Joana Maria Santiago Teixeira (AB16-3FE6-5705)

Curriculum Vitae

Joana Maria Santiago Teixeira

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto, with a strong interest in the molecular mechanisms underlying diseases associated with non-coding DNA. My research focuses on unraveling the role of non-coding sequences in cis-regulation and their contributions to human diseases, combining genome editing, cell biology, and advanced bioinformatics. My current research focuses on analyzing high-throughput data to study how high-fat diets and glucose exposure drive chromatin remodeling and regulate pancreatic gene expression. In 2022, I completed a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Porto. My doctoral research centered on the disruption of pancreatic cis-regulatory elements (CREs) and their impact on pancreatic development and disease. By analyzing histone modifications, transcription, chromatin accessibility, and 3D chromatin interactions, I identified CREs in the zebrafish pancreas and their human functional counterparts. This work uncovered disease-associated sequences across species, including CREs potentially linked to pancreatic cancer, and resulted in a high-impact publication in Nature Communications (IF=17.7, Q1). I presented this research in four oral communications at national and international conferences. Throughout my academic career, I have contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. As first author, I published in journals such as Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, Environmental Microbiology Reports (IF=3.5, Q1), and Medical Microbiology and Immunology (IF=3.2, Q1). As a co-author, I have been published in Cell Reports (IF=9.4, Q1), European Journal of Public Health (IF=2.2, Q1), and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (IF=2.3, Q1). My commitment to mentorship is reflected in my ongoing co-supervision of a PhD student and a Master’s student, as well as my successful supervision of a Bachelor’s Erasmus student in 2021 and a Master's student in 2024. I also actively engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and the dissemination of scientific knowledge through teaching and workshops, fostering a collaborative and innovative research environment.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Joana Maria Santiago Teixeira
Date of birth: 1989/09/21
Gender: Female

Citation names

Teixeira, Joana
Teixeira, J

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: AB16-3FE6-5705
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3605-3035
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6YC6I3IAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
Scopus Author Id: 56503046000

Email addresses

joanamariasantiagoteixeira@gmail.com (Professional)
joana.teixeira@i3s.up.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

912483119 (Personal)

Addresses

Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde/IBMC. R. Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135 , Porto - Portugal, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
Rua Passos Manuel 605 Rc/Frente, 4460-078, Guifões - Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

https://www.i3s.up.pt/research-group?x=112 (Professional)

Languages

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

Education

	Degree	Classification
2023 - 2023 Concluded	Python Programming (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Concluded	Course Building and Leading Research Teams (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017 - 2022 Concluded	Molecular and Cell Biology (Doctor) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "The role of pancreatic enhancers disruption in the development of pancreatic cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2021 - 2021 Concluded	Introduction to Python and Machine Learning for the Biosciences (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Concluded	Accredited FELASA Category C as persons responsible for directing animal experiments (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Concluded	Advanced course: scripting and command line tricks for biologists (Outros) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Concluded	Multi-scale study of 3D Chromatin structure (Outros) European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017 Concluded	Analysis of Differential Expression with RNAseq (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Concluded	Module 1: Introduction to applied statistics with R (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2013 Concluded	Forensic Genetics (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "A study on Pharmacogenetic polymorphisms in the Portuguese Gypsies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17/20
2011 Concluded	Biology (Bachelor) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Aspergillus fumigatus: how frequent is recombination in the environment?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09/01 - 2022/07/22	PhD. thesis: The role of pancreatic enhancers disruption in the development of pancreatic cancer. Supervisor: Dr. José Bessa	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal (...)
2016/07/01 - 2017/08/30	Research Fellow in Vertebrate Development and Regeneration group - The Pancreas Regulome: From causality to prediction of non-coding mutations in human pancreatic diseases (ERC651603).	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

2015/06/26 - 2016/06/30	Research Fellow in Virology group Projeto HEPeCONTROL – Hepatitis E virus epidemiology, safety and control (EEA Grants – PT06 - Programa Iniciativas em Saúde Pública)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

2016/05/09 - 2016/05/20	A practical internship on behalf of the HEPeCONTROL project (EEA grants) with the supervision of Prof. Mette Myrmel in the Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology.	Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet, Norway
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2014/05/15 - 2015/02/14	Research Fellow in Parasite Disease group “Caracterização do mecanismo molecular envolvido na retenção de esporozoitos de Plasmodium nos sinusoides hepáticos (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-041854- EXPL/IMI-MIC	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

