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Sara Duarte Pereira. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Bioquímica em 2009 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Análises Clínicas e Saúde Pública em 2004 pelo(a) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde. Publicou 7 artigos em revistas especializadas. Recebeu 1 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Doutoramento em 1 projeto(s) e Bolseiro de Investigação em 1 projeto(s). No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Biological Sciences - Proteins and Structural Biology; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Duarte Pereira

Citation names

  • Duarte-Pereira, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E519-EACC-96EA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5244-068X

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/12/01 - 2022/05/27
Concluded
 Biomedicina (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Study of NAPRT gene expression, function and regulation in cancer and non-pathological conditions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2009
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Epigenetic and functional characterization of OPCML gene in urothelial bladder carcinoma" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2004
Concluded
 Análises Clínicas e Saúde Pública (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
"Estudo comparativo de métodos em citometria de fluxo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/05/01 - 2013/07/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/02/24 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2024/02/19 - 2024/07/31 Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/12/01 - 2022/05/27 Aluno do Programa Doutoral de Biomedicina / bolseiro de doutoramento da FCT Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2009/12/31 Aluno de mestrado / Estagiário Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil Centro de Investigação, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2009/12/31 Aluno de Mestrado Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2005/01/01 - 2007/11/01 Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica Centro de Genética Médica Doutor Jacinto Magalhães, Portugal
2003/07/01 - 2004/11/01 Estagiário / Aluno Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2015/12/01 - 2021/09/30 NADnet: exploring the NAD regulatory networks in Health and Disease
SFRH/BD/108890/2015
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2010/05/01 - 2013/07 CO-EVOLUTIONARY STUDY OF NAD BIOCHEMICAL NETWORKS
PTDC/BIA-PRO/099888/2008
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Sara Duarte-Pereira; Sérgio Matos; José Luís Oliveira; Raquel M. Silva. "The NAD Interactome, Identification of Putative New NAD-Binding Proteins". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-17024-9_5
Conference abstract
  1. Duarte-Pereira, Sara. "Analysis of NAPRT genetic variants and gene expression in tumors". Paper presented in 22nd Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics, 2019.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Duarte-Pereira, Sara. "Analysis of post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms unravels NAPRT new roles". Paper presented in VIII National RNA Meeting: ptRNA2019, 2019.
  2. Duarte-Pereira, Sara. "eQTL analysis of the NAPRT locus". Paper presented in 18th meeting Portugaliae Genetica, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Olga Fajarda; João Rafael Almeida; Sara Duarte-Pereira; Raquel M. Silva; José Luís Oliveira. "Methodology to identify a gene expression signature by merging microarray datasets". Computers in Biology and Medicine (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106867.
    10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106867
  2. Neves, Diogo; Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Matos, Sérgio; Silva, Raquel M.. "Proteostasis networks in aging: novel insights from text-mining approaches". Biogerontology (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10522-023-10027-0.
    10.1007/s10522-023-10027-0
  3. Sara Duarte-Pereira; Sérgio Matos; José Luís Oliveira; Raquel M. Silva. "Study of NAD-interacting proteins highlights the extent of NAD regulatory roles in the cell and its potential as a therapeutic target". Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2022-0049.
    10.1515/jib-2022-0049
  4. Sara Duarte-Pereira; Olga Fajarda; Sérgio Matos; José Luís Oliveira; Raquel Monteiro Silva. "NAPRT Expression Regulation Mechanisms: Novel Functions Predicted by a Bioinformatics Approach". Genes (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12122022.
    10.3390/genes12122022
  5. Pereira, Filipe; Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Silva, Raquel M.; da Costa, Luís Teixeira; Pereira-Castro, Isabel. "Evolution of the NET (NocA, Nlz, Elbow, TLP-1) protein family in metazoans: insights from expression data and phylogenetic analysis". Scientific Reports 6 1 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38383.
    10.1038/srep38383
  6. Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Pereira-Castro, Isabel; Silva, Sarah S.; Correia, Mariana Gonçalves; Neto, Célia; da Costa, Luís Teixeira; Amorim, António; Silva, Raquel M.. "Extensive regulation of nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase (NAPRT) expression in human tissues and tumors". Oncotarget 7 2 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.6538.
    10.18632/oncotarget.6538
  7. Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Silva, Sarah S.; Azevedo, Luísa; Castro, Luísa; Amorim, António; Silva, Raquel M.. "NAMPT and NAPRT1: novel polymorphisms and distribution of variants between normal tissues and tumor samples". Scientific Reports 4 1 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06311.
    10.1038/srep06311
  8. Carneiro, João; Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Azevedo, Luísa; Castro, L. Filipe C.; Aguiar, Paulo; Moreira, Irina S.; Amorim, António; Silva, Raquel M.. "The Evolutionary Portrait of Metazoan NAD Salvage". PLoS ONE 8 5 (2013): e64674. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064674.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0064674
  9. Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Paiva, Filipa; Costa, Vera Lúcia; Ramalho-Carvalho, João; Savva-Bordalo, Joana; Rodrigues, Ângelo; Ribeiro, Franclim Ricardo; et al. "Prognostic value of opioid binding protein/cell adhesion molecule-like promoter methylation in bladder carcinoma". European Journal of Cancer 47 7 (2011): 1106-1114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2010.12.025.
    10.1016/j.ejca.2010.12.025
  10. Paiva, Filipa; Duarte-Pereira, Sara; Costa, Vera Lúcia; Ramalho-Carvalho, João; Patrício, Patrícia; Ribeiro, Franclim Ricardo; Lobo, Francisco; et al. "Functional and Epigenetic Characterization of the KRT19 Gene in Renal Cell Neoplasms". DNA and Cell Biology 30 2 (2011): 85-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/dna.2010.1108.
    10.1089/dna.2010.1108
  11. Costa, V. L.; Henrique, R.; Danielsen, S. A.; Duarte-Pereira, S.; Eknaes, M.; Skotheim, R. I.; Rodrigues, A.; et al. "Three Epigenetic Biomarkers, GDF15, TMEFF2, and VIM, Accurately Predict Bladder Cancer from DNA-Based Analyses of Urine Samples". Clinical Cancer Research 16 23 (2010): 5842-5851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-1312.
    10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-10-1312
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/01/06 Bioinformatics approaches in the study of gene expression, function and regulation. invited speaker in “Bioestatística e Bioinformática aplicadas à Saúde”,
Luísa Castro, Escola Superior de Saúde, IPP (Porto, Portugal)
2022/07/14 The NAD interactome - Identification of putative new NAD-binding proteins. 16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB)
(L'Aquila, Italy)
2021/07/08 NAPRT gene (de)regulation in cancer and beyond. Research Summit 2021
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2020/06/25 NAPRT expression and regulation in cancer. Research Summit 2020
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - Current NAD-related enzymes in endometriosis
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02/24 - Current Engenharia Genética Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
2024/02/19 - 2024/07/31 Engenharia Genética Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2018 Prémio de melhor poster
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal