Personal identification

Full name

Alexandra Filipa Almeida Santos

Date of birth

1999/05/01

Gender

Female

Citation names

• Santos, Alexandra

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

2015-44E9-7FDA

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
• Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

	Degree	Classification
2020/09/01 - 2022/09/23 Concluded	Biologia Celular e Molecular - Especialização em Neurobiologia (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Autophagosome biogenesis and axonal transport dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19 out of 20
2017/09 - 2020/06 Concluded	Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) Major in Biomedicina Molecular Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Portugal	17 out of 20

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/05/01 - 2021/05/31	Curricular laboratory internship: Autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
	CNC UC- Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular , Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2021/01/31	Curricular laboratory internship: Mitochondrial alterations in Alzheimer´s Disease	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
	CNC UC- Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular , Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/12	Extracurricular Laboratory Internship: Lipid metabolism and mitochondrial remodeling in cancer	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2022/10/03 - 2023/03/31	ERASMUS+ Research Internship: Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Master Student Fellow Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain	Universidade de Coimbra Erasmus Plus Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/30	Summer with Science: Interdisciplinary Research, Development and Innovation in Lifestyle-Dependent Diseases and Aging RESEARCH INITIATION FELLOWSHIP | Verão com Ciência 2021 | Unit Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIIBB) - 4539 Scientific Initiation Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/04/01 - 2023/10/31	NeurotechEU - The European University of Brain and Technology: training, research, and innovation 2021/00024/040 Scientific Initiation Fellow Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Spain	Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche - Campus de Sant Joan Concluded

Publications

Conference poster

Emanuel Tahiri, Alexandra Santos, Marta Silva, Carlos B. Duarte, Rui O. Costa. "Intra-axonal autophagosome biogenesis impairment in Alzheimer's disease". Paper presented in ISN-ESN 2023 Meeting, 2023. Alexandra Santos, Patricia Martínez-Tazo, Mohamed Kotb Selim, Silvia De Santis. "MRI Mouse Brain Segmentation: building a Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Template in the Allen brain space". Paper presented in ISMRM Iberian Chapter 3rd Annual Meeting, 2023. Emanuel Tahiri, Alexandra Santos, Marta Silva, Carlos B. Duarte, Rui O. Costa. "Intra-axonal autophagosome biogenesis impairment in Alzheimer´s disease". Paper presented in 2nd symposium on Alzheimer's Disease: An Update on Pathology and Therapeutics, 2023. Emanuel Tahiri, Alexandra Santos, Marta Silva, Carlos B. Duarte, Rui O. Costa. "Autophagy dysfunction in axons: a trigger for Alzheimer´s disease?". Paper presented in BEB day 2023 - 17th edition of the Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB) symposium, 2023. Emanuel Tahiri, Alexandra Santos, Carlos B. Duarte, Rui O. Costa. "Autophagy dysfunction in axons: a trigger for Alzheimer´s disease?". Paper presented in 8th European Synapse Meeting, 2022. Emanuel Tahiri, Alexandra Santos, Carlos B. Duarte, Rui O. Costa. "Intra-axonal autophagy dysfunction: an early event in Alzheimer´s disease". Paper presented in XVII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience; SPN2021, 2021.