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Sara Isabel Guerra Carvalhal Bandarra publishes under the name Sara Carvalhal and is the Junior Group Leader of the "Chromosome Segregation in Disease Lab" at the Algarve Biomedical Center – Research Institute (ABC-RI) since March 2022. From 2016 to 2020, Sara completed her postdoctoral research at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal), funded by an ERC Starting Grant and FCT, under the supervision of Dr. Raquel Oliveira. She remained as an external researcher of Dr. Oliveira until 2022. In September 2020, she joined the University of Algarve as an independent researcher in the group of Dr. Pedro Castelo Branco. Works in the area(s) of Natural Sciences, with emphasis on Biological Sciences and Medical and Health Sciences, particularly in Human Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Neurobiology. Research focus includes Chromosome Dynamics, Genome Stability, and Disease Modelling using Stem Cells, with applications in Rare Diseases, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Ageing. In their professional activities interacted with 55 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers, and worked in four different countries, grasping different science environments and multicultural perspectives. She has published 17 publications and is the first author of 6 original research articles in Q1 of her field, Cell and Molecular Biology, one as the corresponding author and one published in a special collection of outstanding articles about cell biology of chromosome organisation and segregation. Her later article, Carvalhal et al. 2022 was highly shared across mass media. She has published 4 Conference Abstracts and 14 Posters, being 11 as the first author. She has been selected to give talks at 7 International Scientific meetings (including the highly prestigious international conference cell-cycle conferences in Roscoff) and invited to give 8 invited seminars. Sara also organised several meetings/events (a total of 13 including the 2023 regional FENS at Algarve) and has enrolled in leadership positions by representing her community at the PhD and undergrad studies (PhD representative, PhD committee, and Undergrad student committee) and currently on the institutional seminars and tours open to lay audience. She has contributed to the development of science education by supervising 1 PhD (on-going), 7 undergrad students, and 5 Master's students (one as co-) since 2020. She was also the main arguer of 4 Master's theses, 3 undergraduate theses, as well as a lab demonstrator at 2 modules of Biological Sciences students at the University of Dundee, 2020 virtual Summer school at Gulbenkian Science Institute for over 90 students and invited speaker for lectures and to teach at curricular units at the University of Algarve. Sara has been involved in several outreach and science communication activities (+17). Furthermore, she has been involved in peer-reviewing several articles in journals in the field, first with her supervisors during her PhD and postdoc and now by herself. Has received 12 awards and/or honours - Sara was awarded the prestigious EMBO Short Term Fellowship, a BBSRC PhD Studentship, and an FCT PhD Fellowship. In addition, Sara has been recognized for her successful accomplishments during her PhD with the best poster and best image at the University of Dundee out of 200+ participants. As a PI, she was also awarded an FCT CEEC Ind to secure her salary as an independent researcher until 2026. In addition, she received the prestigious Maratona da Saúde 2022 award (a single award for the Junior category) and an Exp FCT project(2023). She was one of the recipients of the 2022 L'Oréal Portugal Honor Medals for Women in Science and received an exploratory project (competitive call) awarded in 2021 by AD-ABC. In addition, she is Co-PI of an ongoing project, a team member in two ongoing research projects, was a PhD student fellow in two projects, a postdoctoral fellow in two others, and has served as PI in five projects.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Isabel Guerra Carvalhal Bandarra

Citation names

  • Carvalhal, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C511-8A34-30BE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6004-3286

Addresses

  • ABC-RI, University of Algarve, Ed2, Edf.2 – Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina , 8005-139, Gambelas, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Human Genetics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/01 - 2020/06
Concluded
 STARTUP Research (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Innovation, soft and entrepreneurship skills applied to Life Science
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2012/01/12 - 2016/02/03
Concluded
 PhD in Life Science (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Life Science
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
"Characterisation of ALADIN’s function during cell division" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Honourable (Max Grade)
2008/09/01 - 2010/11/26
Concluded
 Bioquímica Médica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Estudo da proteína humana centrossomal TBCCD1 em condições de stress oxidativo causadas por H2O2 em estado estacionário" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2005/09/01 - 2008/10/15
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 14/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/03/08 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
2020/09/15 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Visiting Researcher (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016/01/15 - 2020/09/15 Postdoc (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012/01/15 - 2015/12/31 Researcher (Research) University of Dundee College of Life Sciences, United Kingdom
2015/01/21 - 2015/04/21 Visiting Researcher (Research) Herzzentrum Dresden GmbH Universitätsklinik an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany
2013/07/01 - 2013/08/03 Visiting Researcher (Research) Herzzentrum Dresden GmbH Universitätsklinik an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany
2012/11/12 - 2012/12/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Herzzentrum Dresden GmbH Universitätsklinik an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany
2011/05/16 - 2011/11/15 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidad de Cantabria - Facultad de Medicina, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03 - Current neuRARE - Development of a pipeline into unravelling the molecular and cellular basis of rare neurologic diseases
João Larguito by ABC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Algarve Algarve Biomedical Center, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/03 - Current Study of BUB1 in neurodevelopment: identification of new functions
2022.01028.PTDC
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01 - Current NON-INVASIVE APPROACH TO LIMIT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IN MAMMALIAN EMBRYOS IN UTERO
Mariano Gago by ABC
Team member
Ongoing
2022/06 - Current Explore the mechanisms behind neurodegenerative rare disorders - is mitosis on the aetiology of these diseases?
Principal investigator
Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
 Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina
Ongoing
2021/12 - Current Unraveling the contribution of mitotic failure in rare syndromes with microcephaly susceptibility.
Principal investigator
Universidade do Algarve Algarve Biomedical Center, Portugal
 Maratona da Saúde
Ongoing
2016/01 - 2020/09 Chromosome Architecture and the Fidelity of Mitosis during Development
ERC-2014-StG-638917
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Research Executive Agency
Concluded
2012/01/15 - 2015/12/31 Regulation of myosin II filament assembly and stabilisation, localization and cortical anchoring
090064/Z/09/Z
PhD Student Fellow
Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
 Wellcome Trust
Concluded
2011/05/11 - 2011/11/15 CENTROSOME-3D Consortium funded project
C3D CSD2006-23
Researcher
Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Economía y Empresa

Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/09 - Current QUANTITATIVE COHESIN AND MITOTIC FIDELITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COHESINOPATHIES
CEECIND/03721/2018
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Estudo do BUB1 em neurodesenvolvimento: identificação de novas funções
10.54499/2022.01028.PTDC
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2015/01/21 - 2015/04/21 Study of ALADIN meiotic function in female mouse oocytes
EMBO ASTF 521-2014
PhD Student Fellow
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
 EMBO Press
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Carvalhal, Sara; Koehler, K ; Huebner, A; Griffis, E. R.. "The Nucleoporin ALADIN is Essential for Proper Mitotic Spindle Formation.". Paper presented in ASCB/IFCB Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
    Published
  2. Carvalhal, S.; Geng, Y.; Huebner, A.; Koehler, K.; Jessberger, R.; Griffis, E. R.. "The Nucleoporin ALADIN is Essential for Proper Force Balancing Within Mitotic and Meiotic Spindles.". Paper presented in ASCB/IFCB Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2013.
    Published
  3. Carvalhal, S.I .; Geng, Y.; Huebner, A.; Kohler, K.; Jessberger, R.; Griffis, E. R.. "The Nucleoporin ALADIN is Essential for Proper Force Balancing Within Mitotic and Meiotic Spindles.". Paper presented in 2013 ASCB/IFCB Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2013.
    Published
  4. Carvalhal, S.; Arocena, M.; Griffis, E. R.. "The nucleoporin ALADIN is essential for proper mitotic and meiotic spindle function.". Paper presented in ASCB meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
    Published • 10.1142/9789814447089_0020
Conference poster
  1. Jorge, Xavier; Milagre, Inês ; Ferreira, Anita; Calado, Sofia ; Oliveira, Raquel; Carvalhal, Sara. "Common mechanistic pathways in rare congenital syndromes with primary microcephaly". Paper presented in 27th Annual Meeting - Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana, 2023.
  2. Jorge, Xavier; Oliveira, Raquel A; Carvalhal, Sara. "New clues on the etiology of the Warsaw Breakage Syndrome". Paper presented in ABC-RI ORGANIZES ¿AGEING WITHOUT BORDERS¿, 2022.
  3. "Biallelic BUB1 mutations cause microcephaly, developmental delay and variable effects on cohesion and chromosome segregation". Paper presented in SALK virtual-2021-cell-cycle-meeting, 2021.
  4. Carvalhal, Sara. "Mutations in the gene BUB1 cause a novel syndrome". Paper presented in 24TH Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics, 2020.
  5. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "A quantitative analysis of cohesin decay in mitotic fidelity.". Paper presented in 2018 Portuguese Drosophila Meeting, 2018.
  6. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "The role of centromeric chromatin forces on mitotic fidelity.". Paper presented in 2017 Portuguese Drosophila Meeting, 2017.
  7. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "A quantitative understanding of mild sister chromatid cohesion defects in the fidelity of chromosome segregation.". Paper presented in 2016 Portuguese Drosophila Meeting, 2016.
  8. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "A quantitative understanding of mild sister chromatid cohesion defects in the fidelity of chromosome segregation.". Paper presented in 9th EMBO Young Scientists' Forum, 2016.
  9. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "The Nucleoporin ALADIN is Essential for Proper Mitotic Spindle Formation. ALADIN regulates Aurora A localization". Paper presented in 2014 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, 2014.
  10. Carvalhal, Sara; et al.. "The Nucleoporin ALADIN is Essential for Proper Force Balancing Within Mitotic and Meiotic Spindles.". Paper presented in 2013 ASCB Annual Meeting, 2013.
  11. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "ALADIN is essential for proper mitotic and meiotic spindle function.". Paper presented in EMBO Conference on Meiosis., 2013.
  12. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "The nucleoporin ALADIN is essential for proper mitotic and meiotic spindle function.". Paper presented in 2012 American Society for Cell Biology meeting, 2012.
  13. CARVALHAL, SARA; et al.. "Uncovering the role of TBCCD1 in the centrosome-nucleus connection.". Paper presented in EMBO Conference on Centrosomes and Spindle Pole Bodies, 2011.
  14. Gonçalves, J.; Tavares, A.; CARVALHAL, S; et al.. "TBCCD1 a key protein in the centrosome-nucleus connection is spread through the phylogenetic tree of life.". Paper presented in 2010 annual ASCB meeting, 2010.
  15. Gonçalves, J.; Tavares, A.; CARVALHAL, S; et al.. "Human TBCCD1 is a key protein in the centrosome-nucleus connection. Why do acentrosomal organisms have it?". Paper presented in The Centrosome: Structure, Function and Dynamics Meeting, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Anita; Calado, Sofia M.; Jorge, Xavier; de Lange, Job; Carvalhal, Sara. "Generation and characterization of two isogenic induced pluripotent stem cell lines from a young female with microcephaly carrying a compound heterozygous mutation in BUB1 gene". Stem Cell Research 81 (2024): 103594. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2024.103594.
    10.1016/j.scr.2024.103594
  2. Sara Carvalhal; Ingrid Bader; Martin A. Rooimans; Anneke B. Oostra; Jesper A. Balk; René G. Feichtinger; Christine Beichler; et al. "Biallelic BUB1 mutations cause microcephaly, developmental delay, and variable effects on cohesion and chromosome segregation". Science Advances (2022): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk0114.
    10.1126/sciadv.abk0114
  3. CARVALHAL, SARA; Tavares, Alexandra; Santos, Mariana B.; Mirkovic, Mihailo; Oliveira, Raquel A.. "A quantitative analysis of cohesin decay in mitotic fidelity". The Journal of Cell Biology 217 10 (2018): 3343-3353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201801111.
    Open access • Published • 10.1083/jcb.201801111
  4. CARVALHAL, SARA; Stevense, M.; Koehler, K.; Naumann, R.; Huebner, A.; Jessberger, R.; Griffis, E.R.. "ALADIN is required for the production of fertile mouse oocytes". Molecular Biology of the Cell 28 19 (2017): 2470-2478. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029547337&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1091/mbc.E16-03-0158
  5. Ortmann, B.; Bensaddek, D.; CARVALHAL, S; Moser, S.C.; Mudie, S.; Griffis, E.R.; Swedlow, J.R.; Lamond, A.I.; Rocha, S.. "CDK-dependent phosphorylation of PHD1 on serine 130 alters its substrate preference in cells". Journal of Cell Science 129 1 (2016): 191-205. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84959020534&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1242/jcs.179911
  6. CARVALHAL, S; Ribeiro, S.A.; Arocena, M.; Kasciukovic, T.; Temme, A.; Koehler, K.; Huebner, A.; Griffis, E.R.. "The nucleoporin ALADIN regulates Aurora A localization to ensure robust mitotic spindle formation". Molecular Biology of the Cell 26 19 (2015): 3424-3438. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84943190275&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Open access • Published • 10.1091/mbc.E15-02-0113
  7. Gonçalves, J.; Tavares, A.; CARVALHAL, S; Soares, H.. "Revisiting the tubulin folding pathway: New roles in centrosomes and cilia". Biomolecular Concepts 1 5-6 (2010): 423-434. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84893656068&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1515/bmc.2010.033
Magazine article
  1. Jorge, Xavier; Carvalhal, Sara. "Identificação e caracterização dos dois primeiros doentes com mutações bialélicas no gene BUB1", UALGoritmo A Ciência trocada por miúdos, 2022, https://ualgoritmo.wixsite.com/website/c%C3%B3pia-u4-2a3.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Bandarra, Sara. "Characterisation of ALADIN’s function during cell division". PhD, University of Dundee, 2016. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/characterisation-of-aladins-function-during-cell-division.
  2. Bandarra, Sara. "Estudo da proteína humana centrossomal TBCCD1 em condições de stress oxidativo causadas por H202 em estado estacionário". Master, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5364.

