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Sara Martins (Ordem dos Biólogos #4116) is a researcher at the Mitochondrial Biomedicine and Theranostics Laboratory (LBioMiT, CNC-UC) since 2020 and PhD candidate (2022-2026) in Biomedicine and Experimental Biology at University of Coimbra. She is currently working on her PhD project on Mitochondrial-Derived Peptides in intra- and inter-cellular communication, with a particular focus on LHON (Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy). Previously, Sara completed the MSc in Applied Biology in 2019 by University of Aveiro and BSc in Biology in 2017 by University of Coimbra. She has worked in both the diagnostics and research facets of the laboratory, working with (Mitochondrial) Human Genetics. Projects' themes included: mitochondrial citopathies and other mitochondrial dysfunction-related diseases, science communication, pharmacogenomics, fertility, COVID-19 and obesity. Her work also includes giving support to students (highschool to MSc) and science communication (design, dissemination, event organization and tech support, social media management, etc.). Sara has participated in several events and courses (>30 since 2015), with emphasis on subjects of genetics, biomedicine and science communication. Furthermore, Sara has given oral presentations and presented posters in national and international conferences. Notably, the poster she presented (being 3rd author) in the Annual Meeting of ESCI 2023 was awarded Best Poster Presentation. Her first article (first co-author) was published in the journal Mitochondrion on March 2023. Sara is part of the organizing committee of PubhD Coimbra (2022-), a project that brings science by PhD students to the general audience, and of the BEB Day 2024, a scientific congress scheduled May 2024. She is a member of scientific associations and of PATH Coimbra. She develops a personal project (since 2021) with a SciComm component: Sciramics (instagram.com/saramics_pottery or facebook.com/saramics.pottery), which combines ceramics and science. TRANSFERABLE SKILLS: Research & Writing, Autonomy, Organization & Planning, Creative, Curious, Passionate, Communication, Content Creation, Event organization, Interaction with the public, Teamwork, Team Management, Quick learner, Quick group integration. INFORMATIC SKILLS: General user skills (e.g., MS Office); Social Media Management; Image & Video Editing (CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Canva, VideoPad, HitFilm, others); Softwares for Biological Sciences (Mendeley/Zotero; 7500 Real-Time, HRM, CopyCaller, ChemiDoc, others). METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS: in Genomics, Cell Culture, etc (Real-Time PCR, PCR, Primer design, DNA extraction, CHiP analysis (RNA), Sanger Sequencing, Gel Electrophoresis, DNA Purification (agarose, Sephadex, ExoSap), PCR-RFLP, Quantitative/qualitative DNA evaluation (Qubit, Nanodrop); Abbott robot). BIOSTATISTICS: Statistica 7, GraphPad Prism, R (basic), SPSS (basic). BIOINFORMATICS: UCSC Genome Browser, BLAST, Primer3Plus; QRT-PCR.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Sara Martins

Citation names

  • Martins, Sara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4112-F689-93AF
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9889-5185

Email addresses

  • sara.martins@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
  • sara.mcmartinsp@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Human Genetics
  • Natural sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Norwegian Bokmaal Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09/01 - 2026/08/31
Ongoing
 Biologia Experimental e Biomedicina (Doutoramento)
Major in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology)
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/12/17
Concluded
 Biologia Aplicada (Mestrado)
Major in Masters in Applied Biology
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
"Developing Real-Time PCR genetic tests for fast diagnosis of LHON and Hearing Loss " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2013/09/16 - 2017/01/27
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Biology BSc
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01 - 2022/08 Researcher (Research) CNC.IBILI, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
(...)

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - 2026/08 PhD Candidate Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
(...)
2017/03/21 - 2017/07/31 Internship Universidade de Coimbra - Laboratório de Biomedicina Mitocondrial e Teranóstica, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/02/20 - 2017/05/29 Internship at Human Genetics Lab Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
CIAS Laboratório de Genética Humana , Portugal
2016/09 - 2016/10 Summer Internship Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/10/01 - 2021/12/31 Research Grant at LBioMiT
N/A
Research Fellow
2020/06/01 - 2021/04/30 MITOBESI - From obesity to adiposopathy: role of mitochondria. Epigenetics study.
N/A
Research Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Associação para o Estudo e Investigação em Geriatria e Nutrição
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/09/01 - Current LHON.inSight - Mitochondria-derived Peptides in intra- and inter-cellular communication: novel insights in LHON
2022.10296.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal

CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, United States
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/07/01 - Current 4Epilepsy - Promoting the quality-of-life of epileptic patients through personalized medicine
PTDC/SAU-SER/30478/2017
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030478
Other
European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2022/03/20 - 2023/03/19 Mit.OnOff - Malfunctions of the energy factory
fbr_oc2_01_universidade de coimbra
Member of team
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 EEA Grants
Ongoing
2018/07/15 - 2019/12/09 Providing free of charge complete genetic tests to all Portuguese patients with a clinical and instrumental diagnosis of Optic Nerve Atrophy
n/a
MSc Student/Member of team
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Santhera Pharmaceuticals Schweiz AG
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2024/06/06 - Current Mythabolism: a boardgame to demystify metabolism
n/a
Supervisor
European Society of Clinical Investigation - ESCI
Ongoing
2024/05/13 - Current Mythabolism: a boardgame to demystify metabolism
n/a
Supervisor
Universidade de Coimbra
Ongoing
2023 - Current Podcast Mitocôndria Irrequieta (Restless Mitochondria Podcast)
n/a
Team member
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Grazina, Manuela. As Avarias na Fábrica de Energia/Malfunctions of the energy factory. Portugal: Self-Published. 2023.
    Published • Assistant staff
Conference abstract
  1. Grazina, Manuela; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Martins, Sara; José Carlos Ferreira. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "Biochemical clues to solve the genetic puzzle of mitochondrial diseases: case-report of a LYRM7-associated Complex III deficiency". Paper presented in Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism SSIEM 2024, Porto, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Martins, Sara; Santos, Maria João; Simões, Marta; Ferreira, Joana; Araújo, Maria; Resendes, Gil; meira, dalia; et al. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "P16.013.A 28 years of genetic screening for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy at LBioMiT". Paper presented in 56th European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference (ESHG 2023), Glasgow, 2024.
    Published
  3. Marta Simões; Maria João Santos; Martins, Sara; Maria do Carmo Macário; Durães, João; Luísa Diogo; João Paulo Ferreira; José Carlos Ferreira; Grazina, Manuela. "Challenges in Genetic Diagnosis of Mitochondrial Diseases: What Can Functional Genomics' Studies Do?". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, Figueira da Foz, 2023.
    Published • 10.2174/0118715303273290231211062420
  4. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Sandra Jacinto; Cristina Martins Halpern; Dupont, Juliette; Luísa Diogo; Manuela Grazina. "Diversities in Leigh syndrome associated to MT-ATP6 gene variants". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, Figueira da Foz, 2023.
    Published • 10.2174/0118715303273271230928060000
  5. Grazina, Manuela; Martins, Sara; Santos, Maria João; Simões, Marta; Caetano, Carolina; Neves, Beatriz; Varela Amaral, Sara; Bindoff, Laurence. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "Mit.OnOff: A Science Communication Project for Public Awareness about Mitochondrial Cytopathies". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders, Figueira da Foz, 2023.
    Published • 10.2174/1871530323666230914114434
  6. Santos, Maria João; Simões, Marta; Martins, Sara; Durães, João; Sara Ferreira; Constança Santos; Diogo, Luisa; carmo macario; Grazina, Manuela. "57ASM - 177 | Mitochondrial genome deletions screening: Does next-generation sequencing solve it all?". Paper presented in 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI, Prague, 2023.
    Published
  7. Simões, Marta; Santos, Maria João; Martins, Sara; Gomes, Célia; Durães, João; João Paulo F S Oliveira; José Carlos Ferreira; et al. "57ASM – 179 | AddFun: Adding functional genomics to genetics in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation diseases". Paper presented in 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI, Prague, 2023.
    Published
  8. Santos, Maria João; Simões, Marta; Martins, Sara; Durães, João; Diogo, Luisa; Macário, Maria do Carmo; Grazina, Manuela. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "The hole in the whole: mitochondrial DNA deletions screening". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  9. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Marcia Teixeira; Diogo, Luisa; maria carmo macario; PT LHON Taskforce; Grazina, Manuela. "Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Pathogenic Sequence Variants At LBioMiT: 27 Years Of Screening And GenEye24". Paper presented in 65th Portuguese Congress of Ophthalmology (65 Congresso Portugues de Oftalmologia), Coimbra, 2022.
