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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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Gabriel Nascimento Ferreira da Costa

Citation names

Costa, Gabriel N

Author identifiers

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

Knowledge fields

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

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Japanese	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2007/01/02 - 2012/06/14 Concluded	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" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction with Honours (Excellent)
2008/09/01 - 2008/09/12 Concluded	Course in Laboratory Animal Science (Pós-Graduação) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2006 Concluded	Bsc in Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "NA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	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	Postdoc (Research)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal

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

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

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
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 Post-doc Fellow CNC.IBILI, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded
2015/07 - 2017/06	Multidisciplinar research on neuroscience of health and disease UID/NEU/04539/2013 Post-doc Fellow CNC.IBILI, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded
2013/06 - 2015/06	From molecules to man: novel diagnostic imaging tools in neurological and psychiatric disorders Centro-07-ST24-FEDER-002005 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal CNC.IBILI, Portugal	Concluded
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 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/10 - Current	BIOMUSCLE - Novel multimodal imaging biomarkers of neuronal connectivity in Multiple Sclerosis. CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-031973 Post-doc Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Ongoing
2017/01/01 - 2021	Transcranial brain stimulation as innovative therapy for chronic pediatric neuropsychiatric disorder – STIPED info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/731827/EU Post-doc Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2016 - 2019	Synaptic networks and Personalized Medicine Approaches to Understand Neurobehavioral Diseases Across the Lifespan - MEDPERSYS POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016428) Post-doc Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
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 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal	FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	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". Paper presented in 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". Paper presented in 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". Paper presented in 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.". Paper presented in 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". Paper presented in VI Annual IBILI Meeting, 2014. Costa, Gabriel N. "Contribution of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 to early cell death in Diabetic Retinopathy."". Paper presented in 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.". Paper presented in 9th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, 2007.
Journal article	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. Open access • Under revision 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. Published • 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. Open access • Published • 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. Published • 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. Published • 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. Published • 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
Thesis / Dissertation	Costa, Gabriel N. "The role of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 in diabetic retinopathy: contribution to the early neuronal cell death". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/20292.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
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, Germany)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/08 - 2020/03	Thesis: Brain signals of perceptual inference: the role of oscillations in interpreting ambiguous stimuli Supervisor of Manuel da Silva Santos	Msc in Biomedical Engineering (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/03/23 - 2018/03/23	Biomedical Research Post-Doctoral Forum @UC: Overcoming challenges in scientific careers (2018/03/23) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07	7th Iberian Congress on Perception (2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/07/10 - 2019/07/13	Poster presentation at the FENS Regional Meeting 2019, Belgrade, Serbia Meeting	FENS Regional Meeting 2019, Belgrade
2017/08/05 - 2017/08/08	Poster presentation at the International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands Conference	13th International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience
2017/07/06 - 2017/07/07	7th Iberian Congress on Perception, Coimbra, Portugal Congress	7th Iberian Congress on Perception
2016/06/26 - 2016/06/30	Poster Presentation at the Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland Meeting	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 Meeting	VII Annual IBILI Meeting
2015/09/09 - 2015/09/13	Poster presentation at the Neurophysiology Conference, Munich, Germany, September 9-13th 2015 Conference	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 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 Meeting	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 Meeting	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 Meeting	11th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
2008/03/06 - 2008/03/08	Oral communication at the 1st ENINET PhD Symposium, Berlin, Germany Conference	1st ENINET PhD Symposium
2007/05/23 - 2007/05/26	Poster presentation at the 10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences. Ofir, Portugal Meeting	10th Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences.

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2020/12/17	Thesis: Cell-type specificity of cortico-cortical connections between the visual and retrosplenial cortices of the mouse (Thesis) Main arguer	Ana Beatriz Simões Sá e Moura (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
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

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2013 - 2014	Singularidades, Radio Universidade	Science, Brain Research and its myths

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020 - Current	Health and Technology (2190-7196)	Springer-Verlag
2019 - Current	Scientific Reports (2045-2322)	Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
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

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
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

Distinctions

Other distinction

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