Other

Other output
  1. Celebrating 10 years of Athena SWAN Charter advancing women in science. Guest post at PLOS Blog (currently PLOS ECR Community Blog). 2015. Carvalhal, Sara. https://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2015/06/12/athenaswan/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/11 How chromosome segregation contributes to the aetiology of rare syndrome. INVITED TALK ABC-RI International Forum Series. 2022 Fall International Forum: Tackling the burden of RARE DISEASES
ABC-RI (Portugal)
2022/10 BUB1, an oncogene, an tumour suppressor. Now, a novel biomarker of developmental rare syndromes associated with microcephaly¿. SELECTED TALK ABC Days - Aging Challenges
ABC-RI (Portugal)
2022/03 The first two patients with BUB1 gene mutations - a new cohesinopathy? INVITED TALK Seminar at NWZ Alkmaar (Grupo Hospitalar Northwest)
Martijn Bruijn (Netherlands)
2021/03/02 Biallelic mutations in BUB1 cause microcephaly and variable effects on cohesion and chromosome segregation. SELECTED TALK Cell Cycle Club meeting
Rob de Bruin, Peter Thorpe and John Diffley (London, United Kingdom)
2021/02/23 Biallelic mutations in BUB1 cause microcephaly and variable effects on cohesion and chromosome segregation. INVITED TALK Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Seminars
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
2020/11/06 Biallelic mutations in BUB1 define a novel syndrome with constitutional aneuploidy. INVITED TALK CBMINARS
University of Algarve - CBMR (FARO, Portugal)
2019/09/27 The Tale of a Ring: Cohesin in mitosis wonderland. INVITED TALK CBMINARS
University of Algarve - CBMR (FARO, Portugal)
2019/04/08 A quantitative analysis of cohesin decay in mitotic fidelity. SELECTED TALK. Conferérences Jacques-Monod : Mitotic and meiotic cell cycle control and execution
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale - Inserm (Roscoff, France)
2015/04/20 ALADIN, a tale of two divisions – ALADIN is required for proper mitotic and meiotic spindle formation SELECTED TALK British Microtubule Meeting
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2014/06/14 The relation between Triple A syndrome and mitosis. SELECTED TALK 5th PiCLS Annual Symposium
PhD Students in the College of Life Science, University of Dundee (Dundee, United Kingdom)
2014/04/25 ALADIN, a tale of two divisions – ALADIN is required for proper mitotic and meiotic spindle formation.SELECTED TALK British Meiosis Meeting
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/11 - Current Climate change in cancer incidence.
Supervisor
2023/04 - 2025/03 Study of BUB1 functions in the neurodevelopment
Supervisor
 Ciências Biomédicas (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/03 Frequency and distribution of chromosome segregation errors in Triple-A syndrome
Supervisor
 Lab Rotation - MSc in Biomedical Research (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/10 - 2023/03 The molecular mechanisms underlining erroneous segregation on WABS
Supervisor of Xavier Jorge
 ONCOBIOLOGIA - MECANISMOS MOLECULARES DO CANCRO (Master)
Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/01 Demonstrating a role of Paxillin in Adherens Junction strengthening and in premalignant to malignant progression. Supervisor by Dr. Florence Janody, i3s, Portugal
Co-supervisor
 Master traning in Master Oncology, UALG (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/09/13 - 2020/09/13 Supervisor of MSc in Biochemistry for Health dissertation work from FCT-UNL. Co-supervisor by Raquel Oliveira, IGC, Portugal. Salma is under the scholarship Global Platform for Syrian Students.
Supervisor
 MSc in Biochemistry for Health (Master)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/05 - Current FENS Regional Meeting 2023, 2nd biggest event from FENS, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (2023/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023/04 - Current Outreach Activity: Tours at ABC-RI designed for lay public and key partners. https://abcri.pt/news/experience-the-abc-ri-first-hand-on-one-of-our-abc-ri-tours/ (2023/04)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
2021/11 - Current Main organizer of ABC-RI International Forum since 2021. Currently organising the 4th Edition. Over 125 registrations in each edition. (2021/11)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/12 - 2022/12 Ageing without borders - “With]Out[Borders” series launched by the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) (2022/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/10 - 2022/10 Outreach activity: institutional stand (ABC-RI) at FIC.A, the Festival internacional de Ciência 2022 (2022/11)
Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/10 - 2022/10 ABC Days - Aging Challenges, an event for the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science of Univ. Algarve, CHUA, the University of Algarve Hospital and ABC-RI. https://abcmedicalg.pt/en/noticia/102 (2022/10)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/02 - 2022/02 MIND THE GAP IN RARE DISEASES - Sara organised and moderated an informal and dynamic conversation open to all on World Rare Disease Day, aiming to enhance awareness and collaboration between scientists, rare disease associations, and clinicians. Speakers: Dr. Maria João Leão, Coordinator of the Ciência + Cidadã program, and Dr. Célia Azevedo Soares, Medical Geneticist, shared insights, fostering a closer connection between researchers and individuals affected by rare diseases. Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Algarve. (2022/02 - 2022/02)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)
 Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
2014/11/10 - 2014/11/10 College of Life Science Open Doors Day 2014. I organised the kids' corner activities of this day. (2014/11/10)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2014/11/07 - 2014/11/07 2014 Annual Retreat Centre for Gene Expression and Regulation, University of Dundee, UK. Held at Piperdam. (2014/11/07 - 2014/11/07)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Dundee College of Life Sciences, United Kingdom
2013/11/08 - 2013/11/08 2013 Annual Retreat Centre for Gene Expression and Regulation, University of Dundee, UK. Held at Piperdam. (2013/11/08 - 2013/11/08)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2013/10/25 - 2013/10/25 PiCLS Annual Lecture with Prof. Mariano Barbacid from Molecular Oncology Programme, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain. University of Dundee, UK. (2013/10/25 - 2013/10/25)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013/09/07 - 2013/09/08 Annual Retreat of PhD Student in College of Life Science , University of Dundee held at Ardroy outdoor activity center, UK. (2013/09/07 - 2013/09/08)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2012/11/02 - 2012/11/02 2012 Annual Retreat Centre for Gene Expression and Regulation, University of Dundee, UK. Held at Piperdam. (2012/11/02 - 2012/11/02)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/10 - Current Outreach activity: Scientific speed dating at 19th International Congress of Developmental Biology for high students from Algarve region
Other
 19th International Congress of Developmental Biology
2023/03/30 - 2023/03/30 Outreach activity: Lecture to AES Silves High School under the protocol "A CIÊNCIA EM cada um de NÓS: a SAÚDE e o MAR".
Conference
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/01 Outreach activity: Lecture to Silves high school students in PT: A estabilidade dos cromossomas
Seminar
2021/03/25 - 2021/03/25 INVITED SPEAKER to share my experiment as a supervisor of Syrian master student. Side event to the Brussels V Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region - HIGHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS SETTINGS MATTERS LISTENING TO SYRIAN VOICES AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS. Powered by www.globalplatformforsyrianstudents.org
Conference
 Side event to the Brussels V Conference on “Supporting the future of Syria and the region” - HIGHER EDUCATION IN CRISIS SETTINGS MATTERS – LISTENING TO SYRIAN VOICES AND OTHER TESTIMONIALS.
2020/12 - 2021/03 INVITED to Group Leaders Meeting (By invitation only) - Aneuploidy and CIN Zoom forum - in remembrance of Angelika Amon
Conference
 Aneuploidy and CIN Zoom forum - in remembrance of Angelika Amon - Group Leaders Meeting (By invitation only)
2019/02 - 2019/02 Round table for Research done abroad - Dia dos Mestrados em Ciências 2019, FCUL.
Round table
 Dia dos Mestrados em Ciências 2019
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Portugal
2018/12/17 - 2018/12/17 Job Shadowing | Scientist for a day. A High school student spends a day with a scientist. Christmas break
Other
 Job Shadowing | Scientist for a day
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/04/06 - 2018/04/06 Job Shadowing | Scientist for a day. A High school student spends a day with a scientist. Easter break.
Other
 Job Shadowing | Scientist for a day
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017 - 2017/09/29 2017 European Researchers' Night at Pavilhão do Cohencimento, Lisbon
Other
 2017 European Researchers' Night
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2016/10/01 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day. Microscopy tours.
Other
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Open Day.