    Published
  10. Martins, Sara; Santos, Maria João; Teixeira, Márcia; Diogo, Luisa; macario, maria; Marques, João Pedro; Fonseca, Pedro; Grazina, Manuela. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "Genetic testing in LHON: classic approaches vs. a novel 24h test for top-3 variants". Paper presented in 18th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM), Peniche, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Grazina, Manuela; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Martins, Sara; José Carlos Ferreira. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "Biochemical clues to solve the genetic puzzle of mitochondrial diseases: case-report of a LYRM7-associated Complex III deficiency". Paper presented in Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism SSIEM 2024, 2024.
  2. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Célia A Gomes; Sara Varela Amaral; Grazina, Manuela. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "19 years of rare SinEnergies: Science, Communication, Awareness, Fundraising". Paper presented in MAD meeting 2024, 2024.
  3. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Tavares Ferreira, Joana; Maria Araújo; Gil Resendes; Dália Meira; et al. Corresponding author: Grazina, Manuela. "28 years of genetic screening for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy at LBioMiT". Paper presented in ESHG 2023, 2023.
  4. Santos, Maria João; Marta Simões; Martins, Sara; Durães, João; Sara Ferreira; Constança Santos; Luísa Diogo; Maria do Carmo Macário; Grazina, Manuela. "57ASM – 177 | Mitochondrial genome deletions screening – Does next- generation sequencing solve it all?". Paper presented in 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI, 2023.
  5. Marta Simões; Maria João Santos; Martins, Sara; Célia A Gomes; Durães, João; João Paulo Oliveira; José Carlos Ferreira; et al. "(not self) 57ASM - 179 | AddFun: Adding functional genomics to genetics in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation diseases". Paper presented in 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI, 2023.
  6. Martins, Sara; Santos, Maria João; Marta Simões; António Friande Pereira; Cristina Almeida; Dália Meira; Gil Resendes; et al. "The Road So Far and beyond: 28 years of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy at LBioMiT - past, present and future". Paper presented in MitoPorto 2023, 2023.
  7. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Sandra Jacinto; Cristina Martins Halpern; Juliette Dupont; Luísa Diogo; Manuela Grazina. "Diversities in Leigh syndrome associated to MT-ATP6 gene variants". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, 2023.
  8. Grazina, Manuela; Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Marta Simões; Carolina Caetano; Beatriz Neves; Sara Varela Amaral; Laurence A. Bindoff. "(not self) Mit.OnOff: A Science Communication Project for Public Awareness about Mitochondrial Cytopathies". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, 2023.
  9. Marta Simões; Maria João Santos; Martins, Sara; Maria do Carmo Macário; João Durães; João Paulo F S Oliveira; José Carlos Ferreira; Manuela Grazina. "(not self) Challenges in genetic diagnosis of mitochondrial diseases: what can functional genomics' studies do?". Paper presented in 19th International Symposium of SPDM, 2023.
  10. Martins, Sara; Maria João Santos; Márcia Teixeira; Luísa Diogo; Maria do Carmo Macário; João Pedro Marques; Pedro Fonseca; Manuela Grazina. "A 24h screening test for TOP-3 LHON pathogenic sequence variants to be used in clinical setting and treatment assessment". Paper presented in CIBB meeting, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Sara Martins; Maria João Santos; Márcia Teixeira; Luísa Diogo; Maria do Carmo Macário; João Pedro Marques; Pedro Fonseca; Manuela Grazina. "GenEye24: Novel rapid screening test for the top-3 Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy pathogenic sequence variants". Mitochondrion (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2023.01.006.
    10.1016/j.mito.2023.01.006
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Martins, Sara. "Development of real-time PCR genetic test for fast diagnosis of LHON and Hearing Loss". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, 2019.