2010/08/01 - 2013/11/30	Research trainee in Population Genetics group	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017 - 2022	The role of pancreatic enhancers disruption in the development of pancreatic cancer SFRH/BD/126467/2016 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016 - 2017	The Pancreas Regulome: From causality to prediction of non-coding mutations in human pancreatic diseases ERC651603 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	European Research Council Concluded
2015 - 2016	Projeto HEPeCONTROL – Hepatitis E virus epidemiology, safety and control (EEA Grants – PT06 - Programa Iniciativas em Saúde Pública) 60DT2 Research Fellow	Concluded
2014 - 2015	Caracterização do mecanismo molecular envolvido na retenção de esporozoitos de Plasmodium nos sinusoides hepáticos (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-041854- EXPL/IMI-MIC) FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-041854- EXPL/IMI-MIC Research Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/09 - Current	Searching for novel diabetes therapies by modulating glucose-induced epigenetic modifications in the zebrafish pancreas PTDC/BIA-MOL/3834/2021 Post-doc Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences UID/BIM/04293/2019 LA/P/0070/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0070/2020 Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022 - 2022	Mecanismo Patogénico e Tratamento de uma Doença Causada por uma Mutação de Repetições Na Região Não Codificante do Gene DAB1 FCT_PROJ2017_29255/IBMC/2801/2022 Researcher	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Marques, J; Teixeira, Joana; Cadete, Francisco; Duque, Marta; Valentim, Ana M; Bessa, Jose. "Modelling the crosstalk between diabetes and anxiety in zebrafish". Paper presented in 10 th McBiology Sympoosium, 2024. Teixeira, J; Cadete, Francisco; Marques, Joana; Bessa, J.. "Searching for novel diabetes therapies by modulating glucose induced epigenetic modifications in the zebrafish pancreas". Paper presented in European Society of Human Genetics conference (ESHG 2024) -Berlin, Germany, 2024. Marques, Joana Filipa; Teixeira, Joana; Cadete, Francisco; Duque, Marta; Bessa, Jose. "Modelling the crosstalk of diabetes and anxiety in zebrafish". Paper presented in 6th i3S PhDay, 2023. Teixeira, J; Cadete, Francisco; Marques, Joana; Bessa, Jose (9F15-78E0-68A6). "In vivo profiling of glucose-induced chromatin changes to understand the molecular mechanisms of diabetes development". Paper presented in European Society of Human Genetics conference (ESHG 2023) -Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023. Joana Teixeira; Francisco Cadete; 0000-0002-8591-7138. "In vivo profiling of glucose-induced chromatin changes to understand the molecular mechanisms of diabetes development". 2023. Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, Jose (9F15-78E0-68A6); Galhardo, Mafalda. "Nucleotide polymorphisms associated to increased risk of pancreatic cancer modulate pancreatic enhancer’s function". Paper presented in 26ª Annual Meeting of Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana (SPGH), Coimbra; Portugal, 2022. Moutinho, Ana; Eufrásio, Ana; Azevedo, Joana; Teixeira, Joana; Machado, Joana; Ferreira, Alexandre; Pereira-Castro, Isabel; Bessa, José; Moreira, Alexandra. "Unravelling the function of a short non-coding sequence in gene expression". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on the Long and the Short of Non-Coding RNAs, 2022. Ferreira, Fábio J.; Teixeira, Joana; Galhardo, Mafalda; Logarinho, Elsa; Bessa, Jose (9F15-78E0-68A6). Corresponding author: Bessa, Jose (9F15-78E0-68A6). "The impact of chromatin accessibility in aging-associated transcriptional profiles". Paper presented in 19th Portugaliæ Genetica - Phenotypic Manifestation of Genetic Heterogeneity, 2022. Castro, Ana Filipa; Loureiro, Joana Rocha; Marcelino, Hugo; Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, José; Silveira, isabel. "Is DAB1-antisense transcription contributing to spinocerebellar ataxia type 37?". Paper presented in 4th PhDay: Break borders and build opportunities, held at i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, 2021. Amorim, J.P.; Gali-Macedo, A.; Marcelino, H.; Bordeira-Carriço, R.; Naranjo, S.; Rivero-Gil, S.; Teixeira, Joana; et al. "A conversed notochord enhancer controls pancreas develoment in vertebrates". Paper presented in 11th Zebrafish European Meeting, 2020. Teixeira, Joana. "Decoding the Genomic Landscape of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 37 Locus – A Focus on Insulator Elements". Paper presented in virtual EMBO Workshop: Neuroepigenetics: From Cells to Behaviour and Disease, 2020. Bordeira-Carriço, Renata; Teixeira, Joana; Duque, marta; Ribeiro, Diogo; Galhardo, Mafalda; Dominguez-Acemel, Rafael; Firbas,Panos; et al. "Cis-regulatory similarities in the zebrafish and human pancreas uncover potential disease-related enhancers". Paper presented in virtual EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin, 2020. Castro,AF; Loureiro,JR; Marcelino,H; Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, Jose; Silveira,I. "Is Bidirectional Transcription of the Pathogenic Repeat Associated with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 37?". Paper presented in International meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics, Faro, Portugal, 2020. Amorim,J; Gali,A; Marcelino,H; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Naranjo,S; Rivero-Gil,S; Teixeira, Joana; et al. "A conserved notochord enhancer controls pancreasdevelopment in vertebrates". Paper presented in European DevelopmentalBiology Congress. Alicante, Spain., 2019. Amorim,J; Gali,A; Marcelino,H; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Naranjo,S; Rivero-Gil,S; Teixeira, Joana; et al. "A conserved notochord enhancer controls pancreasdevelopment in vertebrates". Paper presented in I3s Annual Meeting. Porto,Portugal., 2019. Ferreira,FJ; Teixeira, Joana; Galhardo,M; Logarinho,E; Bessa,J. "Transcriptional cis regulation of FOXM1 during aging". Paper presented in inWorkshops “Current Trends in Biomedicine” - From genes to organisms:transcriptional control in development and disease. Baeza, Spain, 2019. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Tena,J; Dominguez-Acemel,R; et al. "The zebrafish pancreas regulome: fromprediction to disease". Paper presented in VIII National RNA Meeting:ptRNA2019, 2019. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Panos,F; et al. "The zebrafish pancreas regulome: from prediction to disease". Paper presented in EDBC Congress. Alicante, Spain., 2019. Teixeira, Joana; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Panos,F; et al. "The zebrafish pancreas regulome: from prediction to disease". Paper presented in (SPGH) Annual Meeting. Coimbra,Portugal, 2019. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Panos,F; et al. "Cis-regulatory similarities of the human andzebrafish pancreas identify disease related enhancers". Paper presented in 8th I3SAnnual Meeting. Porto, Portugal, 2019. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Firbas,P; et al. "Cis-regulatory similarities of human and zebrafish pancreas identify disease related enhancers". Paper presented in rom Genes to Organisms: Transcriptional Control in Development and Disease. Baeza, Spain, 2019. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Firbas,P; et al. "Cis-regulatory similarities of human and zebrafish pancreas identify disease related enhancers.". Paper presented in PhD countdown: a time for Science. Porto, Portugal., 2019. Castro,AF; Loureiro,JR; Marcelino,H; Teixeira, Joana; Silveira,I; Bessa, Jose. "Antisense expression across the repeat insertion inDAB1 and relevance for the pathogenic mechanism of SCA37". Paper presented in VIII National RNA Meeting: ptRNA2019, Porto, Portugal, 2019. Castro,AF; Loureiro,JR; Marcelino,H; Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, Jose; Silveira,I. "Antisense transcription across the SCA37 locus and role in the disease". Paper presented in 23ª Reunião Anual SPGH, Coimbra, Portugal, 2019. Teixeira, Joana; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Duque,M; Ribeiro,D; Galhardo,M; Dominguez-Acemel,R; Panos,F; et al. "The zebrafish pancreas regulome, from prediction to disease". Paper presented in EMBL Conference: Transcription andChromatin. Heidelberg, Germany, 2018. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Duque,M; Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, Jose. "The Zebrafish E ndocrine Pancreas Regulome". Paper presented in Poster. 1st i3S PhDay Symposium. Porto, Portugal, 2018. Duque,M; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Teixeira, Joana; Teixeira,J; Ribeiro,D; Bessa,J. "The Zebrafish Endocrine Pancreas Regulome: From prediction to loss of function of pancreatic enhancers". Paper presented in The Secret Life of the Cell, MCbiology 5th Edition Symposium. Porto, Portugal, 2018. Teixeira, Joana; Bessa, Jose. "Uncovering the tumorigenic potenti al of genes targeted by pancreatic non coding risk alleles. Poster". Paper presented in Poster. 1 st PhDay at i3S . Porto, Portugal, 2018. Teixeira, Joana; Bordeira-Carriço, R; Galhardo,M; Bessa, Jose. "Uncovering the tumorigenic potential of genes targeted by pancreatic non coding risk alleles". Paper presented in Poster. 5th Symposium MCbiology Ph.D. Porto, Portugal, 2018. Ferreira,FJ; Teixeira, Joana; Galhardo,M; Logarinho,E; Bessa, Jose. "Age-dependent activity of non-coding regulatory elements". Paper presented in Cell Symposium: Aging and Metabolism. Stiges, Spain, 2018. Ferreira,FJ; Teixeira, Joana; Galhardo,M; Logarinho,E; Bessa, Jose. "Transcriptional cis regulation of FOXM1 during aging". Paper presented in EMBL Conference - Transcription and Chromatin. Heidelberg, Germany, 2018. Bordeira-Carriço, R; Freitas,T; Tena,J; Teixeira, Joana; Gomez-Skarmeta, JL; Bessa, Jose. "Unveiling the regul atory land scapes of genes involved in pancreatic cancer using a zebrafish model". Paper presented in European Society of Human Genetics Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017. Teixeira, Joana; Pereira,SS; Oliveira,RMS; Abreu-Silva,J; Mesquita,JR; Rodrigues,A; Nascimento, MJS. "Is hepatitis E virus in swine slaughterhouse workers an occupational risk in Portugal?". Paper presented in TheInternational Liver Congress™ 2–51st annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. Abreu-Silva,J; Pereira,SS; Teixeira, Joana; Oliveira,RMS; Tomaz,J; Sargento,C; Mesquita,JR; Nascimento,MJS. "Evidence of recent hepatitis E virus infection in Portuguese blood donors". Paper presented in The International Liver Congress™–51st annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. Oliveira,RMS; Pereira,SS; Teixeira, Joana; Abreu-Silva,J; Mesquita,JR; Nascimento,MJS. "Seroprevalence ofHepatitis E virus among Portuguese children born in the 1990’s and 2000’s: Is it increasing?". Paper presented in The International Liver Congress™–51st annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, Barcelona, Spain, 2016. Caramalho,R; Teixeira, Joana; Amorim,A; Araujo,R. "A single nucleotide polymorphism based method as apractical and cost-effective alternative strategy for multilocus sequence typing scheme in Aspergillus fumigatus.". Paper presented in 18th International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. Berlin, Germany, 2012. Teixeira, Joana; Caramalho,R; Araujo,R; Gusmão,L; Amorim,A. "Multilocus sequence typing of Portuguese strainsof Aspergillus fumigatus". Paper presented in Microbiotec’ 11. Braga, Portugal, 2011. Teixeira, Joana; Gusmão,L; Amorim,A; Araujo,R. "Genetic diversity of Portuguese strains of Aspergillus fumigatus.". Paper presented in 7th ISABS: Conference in Forensic, Anthropologic and Medical Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures inTranslational Medicine. Bol, Island of Brac, Croatia, 2011.
Journal article	Fábio J. Ferreira; Mafalda Galhardo; João M. Nogueira; Joana Teixeira; Elsa Logarinho; José Bessa. "FOXM1 expression reverts aging chromatin profiles through repression of the senescence-associated pioneer factor AP-1". Nature Communications (2025): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57503-4. 10.1038/s41467-025-57503-4 Bordeira-Carriço, Renata; Teixeira, Joana; Duque, Marta; Galhardo, Mafalda; Ribeiro, Diogo; Acemel, Rafael D.; Firbas, Panos. N.; et al. "Multidimensional chromatin profiling of zebrafish pancreas to uncover and investigate disease-relevant enhancers". Nature Communications* 13 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29551-7. Published • 10.1038/s41467-022-29551-7 Amorim, João Pedro; Gali-Macedo, Ana; Marcelino, Hugo; Bordeira-Carriço, Renata; Naranjo, Silvia; Rivero-Gil, Solangel; Teixeira, Joana; et al. "A Conserved Notochord Enhancer Controls Pancreas Development in Vertebrates". Cell Reports 32 1 (2020): 107862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107862. 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107862 Teixeira, Joana. "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics". Medicine 99 9 (2020): e19291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000019291. 10.1097/md.0000000000019291 Nascimento, M.S.J.; Pereira, S.S.; Teixeira, J.; Abreu-Silva, J.; Oliveira, R.M.S.; Myrmel, M.; Stene-Johansen, K.; et al. "A nationwide serosurvey of hepatitis e virus antibodies in the general population of Portugal". European Journal of Public Health 28 4 (2018): 720-724. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85055213949&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1093/eurpub/ckx213 Oliveira, R.; Mesquita, J.R.; Pereira, S.; Abreu-Silva, J.; Teixeira, J.; Nascimento, M.S.J.. "Seroprevalence of Hepatitis e Virus Antibodies in Portuguese Children". Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 36 7 (2017): 623-626. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85007495092&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1097/INF.0000000000001525 Teixeira, J.; Mesquita, J.R.; Pereira, S.S.; Oliveira, R.M.S.; Abreu-Silva, J.; Rodrigues, A.; Myrmel, M.; et al. "Prevalence of hepatitis E virus antibodies in workers occupationally exposed to swine in Portugal". Medical Microbiology and Immunology 206 1 (2017): 77-81. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84992077438&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1007/s00430-016-0484-8 Teixeira, J.; Amorim, A.; Araujo, R.. "Recombination detection in Aspergillus fumigatus through single nucleotide polymorphisms typing". Environmental Microbiology Reports 7 6 (2015): 881-886. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955185708&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/1758-2229.12321 Teixeira, J.; Amorim, A.; Prata, M.J.; Quental, S.. "Pharmacogenetic polymorphisms in a portuguese gypsy population". Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 13 1 (2015): 36-40. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84953382230&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.2174/1875692113666150703180101
Preprint	Ribeiro, Francisca; Teixeira, Joana; Sottomayor, Mariana; Bessa, Jose. "The plant pioneer factor LFY uses trans-kingdom chromatin remodeling mechanisms in vertebrates". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.23.629732. 10.1101/2024.12.23.629732 Ferreira, Fábio J.; Galhardo, Mafalda; Teixeira, Joana; Logarinho, Elsa; Bessa, José. "FOXM1 expression reverts aging chromatin profiles through repression of the senescence-associated pioneer factor AP-1". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.04.539315. 10.1101/2023.05.04.539315 Eufrásio, Ana; Azevedo, Joana; Machado, Joana; Ferreira, Alexandre; Moutinho, Ana; Henriques, Filipe; Jesus, Ana; et al. "Unravelling the regulatory function of a short 3’UTR sequence in zebrafish and in human cells". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.15.567165. 10.1101/2023.11.15.567165

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/15	In vivo profiling of glucose-induced chromatin changes to understand the molecular mechanisms of diabetes development (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	11th I3S Annual Meeting I3S (Porto, Portugal)
2024/03/21	The plant pioneer factor Lfy uses conserved trans-kingdom chromatin remodeling mechanisms in vertebrates (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	The 20th Portugaliæ Genetica: DNA - Ancient and New I3S (Porto, Portugal)
2023	Searching for novel diabetes therapies by modulating glucose-induced epigenetic modifications in the zebrafish pancreas	10th I3S Annual Meeting I3S (Porto, Portugal)
2022	Nucleotide polymorphisms associated to increased risk of pancreatic cancer modulate pancreatic enhancers function (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	19th edition of Portugaliæ Genetica - Phenotypic Manifestation of Genetic Heterogeneity (Virtual) I3S (Porto, Portugal)
2021	Cis-regulatory similarities in the zebrafish and human pancreas uncover potential disease-related enhancers (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	7th Molecular and Cell Biology Symposium \| Science Must Go On (virtual) I3S (Porto-Virtual, Portugal)
2018	The Zebrafish Endocrine Pancreas Regulome	DiA Meeting Portuguese Society of Developmental Biology (Faro, Portugal)
2018	The regulatory landscapes of gen es in pancreas: fishing new elements with putative role in disease	DiA Meeting Portuguese Society of Developmental Biology (Faro, Portugal)
2018	An endocrine pancreas phenotype caused by the disruption of developmental cis-regulatory elements in the nog2 locus	DiA Meeting Portuguese Society of De velopmental Biology (Faro, Portugal)
2018	Uncovering the tumorigenic potential of genes targeted by pancreatic non coding risk alleles (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	DiA Meeting Portuguese Society of Developmental Biology (Faro, Portugal)
2018	Transcriptional trans and cis regulation during aging	I3S PhDay (Porto, Portugal)
2018	Impairment of a noggin2 notochord enhancer disrupts proper pancreas development	Joint Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology (Portugal)
2018	Age-dependent activity of non-coding regulatory elements	Cell Symposium: Aging and Metabolism (Stiges, Spain)
2017	Unveiling the regulatory landscapes of genes involved in pancreatic cancer using a zebrafish model	European Society of Human Genetics Conference (Copenhaga, Denmark)
2017	The Zebrafish Endocrine Pancreas Regulome	6th i3S Annual Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2017	An endocrine pancreas phenotype caused by the disruption of developmental cis regulatory elements in the nog2 locus	6th I3S Annual Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2017	Uncovering the tumorigenic potential of genes targeted by pancreatic non coding risk alleles (Presented by Joana Teixeira)	6th i3S Annual Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2017	Transcriptional cis regulation of FOXM1 during ageing	GABBA Annual Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2017	The regulatory landscapes of pancreas: fishing new elements with putative role in disease	I3S Post-Doc Series (Porto, Portugal)
2017	The regulatory landscapes of genes in pancreas: fishing new elements with putative role in disease	I3S Meeting (Porto, Portugal)
2016	Transmission of hepatitis E vírus by blood transfusion: what is the risk in Portugal?	9º Encontro Investigação Jovemda Universidade do Porto. Porto, Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
2016	A Nationwideserosurvey of Hepatitis E virus in the general population of Portugal	The International Live rCongress™–51st annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (Barcelona, Spain)
2015	Prevalence of HEVinfection among the Portuguese population - Preliminary results from HEPeCONTROL study	14º Encontro Nacionalde Atualização em Infeciologia (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current	Searching and validation of endocrine enhancers that responds to glucose exposure Co-supervisor of Marco Ribeiro	Biologia Celular e Molecular (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09 - Current	In vivo profiling of glucose-induced chromatin changes to understand the molecular mechanisms of diabetes development Co-supervisor of Francisco Cadete	Biology (PhD) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/11	Unravelling nr5a2 transcriptional regulation in pancreatic cancer Supervisor of Inês Mota	Master in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine (Master) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021 - 2021	Study of the impact of arid1ab enhancer deletion in zebrafish pancreas. Co-supervisor of Agnieszka Machowska	Biology (Degree) Jagiellonian University in Kraków Institute of Applied Psychology, Poland Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020 - 2021	4th PhDay: Break borders and build opportunities (2021/11/30 - 2021/11/30) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Symposium MCbiology Ph.D. \| 5th Edition - The Secret Life of the Cell (2018/11/22 - 2018/11/22) Symposium	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Secretariat duties at the Veterinary European Transnational Network for Nursing Education and Training Conference (2015 - 2015) Conference	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/11	Unraveling NR5A2 transcriptional regulation in pancreatic cancer Supervisor	Inês Mota (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	Pratical class of FELASA Category C (zebrafish)	(Outros)

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024	Peer-review process together with my supervisor (2 manuscripts)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Letters of recommendation for the laboratory's master's students
2022 - 2023	Member of the evaluation committee for the recruitment of research fellows for the laboratory	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2019	Prize for best poster (as first author) -"The zebrafish pancreas regulome: from prediction to disease" VIII National RNA Meeting: ptRNA2019
2018	Prize for second best oral communication (as second author)-"Impairment of a noggin2 notochord enhancer disrupts proper pancreas development" -Meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology

Other distinction

2016	Young Investigator Full Bursary and EASL Membership benefits (as a First author) - "Is hepatitis E virus in swine slaughterhouse workers an occupational risk in Portugal?"
2016	Young Investigator Full Bursary and EASL Membership benefits (as a second author) - "A Nationwide serosurvey of Hepatitis E virus in the general population of Portugal."
2016	Young Investigator Full Bursary and EASL Membership benefits (as a second author) - "Evidence of recent hepatitis E virus infection in Portuguese blood donors."
2015	Premio Dr. José Luís Champalimaud - "Prevalence of HEV infection among the Portuguese population - Preliminary results from HEPeCONTROL study."