Personal identification

Full name

Catarina Benavente Perdigão

Citation names

• Perdigão, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

401A-8A41-079A

ORCID iD

0000-0002-8528-078X

Email addresses

• cperdigao@ibet.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2017/02/01 - 2021/12/16 Concluded	Bioengenharia (Doutoramento) Major in Neurociências Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "The impact of the genetic risk factor BIN1 to Alzheimer’s disease development" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014 Concluded	Mestrado em Biotecnologia (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Azurin interferes with lipid raft organization by decreasing the membrane protein caveolin – 1" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2012 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/02/01 - 2021/06/30	PhD student (Bioengineering – Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
2014/11/01 - 2016/12/31	Técnica de Processos Industriais - Selecção e comercialização de equipamentos para a indústria alimentar e farmacêutica	Sydex Flow, Lda, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/02/01 - 2021/02/01	The impact of the genetic risk factor BIN1 to Alzheimer’s disease development SFRH/BD/128374/2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT Ongoing

Publications

Conference poster

Perdigão, Catarina; Barata, Mariana Afonso; Marques, Ana Cláudia; Guimas Almeida, Claudia. "Alzheimer’s disease variantsin the genetic risk factor BIN1 increase Beta-Amyloid accumulation by decreasing Bace1 recycling". Paper presented in FENS 2020 Virtual Forum, 2020. Perdigão, Catarina; Brito, Catarina; Guimas Almeida, Claudia. "Towards a 3D model of late onset Alzheimer's Disease". Paper presented in Towards a 3D model of late onset Alzheimer's Disease, 2019. Perdigão, Catarina; Barata, Mariana Afonso; Marques, Ana Cláudia; Burrinha, Tatiana; Guimas Almeida, Claudia. "BIN1 variants increase beta-amyloid intracellular accumulation and affect synapses". Paper presented in XVI Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN), 2019, 2019. Perdigão, Catarina; Burrinha, Tatiana; Barata, Mariana Afonso; Guimas Almeida, Claudia. "BIN1 overexpression increases beta-amyloid intracellular accumulation". Paper presented in 14th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and related neurological disorders, 2018, 2018.

Journal article

"Alzheimer's disease BIN1 coding variants increase intracellular Aß levels by interfering with BACE1 recycling". Journal of Biological Chemistry 297 3 (2021): 101056-101056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101056. 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101056 Perdigão, Catarina; Barata, Mariana A.; Araújo, Margarida N.; Mirfakhar, Farzaneh S.; Castanheira, Jorge; Guimas Almeida, Cláudia. "Intracellular Trafficking Mechanisms of Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease". Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 14 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2020.00072. 10.3389/fncel.2020.00072 Nuno Bernardes; Ana Rita Garizo; Sandra N. Pinto; Bernardo Caniço; Catarina Perdigão; Fábio Fernandes; Arsenio M. Fialho. "Azurin interaction with the lipid raft components ganglioside GM-1 and caveolin-1 increases membrane fluidity and sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs". Cell Cycle 17 13 (2018): 1649-1666. https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2018.1489178. 10.1080/15384101.2018.1489178 Guimas Almeida, Cláudia; Sadat Mirfakhar, Farzaneh; Perdigão, Catarina; Burrinha, Tatiana. "Impact of late-onset Alzheimer’s genetic risk factors on beta-amyloid endocytic production". Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 75 14 (2018): 2577-2589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-018-2825-9. 10.1007/s00018-018-2825-9