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Catarina Leitão is a Biologist with a Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Catarina completed her Biology degree at the University of Aveiro in 2016, after a nine months curricular internship in Spain under the Erasmus+ programme, which was achieved in collaboration with the Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas. In 2018, Catarina also completed her Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, with a thesis entitled "Impact of an astrocytic pathology on hippocampal memory" in Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, at University of Coimbra. Catarina participated in three poster and oral presentations in national and international conferences. In 2019, Catarina joined iBiMED (Institute of Biomedicine) in Aveiro, as a research fellow under Doctor Bruno Neves's supervision. Currently, she is a PhD student in Biomedicine at the University of Aveiro and she is developing her PhD project under the supervision of Doctor Teresa Herdeiro, Doctor Margarida Fardilha and Doctor Fátima Roque (IPG). The project “Impact of the nutritional state and inflammation of Prostate Cancer” aims to identify the relationship between lifestyle and inflammation in order to better understand which factors can lead to prostate cancer development and progression and consequently, search and establishment of novel tools that can complement the use of PSA screening. This will allow the identification of men at highest risk of developing aggressive disease, which is imperative to prevent lethal prostate cancer and prevent the unnecessary treatment of men that may never develop serious symptoms.
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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Catarina Isabel Moreira Leitão

Nomes de citação

  • Leitão, Catarina

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
9C15-E6EA-7091
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1262-0453

Telefones

Telemóvel
  • 915468330 (Pessoal)

Moradas

  • Av. Repatriamento dos Poveiros, nº489 6ºAK, 4490-404, Póvoa de Varzim, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal (Pessoal)

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências Naturais - Ciências Biológicas - Biologia Celular

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador independente (B2) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1) Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador independente (B1) Utilizador elementar (A2) Utilizador independente (B2)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2021/04 - 2025
Em curso
 Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2016/09/12 - 2018/09/07
Concluído
 Cellular and Molecular Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
"Impact of an astrocytic pathology on hippocampal memory" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 17
2012/09/10 - 2016/06/15
Concluído
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Influence of the skin microbial community in the sensitivity of tadpoles of Pelophylax perezi to metals" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
 16
2015/10/05 - 2016/06/10
Concluído
 Internship in Erasmus+ program, at Brain Protein Malfunction laboratory (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, Espanha
"Generation and preliminary characterization of recombinant prions with a myristoyl GPI anchor mimic" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2014/05/10 - 2014/06/21
Concluído
 7th Edition of the Introduction to Forensic Sciences Course (Outros)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Percurso profissional

Outros

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento 		Empregador
2020/08/10 - 2021/01 Bolseira /Técnica Superior no Apoio ao Reforço de Emergência de Equipamentos Sociais e de Saúde -049/MAREES (Rastreio Covid-19) Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2019/04/17 - 2020/01/16 Research Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/09/07 Master's Thesis, at Neuromodulation group; Grade: 18/20 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2015/10/05 - 2016/06/10 Internship in Erasmus+ program, at Brain Protein Malfunction laboratory; Grade: 20/20 Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, Espanha
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2019/04/17 - 2020/01/16 Endoplasmic reticulum stress in dendritic cells and macrophages' immunobiology
UID/BIM/04501/2019
Bolseiro de Investigação
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
 Universidade de Aveiro
Concluído

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 CNC. IBILI
UID/NEU/04539/2019
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Catarina Leitão; Marta Estrela; Luís Monteiro; Margarida Fardilha; Herdeiro MT; Fátima Roque. "Health Professionals’ Perceptions about Prostate Cancer—A Focus Group Study". Cancers (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/16/17/3005.
    10.3390/cancers16173005
  2. Marta Estrela; Catarina Leitão; Tânia Magalhães Silva; Adolfo Figueiras; Fátima Roque; Maria Teresa Herdeiro. "Insights on COVID-19 Vaccination in Portugal: A Qualitative Study among Health Professionals and Teachers". Vaccines (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10121984.
    10.3390/vaccines10121984
  3. Catarina Leitão; Bárbara Matos; Fátima Roque; Maria Teresa Herdeiro; Margarida Fardilha. "The Impact of Lifestyle on Prostate Cancer: A Road to the Discovery of New Biomarkers". Journal of Clinical Medicine 11 10 (2022): 2925-2925. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11102925.
    10.3390/jcm11102925
  4. Catarina Leitão; Anna Mignano; Marta Estrela; Margarida Fardilha; Adolfo Figueiras; Fátima Roque; Maria Teresa Herdeiro. "The Effect of Nutrition on Aging—A Systematic Review Focusing on Aging-Related Biomarkers". Nutrients (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14030554.
    10.3390/nu14030554
  5. Pereira, Marlene F.; Amaral, Inês M.; Lopes, Cátia; Leitão, Catarina; Madeira, Daniela; Lopes, João P.; Gonçalves, Francisco Q.; et al. "L-a-aminoadipate causes astrocyte pathology with negative impact on mouse hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory". The FASEB Journal 35 8 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.202100336r.
    Publicado • 10.1096/fj.202100336r
  6. Calmeiro, João; Mendes, Luís; Duarte, Iola F.; Leitão, Catarina; Tavares, Adriana R.; Ferreira, Daniel Alexandre; Gomes, Célia; et al. "In-Depth Analysis of the Impact of Different Serum-Free Media on the Production of Clinical Grade Dendritic Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy". Frontiers in Immunology 11 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.593363.
    Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3389/fimmu.2020.593363
Poster em conferência
  1. Roque, Maria de Fátima dos Santos Marques; Fardilha, Margarida; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa. "Health professionals’ perceptions about lifestyle role in prostate cancer – a focus group study ". Trabalho apresentado em Encontro Ciência 2023, 2023.
  2. Leitão, Catarina; Roque, Maria de Fátima dos Santos Marques; Fardilha, M.; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa. Autor correspondente: Leitão, Catarina. "Exploring general population's perceptions on lifestyle and prostate cancer - a systematic review protocol". Trabalho apresentado em VI iBiMED Symposium - From fundamental research to clinical practice, 2023.
  3. Leitão, Catarina; Roque, Maria de Fátima dos Santos Marques; Fardilha, M.; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa. Autor correspondente: Leitão, Catarina. "Exploring general population's perceptions on lifestyle and prostate cancer - a systematic review". Trabalho apresentado em VI iBiMED Symposium - From fundamental research to clinical practice, 2023.
  4. Leitão, Catarina; Fardilha, Margarida; Fátima Roque; Herdeiro, Maria Teresa. "Prostate cancer, lifestyle, and inflammation: how are they related?". Trabalho apresentado em Scientific Advisory Board visit, 2022.
  5. Pereira, Malene; Amaral, Inês; Lopes, João; Lopes, Cátia; Leitão, Catarina; Cunha, Rodrigo A.; Agostinho, Paula. "Pharmacological approaches to imping astrocytic function: impact on mouse Hippocampal LTP". Trabalho apresentado em 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Berlin, 2018.
  6. Leitão, Catarina; Amaral, Inês; Pereira, Marlene; Cunha, Rodrigo A.; Agostinho, Paula. "Astrocyte pathology is sufficient to trigger hippocampal synaptic dysfunction and memory loss in mice". Trabalho apresentado em III Symposium of Portuguese Glial Network, 2018.
Tese / Dissertação
  1. Leitão, Catarina. "Leitão, Catarina. 2018. "Impact of an astrocytic pathology on hippocampal memory". Dissertação de Mestrado". Mestrado, 2018.
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2018/02/06 7.1. - Intracerebroventricular administration of a gliotoxin impairs hippocampal synaptic function and memory XLVIII Meeting of Portuguese Society of Pharmacology
Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia (SPF) (Lisboa, Portugal)

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento 		Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2020/08/10 - Atual Logistics (Samples reception and cleaning); Processing (virus inactivation and automatic RNA extraction with Chemagic360 extractor; RT-qPCR for the detection of SARS-CoV-2
Outro
 Apoio ao Reforço de Emergência de Equipamentos Sociais e de Saúde -04/MAREESS/20
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2019/06/27 - 2019/06/27 V Post-Graduate Symposium in Biomedicine - Aveiro, Portugal: PhD students shared their research results and ideas, opened discussions about recent achievements and the latest technical research advancements and concepts.
Simpósio
 V Post-Graduate Symposium in Biomedicine
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2018/05/18 - 2018/05/18 III Symposium of the Portuguese Glial Network - Porto, Portugal: Gather and sharing information abou glial cells' studies
Simpósio
 III Symposium of the Portuguese Glial Network
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2018/02/05 - 2018/02/07 XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology - Lisboa, Portugal: Scientific discussion on experimental and clinical pharmacological and toxicological research
Encontro
 XLVIII Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology, XXXVI Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and XVII Meeting of Toxicology
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016/11/18 - 2016/11/19 1st International Symposium Brain With]Out[Borders - Coimbra, Portugal: Researchers promote discussion on fundamental and translational research in stem cell biology applied to the central nervous system
Simpósio
 1st International Symposium Brain With]Out[Borders (2016) - Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/03/18 - 2016/03/22 XIX National Meeting of Biology Students - Coimbra, Portugal Several cientists are invited to talk about their area of expertise and on the last day, students have a workshop of their choice: "Synaptosomes as models of presynaptic dysfunction in brain pathologies - the role of the mitochondria".
Encontro
 XIX National Meeting of Biology Students
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/12/01 - 2015/12/02 4th lberian Congress on Prions - Lisbon: - prion structure and biology; - prion diseases in animals; - prion diseases and prion-like diseases in humans
Congresso
 4th lberian Congress on Prions
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
2015/03/27 - 2015/03/31 XVIII National Meeting of Biology Students - Braga, Portugal: Several cientists are invited to talk about their area of expertise and on the last day, students have a workshop of their choice: "New perspectives in the study of hair - biological foundations and applications"
Encontro
 XVIII National Meeting of Biology Students
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2014/04/12 - 2014/04/15 XVII National Meeting of Biology Students - Faro, Portugal: Several cientists are invited to talk about their area of expertise and on the last day, students have a workshop of their choice: "Evolutionary Biology";
Encontro
 XVII National Meeting of Biology Students (2014) - Faro, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2013/03/23 - 2013/03/26 XVI National Meeting of Biology Students - Vila Real, Portugal: Several cientists are invited to talk about their area of expertise and on the last day, students have a workshop of their choice: "Orientation and Survival"
Encontro
 XVI National Meeting of Biology Students - Vila Real
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2018 - Atual Portuguese Glial Network