Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Cátia Alexandra Oliveira Soares
- Date of birth
- 1998/02/07
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Oliveira Soares, Cátia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9812-5372-A67E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9102-3018
Email addresses
- ca.soares@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Almada, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2022/10/01 - 2026/10/01
Ongoing
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Bioquímica (Doutoramento)
Major in Structural Biochemistry
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Amsterdam UMC Locatie VUmc, Netherlands NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal "Engineering mucin-1 O-glycodomains to block aberrant interactions between tumour-glycans and lectins" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2023/09/25 - 2023/09/28
Concluded
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First GLYCOTwinning Summer School: Hands-on course in protein/glycan interactions: a structural perspective (Outros)
NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2023/06/05 - 2023/06/07
Concluded
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Structural Glycoscience Summer School 2023 (Outros)
Glyco@Alps, Portugal
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2022/06/08 - 2022/06/10
Concluded
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First Summer School in Biomedical Glycoscience (Outros)
Carbohydrate Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, Spain
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2019/09/16 - 2022/01/17
Concluded
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Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Decoding the molecular recognition of sialic acid-containing glycans by Siglecs" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 |
2021/12
Concluded
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Advanced NMR Spectroscopy (Outros)
Université de Lille, France
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100% |
2021/05/21
Concluded
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Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Outros)
Université de Lille, France
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100% |
2016/09/25 - 2019/06/21
Concluded
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Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Enzymatic synthesis and structural analysis of MUC1 glycopeptides aberrantly expressed in cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
2016/04 - 2018/01
Concluded
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English course (Outros)
Wall Street English, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/05/04 - Current | Researcher (Research) | REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/10/04 - 2021/10/22 | Internship in the Chemical Glycobiology Lab at CICbioGUNE through an STSM COST action (Prof Jesús Jiménez-Barbero and Dr. June Ereño-Orbea) | CIC bioGUNE, Spain |
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium | ||
2018/08/06 - 2018/08/14 | Internship at the Cell Signaling in Drosophila Lab (Dr. Pedro Domingos and Dr. Fátima Cairrão) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
2018/07/09 - 2018/08/03 | Internship at the (Bio)Molecular Structure and Interactions by NMR Lab (Prof. Eurico Cabrita and Dr. Jorge Dias) | NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal |
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/02 - 2022/09/30 | Interrogating Salmonella/host-glycans crosstalk: Structure-functional approach
EXPL/QUI-OUT/0069/2021
Research Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Institute for Health and Bioeconomy
LA/P/0140/2020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDB/04378/2020
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDP/04378/2020
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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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2023/08/28 | STSM Experience: Expression and Purification of Siglecs for Structural Studies (Flash presentation presented by Cátia O. Soares) | Final Meeting COST ACTION 18132
Maynooth University (Maynooth, Ireland)
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2023/01/17 | Molecular recognition of sTn glycostructures by immune-related receptors (Flash presentation by Cátia O. Soares) | 14th International Meeting of the Portuguese Carbohydrate Group – GLUPOR 14
Portuguese Carbohydrate Group from Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Caparica, Portugal)
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2021/10/06 | Insights into the molecular recognition of natural sialoglycans by Siglecs using NMR spectroscopy (Presented by Cátia O. Soares) | 6th Latin American Glycobiology Congress
Latin American Society of Glycobiology (México City - ONLINE, Mexico)
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2021/02/12 | Decoding the molecular recognition of sialic-containing glycans by Siglecs immunomodulatory lectins (Presented by Cátia O. Soares) | Jornadas Intercalares das Dissertações Anuais dos Mestrados dos Departamentos de Química e de Ciências da Vida da FCT-NOVA
NOVA School of Science and Technology (Caparica, Portugal)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022/11/15 - 2023/06/05 | Organizing committee at the 3rd Meeting of Young Biophysicists "Biophysics Festival 2023" (i3S, Porto, Portugal) (2023/06/01 - 2023/06/02)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2022/12/15 - 2023/01/18 | Member of the student organizing committee at the 14th International Meeting of the Portuguese Carbohydrate Group - GLUPOR
14 (Caparica, Portugal) (2023/01/16 - 2023/01/18)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2022/04/27 - Current | Volunteer staff at the NMR facility at EXPO FCT (Faculty open day) | |
2021/05/26 - 2021/05/28 | Attendance without communication
Symposium
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European Chemical Biology Symposium 2021
EuChemS, Belgium
EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC, Germany |
2020/12/07 - 2020/12/08 | Attendance without communication
Meeting
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EUROMAR, A European Magnetic Resonance Meeting
CIC bioGUNE, Spain
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2018/02/24 - 2018/02/24 | Attendance without communication
Workshop
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VIII SPB Clinical Biochemistry Workshop about Allergy and Environment
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
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2018/02/08 - 2018/02/08 | Participation in a workshop about "Nanomaterials' toxicity in aquatic organisms", lectured by Prof. Mário Diniz
Workshop
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JorTEC de Bioquímica 2018
NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2018/02/06 - 2018/02/06 | Participation in a Molecular Gastronomy Workshop
Workshop
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JorTEC de Bioquímica 2018
NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2017/11/06 - 2017/11/09 | Attendance and staff help
Conference
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2nd International Conference on Pollutant Toxic Ions and Molecules” (PTIM2017)
Associação Científica Proteomass, Portugal
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2017/09/04 - 2017/09/07 | Attendance and staff help
Symposium
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3rd International Symposium in Profiling” (ISPROF2017)
Associação Científica Proteomass, Portugal
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2016/07/06 - 2016/07/08 | Participation in the 2016 MathIngenious Summer School with the theme "Math and life"
Other
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MathIngenious Summer School
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2022/02/01 - 2022/07 | Molecular recognition studies of a Salmonella lectin-adhesin by NMR | Natasha Sena Rodrigues (BSc student) |
Distinctions
Award
2022 | Best student in the Master in Biochemistry from FCT NOVA in 2020/2021
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2022 | Best student from FCT NOVA in 2020/2021
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2022 | Merit scholarship from DGES Portugal, from the academic year 2020/2021
Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior, Portugal
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2021 | Award Grant for Short Term Scientific Mission (COST Action: CA18132)
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
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2019 | Merit Award offered by the Chemistry Department of FCT NOVA to the best student who completed the 1st Cycle in the 2018-2019
academic year and who continues to be enrolled in one of the Masters offered by the Chemistry Department the following year.
NOVA School of Science and Technology - Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2016 | Best student graduated in 2016 in a Science-Humanities course at the Alfredo dos Reis Silveira Secondary School
Alfredo dos Reis Silveira Secondary School, Portugal
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