Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa (3C10-D522-F278)

Curriculum Vitae

Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa

Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa graduated in Biology from the University of Coimbra in 2006 and completed a PhD degree in Biology from the same University in 2012. During his PhD he studied neuronal cell death mechanisms and inflammation at the origin of Diabetic Retinopathy. After concluding his PhD he dedicated his postdoctoral scientific career to the study of Neurosciences, particularly in vision and cognition. From 2013 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI) and Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, under suppervision of Professor Miguel Castelo-Branco. During this time he has collaborated with international researchers, including a stay at the Brain Imaging Centre (BIC), Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany under supervision of Prof. Michael Wibral. In 2019 Gabriel was granted a position as a junior Researcher at ICNAS, developing work on human neurophysiology, including EEG, MEG and ECoG, as well as in visual neuroscience and cognition. His main interests are visual perception, particularly the study of mechanisms used by the brain to solve ambiguity in the visual world. He has studied non-invasive electrophysiology in humans and explored connectivity measures to asses communication between distant brain areas. Gabriel Costa is co-author of 14 original publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He has an h-index of 6 and his works have been citated 219 (Web of Sciences; h-factor = 6 and over 293 citations in Google Scholar). He has also contributed as a reviewer for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing group) and Health and Technology (Springer). During his time as a postgraduate researcher he has supervised 1 master's thesis and 1 undergraduate student project, co-supervised 1 master student and mentored several trainee and master student's laboratory rotations. He has also lectured and taught pratical classes for the Neuronal Circuits and Behavior course of the Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, at the University of Coimbra.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa

Nomes de citação

Costa, Gabriel N

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 3C10-D522-F278
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9630-1155
Google Scholar ID: 4bHLbzEAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id: 26535701000

Domínios de atuação

Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Medicina Básica - Neurociências
Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia
Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Celular

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Japonês	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)	Utilizador elementar (A1)
Inglês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2007/01/02 - 2012/06/14 Concluído	PhD in Biology, specialization in Cell Biology (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "The role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in diabetic retinoapthy: contribution to the early neuronal cell death" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Distinction with Honours (Excellent)
2008/09/01 - 2008/09/12 Concluído	Course in Laboratory Animal Science (Pós-Graduação) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2006 Concluído	Bsc in Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "NA" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	17

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2019 - Atual	Investigador Contratado (Investigação)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
2013/06/01 - 2018/12/27	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal

2007/01/01 - 2012/06/14	Investigador (Investigação)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2005/10/03 - 2006/07/31	Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

2003/11/03 - 2004/07/31	Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2017/01 - 2018/12/28	BIGDATIMAGE – From computational modelling and clinical research to the development of neuroimaging big data platforms for discovery of novel biomarker CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER- 000016 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento CNC.IBILI, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluído
2015/07 - 2017/06	Multidisciplinar research on neuroscience of health and disease UID/NEU/04539/2013 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento CNC.IBILI, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluído
2013/06 - 2015/06	From molecules to man: novel diagnostic imaging tools in neurological and psychiatric disorders Centro-07-ST24-FEDER-002005 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal CNC.IBILI, Portugal	Concluído
2007/01 - 2010/12	The role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in diabetic retinopathy: contribution to the early neuronal cell death SFHR/BD/31802/2006 Bolseiro de Doutoramento Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2018/10 - Atual	BIOMUSCLE - Novel multimodal imaging biomarkers of neuronal connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis. CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-031973 Investigador Pós-doutorado Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Em curso
2017/01/01 - 2021	Transcranial brain stimulation as innovative therapy for chronic pediatric neuropsychiatric disorder – STIPED info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/731827/EU Investigador Pós-doutorado Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	European Commission Em curso
2016 - 2019	Synaptic networks and Personalized Medicine Approaches to Understand Neurobehavioral Diseases Across the Lifespan - MEDPERSYS POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016428) Investigador Pós-doutorado Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Em curso
2007/01/01 - 2008/08/31	ATP and diabetic retinopathy: role on microglia regulation and on neuronal cell death info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/POCI/59003/PT Investigador Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Costa, Gabriel N. "A Fundamental Distinction in Early Neural Processing of Implicit Social Interpretation in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder". Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (2021): MedRxiv pre-preint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.08.21253057. Acesso aberto • Em revisão Teresa Sousa; João V. Duarte; Gabriel N. Costa; Valentin G. Kemper; Ricardo Martins; Rainer Goebel; Miguel Castelo-Branco. "The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT + reflect both input properties and perceptual decision". Human Brain Mapping (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25339. 10.1002/hbm.25339 Alexandre Sayal; Teresa Sousa; João V. Duarte; Gabriel N. Costa; Ricardo Martins; Miguel Castelo-Branco. "Identification of competing neural mechanisms underlying positive and negative perceptual hysteresis in the human visual system". NeuroImage 221 (2020): 117153-117153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117153. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117153 Costa, Gabriel N. "Morphometry and gyrification in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: A comparative MRI study.". NeuroImage. Clinical (2020): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7063231. 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102220 Sousa, Teresa; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Kemper, Valentin G.; Martins, Ricardo; Goebel, Rainer; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Tracking perceptual decision mechanisms through changes in interhemispheric functional connectivity in human visual cortex". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37822-x. Publicado • 10.1038/s41598-018-37822-x Sousa, T.; Sayal, A.; Duarte, J.V.; Costa, G.N.; Martins, R.; Castelo-Branco, M.. "Evidence for distinct levels of neural adaptation to both coherent and incoherently moving visual surfaces in visual area hMT+". NeuroImage 179 (2018): 540-547. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049431568&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.075 Costa, Gabriel. "Interhemispheric visual binding is associated with changes in beta power but not with gamma range synchrony.". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2017): https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01158. 10.1162/jocn_a_01158 João Valente Duarte; Gabriel Nascimento Costa; Ricardo Martins; Miguel Castelo-Branco. "Pivotal role of hMT+ in long-range disambiguation of interhemispheric bistable surface motion". Human Brain Mapping 38 10 (2017): 4882-4897. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23701. 10.1002/hbm.23701 Silva, G.; Ribeiro, M.J.; Costa, G.N.; Violante, I.; Ramos, F.; Saraiva, J.; Castelo-Branco, M.. "Peripheral attentional targets under covert attention lead to paradoxically enhanced alpha desynchronization in neurofibromatosis type 1". PLoS ONE 11 2 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84978803749&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0148600 Vindeirinho, J.; Costa, G.N.; Correia, M.B.; Cavadas, C.; Santos, P.F.. "Effect of Diabetes/Hyperglycemia on the Rat Retinal Adenosinergic System". PLoS ONE 8 6 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879548830&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1371/journal.pone.0067499 Inácio, A.S.; Costa, G.N.; Domingues, N.S.; Santos, M.S.; Moreno, A.J.M.; Vaz, W.L.C.; Vieiraa, O.V.. "Mitochondrial dysfunction is the focus of quaternary ammonium surfactant toxicity to mammalian epithelial cells". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 57 6 (2013): 2631-2639. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877862108&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Publicado • 10.1128/AAC.02437-12 Costa, G.N.; Vindeirinho, J.; Cavadas, C.; Ambrósio, A.F.; Santos, P.F.. "Contribution of TNF receptor 1 to retinal neural cell death induced by elevated glucose". Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience 50 1 (2012): 113-123. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860624256&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Publicado • 10.1016/j.mcn.2012.04.003 Pereira, T.d.O.S.; da Costa, G.N.F.; Santiago, A.R.S.; Ambrósio, A.F.; dos Santos, P.F.M.. "High glucose enhances intracellular Ca2+ responses triggered by purinergic stimulation in retinal neurons and microglia". Brain Research 1316 (2010): 129-138. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-75349097992&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Publicado • 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.12.034 Carreira, B.P.; Morte, M.I.; Inácio, Â.; Costa, G.; Rosmaninho-Salgado, J.; Agasse, F.; Carmo, A.; et al. "Nitric oxide stimulates the proliferation of neural stem cells bypassing the epidermal growth factor receptor". Stem Cells 28 7 (2010): 1219-1230. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77954821915&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/stem.444 Costa, G.; Pereira, T.; Neto, A.M.; Cristóvão, A.J.; Ambrósio, A.F.; Santos, P.F.. "High glucose changes extracellular adenosine triphosphate levels in rat retinal cultures". Journal of Neuroscience Research 87 6 (2009): 1375-1380. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-65549152426&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/jnr.21956
Poster em conferência	Costa, Gabriel N; Michael Schaum; João Valente Duarte; Ricardo Filipe Alves Martins; João Castelhano; Michael Wibral; Miguel Castelo-Branco. "Distinct roles of beta and gamma oscillations during integration of ambiguous motion". Trabalho apresentado em FENS Regional Meeting, 2019. Gabriel Nascimento Costa; João Valente Duarte; Ricardo Filipe Alves Martins; Mighel Castelo-Branco. "Beta oscillations reflect perceptual experience under ambiguous stimulation but not in the absence of conflict". Trabalho apresentado em International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017. Costa, Gabriel N; João Valente Duarte; Ricardo Filipe Alves Martins; Miguel Castelo-Branco. "Binding of ambiguous visual stimuli is associated with changes in beta power but not with synchrony". Trabalho apresentado em Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, 2016. Costa, Gabriel N. "Increased synchrony correlates with visual binding: a study on visual integration on healthy subjects and schizophrenic patients.". Trabalho apresentado em Annual Conference Joint Meeting of ECNS, ISNIP and ISBET, 2015. Costa, Gabriel N. "Perceptual motion integration correlates with long-range neural synchrony: a study on the temporal binding hypothesis". Trabalho apresentado em VI Annual IBILI Meeting, 2014. Costa, Gabriel N. "Contribution of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 to early cell death in Diabetic Retinopathy."". Trabalho apresentado em 11th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Costa, Gabriel N. "High Glucose affects the [Ca2+]i changes induced by purinergic receptor activation in retinal cells.". Trabalho apresentado em 9th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, 2007.
Tese / Dissertação	Costa, Gabriel N. "The role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in diabetic retinopathy: contribution to the early neuronal cell death". Doutoramento, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/20292.

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2017/07/06	Beta oscillations during motion integration and segmentation: evidence of binding or perceptual bias?	7th Iberian Congress on Perception (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/12	Visual binding: how brain oscillations shape perception.	VII Annual IBILI meeting Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2009/12/20	Contribution of Tumor Necrosis Factor-a and Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 in the early Diabetic Retinopathy	VII Annual Meeting of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (Cantanhede, Portugal)
2009/12/04	On the role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-a and Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 in the early Diabetic Retinopathy	XL meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology Portuguese Society of Pharmacology (Porto, Portugal)
2008/03/06	Increase in ATP release by retinal cells in high-glucose conditions: insights on the early onset of diabetic retinopathy	ENINET PhD Symposium (Berlin, Alemanha)

Orientação

	Título / Tema Papel desempenhado	Curso (Tipo) Instituição / Organização
2019/08 - 2020/03	Thesis: Brain signals of perceptual inference: the role of oscillations in interpreting ambiguous stimuli Orientador de Manuel da Silva Santos	Msc in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2018/03/23 - 2018/03/23	Biomedical Research Post-Doctoral Forum @UC: Overcoming challenges in scientific careers (2018/03/23) Conferência (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07	7th Iberian Congress on Perception (2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07) Congresso (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Participação em evento

	Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento	Nome do evento Instituição / Organização
2019/07/10 - 2019/07/13	Poster presentation at the FENS Regional Meeting 2019, Belgrade, Serbia Encontro	FENS Regional Meeting 2019, Belgrade
2017/08/05 - 2017/08/08	Poster presentation at the International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands Conferência	13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience
2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07	7th Iberian Congress on Perception, Coimbra, Portugal Congresso	7th Iberian Congress on Perception
2016/06/26 - 2016/06/30	Poster Presentation at the Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland Encontro	Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting OHBM 2016
2015/12/03 - 2015/12/04	Oral communication at the VII Annual IBILI Meeting, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Encontro	VII Annual IBILI Meeting
2015/09/09 - 2015/09/13	Poster presentation at the Neurophysiology Conference, Munich, Germany, September 9-13th 2015 Conferência	Annual Conference Joint Meeting of ECNS, ISNIP and ISBET, Munich Neurophysiology Conference, Munich, Germany
2013/09/16 - 2013/09/18	EEG and fMRI Analysis with EEGLAB and SPM Summer School 2013, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany, September 16-18th 2013 Oficina (workshop)	EEG and fMRI Analysis with EEGLAB and SPM Summer School 2013
2009/12/21 - 2009/12/22	Oral communication at the VII Annual Meeting of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Cantanhede, Portugal Encontro	VII Annual Meeting of the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
2009/12/02 - 2009/12/04	Oral communication at the XL meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology, Porto, Portugal Encontro	XL meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology
2009/06/04 - 2009/06/06	Poster presentation at the 11th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, Braga, Portugal Encontro	11th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
2008/03/06 - 2008/03/08	Oral communication at the 1st ENINET PhD Symposium, Berlin, Germany Conferência	1st ENINET PhD Symposium
2007/05/23 - 2007/05/26	Poster presentation at the 10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences. Ofir, Portugal Encontro	10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences.

Júri de grau académico

	Tema Tipo de participação	Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau) Instituição / Organização
2020/12/17	Thesis: Cell-type specificity of cortico-cortical connections between the visual and retrosplenial cortices of the mouse Arguente principal	Ana Beatriz Simões Sá e Moura (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em revista

	Nome da revista (ISSN)	Editora
2020 - Atual	Health and Technology (2190-7196)	Springer-Verlag
2019 - Atual	Scientific Reports (2045-2322)	Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2020/11/23 - 2020/12/18	Neuronal Circuits and Behaviour	Msc in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2019/11/25 - 2019/12/20	Neuronal Circuits and Behaviour	Msc in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2018/11/26 - 2018/12/20	Neuronal Circuits and Behaviour	Master in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2011 - 2011	Eating disorders and metabolic diseases	Master's degree in Cell Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Eating disorders and metabolic diseases	Master's Degree in Cell Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2008 - 2008	Eating disorders and metabolic diseases	Master's degree in Cell Biology (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização))	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

	Programa	Tema
2013 - 2014	Singularidades, Radio Universidade	Science, Brain Research and its myths

Outro júri / avaliação

	Descrição da atividade	Instituição / Organização
2019 - 2019	Graduate Women in Science (GWIS), GWIS National Fellowships Program, 2018-2019 edition
2018 - 2018	2nd BEB/Bluepharma Award, for support and incentive of young researchers, in partnership with the Doctoral Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2017/07/31 - 2017/07/31	Jury of the Thesis Project Proposal of the PhD candidate Carla Cavaleiro - PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Tutoria

	Tópico	Nome do aluno
2021/01/04 - 2021/01/31	Msc in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience. Project: Methods in human non-invasive electrophysiology: EEG	Vasco Saúl de Faria
2021/01/04 - 2021/01/25	Msc In Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Methods in psychophysics and visual perception	Beatrix Teixeira
2021/01/04 - 2021/01/25	Msc In Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Methods in psychophysics and visual perception	Guilherme Lopes Gabriel Praça Jerónimo
2020/01/06 - 2020/01/30	Msc In Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Methods in human brain imaging: MRI	Valentina Tiriticco
2019/02/25 - 2019/03/22	Msc in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Visual neurosciences: mechanisms of figure disambigution	Mariana Muga
2019/01/25 - 2019/02/22	Msc in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Methods in human non-invasive electrophysiology: EEG	Maria Gueidão Costa
2019/01/07 - 2019/01/15	Methods in human brain imaging: MRI	Simone Attanasio
2013/09 - 2014/09	Time-frequency and coherence based studies of the neural correlates of visual perception	Gilberto Miguel Ribeiro Silva
2014/05 - 2014/07	Undergraduate student project - Seminar in Neurobiology 1	Isabella Boux
2014/05/01 - 2014/05/31	Msc in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Project: Methods in human non-invasive electrophysiology: EEG	Isabella Boux

Distinções

Outra distinção

2019	FENS Regional Meeting 2019 Travel Grant
2014	Prize for the best poster in Vision at the VI Annual IBILI meeting CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2006	Prémio anual Avelar Brotero para o melhor estudante de Biologia licenciado pela Universidade de Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2006	FCT PhD Fellowship (SFHR/BD/31802/2006) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal