Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Maria Ferreira Capitão
Citation names
- CAPITÃO, ANA
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 961A-F7EC-41AF
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8458-3439
- Researcher Id
- AAD-1871-2020
Websites
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana-Capitao-2 (Social media)
- https://publons.com/researcher/3367662/ana-m-f-capitao/ (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uPpE0O4AAAAJ&hl=pt-PT&oi=ao (Scholar)
- http://www.cnbc.pt/about/people_show.asp?Id=241 (Professional)
- https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.02220.CEECIND/CP1656/CT0008 (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2022/01 - 2022/01
Concluded
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Python Data Structures (Outros)
University of Michigan, United States
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98.40% |
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2021/12 - 2021/12
Concluded
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Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) (Outros)
University of Michigan, United States
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99.08% |
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2021/07 - 2021/07
Concluded
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SARS-CoV-2 Protein Modeling and Drug Docking (Outros)
Coursera Inc, United States
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2013/05 - 2017/12/19
Concluded
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Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Screening obesogens in aquatic model organisms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado |
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2016
Concluded
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Molecular data analysis (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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2015
Concluded
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Introduction to R for the Biological Sciences (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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2014
Concluded
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Advanced course: Biomarkers (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
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2012
Concluded
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Laboratory Animal Sciences Course - Aquatic Species (Outros)
Major in FELASA-Category B
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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2011
Concluded
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CCP (Certificate of Pedagogical Skills) (Outros)
Fundação para a Divulgação das Tecnologias da Informação - FDTI, Portugal
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2008/09 - 2010/12/21
Concluded
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Biologia Molecular e Celular (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Magnetic field effect in three chlorophyta species" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
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2004/09 - 2007/07/12
Concluded
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Biologia Marinha e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Biotecnologia
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal
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15 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2021/05/01 - 2022/03/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
| Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal | ||
| 2020/06/15 - 2021/04/14 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/08/01 - 2020/01/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/05/01 - 2017/12/19 | PhD student | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2012/04/30 - 2013/05/01 | Research fellow | Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2008/05/01 - 2012/01/31 | Research fellow | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/05/01 - 2017/04/30 | SCREENING OBESOGENS IN AQUATIC MODEL ORGANISMS
SFRH/BD/90664/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2010/05/03 - 2012/01/31 | Effects of an anisotropic magnetic field in algae life cycle
COOL-MAGNET (BI/FIS/COOL-MAG/MAR-10)
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2008/05/01 - 2010/04/30 | Effects of EM field in cells and simple organisms
UI_03_2008
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/05/01 - Current | SHARP – Short-chain PFAS: A dangerous loophole in environmental regulations?
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology - Associate Laboratory
LA/P/0058/2020
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021/05/01 - 2022/02/28 | UNRAvEL - Understanding the Mechanisms of Toxicity of NanomateRials - EnvironmentaL impact Assessment
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029035
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2020/06/15 - 2021/04/14 | CARTILFACTORY - DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGE-SCALE ENGINEERED CARTILAGE-LIKE MANUFACTURING-SYSTEM COMBINING ELECTROSPINNING
OF CHONDROCYTE-LADEN 3D SCAFFOLDS WITH DIRECT 3D CELL EXPANSION AND MECHANICAL-STIMULUS ON BIOREACTOR
PTDC/EME-SIS/28424/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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| 2017/11/01 - 2020/01/31 | BIOmaterial RIsk MAnagement
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/760928/EU
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
UID/Multi/04423/2019
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2012/05/01 - 2013/04/30 | The modulation of retinoid and thyroid signalling pathways by endocrine disrupting chemicals: invertebrate insights
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/01 - 2023/05/31 | BIOMAG – Magnetic bionanocomposites for micropollutant removal and water reuse
Researcher
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Concluded
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| 2019/11/01 - 2022/10/31 | Trans-phyletic obesogenic responses: from epigenetic modules to transgenerational environmental impacts
PTDC/CTA-AMB/31544/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/07/02 - 2021/07/01 | The Metazoan Endocrine System in the Anthropocene Epoch: from EVOlution to DISruption
PTDC/CTA-AMB/31342/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2017 - 2018 | Coral - Sustainable Ocean Exploitation: Tools and Sensors
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000036
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
| Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/02 | In Silico screnning of short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for endocrine disruption potential | Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology
(Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2021/07/07 | Molecular tools in nanotoxicity | Seminar for animal biodiversity postgraduate students
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS, (GOIÂNIA, Brazil)
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| 2020 | The Echinodermata PPAR: functional characterization and exploitation by the model lipid homeostasis regulator tributyltin | SETAC SciCon 30th annual Meeting
(Dublin, Ireland)
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| 2018/05/16 | The evolution of obesogen-induced phenotypes in vertebrates | SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting
(Rome, Italy)
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| 2017/10/27 | Screening obesogens in aquatic model organisms | Neptune Seminar Series
CIIMAR (Matosinhos, Portugal)
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| 2015 | Obesogens: molecular signaling pathways in fish | XV European Congress of Ichthyology
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/09/15 - 2022/06/03 | Which will be the toxic effects of single and combined exposures of various (nano)materials of Rare Earth Elements on Folsomia
candida?
Co-supervisor
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Biologia (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2021/09/15 - 2022/06 | Evaluation of changes in gene expression in organisms exposed to nanomaterials
Supervisor
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Biologia (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2017/10 - 2018/06 | Isolation of the thyroid receptor in Priapulus caudatus and Platynereis dumerilii
Co-supervisor
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Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020/10/29 - 2021/11/13 | EIT Health i-Days - Competition among student teams from a range of disciplines encourages a new generation of health innovators.
I-Days educate and inspire university students to tackle Europe¿s healthcare challenges.
Other
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EIT Health i-Days
EIT Health, Germany
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| 2021/04 - 2021/04 | Conversas com Cientistas - Décadas de Ciência para Dias de Vacinas (speaking with scientist - decades of science for days
of vaccines) consisted in talks between scientists and non-scientists (including but not limited to the school audience) regarding
the different COVID-19 vaccines and the decades of research that allowed the quick response from the pharmaceutical industry.
Other
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Conversas com Cientistas - Décadas de Ciência para Dias de Vacinas
Ciência Viva, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2018 | Participation in FCT NOVA challenge with Escola Secundária da Maia - FCT NOVA challenge is a competition to stimulate the
scientific interest of high-school students.
Other
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FCT NOVA challenge
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/18 | Generational effects of priority emerging pollutants | Susana Andreia Teixeira Barros (PhD)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
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| 2022/11/08 | Gammarid Nuclear Receptors: receptor-based tools for endocrine disruption assessment
(Thesis) Main arguer
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João Pedro Costa Sousa (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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| 2021/12/09 | Chronic life-cycle studies with the priority pharmaceutical metformin: molecular and biochemical assessment with Danio rerio
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Marta Duarte Caldas Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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| 2021/10/13 | Optimization of a molecular cell-based sensor to detect PPAR¿ ligands – a tool for drug discovery in cyanobacteria
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rita Biltes Lopes Gonçalves Machado (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/11 - Current | Frontiers in Pharmacology | |
| 2023/05/01 - Current | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | |
| 2021/04 - Current | Chemosphere | Elsevier |
| 2020/05 - Current | General and Comparative Endocrinology | Elsevier |
| 2018/04 - Current | Journal of Hazardous Materials | Elsevier |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/10/23 - 2021/10/23 | Molecular Ecology | (Ensino secundário) | Instituto de Educação e Cidadania (IEC), Portugal |
| 2020/07 - 2020/08 | Practical Course - Application of biological models to ecotoxicology studies | (Outros) | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/05/08 - Current | Synthesis of Carvone derivatives and screening of anti-inflammatory activity | Lara Mingatos |
| 2020 - 2021 | Evalution of the potencial of a new sirtuin-1 activator as drug for Alzheimer's disease | Inês Rodrigues |
| 2020 - 2021 | Anti-aging potential of a new sirtuin-1 activator. | Eliana Barbosa |
| 2020 - 2021 | Synthesis and screening of anti-inflammatory activity of new monoterpenic compounds | Gabriela Moço |
| 2017 - 2018 | Endocrine disruptors and Obesogens | Liliana Manuela Santos Ferreira |
| 2017 - 2017 | Generational effects of exposure to endocrine disruptors and emergent contaminants in non-target aquatic organisms | Susana Andreia Teixeira de Barros |
| 2016 - 2017 | Obesity and environmental pollutants: a reason for concern? | Melanie Audrey Gomes Barbosa |
| 2015 - 2016 | Cloning and Characterization of Two Lophotrochozoan Ecdysone Receptors | Ana Filipa Azevedo de Castro |
Distinctions
Award
| 2019 | IACOBUS PAPERS II |
| 2018 | IACOBUS PAPERS I |