Artistic / Performance

Program / Show
  1. Grazina, Manuela. 2024. "#1". Mitocôndria Irrequieta (Restless Mitochondria Podcast).
Video recording
  1. Martins, Sara; Sara Martins (Producer). 2020. MITOCLAY: a 3D model in clay of a mitochondria. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2722969911361845.
Visual artwork
  1. Martins, Sara. Sciramics by Saramics (Pottery by Sara Martins) (instagram.com/saramics_pottery).
  2. Martins, Sara. Prototype of the logo for MAD subgroup of CNC-UC/CIBB (https://www.instagram.com/madcibb/).
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/20 (INVITED Lecture to Audiology students - 1h) Mitochondrial Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss Lecture to Audiology students at ESTeSC
Coimbra Health School (ESTeSC) - Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/06/08 (Awarded) Poster presentation - 57ASM - 177 | Mitochondrial genome deletions screening - Does next-generation sequencing solve it all? 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI
European Society of Clinical Investigation (Prague, Czech Republic)
2023/05/12 Selected Flashtalks: The Road So Far and beyond: 28 years of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy at LBioMiT - past, present and future MitoPorto 2023
ICBAS, FFUP (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/05 18 anos de (Sin)Energias raras: ciência, comunicação, sensibilização, angariação SciComPt 2023
Rede SciComPt (Bragança, Portugal)
2023/05/05 Read all about it: Mit.OnOff – Alerta para as avarias das fábricas de energia! SciComPt 2023
Rede SciComPt (Bragança, Portugal)
2023/03/31 (Presented by MJ Santos) The hole in the Whole: Mitochondrial DNA deletions screening 19th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM)
Portuguese Society of Metabolic Disorders (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2022/12/02 Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Pathogenic Sequence Variants At Lbiomit: 27 Years Of Screening And Geneye24 65th Portuguese Congress of Ophthalmology (65 Congresso Portugues de Oftalmologia)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/05/05 Genetic testing in LHON: classic approaches vs. a novel 24h test for top-3 variants 18th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM)
Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM) (Peniche/Online, Portugal)
2020/11/06 Challenges in LHON diagnostics/Desafios no diagnóstico genético de LHON VIII Neurogenetics Meeting: Mitochondrial Diseases: and when power fails?
IBMC Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (Online, Portugal)
2020/10/11 (Science Communication) Laboratorial perspective of the diagnosis of rare diseases: "Time doesn't heal everything" The blindness of a composer and the scientific vision of a rare disease / A cegueira de um compositor e a visão na ciência de uma doença rara
Laboratório de Biomedicina Mitocondrial e Teranóstica, CNC UC, Orquestra Clássica do Centro (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/02/02 - Current [Volunteering] Different (LGBTQ+) community-oriented events in the city of Coimbra. Each event is hosted approx. monthly, including parties, art market, bookclub, boardgames, picnics, among others. Most relevant, organization of the Walk for International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. (2024/02/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
 PATH - Plataforma Anti-Transfobia e Homofobia de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current Science communication: Creation and Management of the Instagram page of LBioMiT - https://www.instagram.com/lbiomit/ (2023) (2023/09/19)
Other (Other)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/10/01 - Current Monthly informal SciComm event est. 2017, between PhD candidates and public (2022)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 PubhD Coimbra, Portugal
2020/09/10 - Current Science communication: Creation and Management of the Twitter page account of LBioMiT - https://www.twitter.com/LBioMiT/ (2020)
Other (Other)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - Current Science communication: Management of the Facebook page account of LBioMiT - https://www.facebook.com/LBioMiT/ (2020)
Other (Other)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2008 - Current Several activities throughout the years - backstage support, technical support, dissemination, social media management, image and video editing and production (2008)
Concert (Other)
 Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal
2023/11/02 - 2024/06 BEB Day 2024 - Congress organized by students of the PhD program. (2024/05/15 - 2024/05/16)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2023/10/01 - 2023/10/01 World Music Day with OCC (open rehearsal) - LBioMiT spot for book distribution and SciComm (2023/10/01 - 2023/10/01)
Concert (Other)
 Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal
2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30 PicNic com Saúde (SciComm event at FMUC) (2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30)
Exhibition (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023/05/08 - 2023/09/30 Spot in Europeans Research Night Coimbra. Preparing the events of our lab. (2023/09/29 - 2023/09/29)
Festival (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2023/09/14 - 2023/09/21 Celebrating the World Mitochondrial Disease Week. Distribution of book and raising awareness. (2023/09/21 - 2023/09/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022/03 - 2023/05/09 Book release event. Visitation of partner from Norway to Coimbra. (2023/05/08 - 2023/05/08)
Other (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

EEA Grants, Belgium
2023/02/01 - 2023/03/25 “Healthy Aging Cocktail” - in the scope of the Brain Awareness Week activities of CNC-UC, in partnership with MIA Portugal, and allied with Coimbra City Hall and Portuguese Cardiology Association for the event. Roundtable with researchers to discuss aging in an informal context. (2023/03/25 - 2023/03/25)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing, Portugal

Câmara Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2023/02/28 Rare Disease Day 2023. Spot and Fac of Medicine at UC to raise awareness. (2023/02/28 - 2023/02/28)
Other (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/11/24 - 2021/11/24 Science Communication Event - "A Vida em 4 tempos" (the life in 4 times/seasons/beats) Part 2 (Autumn and Winter) (2021/11/24 - 2021/11/24) (2021/11/24 - 2021/11/24)
Concert (Co-organisor)
2021/11/17 - 2021/11/18 MAD Retreat "Science Out Of the Box" - meeting for the people working in the research groups of the sub-area "Metabolism Aging and Disease" of CNC-UC/CIBB. (2021/11/17 - 2021/11/18)
Meeting (Other)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2020/12 - 2021/04 Raffle for Fundraising for LBioMiT (2021/01/15 - 2021/03/31) (2021/01 - 2021/03/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2020/12 - 2021/02/28 Event for Rare Disease Day. Online. Lecturers: Professor Manuela Grazina, Dr Dália Meira, Maria João Santos. With testimonies of rare disease patients. (2021/02/28 - 2021/02/28)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2020/03 - 2021/01 The blindness of a composer and the vision of science in a rare disease (event of UC730 Prize) Event for LHON awareness with commented concert; experience for audience with LHON glasses (vision loss simulation); lecturers Professor Manuela Grazina, Dr Miguel Raimundo, Sara Martins, patient testemony (2020/10/08 - 2020/10/08)
Concert (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/12 - 2020/03/01 COLMusic "Rare Diseases and Events in the Universe" - event partnership LBioMiT/OCC. Lecturer: Prof Dr Carlos Fiolhais; Maria João Carvalho; Comentadora: Manuela Grazina https://orquestraclassicadocentro.org/colmusic-encontros-musica-e-ciencia-2/ (2020/03/01 - 2020/03/01)
Concert (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal
2019/09 - 2019/10 COLMusic "Food VS Environment" - event partnership LBioMiT/OCC. Lecturers: Emeritus Prof Jorge Paiva; Commentators: Prof. Dr Manuela Grazina, Full Prof Helena Freitas. https://orquestraclassicadocentro.org/colmusic-encontros-musica-e-ciencia/ (2019/10/25 - 2019/10/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/07 COLMusic "Science and Economy" - event partnership LBioMiT/OCC. Lecturers: Ana Corte-Real; Óscar Lourenço; Vitor Raposo; Fernando Catarino; Manuela Grazina. https://orquestraclassicadocentro.org/colmusic/ (2019/07/12 - 2019/07/12)
Conference (Other)
 CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/07/19 - 2024/07/19 Webinar on LHON: updates on LHON
Seminar
 Webinar on LHON 2024 edition
2024/06/19 - 2024/06/19 CIBB Seminar - Pharmacogenetic analyses and healthy aging (by Prof Zoraida Verde Rello)
Seminar
 CIBB Seminar
CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 iiiUC Training: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Seminar
 iiiUC Training
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/04 Theoretical component in order to handle animals in laboratory setting (for European / Portuguese settings). Individual learning. 20h+ of training
Other
 Online Theoretical Course on Laboratorial Animal Science (SPCAL)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório, Portugal
2024/02/27 - 2024/02/28 3MT's Science Communication and Media Training Workshop
Workshop
 3MT's Science Communication and Media Training Workshop
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/01/29 - 2024/01/30 Meeting of CNC's research area (Metabolism, Aging and Disease).
Meeting
 MAD meeting 2024
CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2023/12/18 - 2023/12/18 LHON Forum update
Seminar
 LHON Forum (2023)
Chiesi España SA, Spain
2023/11/24 - 2023/11/24 Seminar about the platform OpenScience Hub Portugal by Maria Vicente. Networking follow-up with Maria related to PhD project
Seminar
 Can Municipalities act as innovation brokers between academia and civil society?| Maria Vicente, Open Science Hub
CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2023/11/16 - 2023/11/17 Meeting with international experts on mitochondrial disease. Distribution of books from Mit.OnOff project. Networking. Association of LBioMiT to the Global Registry of Mitochondrial Patients /Samples.
Conference
 Mitochondrial Medicine. The GENOMIT initiative.
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
2023/10/31 - 2023/11/17 Learning basic R (relearning the basics), and the different statistics you can perform with R Commander. Professor Ricardo São João.
Other
 Statistics and Data Analysis with R
Gades Training Lda, Portugal
2023/06/10 - 2023/06/13 Conference of ESHG. Glasgow, Scotland. With poster presentation.
Congress
 ESHG 2023
European Society of Human Genetics, Austria
2023/06/07 - 2023/06/09 Meeting of European Soc. of Clinical Investigation
Meeting
 57TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING ESCI
European Society of Clinical Investigation - ESCI, Netherlands
2023/05/12 - 2023/05/13 Conference about mitochondria
Symposium
 MitoPorto 2023
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/05 Conference of science communication
Conference
 SciComPt 2023
Rede SciComPt, Portugal

Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança, Portugal
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/03 Workshop Explorar a ciência escondida nas páginas dos livros (Explore the science hidden in books' pages)
Workshop
 SciComPt 2023 Worshops
Rede SciComPt, Portugal

Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança, Portugal
2023/04/27 - 2023/04/28 Symposium about meta-science (12h)
Symposium
 An Introduction to the Science of Science
CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2023/03/30 - 2023/03/31 Conference about metabolic diseases
Symposium
 19th International Symposium of SPDM
Sociedade Portuguesa de Doenças Metabólicas - SPDM, Portugal
2023/02/07 - 2023/02/08 BEB Day 2023
Congress
 BEB Day 2023
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/12/20 - 2022/12/20 CIBB Meeting 2022
Meeting
 CIBB Meeting 2022
2022/11/28 - 2022/11/28 LHON Forum 2022
Other
 LHON Forum 2022
2022/07/22 - 2022/07/22 This webinar is an international initiative designed to spread the knowledge and awareness regarding the pathology, the diagnosis (especially early diagnosis), and therapy of Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON).
Seminar
 Webinar on LHON 2022 Edition
2022/05/12 - 2022/05/13 The main objective of the course is to provide trainees with the latest knowledge in the fields of ethics, standards, good practices in genetic counseling, Portuguese legislation and regulations in the field of clinical and laboratory genetics, including ethical, regulatory and societal aspects of biobanks.
Other
 Training Course on Ethical and Social Aspects in Clinical Laboratory Genetics | Curso de Formação em Aspetos Éticos e Sociais em Genética Clínica Laboratorial
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022/05/05 - 2022/05/06 18th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM)
Symposium
 18th International Symposium of the Portuguese Society for Metabolic Disorders (SPDM)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Doenças Metabólicas - SPDM, Portugal
2022/04/27 - 2022/04/27 Ciclo de debates interdisciplinares | Cycle of interdisciplinary debates
Round table
 Comunicação de Ciência: como, quando e onde? | Science Communication: how, when and where?
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Rómulo Centro Ciência Viva da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/04/21 - 2022/04/21 WEBINAR on Bioinformatic Analysis of DNA-seq results by Novogene
Seminar
 A Beginner's Guide to DNA-seq - Bioinformatic Analysis
Novogene Co Ltd, China
2021/12/20 - 2021/12/20 CIBB Meeting 2021
Meeting
 CIBB Meeting 2021
Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology - University of Coimbra, Portugal

CNC.IBILI, Portugal
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/09 LHON Forum 2021
Seminar
 LHON Forum 2021
Chiesi España SA, Spain
2021/11/17 - 2021/11/18 MAD Retreat
Meeting
 Science Out of the Box - MAD (Metabolism, aging and Disease) Group Retreat 2021
CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology - University of Coimbra, Portugal
2021/10/18 - 2021/10/22 Science Documentary Film-making Course. Taught by Dr George Chan
Workshop
 Science Documentary Film-making Course
Blue Fire Films, United Kingdom
2021/09/29 - 2021/09/29 RETHINK Workshop - Connecting with Underserved Audiences: Creating Conversations and Trust
Workshop
 RETHINK Workshop - Connecting with Underserved Audiences: Creating Conversations and Trust
University of the West of England, United Kingdom
2021/08/28 - 2021/08/31 Online
Conference
 ESHG 2021 Conference
European Society of Human Genetics, Austria
2021/07/02 - 2021/07/23 This course aims to give theoretical and practical fundamentals of cell and tissue culture techniques, divided in 4 modules: Basic Cell Culture Concepts; Cell Culture Methods, Techniques and Applications I; Cell Culture Methods, Techniques and Applications II and Advanced Cell Culture Methods, Techniques and Applications.
Other
 VIII Cell Culture and Tissue Training Course
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/07/07 - 2021/07/07 Scientific advances in genomics Tech advances in genome sequencing Genome, Data Analysis and other Infrastructure Initiatives
Symposium
 Simpósio GenomePT
Biocant Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/06/23 - 2021/06/25 Conference on Science Communication, about the current work, education and research developed on the subject with focus on that which is developed in Portugal
Meeting
 SciComPt 2021
Rede SciComPt, Portugal
2021/06/09 - 2021/06/11 55th ESCI Annual Scientific Meeting
Congress
 ESCI 2021
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2021/04/15 - 2021/04/15 CentoTalk Webinar Dr. Tobias Boettcher provided an overview of how biomarkers play an essential role in early diagnosis, prediction, and therapeutic monitoring. Aim: Educate, raise awareness, and provide the best care possible for Fabry Disease patients. • Diagnostic Difficulties for Fabry Disease • Biomarkers in the Diagnostic Setting • Lyso-Gb3: Advantages and Drawbacks • Clinical Cases and Lessons for the Future • Advanced Diagnostics and Precision Medicine
Seminar
 How Biomarkers Transform Genetic Diagnostics: A Success Story With Fabry Disease
Centogene AG, Germany
2020/12/09 - 2020/12/09 LHON Forum
Seminar
 LHON Forum
Chiesi España SA, Spain

