Carolina Duarte de Freitas (0119-44F4-DD10)

Curriculum Vitae

Carolina Duarte de Freitas

Carolina Duarte de Freitas completed her degree in Biology in 2012 from the University of Lisbon and her MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine in 2014 from the Universidade Nova of Lisbon. She completed her PhD in Biology in 2019 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and stayed one more year working at the same institute as a post-doctoral researcher. She has published 6 articles in specialized journals and has received 3 awards. She works in the area of Biological Sciences with a focus on Microbiology and has made oral and poster presentations at several conferences and scientific meetings. She was a member of the PhD representatives at the Max Planck Institute in Marburg in 2018 and 2019. She has organized 6 events and participated in 15. She actively provided supervision and mentoring to three students and has been involved in various scientific outreach activities.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Carolina Duarte de Freitas

Citation names

Freitas, Carolina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0119-44F4-DD10
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3226-2908

Email addresses

duarte@mpi-marburg.mpg.de (Professional)

Addresses

Bankstrasse 73, 40476, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
German	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2015/10/01 - 2019/09/24 Concluded	Biology (Doktor (PhD)) Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany "Characterization of swarm-colony development reveals the release of a distinct cell type facilitating dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Magna cum laude/very good (1)
2012/09 - 2014/06 Concluded	Genética Molecular e Biomedicina (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal "Polyphosphorylation of a structural component of Bacillus subtilis spore" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2009/09 - 2012/06 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Major in Biologia molecular e genética Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/10/01 - 2020/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

2015/10/01 - 2019/09/30	Researcher (Research)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

2014/11 - 2015/07	Research Trainee (Research)	Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2014/09 - 2014/10	Researcher (Research)	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

2012/09 - 2014/09	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Shankar Iyer; Freitas, Carolina; Glatter, Timo; Ringgaard, Simon. "Environmental and differentiation state-specific resistance mechanisms and adaptive responses of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to antibiotic treatment". The ISME Journal (2021):
Under revision
Freitas, Carolina; Planninc, J; Isticato, R; Pelosi, A; Zilhao, R; Serrano, M; Baccigalupi, L; et al. "A protein phosphorylation module patterns the Bacillus subtilis spore outer coat". Molecular Microbiology 114 (2020): 934-951. https://doi/10.1111/mmi.14562.
Published
Freitas, Carolina. "Specific proteomic adaptation to distinct environments in Vibrio parahaemolyticus includes significant fluctuations in expression of essential proteins". Environmental Microbiology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14997.
Published • 10.1111/1462-2920.14997
Freitas, Carolina; Glatter, Timo; Ringgaard, Simon. "The release of a distinct cell type from swarm colonies facilitates dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the environment". The ISME Journal (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0521-x.
Published • 10.1038/s41396-019-0521-x
Fernandes , Catarina; Martins, Diogo; Hernandez, Guillem; Freitas, Carolina; Tranfield, Erin M; Cordeiro, T; Serrano, M; Moran, Charles; Henriques, A. O.. "Temporal and spatial regulation of protein cross-linking by the pre-assembled substrates of a Bacillus subtilis spore coat transglutaminase". PLOS Genetics (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007912.
Published • 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007912
Nunes, Filipa; Fernandes, CG; Freitas, Carolina; Marini, E; Serrano, M; Moran, Charles; Eichenberger; Henriques, A. O.. "SpoVID functions as a non-competitive hub that connects the modules for assembly of the inner and outer spore coat layers in Bacillus subtilis". Molecular Microbiology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi.14116.
Published • 10.1111/mmi.14116
Muraleedharan Samada; Freitas, Carolina; Ringgaard, Simon. "A cell length-dependent transition in MinD-dynamics promotes a switch in division-site placement and preservation of proliferating elongated Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarmer cells". Molecular Microbiology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi.13996.
Published • 10.1111/mmi.13996

Online resource

Freitas, Carolina. Adventurer cell : a distinct cell-type that facilitates dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. 2019. https://go.nature.com/2JCMkIU.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/11	The release of a distinct cell type from swarm colonies facilitates dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus (1 min research pitch).	N2 conference (Berlin, Germany)
2019/10	The release of a distinct cell type from swarm colonies facilitates dissemination of Vibrio parahaemolyticus	Ecophysiology department seminar
2019/04	Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony	It Ma(t)Ter(s) conference (Marburg)
2018/10	Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony	IMPRS retreat International Max Planck Research School in Environmental, Cellular and Molecular Microbiology (Hirschegg)
2018/02	Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony	Graduate students Mini-symposium
2014/03	My working experience as a biologist and the professional opportunities open by the Molecular Biology and Genetics Biology course	Presentation to a high school class from “Salesianos do Estoril” (Estoril)
2014/02	Poly-phosphorylation of a structural component of the surface of Bacillus subtilis spore	III Jornadas Intercalares das Dissertações Anuais dos Mestrados (Lisbon)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/01 - 2020/08	Identification and characterization of interactions partners of a kinase in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Co-supervisor of Patrick Broescky (Master student)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2017/09 - 2018/09	Chromosomal Segregation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus in swimming and swarming cells Co-supervisor of Karoline Snethlage (Bachelor student)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2016/09 - 2017/09	Characterization of penicillin-binding proteins during swarming of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Co-supervisor of Barbara Ritzl (Master student)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/10 - 2019/10	Co-organization of the MPI retreat. I helped to prepare a panel discussion session, as well as social activities for the retreat of our institute, with about 200 participants (2019/10 - 2019/10) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2019/10 - 2019/10	Organization of the screening of two videos about mental health and distribution of informative flyers (all provided by the PhDnet Group) during the Mental Health Awareness Week of 2019 (2019/10 - 2019/10)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2019/04/03 - 2019/04/04	Organization of a 2-day conference titled “It Ma(t)Ter(s)”. The meeting was aimed at doctoral students from MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology and from MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, to learn about the research performed at both institutes and to establish new collaborations. There were oral presentations, poster session, internal and external keynote speakers as well as best-poster and best-oral presentation prize. https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/505684/It-Matters (2019/04/03) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2018/10 - 2018/11	Organization of two Adobe Illustrator workshops for scientists (15 participants each), lecturer by Dr. Thomas Splettstößer, biologist and scientific illustrator (2018/10) Workshop (Other)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2018/10/25 - 2018/10/25	Co-organization – with the Post-doc representatives - of the 3rd Career Day at the MPI institute with invited speakers who work on either industry- or science- related jobs. (2018/10/25 - 2018/10/25) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2018/09/14 - 2018/09/14	Contribution to the "Max Planck Day". I guided lab tours to different high school classes and explained how some of our laboratory equipment works. In a gathering meeting, later that day, I answered to all their science-related questions. (2018/09/14 - 2018/09/14) Exhibition (Other)	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/05	Workshop Leadership for women with Dr. Lisa Steinhauser (coach). This workshop was designed for female academics who want to learn about self-leadership as well as leading a team. The workshop was divided into theoretical lessons and practical exercises both alone and in the group Workshop	Leadership for women
2019/11 - 2019/11	Grant writing workshop with Dr. Prof. Artemis Alexiadou Workshop	Grant writing N2 Conference, Germany
2019/11 - 2019/11	Discussion panel - Sustainability in the laboratories. We discussed which measures, that are environmental friendly and feasible, can be implement in our institute Round table	Max Planck Institute Retreat
2019/09 - 2019/09	Workshop to learn ways to analyse and present scientific data , with the programming language Python. Lecturered by Theodor Sperlea, PhD student supervised by Prof. Dr. Dominik Heider Workshop	Introduction to Python Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2019/01 - 2019/01	Presentation of poster entitled "Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony" in an international conference in New Orleans, USA Conference	Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (XV BLAST)
2018/04 - 2018/04	Presentation of ePoster entitled "Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony" Conference	Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM) , Germany
2018/03 - 2018/03	Presentation of poster entitled "Architecture of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony" Conference	Spatiotemporal organization of bacterial cells conference Transregio Collaborative Research Center TRR 174, Germany
2018/03 - 2018/03	Participation in discussion groups : "Transition from PhD to Postdoc position"	Spatiotemporal organization of bacterial cell Transregio Collaborative Research Center TRR 174, Germany
2017/11 - 2017/11	Adobe Illustrator workshop to learn how to use and explore the software in order to design scientific illustrations. Lectured by Dr. Anncharlott Berglar from Mediomix Company Workshop	Adobe Illustrator workshop Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2017/10 - 2017/10	Introduction to Data Analysis using MATLAB programming language, with Dr. Hannes Link Workshop	Introduction to Data Analysis using MATLAB Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany
2017/10 - 2017/10	Presentation of poster entitled "Cell differentiation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony", in a retreat in Rehe, Germany Meeting	Max Planck Institute Retreat
2016/10 - 2016/10	Presentation of a poster entitled "Cell differentiation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus swarming colony" at IMPRS retreat, Hirschegg Meeting	IMPRS retreat International Max Planck Research School in Environmental, Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Germany
2016/09 - 2016/09	Introduction to mass spectrometry-based proteomics, with Dr. Timo Glatter. This workshop had a theoretical component including a presentation regarding the mass spectrometry workflow and different ways of quantification, and also a practical component including performing a proteomics protocol and learn how to analyse the data using the software Perseus. Workshop	Introduction to mass spectrometry-based proteomics Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2018/09 - 2019/11	As PhD representatives, the other 4 members and I, represented 77 doctoral researchers from the four departments. We organized seminars, scientific talks and workshops to support PhD students in their training, as well as social activities to promote interaction. Furthermore, we met with the directors once a month in order to be updated about new decisions and relevant events and to give them feedback in case our PhD community had any issues or concerns that they would like to see addressed. Member	Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany

Distinctions

Award

2018	Travel grant for an international conference MArburg University Research Academy (MARA) , Germany
2017	Travel grant for a VAAM conference Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM) , Germany
2015	PhD Fellowship (top 5% candidates) International Max Planck Research School in Environmental, Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Germany