Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Tatiana T Morais
Citation names
- Tatiana P. Morais
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- B81F-21F8-FB02
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7486-9409
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (351) 916093615 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Behavioural Sciences Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Physiology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Health-Related Biotechnology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Italian | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2022/02 - 2022/05/26
Concluded
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4EU+ Elective Course on the Pathogenesis of Epilepsy (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Epilepsy
4EU+ universities, France
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2017/10/01 - 2022/02/17
Concluded
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Biosciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Neuroscience
Cardiff University School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
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Highest Level |
2017/07
Concluded
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Training Course for Personal Licensees under Animal (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986, categories A & B & C (Outros)
Bristol University Officer Training Corps, United Kingdom
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2013/09 - 2015/12
Concluded
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Biologia Molecular e Genética (Mestrado)
Major in Neurociências
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2010/09 - 2013/07
Concluded
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Ciências da Saúde (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2024/10/17 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
2022/03/01 - 2024/06/05 | Postdoc (Research) | University of Malta, Malta |
University of Malta, Malta | ||
2021/04/04 - 2022/02/28 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | University of Malta, Malta |
University of Malta, Malta | ||
2017/07/17 - 2021/02/26 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Cardiff University School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
Cardiff University School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/02 - Current | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | University of Malta, Malta |
2020/11 - Current | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/10/17 - Current | Project: The role of phospholipase D2 in Alzheimer’s disease. Granted by FCT (2022.05366.PTDC).
2022.05366.PTDC
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2024/09 - Current | Is GAT1 the shared molecular mechanism between absence seizures and their comorbid memory deficits?
0000000000000
Researcher
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AcellBio
Ongoing
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2023 - Current | Thalamic GABA in Childhood and juvenile Absence Epilepsy
PGE 1904
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2022/03 - 2024/06 | EndoCannEpi
Post-doc
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The Malta Council For Science and Technology
Concluded
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2017/10/01 - 2022/02/17 | EU-GliaPhd
Researcher
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Horizon 2020
Concluded
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2021/04/04 - 2022/02/02 | CanEpiRisk - Cannabinoids in Epilepsy: A health risk, a new treatment in Absence Seizures, or both?
Researcher
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Malta Council for Science and Technology
Concluded
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Instituto de Medicina Molecular - IMM
UID/BIM/50005/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
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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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Intellectual property
Provisional application for patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/05 | BDNF decreases absence seizures and their comorbid memory deficits | EpiEpiNetwork anual conference
EpiEpiNetwork (Portugal)
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2023/10 | Absence Seizures Comorbidities and Their Pharmacological Modulation | 9th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society |
2023 | Tonic GABA inhibition and absence seizures are distinguishably modulated by 5-HT2A receptors in normal and epileptic rats | Neuroscience Seminars
FML
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2022/09 | Cannabinoids and absence epilepsy: new drug target or a public health risk? | Addiction 2022
(Italy)
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2022/05 | 5-HT2CR positive allosteric modulator CYD-1-79 as antiabsence epilepsy treatment | 8th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society
(Croatia)
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2022/05 | Role of Cannabinoids in Absence Epilepsy | 8th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society
(Croatia)
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2021 | GABA uptake and behaviour tests for the study of Absence Seizures | EpiEpinet online meeting
(Portugal)
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2021 | GAT1 disfunction in Absence Seizures and their comorbid memory deficits | EU-GliaPhD Annual Online Meeting.
(Germany)
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2020 | Nature of astrocytic GABA Transporter Type 1 malfunction in absence epilepsy | Neuroscience Seminars
FML (Portugal)
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2018 | GABA uptake mediated by GAT1 is altered in absence epilepsy models | EU-GliaPhD Annual Meeting
Collège de France (France)
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2018 | GAT-1 malfunction in absence epilepsy models | International Conference - Novel Routes for the Analysis of Epilepsy
Malta University (Malta)
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2017 | GABA transporter GAT-1 malfunction in thalamic and cortical astrocytes of absence epilepsy models | EU-GliaPhD Annual Meeting,
(Germany)
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2017 | Nature of the GABA Transporter GAT1 malfunction in thalamic astrocytes in absence epilepsy- The Starting Point | Neuroscience Seminars
FML (Portugal)
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2016 | Exploring the glycine effect upon ATP-induced intracellular calcium waves in rat cortical astrocytes | XLV anual meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacology Society
(Portugal)
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2015 | Exploring the glycine effect upon ATP-induced intracellular calcium waves in rat cortical astrocytes | Neuroscience Seminars
FML (Portugal)
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2014 | Glycine receptor in rat cortical astrocytes: expression and function | Neuroscience Seminars
(Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024/09 - Current | GAT1 post-translational changes and its epileptogenic role in Animal Model of Absence Epilepsy
Supervisor
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Mestrado em Neurociências (Master) |
2023/09 - Current | Machine Learning for the behavioral phenotype of Absence Seizures and their cognitive comorbidities in animal models
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2017 - Current | Brain week - I participate annually, exchanging knowledge with the lay public of different ages
Festival
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022/05 - Current | Young MNS Committee member
https://www.medneuroscisociety.org/y-m-n-s-c
Member
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2022/02 - Current | Comissão de Jovens Farmacologistas da Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia https://spfarmacologia.pt/pt/orgaos_sociais/
Member
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/11 - Current | Circuit dysfunction in absence epilepsy | MSc in Neuroscience. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Mestrado) | |
2022/11 - Current | Circuit dysfunction in absence epilepsy | MSc in Neuroscience. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. | |
2022/02 - Current | Animal Models of Epilepsy | (Graduado) | |
2021/11 - Current | Circuit dysfunction in absence epilepsy | MSc in Neuroscience. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. | |
2020/10 - Current | Circuit dysfunction in absence epilepsy | MSc in Neuroscience. Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting nomination for attendance
University of Malta, Malta
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2022 | travel grant award 8th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society
International Brain Research Organization, France
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2022 | ISN travel grant award Addiction 2022 Travel award for presence and presentation of my work in the Addiction 2022 meeting.
International Society for Neurochemistry, Switzerland
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2017 | Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon travel grant for presence and presentation in the XIII Glia Meeting. July 2017
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2015 | Best Poster- Meeting of the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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