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/03 LZTS2: a novel regulator of centrosomal proteins
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Andreia Soares (Other)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2023/01 O impacto de alterações moleculares na função dos centrossomas e na progressão do Esófago de Barrett
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Miguel Pereira (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/07 Um estudo por RNAi da ação do gene Sgt1 em células humanas
(Thesis) Arguer
 Bruna Isabel Dos Santos Oliveira (Other)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/07 Impacto do silenciamento de proteínas do complexo STRIPAK no checkpoint mitótico
(Thesis) Arguer
 Bruno Condessa Varandas (Other)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020/12 Functional Studies on Zeb Transcription Factors in Glioblastoma
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Nuno Miguel Mendes Ferreira Ramalho Biomedical Sciences (Master)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/06 - Current Bio-protocol Peer Review Board

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/04 - Current Member and chair of the committee for tours at ABC-RI designed for lay public and key partners.
Coordinator
 Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute , Portugal
2012/01/15 - 2014/12/31 Annual Divisional Retreat for the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, UK.
Member
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2012/10/01 - 2014/03/15 Divisional PhD Representative in the Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, UK. I represented all the students in my division and took part in the monthly strategic Division's meetings.
Advisor / Consultant
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2012/11/01 - 2013/11/01 PhD Students' Association Committee in the College of Life Sciences (PiCLS) at the University of Dundee. Organisation of Monthly Social Events, PhD student Retreat, Annual Lecture and be the voice of PhD Students for the University Dean.
Member
 University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2005/09/01 - 2008/10/15 Biochemistry Undergraduate Student Committee. Organise schedules, classes and be the voice of the students at University meetings.
Member
 Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Psicologia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021/09 - Current Institutional Seminars at ABC-RI, International Foruns and Mariano Gago Leture Algarve Biomedical Center - Research Institute
2023/11 - 2023/11 External collaborator of the SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE of 27th Annual Meeting SPGH (Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana). Coordinator: António Sebastião Rodrigues. Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética Humana
2023/11 - 2023/11 Scientific Committee of ESN-ISN Neurochemistry School 2023, PT. ESN-ISN, Clévio Nóbrega
2022 - 2022/12 Ageing WITHOUT BORDERS - Portuguese Society Stem Cells and Cellular Therapy
2022/10 - 2022/10 ABC Days - Aging Challenges
2013/05/17 - 2013/05/17 4th PiCLS Symposium 2013 University of Dundee

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/10 - Current Invited lecture on topic: Cell cycle in Stem Cells (2 hours). Module 17161001 (regente José Bragança) Msc in Oncobiology and Biomedical Science. University of Algarve, PT. Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2023/06 - 2023/06 Teacher of Oncolab 2 [19181009], Msc in Oncobiology, University of Algarve, PT. 13 hours. Tissue Culture and Microscopy Modules. Oncobiologia - Mecanismos Moleculares do Cancro (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/12 Tutor at Ciências Básicas e Clínicas 1 - MEDICINE (Mestrado Integrado) (1916), Univ. Algarve. Used Problem-based learning (PBL). MEDICINA (Mestrado Integrado) (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/06 - 2022/06 Module on Microscopy in ONCOLAB II Teacher of Oncolab 2 [19181009], Msc in Oncobiology, University of Algarve, PT. 8 hours. Oncobiologia - Mecanismos Moleculares do Cancro (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021/12 - 2022/01 Regente (teacher in charge of a subject) of Oncolab 1 [17161005], Msc in Oncobiology, University of Algarve, PT. Oncobiologia - Mecanismos Moleculares do Cancro (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020/11 - 2020/11 Online class for high school students. Seminar of Cell division. (Ensino secundário) Agrupamento de Escolas de Vila Flor, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/07 Virtual IGC Undergraduate Summer School 2020 (Licenciatura) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2013/12/01 - 2013/12/15 Lab Demonstrator in pratical session Bacterial Genetics Biological Sciences (Licence) University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2013/01/01 - 2013/01/31 Lab Demonstrator in pratical session DNA Module part 1 and 2 Biomedical Science (Licence) University of Dundee, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/01/14 UAlgzine shares updates on the University of Algarve's scientific, academic, and cultural activities. The January 2024 issue focuses on Research and Development Units, where Sara was interviewed as a younger researcher in ABC-Ri. UALGzine
2023/03 Sara is featured in the 2023 edition of the book "Women in Science," released on International Women's Day, March 8th. The book showcases over 101 portraits of female researchers from diverse generations and fields of scientific knowledge.
2022/05 Interviewed in "Leges Artis" in the Ordem dos Médicos de Portugal's magazine (May 2022). Full article on Sara Carvalhal research. Ordem dos Médicos de Portugal's magazine
2022 Media coverage of L'Oréal Portugal Medal of Honor included interviews with Público, Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, Lusa. Público, Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, and Lusa
2022 Article Carvalhal et al 2022 @ Science Advances featured in . Publico . Jornal de Notícias . Observador . Correio da Manhã . Sic Notícias Online . National Geographic . TSF (radio interview with Sara Carvalhal) . RTP1 . Radio Observador

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/01/22 - 2022/01/22 TSF (national radio interview) - Opening line 8am news. Interview about reserach paper Carvalhal et al 2022
2021/10/30 - 2021/10/30 Radio interview to the program 'Os dias do Futuro' Interview about my Maratona da Saúde award
2021/10/29 - 2021/10/29 RTP1 (State financed broadcaste) at the program A tarde é nossa | Maratona da Saúde special program| To receive Maratona da Saúde award and speak about the objective of this project

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Guest Editor - Molecular Mechanisms of Cilia Related Diseases Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2017/07/01 - 2017/09/15 2017 - Técnico Summer Internships- Quantification of GFP-Rad21WT by live imaging of different fly strains. - Nina Roothans
2014/09/01 - 2015/01/31 Studies of ALADIN in the context of ciliogenisis. Rachel Yee
2012/06/01 - 2012/08/28 2012 Summer School - Studies of Ferritin in the context of mitosis. Aïsha Schofield

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/12/19 - 2022/12/20 Member of the jury evaluating PhD students presentation during "Jornadas do programa doutoral em Ciências Biomédicas" from Univ. Algarve Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022/04 - 2022/04 Member of the jury evaluating MEEting 2022 (https://www.ualg.pt/meeting-2022) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 Prize "João Larguito by ABC" - Development of a pipeline into unravelling the molecular and cellular basis of rare neurologic diseases
Universidade do Algarve Algarve Biomedical Center, Portugal
2021 Maratona da Saúde Award | Junior Category| Rare syndrome
Maratona da Saúde, Portugal
2021 2021 L'Oréal Portugal Honor Medals for Women in Science
Fondation L'Oréal, France
2019 CEEC-Ind 2018 | Salary position for 6 years
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 Scholarship to enroll START UP Research post graduation by Camâra Municipal de Oeiras & Oeiras Valley
Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
2015 Best Image Winner using ImSol equipment
University of Dundee - School of Life Sciences, United Kingdom
2014 EMBO Short Term Fellowship
2013 Best Poster Prize
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
2011 FCT PhD Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 BBSRC PhD Studentship
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2019 SELECTED for Career Guidance Programme. Mentorship provided by Melina Schuh (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016 International Competion Procedure for the contracting ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Researcher
European Research Council, Belgium