Curriculum Vitae
Natália da Costa Madeira
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Natália da Costa Madeira
Citation names
- Madeira, Natália
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 481B-0C4C-D8F6
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8486-4030
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=AILGF5VnBemvtRvyUeNEGjMXkh1Iaz8weSzg99MCdo1O_exyauXwsojBSC0jhh8anA_vXM_EVcMAteGobMNyMSKrmr7s9SulHG5T3M5aFqQ&user=JBLc3iIAAAAJ
Email addresses
- nataliamadeira@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
- nataliacmadeira@gmail.com (Personal)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 967034985 (Personal)
Addresses
- Parque Tecnológico de Cantanhede, Lote 8, 3060-197, Cantanhede, Cantanhede, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://cnc.uc.pt/en/research-group/neural-circuits-of-social-behavior-1 (Professional)
- https://dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2023
Concluded
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Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
"Rethinking memory acquisition: the rules of memory cooperation and competition" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015
Concluded
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Neurosciences (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"“Social memory in zebrafish: behavioral assessment and the role of Brain-Derived Neurothrophic Factor (BDNF)”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012
Concluded
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Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/07 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2017/01 - 2017/09 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2017 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - Current | DYNAMIC BRAIN FUNCTION: Towards the Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders
952422
Post-doc
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Ongoing
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| 2018/10/01 - 2022 | Rethinking memory dynamics: the role of synaptic cooperation and competition in fear memory maintenance
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2017 - 2017 | Fear not to remember: Impact of acute stress in amygdala synaptic cooperation
25118
Research Fellow
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Temporal gating of synaptic competition in the lateral amygdala by cannabinoid receptor modulation of the thalamic input | Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society Symposium |
| 2019/09/21 | Temporal gating of synaptic competition in the lateral amygdala by cannabinoid receptor modulation of the thalamic input | 10th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience
IBRO (Daegu, South Korea)
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| 2018/07/07 | Rules of synaptic competition in the amygdala: neuronal activity defines winners and losers | 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience
FENS (Berlim, Germany)
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| 2017/05/25 | Synaptic cooperation and competition in lateral amygdala | XV SPN meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Braga, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2023 - 2023 | European Researchers Night | |
| 2020 - 2020 | Festival Pint of Science |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociencias (SPN) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2020 | Short Talk
Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, United States
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| 2019 | Travel Grant Award
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
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| 2017 | Best AudioSlides Presentation Award
The Elsevier Foundation, Netherlands
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Other distinction
| 2018 | Menção Honrosa (Neurociências) – 2ºedição Prémio Janssen Inovação |