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Emanuel Ferreira Fernandes is a postdoc in the Neuronal Circuit and Behavior lab (NCBL) at CIBB (Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia), University of Coimbra (UC). He completed his PhD at the University of Lisbon in 2020 , where he joined the Remondes Lab in iMM - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, and built a strong background in Systems Neuroscience. As the first PhD student in the Remondes Lab, he contributed to set up the entire lab and focused on rodent foraging behaviors as a model for spatial working memory, studying the underlying cingulate-hippocampal interactions. His work provided the first integrated structural and functional characterization of the cingulate-hippocampal circuits in spatial working memory, uncovering a structural and functional gradient in cingulate-hippocampal circuits. In 2020, he moved to NCBL, where he is currently developing a project devoted to uncover the interaction between social memory and hierarchical behavior, implying the structural and functional characterization of prefrontal-hippocampal circuits engaged during the formation of social hierarchies in rodents. Present interests center on using advanced models to understand how neuronal ensembles give rise to adaptive social behavior, specifically hierarchical behavior, and maladaptive socal behavior, prominent in patients suffering from neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. To achieve this, he uses a combination of anatomical tracing, optogenetics, electrophysiological approaches (in vitro and in vivo) and behavioral protocols in rodent models. As a young graduate, Emanuel Ferreira Fernandes is highly motivated to keep pursuing high risk/high challenge research activity in Systems Neuroscience, while addressing fundamental questions concerning brain function at the mesoscale level, studying neural ensemble activity during behavior in health and disease, at a leading institute for neuroscience research in Portugal, CIBB. In the future, he aims to work in a research-intensive tenure-track university position and lead high quality research, while contributing to the ultimate, global quest of understanding how the brain generates (social) behavior.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Emanuel Ferreira Fernandes
Date of birth
1990/07/02
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7618-1A92-D309
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8180-7468

Email addresses

  • emanuelferreirafernandes@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 239820190 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004–504, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/01/01 - 2020/07/02
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Neurociências
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Cortico-hippocampal interactions as a neural substrate for the retrieval of contextual memories in choice behavior" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção e louvor
2011/09 - 2013/07
Concluded
 Biomedicina Molecular (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"The role of Synphilin-1A/PPP1 complex in Lewy bodies formation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 (0-20 scale)
2008/09 - 2011/07
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Major in Biomedicina Molecular
Universidade de Aveiro Escola Superior de Saúde de Aveiro, Portugal
 17 (0-20 scale)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/08/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) CNC.IBILI, Portugal
CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/01/01 - 2020/07/02 PhD Student Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2014/12/31 Intern Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Espectrometria de Massa, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Espectrometria de Massa, Portugal
2011/07/01 - 2012/12/31 Intern Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2023/01/31 The social code in cingulate-hippocampal circuits:The role of memory in social contests
074/20
Principal investigator
CNC.IBILI, Portugal
 Fundação Bial
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/06/01 - 2022/01/31 Postnatal Reorganization of the cerebellum via Neuron-microglia interaction: IL-4 as a mediator between ADHD and allergies
PTDC/MED-NEU/5993/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Fardilha, Margarida. Sexo, drogas e cérebro. Aveiro: Edições Afrontamento. 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Why rats turn the way they do?". Paper presented in 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany., 2018.
  2. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Why rats turn the way they do?". Paper presented in Third Meeting of the PhD Students from the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal., 2017.
  3. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Why rats turn the way they do?". Paper presented in XI PhD CAML Meeting, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.
  4. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Double retrograde anatomical tracing unravels an ego- to allocentric functional gradient across the midline cortex". Paper presented in 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016.
  5. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Why rats turn the way they do?". Paper presented in Second Meeting of the PhD Students from the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal., 2016.
  6. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Double retrograde anatomical tracing unravels an ego- to allocentric functional gradient across the midline cortex". Paper presented in X PhD CAML Meeting, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016.
  7. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Remondes, Miguel. "Double retrograde anatomical tracing unravels an ego- to allocentric functional gradient across the midline cortex". Paper presented in First Meeting of the PhD Students from the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
  8. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Fardilha, Margarida; da Cruz e Silva, Odete. "Synphilin-1A and PP1: A novel way to produce Lewy bodies". Paper presented in XIII meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN), Luso, Portugal, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Laranjo, Mariana; Reis, Tiago; Canijo, Bárbara; Ferreira, Pedro A.; Martins, Pedro; Vilarinho, João; et al. "In vivo recordings in freely behaving mice using independent silicon probes targeting multiple brain regions". Frontiers in Neural Circuits 17 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2023.1293620.
    10.3389/fncir.2023.1293620
  2. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Peça, João. "The Neural Circuit Architecture of Social Hierarchy in Rodents and Primates". Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2022.874310.
    Open access • 10.3389/fncel.2022.874310
  3. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Pinto-Correia, Bárbara; Quintino, Carolina; Remondes, Miguel. "A Gradient of Hippocampal Inputs to the Medial Mesocortex.". Cell reports (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.011.
    10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.011
  4. Couto, Daniela; Santinha, Deolinda; Melo, Tânia; Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Videira, A Romeu; Campos, Ana; Fardilha, Margarida; Domingues, Pedro; Domingues, Maria Rosário. "Glycosphingolipids and oxidative stress: evaluation of hydroxyl radical oxidation of galactosyl and lactosylceramides using mass spectrometry.". Chemistry and physics of lipids (2015): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.08.014.
    10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.08.014
  5. Santinha, Deolinda; Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Melo, Tânia; Silva, Eduarda M. P.; Maciel, Elisabete; Silva, Artur; Fardilha, Margarida; Domingues, Pedro; Domingues, Maria Rosário. "Evaluation of the photooxidation of galactosyl- and lactosylceramide by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.". Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2014): https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7020.
    10.1002/rcm.7020
  6. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel; Esteves, Sara; Korrodi-Gregório, Luís; Luers, George; Fardilha, Margarida; da Cruz e Silva, Odete. "Synphilin-1A is a phosphoprotein phosphatase 1-interacting protein and affects PPP1 sorting to subcellular compartments.". Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN (2014): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-014-0343-2.
    10.1007/s12031-014-0343-2
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel. "Cortico-hippocampal interactions as a substrate for the retrieval of contextual memories in choice behavior". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, 2020.
  2. Ferreira-Fernandes, Emanuel. "The role of Synphilin-1A/PPP1 complex in Lewy bodies formation". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/12488.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018 Why rats turn the way they do? XII PhD CAML Meeting
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015 Cortico-hippocampal interactions as a neural substrate for the retrieval of contextual memories in choice behavior IX PhD CAML Meeting
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013 Synphilin-1A and PP1: A novel way to produce Lewy bodies XIII meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
(Luso, Portugal)
2013 The Science and Medicine of Parkinson´s Disease
Instituto de Educação e Cidadania (Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2012 - 2014 Brain Awareness Week
Other
 Brain Awareness Week
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2013 - Current Portuguese Society for Neuroscience Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02/14 - 2022/02/14 A Gradient of Hippocampal Inputs to the Medial Mesocortex - Technical Lectures Neuronal Circuits and Behavior (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2021/04/06 - 2021/04/06 A Gradient of Hippocampal Inputs to the Medial Mesocortex - Technical Lectures Neuronal Circuits and Behavior (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2013/04 - 2013/04 Signal Transduction in Parkinson's Disease Molecular Biomedicine (Course: Cell Signaling in Biomedicine) (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2013/03 - 2013/03 The Science and Medicine of Parkinson's Disease Molecular Biomedicine (Course: Neurosciences) (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2012/10 - 2012/10 Central Nervous System Anatomy: general organization and reward circuits Biology (Course: Sexo, Drogas e Biologia Celular) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018/01/07 - 2018/01/26 Mentorship of an undergraduate student - Short curricular project Antónia Ribeiro
2016/07/04 - 2016/08/01 SCORE: Research Exchange Program Panu Räty
2016/07/04 - 2016/08/01 SCORE: Research Exchange Program Kim Hyojeong
2015/09/15 - 2016/06/15 Mentorship of an undergraduate student - Short curricular project Tomás da Cruz Soares
2015/09/15 - 2016/06/15 Mentorship of an undergraduate student - Short curricular project Joana Rodrigues
2016/01/01 - 2016/06/01 Mentorship of an undergraduate student - Short curricular project Inês Monteiro
Distinctions

Award

2011 Doutor Egas Moniz’s Prize
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 Doutor Egas Moniz’s Prize
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009 Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2009 Doutor Egas Moniz’s Prize
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2008 Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Other distinction

2015 Doctoral Fellowship - LisbonBioMed PhD Program
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal