Personal identification

Full name

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Citation names

• Rijo-Ferreira, Filipa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

7E1A-ED0E-636C

ORCID iD

0000-0002-4003-020X

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2016 Concluded	GABBA (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Circadian rhythms in a Trypanosoma brucei infection: host, parasite or both" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	"tese de doutoramento defendida com honra e distin
2009 Concluded	Genetica Molecular e Biomedicina (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Quantification of T cell responses to HTLV-1: balance of inflammatory and antiviral effects" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2007 Concluded	Cell and Molecular Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Epigenetics and the immune system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/01/01 - 2021/12/31	Principal Investigator (Research)	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
2016/08/01 - 2020/12/31	Postdoc (Research)	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
2012/10/08 - 2016/07/20	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2010/03/15 - 2010/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Republica Portuguesa Ministério da Educação, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01/03 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, United States

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/09/30 - 2009/08/07	MSc Student	Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/09 - 2021/08	Elucidating the mechanism for malaria rhythmicity: an underlying circadian clock of the parasite K99GM132557	National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Publications

Journal article

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Theresa E. Bjorness; Kimberly H. Cox; Alex Sonneborn; Robert W. Greene; Joseph S. Takahashi. "Sleeping Sickness Disrupts the Sleep-Regulating Adenosine System". The Journal of Neuroscience 40 48 (2020): 9306-9316. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1046-20.2020. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1046-20.2020 Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Victoria A. Acosta-Rodriguez; John H. Abel; Izabela Kornblum; Ines Bento; Gokhul Kilaru; Elizabeth B. Klerman; Maria M. Mota; Joseph S. Takahashi. "The malaria parasite has an intrinsic clock". Science 368 6492 (2020): 746-753. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba2658. 10.1126/science.aba2658 Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Joseph S. Takahashi. "Genomics of circadian rhythms in health and disease". Genome Medicine 11 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-019-0704-0. 10.1186/s13073-019-0704-0 Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Tânia Carvalho; Cristina Afonso; Margarida Sanches-Vaz; Rui M Costa; Luísa M. Figueiredo; Joseph S. Takahashi. "Sleeping sickness is a circadian disorder". Nature Communications (2018): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02484-2. 10.1038/s41467-017-02484-2 Rijo-Ferreira, Filipa. "Trypanosoma brucei triggers a marked immune response in male reproductive organs.". PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2018): http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6093638. 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006690 Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Laurie Read; Joseph S. Takahashi; Luisa M. Figueiredo. "Circadian rhythms in parasites". PLOS Pathogens (2017): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006590. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006590 Victoria A. Acosta-Rodríguez; Marleen H.M. de Groot; Filipa Rijo-Ferreira; Carla B. Green; Joseph S. Takahashi. "Mice under Caloric Restriction Self-Impose a Temporal Restriction of Food Intake as Revealed by an Automated Feeder System". Cell Metabolism 26 1 (2017): 267-277.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cmet.2017.06.007. 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.06.007 Rijo-Ferreira F; Pinto-Neves D; Barbosa-Morais NL; Takahashi JS; Figueiredo LM. "Trypanosoma brucei metabolism is under circadian control.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28288095. 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.32 Leija C; Rijo-Ferreira F; Kinch LN; Grishin NV; Nischan N; Kohler JJ; Hu Z; Phillips MA. "Pyrimidine Salvage Enzymes Are Essential for De Novo Biosynthesis of Deoxypyrimidine Nucleotides in Trypanosoma brucei.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27820863. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006010 Trindade, Sandra; Rijo-Ferreira, Filipa; Carvalho, Tânia; Neves, Daniel; Guegan, Fabien Marc; Aresta-Branco, Francisco; Bento, Fabio; et al. "Trypanosoma brucei parasites occupy and functionally adapt to the adipose tissue in mice". (2016): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45123. 10.1016/j.chom.2016.05.002 Li Q; Leija C; Rijo-Ferreira F; Chen J; Cestari I; Stuart K; Tu BP; Phillips MA. "GMP synthase is essential for viability and infectivity of Trypanosoma brucei despite a redundant purine salvage pathway.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26043892. 10.1111/mmi.13083 Pena AC; Pimentel MR; Manso H; Vaz-Drago R; Pinto-Neves D; Aresta-Branco F; Rijo-Ferreira F; et al. "Trypanosoma brucei histone H1 inhibits RNA polymerase I transcription and is important for parasite fitness in vivo.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24946224. 10.1111/mmi.12677

Thesis / Dissertation

Ana Filipa de Almeida Rijo Ferreira. "Circadian rhythms in a Trypanosoma brucei infection: host, parasite or both?". PhD, 2016. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/93220.

Award

2015	Best scientific abstract Faculty of 1000 Ltd, United Kingdom
2015	Scientific excellence American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United States
2013	Youth Talent, City of Knowledge Câmara Municipal de Almada, Portugal

Other distinction

2011	GABBA 4-year fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2009	“the best Molecular Genetics MSc student” Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2008	“the best MSc student of the University” Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2008	Erasmus 1-year fellowship European Union, Belgium