Quilaban, Portugal
2020/12/09 - 2020/12/09 RDD Webinar: How to approach media
Seminar
 RDD Webinar: How to approach media
rarediseaseday.org, United Kingdom
2020/11/25 - 2020/11/25 Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases - NGS responses
Conference
 Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases - NGS responses
Quilaban, Portugal
2020/11/18 - 2020/11/19 Retiro Grupo Metabolismo CNC/CIBB - Metabolism, Aging and Disease Group Retreat (online)
Meeting
 Metabolism, Aging and Disease Group
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2020/10/21 - 2020/10/21 RDD Webinar: How to prepare your digital communication
Seminar
 RDD Webinar: How to prepare your digital communication
rarediseaseday.org, United Kingdom
2020/06/26 - 2020/06/26 GDPR Session - GDPR/RGPD annual training
Other
 GDPR/RGPD annual training
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2020/06/06 - 2020/06/09 ESHG 2020 conference (ONLINE EVENT) European Human Genetics Virtual Conference
Conference
 ESHG 2020.2 - Live in Your Living Room
European Society of Human Genetics, Austria
2020/02/17 - 2020/02/21 Experiences in science communication. Topics explored: Public Engagement in Science; Science Education; Art&Science; Communication with the media; Social networks; Innovation; Technology Transfer; Career development; Ethics
Other
 Connecting Researchers with the Society
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/12/19 - 2019/12/20 Presentations on the work developed in CIBB and Poster Session.
Meeting
 CIBB Meeting 2019
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/12/09 - 2019/12/11 Basic Course on Hereditary Metabolism Disorders
Other
 ”XV Basic Course on Hereditary Metabolism Disorders”.
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal

Hospital Pediátrico de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/11/13 - 2019/11/13 Seminar on the GDPR. To know and understand the challenges of GDPR and Lei da Proteção de Dados, in accounts of Organic Units of Science Teaching and Research (Basic, Clinic, Translational) and handling sensitive data. Panel with specialist (Andreia da Costa Andrade) with the conference "A confidencialidade, a investigação científica e a saúde encontram-se numa palestra" (Confidenciality, scientific research and health meet in a lecture)
Seminar
 Desafios da Proteção de Dados na FMUC
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/11/08 - 2019/11/08 Seminar/Workshop for introduction to NGS/WES tools for genetic and genomic diagnostic in metabolic diseases
Workshop
 NGS/WES – Genomic revolution in the clinical practice
Sociedade Portuguesa de Doenças Metabólicas - SPDM, Portugal
2019/10/09 - 2019/10/09 6th meeting of users of NGS platforms. Presentations of several people from institutions (clinical or research) that use NGS platforms for their work
Meeting
 6ª Reunião de utilizadores de plataformas de NGS
ILC- Instrumentos de Laboratório e Cientificos, Lda, Portugal
2019/05/10 - 2019/05/10 Presentations on work being developed in the Neuroscience and Disease Group at CNC-UC/CIBB.
Meeting
 CIBB 1st Neuroscience and Disease Retreat
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/16 Symposium with world and national experts, in clinical and research, in the field of metabolic diseases.
Symposium
 15th International Symposium of the SPDM
Sociedade Portuguesa de Doenças Metabólicas - SPDM, Portugal
2019/02/18 - 2019/02/22 Understand the basic concepts and clinical applications of pharmacogenomics; including basic principles of Biochemical Genetics underlying the variability in response to therapeutics, according to the genetic individual profile; most recent developments; mechanisms involved in genetic and epigenetic modification, identification of genes that codify factors involved in drug response; & relevance of pharmacogenomics in the development of new therapeutic agents and in the application of more rational therapies.
Other
 Introduction to Pharmacogenomics - clinical applications
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/10/22 - 2018/10/22 World and national experts on mitochondrial research, in basic and clinical research.
Meeting
 MitoXT - Mitochondrial Toxicology and Experimental Therapeutics
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2018/09/27 - 2018/09/27 Presentation of platforms for genomics analysis.
Meeting
 Genomics Day
ILC- Instrumentos de Laboratório e Cientificos, Lda, Portugal
2018/09/26 - 2018/09/27 5th meeting of NGS platforms' users. Presentations of several people in clinical and research area, that work with NGS platforms.
Meeting
 5ª Reunião de Utilizadores de Plataformas NGS
Illumina Inc, United States
2018/04/23 - 2018/04/26 Learning to work with the R program for biostatistics.
Workshop
 Workshop em R
Junior Enterprise for Science and Technology - JEST, Portugal
2018/03/14 - 2018/03/14 Presentation on several topics relating to immunology
Workshop
 6th Workshop in Immunology
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/03/03 - 2018/03/03 Promote the future scientific research career of biology students, particularly in the laboratory.
Meeting
 II Encontro de Laboratório - meet.Lab Coimbra
Núcleo de Estudantes de Biologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/03/03 - 2018/03/03 Criopreservação de gâmetas e tecido gonadal / Crioperservation of gametes and gonadal tissue
Workshop
 II Encontro de Laboratório - meet.Lab Coimbra
Núcleo de Estudantes de Biologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/11/29 - 2017/11/29 Seminar on the translational research between neuroscience and biomaterials happening at UAveiro.
Seminar
 BrainLoad: PowerUp your Knowledge "Da neurociência aod biomateriais"
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Scientific Junior Value, Portugal
2016/03/18 - 2016/03/22 Set of conferences for biology students, encompassing the several fields of biology.
Meeting
 XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Comissão Organizadora XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia, Portugal
2016/03/21 - 2016/03/21 "Treinar cientistas a comunicar com o público e os media". Science communication to media and public for scientists, with learning how to do a press release and best ways to communicate your findings to a general audience, and make them feel relevant.
Workshop
 XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Comissão Organizadora XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia, Portugal
2015/10/16 - 2015/10/16 Meeting on plant biotechnology, with speakers from different fields that relate to this research.
Meeting
 V Encontro - Biotecnologia e Agricultura: O Futuro é Agora
CiB - Centro de Informação de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/04/12 - Current E-mit: European Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine Junior Member
2024/02/02 - Current PATH (Platform Anti Transphobia and Homophobia) Coimbra collective Member
2023/12/12 - Current European Society of Clinical Investigation (ESCI) ESCI member
2023/07 - Current Biochemical Society Postgrad Student Member
2021 - Current Ordem dos Biólogos Membro Graduado #4116
2023/01 - 2023/12 European Society for Human Genetics Trainee Membership

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Monthly informal SciComm event, between PhD candidates and public.
Member
 PubhD Coimbra, Portugal
2023/11/02 - 2024/06 Congress organized by the students of the BEB PhD program. Selecting theme and title. Role of selecting and inviting speakers. Meeting with speakers. Support with sponsorship, selecting venue, communication materials.
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/07/15 - 2024/07/19 [Laboratorial technical support] Week Ciência Viva no Laboratório Highschool student - 2 students
2024/02/05 - 2024/06/30 [Laboratorial technical support] BSc Biochemistry Project Francisco Cardoso
2023/07 - 2023/09 [Laboratorial technical support] Summer Internship Francisco C.
2023/07/17 - 2023/07/28 [Laboratorial technical support] Observatory lab rotation Miriam C.
2023/07/17 - 2023/07/21 [Laboratorial technical support] Week Ciência Viva no Laboratório Highschool student - 2
2020/10/01 - 2021/12/20 [Laboratorial technical support] MSc thesis - Genotyping of CYP2C19 gene Ana Rita Coutinho
2021/01/01 - 2021/06/30 [Laboratorial technical support] BSc Project - Genotyping of CYP2C19 gene Juliana Esgueirão
2021/03/22 - 2021/04/10 [Laboratorial technical support] Lab Rotation - Copy Number Variation Analysis Mariana Machado
2020/09/01 - 2020/09/30 [Laboratorial technical support] Santander international mobility grant for researchers Professor Zoraida Verde Rello
2019/09/01 - 2019/09/07 [Laboratorial technical support] Development of genetic screening tests (Real-Time PCR) for rare diseases Highschool student in Project Ciência Viva
2019/07/01 - 2019/07/31 [Laboratorial technical support] Development of genetic screening tests (Real-Time PCR) for rare diseases Nirmala - Exchange Med Student (LORE program)
Distinctions

Award

2024 Support for the Promotion of Scientific Culture (for "Mythabolism")
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 2023 ESCI - POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands

Other distinction

2024 UC finalists of 3MT (3 minute thesis) competition
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 Travel Grant ESCI 2023
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands