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Torcato Meira completed Medicine and obtained his PhD degree, in 2019, at University of Minho (research work developed in Siegelbaum laboratory, at Columbia University). He concluded the postgraduate program PCSRT at Harvard Medical School. He is now an Assistant Professor at School of Medicine of University of Minho, a Principal Investigator at the associated laboratory ICVS and a Neuroradiology Resident at Hospital de Braga. He published 7 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
TORCATO DUARTE NOVO MEIRA

Citation names

  • MEIRA, TORCATO

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C51E-67C8-69C8
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8582-0336

Email addresses

  • torcatomeira@med.uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 967306899 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua da Calçada, N.23, 4925-344, Cardielos, Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Clinical Neurology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English
Education
Degree Classification
2020/02 - 2022/02
Concluded
 Portugal Clinical Scholars Research Training (Postgraduate Certificate)
Harvard Medical School, United States
2019/07
Concluded
 Medicine (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Neuronal activity of the hippocampal CA2 area during social memory recall or exploration of novel conspecifics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/01
Concluded
 PhD in Medicine (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"The role of the hippocampal CA2 area in social memory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01 - 2021/12 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/12 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/12 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01 - Current Neuroradiology Resident Doctor Hospital de Braga, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020/12 General Internship Doctor Hospital de Braga, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01 - Current Social memory and its neural correlates in multiple sclerosis
EXPL/MEC-NEU/0888/2021
Principal investigator
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. MEIRA, TORCATO. "Coding of social novelty in the hippocampal CA2 region and its disruption and rescue in a 22q11.2 microdeletion mouse model". Nature Neuroscience (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-00720-5.
    10.1038/s41593-020-00720-5
  2. MEIRA, TORCATO. "Phospholipase D1 Ablation Disrupts Mouse Longitudinal Hippocampal Axis Organization and Functioning.". Cell reports (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.102.
    10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.102
  3. Leroy F; Park J; Asok A; Brann DH; Meira T; Boyle LM; Buss EW; Kandel ER; Siegelbaum SA. "A circuit from hippocampal CA2 to lateral septum disinhibits social aggression.". Nature (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30518859.
    10.1038/s41586-018-0772-0
  4. Meira T; Leroy F; Buss EW; Oliva A; Park J; Siegelbaum SA. "A hippocampal circuit linking dorsal CA2 to ventral CA1 critical for social memory dynamics.". Nature communications (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30301899.
    10.1038/s41467-018-06501-w
  5. Vaz-Silva J; Gomes P; Jin Q; Zhu M; Zhuravleva V; Quintremil S; Meira T; et al. "Endolysosomal degradation of Tau and its role in glucocorticoid-driven hippocampal malfunction.". The EMBO journal (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30166454.
    10.15252/embj.201899084
  6. Dunn M; Boltaev U; Beskow A; Pampou S; Realubit R; Meira T; Silva JV; et al. "Identification of Fluorescent Small Molecule Compounds for Synaptic Labeling by Image-Based, High-Content Screening.". ACS chemical neuroscience (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29215865.
    10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00263
  7. MEIRA, TORCATO. "Input-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampal CA2 Region and Its Potential Role in Social Memory.". Neuron (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28823730.
    10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.036
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Meira, Torcato Duarte Novo. "The role of the hippocampal CA2 area in social memory". PhD, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/60422.
Distinctions

Award

2022 Top original work in the postgraduate program PCSRT
Harvard Medical School, United States
2021 Top project proposal in in the postgraduate program PCSRT
Harvard Medical School, United States
2021 Orlando Leitão
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia, Portugal
2021 SPN2021 Scholarship
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, Portugal
2021 Paulo Mendo
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurorradiologia, Portugal
2020 Highest grade in the final year of Medical School
Universidade do Minho, Portugal