Telmo Mota Leal (E91E-7BE4-FD2B)

Curriculum Vitae

Telmo Mota Leal

Since October 2024, Telmo Mota Leal has been a PhD Student at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry (University of Coimbra), and a master´s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of Coimbra). He is very interested in the fields of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, with a particular interest on interactions between synaptic proteins. Currently, Telmo is studying a newly found mechanism that regulates neuronal excitability. His work has been presented in national and international conferences in the form of 2 scientific posters and 1 oral communication. He has been selected to participate in 3 internships during his academic career and received 3 scholarships from Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia and from Fundació la Marató de TV3. Telmo is the co-author of a scientific publication to be released later in the year of 2025. He has also participated in 3 national conferences and is an avid enthusiast of science communication, being a member from 2021 to 2023 of a Junior Enterprise directed to transmitting science to high school students. During this time there, he also organized 2 scientific communication events destined to high schools students. Telmo is a highly capable scientist that aims his work to gathering new evidence on how neuronal excitability can be regulated in terms of disease.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Telmo Mota Leal

Citation names

Leal, Telmo
Telmo M. Leal

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: E91E-7BE4-FD2B
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-4724-7878

Email addresses

tleal@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
telmoleal00@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/telmo-leal/ (Social media)

Languages

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

Education

	Degree	Classification
2024/10 - 2028/10 Ongoing	Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina (Doutoramento) Major in Neurociência Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2021/09 - 2023/09 Concluded	Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "TARPs in the regulation of M-channel function and neuronal excitability" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2018/09 - 2021/07 Concluded	Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01 - 2022/03	Internship at Ana Luísa Carvalho´s Group	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/07	Internship at Joana Gonçalves´s Group	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
2020/09 - 2020/10	Internship at João Peça´s Group	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/10 - 2028/10	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Scholarship 2024.00985.BD.	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024/01 - 2024/10	ScalingASD - Homeostatic plasticity defects in autism: insight from human mutations in the CNTNAP2 gene IT137-23-401 Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	Fundació la Marató de TV3 Ongoing
2022/08 - 2022/10	The role of Cx43 in the regulation of nuclear translocation of YAP in response to mechanical cues IT137-22-062 Scientific Initiation Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Leal, Telmo; Ventura Rodrigues, Marina; Inácio, Ângela S.; Virginia Soldovieri, Maria; Gouveia, Raquel; Moreira, Irina S; Taglialatela, Maurizio; Carvalho, Ana Luisa. "The Stargazin-Kv7.2 complex as a regulator of neuronal excitability". Paper presented in Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences, 2025.
Leal, Telmo; Ventura Rodrigues, Marina; Inácio, Ângela S.; Virginia Soldovieri, Maria; Gouveia, Raquel; Moreira, Irina S; Taglialatela, Maurizio; Carvalho, Ana Luisa. "The Stargazin-Kv7.2 complex as a regulator of neuronal excitability". Paper presented in FENS Regional Meeting, 2025.
Leal, Telmo; Ventura Rodrigues, Marina; Inácio, Ângela S.; Carvalho, Ana Luisa. "TARPs in the regulation of M-channel function and neuronal excitability". Paper presented in AIMS Meeting, 2024.
Ventura Rodrigues, Marina; Inácio, Ângela S.; Leal, Telmo; Ribau, Sara; Virginia Soldovieri, Maria; Beltrão, Nuno; Ferreira, Joana S; Taglialatela, Maurizio; Carvalho, Ana Luisa. Corresponding author: Carvalho, Ana Luisa. "Type 1 transmembrane AMPA-receptor regulatory proteins are auxiliary subunits of kv7.2 voltage-gated potassium channels". Paper presented in 2nd Kv7 Symposium, Naples, Italy, 2023, 2023.

Journal article

Ventura Rodrigues, Marina; Inácio, Ângela S.; Virginia Soldovieri, Maria; Bauberg, Théo; Leal, Telmo; Ribau, Sara; Amado, Luísa; et al. "Type I TARPs regulate Kv7.2 potassium channels and susceptibility to seizures". (2024):

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09	Selected talk - Type 1 transmembrane AMPA-receptor regulatory proteins are auxiliary subunits of kv7.2 voltage-gated potassium channels	2nd Kv7 Symposium, Naples, Italy, 2023 (Italy)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/04 - 2023/04	Escola Molecular - Scientific communication event organized by members of JE Molecular, destined to high school students (2023/04 - 2023/04) Other (Co-organisor)
2022/04 - 2022/04	Escola Molecular - Scientific communication event organized by members of JE Molecular, destined to high school students (2022/04 - 2022/04) Other (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019	Olimpíadas Universitárias de Bioquímica - Event to gather the best Biochemistry students in the country (2019 - 2019) Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/10/18 - 2023/10/22	AstraZeneca Foundation Innovate Competition of the iMed Conference® 15.0 - a basic and translational research competition aimed at undergraduate and Master´s students in the Life Sciences field to present an original scientific research project. Call	iMed Conference® 15.0 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA Medical School, Portugal
2019/12/05 - 2019/12/07	Microbiology and Biotechnology Meeting Conference	Microbiotec´ 19 Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024/09 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociência
2021/09 - 2023/09	Molecular Junior Enterprise	Colaborador

Distinctions

Award

2018	Honours scholarship by High School of Lousada Oeste
2017	Honours scholarship by High School of Lousada Oeste
2016	Honours scholarship by High School of Lousada Oeste