa; Thomas van Zanten; Satyajit Mayor; Jorge Carneiro; Ivo Andreas Telley; Mónica Bettencourt-Dias. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.068650v1.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019/12 Regulation of de novo centrosome assembly 2019 International Meeting for Cell Biology (ASCB/EMBO)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) (Washington, D.C., United States)
2019/03 Regulation of de novo centriole formation 1st Annual IGC Retreat
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal)
2019/01 Dissecting the regulation of de novo centriole assembly Reconstitution of Cell Cytoskeleton In Vitro
The Company of Biologists (United Kingdom)
2017/09 Kinetics of de novo Centriole Biogenesis in Space and Time 2017 2015 - Portuguese Drosophila meeting
(Portugal)
2017/07 Kinetics of Centriole Biogenesis in Space and Time Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD meeting
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (Austria)
2017/05 Kinetics of Centriole Biogenesis in Space and Time AMeeGuS 2017 - IGC's PhD Students Meeting
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal)
2015/07 Spatial regulation of centriole biogenesis Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD meeting
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (Australia)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/09/23 - 2019/10/18 Role of the cytoskeleton in centriole biogenesis
Co-supervisor
 Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (IBB) doctoral program
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/08/07 - 2018/08/31 Plk4 concentration & de novo centriole assembly
Co-supervisor
 IGC Summer School
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2014/09/30 - 2014/10/03 Organization Staff on International Scientific Meeting - "EMBO Conference: Centrosomes and spindle pole bodies, Lisbon, Portugal" Organizers: Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Pierre Gönczy, Wallace Marshall and Susana Godinho (2014/09/30 - 2014/10/03)
Conference
 European Molecular Biology Organization , Germany
2010/11/11 - 2010/11/12 Organization Staff on International Scientific Meeting - "International Meeting on the Genetics of Polyploids" Organizers: Maria João Collares-Pereira and Maria Manuela Coelho (2010/11/11 - 2010/11/12)
Conference
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/10/15 - 2018/10/15 Science Dissemination to Lay Audiences at 2018 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day: Light Microscopy Room IGC Open Day
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2016/10/01 Science Dissemination to Lay Audiences at 2016 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day IGC Open Day
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/07/10 - 2015/07/10 Science Dissemination to Lay Audiences at IGC stand at Nos Alive - Musical Festival Nos Alive - Musical Festival
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2014/07/11 - 2014/07/11 Science Dissemination to Lay Audiences at IGC stand at Nos Alive - Musical Festival Nos Alive - Musical Festival
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/21 Investigating the role of the cytoskeleton in de novo centriole assembly - Participated as Teaching Assistant Physiology Course Brown University Marine Biological Laboratory Biological and Environmental Sciences, United States
2015/08 - 2015/08 Investigating the role of the microtubule-based machinery in the early embryogenesis of insects - participated as a Teaching Assistant Evolutionary Cell Biology Course Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, United States
Distinctions

Award

2017 EMBO Travel Grant
European Molecular Biology Organization , Germany

Other distinction

2014 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship
2011 Leonardo da Vinci Fellowship - EU Commission Mobility Program
European Commission, Belgium
2009 Bolsas de Integração na Investigação - Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2008 Amadeu Dias Research Scholarship
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal