Curriculum Vitae
Maria Joana Guimarães Pinto
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Joana Guimarães Pinto
- Date of birth
- 1987/03/08
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Pinto, Maria J
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 781F-CFFF-D48B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9730-5772
Email addresses
- mpinto@i3s.up.pt (Professional)
- mjoanagp@gmail.com (Personal)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 914538815 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2010/09/01 - 2015/07/30
Concluded
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Doctoral programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (BEB) (Doutoramento)
Major in PhD in Neuroscience and Disease
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
"Presynaptic formation and function under the control of ubiquitin and the proteasome" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with summa cum laude |
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2008/09/01 - 2010/07/30
Concluded
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Cellular and Molecular Biology - specialization in Neurobiology (Mestrado)
Major in Neurobiology
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Role of local protein synthesis in FGF22-induced presynaptic differentiation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18,7 |
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2005/09/01 - 2008/07/30
Concluded
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Biologia Aplicada (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"The involvement of electron transfer flavoproteins in the proliferation of peroxisomes (retrograde pathway)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17,4 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/09/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/01 - 2023/08/26 | Postdoctoral researcher | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal, Portugal |
| 2016/12/01 - 2021/12/31 | Postdoctoral researcher | Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France |
| Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France | ||
| 2015/12 - 2016/06 | Graduate student researcher | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2010/09 - 2015/11 | PhD student | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2014/05 - 2014/09 | Visiting PhD student | Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , United States |
| Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , United States |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/09 - 2023/09 | 1st-Sleep - Microglia shape circuit development during early life sleep: a basis for social cognition
101130790
Post-doc Fellow
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European Research Executive Agency
Concluded
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| 2020/08/01 - 2021/08/01 | Modulation of inhibitory postsynaptic plasticity by microglia in the cortex
Labex MemoLife
Post-doc Fellow
Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
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Labex MemoLife Postdoctoral Fellowship
Concluded
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| 2018/02/15 - 2020/02/14 | Modulation of inhibitory postsynaptic plasticity by microglia in the cortex
EMBO ALTF 362-2017
Post-doc Fellow
Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
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EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships
Concluded
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| 2013/06/01 - 2014/12/30 | Mechanism underlying ribosomal regulation in axonal development
EXPL/NEU-NMC/0541/2012
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2013/07 - 2014/12 | Mechanism underlying ribosomal regulation in axonal development | Universidade de Coimbra |
| 2010/09 - 2014/09 | Presynaptic formation and function under the control of ubiquitin and the proteasome
SFRH/BD/51196/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2010/05/01 - 2013/08/30 | The role of local mRNA translation in synapse formation
PTDC/SAU-NEU/104100/2008
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - Current | Exploring microglia function during neonatal sleep as a basis for autism
2023.08423.CEECIND
Research Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/01/31 | Modulation of synapses by microglia | Lecture for the Doctoral Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine by Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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| 2023/12/20 | Control of synaptic plasticity and sleep by microglia | Invited seminar for the Neurobiology course of the Biomedical Sciences degree
University of Algarve
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| 2022/10 | Microglial TNFa orchestrates phosphorylation of synaptic proteins and controls homeostatic sleep | 8th European synapse meeting
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2021/12/21 | Microglia control GABAAR plasticity and slow waves during sleep | HKUST-ENS Joint Workshop on Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and École Normale Supérieure, Paris (HKUST-ENS) (online)
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| 2021/10/28 | Microglial TNFa tunes GABAAR plasticity and slow waves during sleep | EMBO Workshop Microglia 2021
EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory (online)
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| 2021/07/09 | Microglial regulation of sleep via TNFa | External seminar at Institute of Neuroscience of Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan
Matteo Fossati (online)
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| 2014/12 | Proteasome inhibition and polyubiquitination as new on-site triggers of presynaptic differentiation | XII Annual meeting of CNC, Coimbra
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/01/01 - Current | Investigating Astrocytic Heterogeneity at the single Process Level: A Proteomic Approach
Co-supervisor
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PhD in Neurosciences (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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| 2023/09 - Current | Developing tools for cell surface proximity biotinylation to study the proteome of tripartite synapse
Co-supervisor
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Master degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/10 | Microglial responses to sleep manipulation in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Beatriz de la Féria (Master)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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| 2021/12/13 | Determine if intra-axonal mRNA translation occurs at discrete hot spots during synapse formation
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Guilherme Gomes Trigo (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
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Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2021/02 - Current | Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (Review Editor) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2023/11/06 - 2024/03/01 | Development of tools for CRISPR-Cas9 mediated KO in astrocytes | Julia Sophie Oster |
| 2021/02 - 2021/12 | Modulation of CaMKIIalpha activity by microglia | Léa Cottin |
| 2019/01 - 2019/06 | Tracking microglia to neuron communication through extracellular vesicles. Implications for the regulation of inhibitory synapses plasticity | Nina Dukanovic |
| 2018/11 - 2019/06 | Regulation of inhibitory synapses by microglia-derived TNFalpha | Lucy Bizien |
| 2018/05 - 2018/09 | Role of microglia in inhibitory synapse plasticity | Thibault Pebrier |
| 2017/06 - 2017/09 | Role of microglia in inhibitory synapse plasticity | Julie Fabre |
| 2017/05 - 2017/07 | Regulation of inhibitory synapses by microglia | Lucy Bizien |
| 2017/02 - 2017/06 | Activity-dependent regulation of synaptic content of glycine receptors | Robin Pieaud |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/09 - Current | Main arguer of 1st year PhD student defense of seminar II - Thesis Literature Review. Work: "Understanding neurons-glia crosstalk and biological clocks in insomnia" by Catarina Almeida. | |
| 2021/04 - Current | Reviewer for MDPI journals | MDPI AG, Switzerland |
| 2021/07/22 - 2021/07/22 | 1st year master student defense of work plan for master thesis. Work entitled "Development of a Circuit-on-a-Chip to study brain diseases by Sara Vieira Camara | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2010 | Mérito escolar
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2010 | Top 3% dos alunos
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2008 | Prémio de mérito escolar
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2007 | Prémio de mérito escolar
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2006 | Prémio de mérito escolar
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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