Paulo Navarro Costa (4A1A-BB74-58B7)

Curriculum Vitae

Paulo Navarro Costa

Paulo Navarro-Costa is group leader of the Evolution, Reproduction & Medicine (EvoReproMed) Laboratory of the Lisbon Medical School (Portugal), and program coordinator at the European Molecular Genetics Quality Network (UK). His work is at the interface between basic and clinical reproductive research and has uncovered, among others, an ancient transcriptional program common to animal male germ cells (eLife, 2024), the molecular drivers responsible for the low spermatogenic efficiency of gorillas (eLife, 2024), a new model for transcript sharing in mammalian spermatogenesis (PLOS Biology, 2020), a transcriptional regulator essential for the unpacking of sperm chromosomes after fertilization (EMBO reports, 2018), and an epigenetic mechanism that temporally controls meiotic transcription (Nature Communications, 2016). At the clinical level, he coordinates a yearly external quality assessment program that evaluates the performance of more than 140 genetic diagnosis laboratories across the globe, as well as being responsible for the European Academy of Andrology best practice guidelines on the genetic testing of male infertility (Andrology, 2023). He is member of the Editorial Board of the official journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (USA), and Invited Assistant Professor at the Lisbon Medical School. He serves as referee for international funding agencies and scientific journals, and regularly contributes to scientific outreach activities. Paulo has 18 publications (10 as corresponding author), an average of 41 citations per publication, and 2 kids (data: Google Scholar and his wife).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Paulo Navarro Costa

Citation names

Navarro-Costa, Paulo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4A1A-BB74-58B7
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8543-4179

Email addresses

navarro-costa@medicina.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Instituto de Saúde Ambiental. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa. Av. Prof. Egas Moniz., 1649-028 , Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

www.evorepromed.pt (Professional)
https://twitter.com/germcells (Social media)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Andrology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Reproductive Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Proficiency (C2)	Elementary (A2)	Advanced (C1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2010/02/08 Concluded	Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (Doutoramento em Ciências Biomédicas) (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "(Epi)genetic characterization of the AZFc region of the Y chromosome: new links to male fertility." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor, em unanimidade (20/20)
2003 Concluded	B.Sc. in Microbial Biology and Genetics (Licenciatura em Biologia Microbiana e Genética) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Effects of ovarian tissue cryopreservation on granulosa cell-oocyte interaction." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/01 - Current	Principal Investigator (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Portugal

2012/01/01 - 2022/01/01	Postdoc (Research)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

2004/10/01 - 2010/02/08	Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09/01 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

2012/01/01 - 2021/08/30	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

2010/09/01 - 2011/12/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/07/01 - Current	Quality Assurance Manager	EMQN CIC, United Kingdom

2018/08/01 - Current	Member of the Editorial Board - Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics	Springer Publishing Co, United States

2014/01/01 - 2023/06/30	Quality Assurance Assessor	EMQN CIC, United Kingdom

2010/01/01 - 2012/12/31	Clinical Embryologist (Embriologista Clínico)	CEMEARE - Centro Médico de Assistência à Reprodução, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/30	A new mechanism of nuclear compartmentalization in meiosis: from basic to clinical research in male infertility EXPL/MEC-AND/0676/2021 Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/09 - 2022/06	The sperm cell core genetic program - a combined clinical and basic research approach to the diagnosis of male infertility PTDC/MEC-AND/30221/2017 Principal investigator Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter

Paulo Navarro-Costa. "O que a natureza nos pode ensinar sobre os mistérios da menopausa". In Saúde Ambiental - Caderno de notas soltas IV. Portugal: Acendalha Edições, 2023.
Published
Joana M. Almeida; Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Tupperwares e espermatozoides!?". In Saúde Ambiental - Caderno de notas soltas II, edited by Ricardo R. Santos; Osvaldo Santos; António Vaz Carneiro. Portugal: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, 2021.
Published
Mafalda Nunes; Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Filhos de um calor maior: o impacto do aquecimento global na saúde reprodutiva". In Saúde Ambiental - Caderno de notas soltas, edited by Ricardo R. Santos; Osvaldo Santos; António Vaz Carneiro. Portugal: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, 2020.
Published
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Carlos E. Plancha; David Ferreira. "Citosqueleto: Composição, Organização e Significado Funcional". In Biologia Celular e Molecular, 34-45. Lisboa, Portugal: LIDEL - Edições Técnicas, 2012.
Published

Journal article

Jacob D. Bowman; Neide Silva; Erik Schüftan; Joana M. Almeida; Rion Brattig-Correia; Raquel A. Oliveira; Frank Tüttelmann; et al. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas". eLife (2024): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.94563.1.
10.7554/eLife.94563.1
Rion Brattig-Correia; Joana M. Almeida; Margot J. Wyrwoll; Irene Julca; Daniel Sobral; Chandra Shekhar Misra ; Sara Di Persio; et al. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "The conserved genetic program of male germ cells uncovers ancient regulators of human spermatogenesis". eLife (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.02.482557.
Accepted • 10.1101/2022.03.02.482557
Csilla Krausz; Paulo Navarro-Costa; Martina Wilke; Frank Tüttelmann. "EAA/EMQN best practice guidelines for molecular diagnosis of Y-chromosomal microdeletions: State of the art 2023". Andrology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/andr.13514.
10.1111/andr.13514
Carlos E. Plancha; Patrícia Rodrigues; Mónica Marques; Joana Almeida; Paulo Navarro-Costa. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "The time is ripe for oocyte in vitro maturation". Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 38 6 (2021): 1281-1283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10815-021-02209-x.
10.1007/s10815-021-02209-x
Joana Costa; Osvaldo Santos; Ana Virgolino; M. Emília Pereira; Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska; Henrique Silva; Paulo Navarro-Costa; et al. "MAternal Mental Health in the WORKplace (MAMH@WORK): A Protocol for Promoting Perinatal Maternal Mental Health and Wellbeing". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 5 (2021): 2558. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052558.
10.3390/ijerph18052558
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Antoine Molaro; Chandra S. Misra; Colin D. Meiklejohn; Peter J. Ellis. "Sex and suicide: The curious case of Toll-like receptors". PLOS Biology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000663.
10.1371/journal.pbio.3000663
Rui Martinho; Paulo Navarro-Costa. "The emerging role of transcriptional regulation in the oocyte-to-zygote transition". PLOS Genetics (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008602.
10.1371/journal.pgen.1008602
Paulo Navarro-Costa. "A (micro)environmental perspective on the evolution of female reproductive aging". Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 35 12 (2018): 2129-2131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10815-018-1355-6.
10.1007/s10815-018-1355-6
Pedro Prudêncio; Leonardo G Guilgur; João Sobral; Jörg D Becker; Rui Gonçalo Martinho; Paulo Navarro-Costa. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "The Trithorax group protein dMLL3/4 instructs the assembly of the zygotic genome at fertilization". EMBO reports 19 8 (2018): e45728-e45728. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845728.
10.15252/embr.201845728
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Alicia McCarthy; Pedro Prudêncio; Chrstina Greer; Leonardo Guilgur; Jörg Becker; Julie Secombe; Prashanth Rangan; Rui Martinho. "Early programming of the oocyte epigenome temporally controls late prophase i transcription and chromatin remodelling". Nature Communications 7 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84981510292&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1038/ncomms12331
Patricia Pereira; Paulo Navarro-Costa; Rui Martinho; Jörg Becker. "Evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of male germline development in flowering plants and animals". Biochemical Society Transactions 42 2 (2014): 377-382. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896966631&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1042/BST20130261
Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Sex, rebellion and decadence: The scandalous evolutionary history of the human Y chromosome". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease 1822 12 (2012): 1851-1863. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868494322&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1016/j.bbadis.2012.04.010
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Carlos Plancha. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Heterochromatin: the hidden epigenetic geography of the Y chromosome". Human Reproduction Update 17 3 (2011): 434-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmr002.
10.1093/humupd/dmr002
Paulo Navarro-Costa; João Gonçalves; Carlos Plancha. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "The AZFc region of the Y chromosome: at the crossroads between genetic diversity and male infertility". Human Reproduction Update 16 5 (2010): 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmq005.
10.1093/humupd/dmq005
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Carlos Plancha; João Gonçalves. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Genetic Dissection of the AZF Regions of the Human Y Chromosome: Thriller or Filler for Male (In)fertility?". Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2010 2010 (2010): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/936569.
10.1155/2010/936569
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Paulo Nogueira; Marta Carvalho; Fernanda Leal; Isabel Cordeiro; Carlos Calhaz-Jorge; João Gonçalves; Carlos Plancha. Corresponding author: Paulo Navarro-Costa. "Incorrect DNA methylation of the DAZL promoter CpG island associates with defective human sperm". Human Reproduction 25 10 (2010): 2647-2654. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deq200.
10.1093/humrep/deq200
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Luísa Pereira; Cíntia Alves; Leonor Gusmão; Carmen Proença; Pedro Marques-Vidal; Tiago Rocha; et al. "Characterizing partial AZFc deletions of the Y chromosome with amplicon-specific sequence markers". BMC Genomics 8 1 (2007): 342-342. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-342.
10.1186/1471-2164-8-342
Paulo Navarro-Costa; Sónia Correia; António Gouveia-Oliveira; Filipa Negreiro; Sónia Jorge; António Cidadão; Maria João Carvalho ; Carlos Plancha. "Effects of mouse ovarian tissue cryopreservation on granulosa cell-oocyte interaction". Human Reproduction 20 6 (2005): 1607-1614. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deh787.
10.1093/humrep/deh787

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024	Invited talk at the 13th European congress of Andrology. Title: TBC	13th European Congress of Andrology (Sweden)
2022	Invited talk at 12th European Congress of Andrology. Title: The evolutionary basis of male germ cell identity.	12th European Congress of Andrology European Academy of Andrology (Spain)
2021	Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the German Andrology Society. Title: The evolution of male germ cell identity.	Annual Meeting of the German Andrology Society German Andrology Society (Germany)
2020	Talk (as senior author, presenting author Rion Brattig Correia) at the 9th International Workshop on Complex Networks. Title: Extraction of overlapping modules in networks via spectral methods and information theory.	Complex Networks 2020. The 9th International Workshop on Complex Networks and Their Applications. Complex Networks community (Spain)
2020	Talk (as senior author, presenting author Joana Martins Almeida) at the 2020 International Andrology Meeting. Title: An invertebrate in vivo platform for the high-throughput analysis of evolutionarily-conserved spermatogenesis genes.	Andrology 2020. The 12th International Congress of Andrology. International Society of Andrology (Germany)
2019	Invited lecture in a workshop organized by the HBM4EU consortium of the European Environment Agency. Title: Why bother with infertility when the world is overpopulated?	Workshop on Human Biomonitoring in Portugal European Environment Agency
2018	Talk at the joint meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology. Title: The Trithorax group protein dMLL3/4 instructs the assembly of the zygotic genome at fertilization.	Joint meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology
2018	Talk at the European Testis Workshop. Title: The unpacking of the sperm genome after fertilization requires the dMLL3/4 chromatin regulator.	20th European Testis Workshop European Testis Workshop committee
2018	Invited lecture in a conference organized by the Lisbon Medical School (Portugal). Title: Fertility in adverse climates.	Conference on the effects of changing environments on human health Instituto de Saúde Ambiental - Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa.
2018	Invited lecture for the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre (Portugal). Title: An integrated basic and clinical approach to reproductive health.	Invited seminar Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa
2017	Invited lecture at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (Portugal). Title: The epigenetic regulation of fertilization.	Invited seminar Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNC) (Portugal)
2016	Talk at the EMBO Young Scientists Forum. Title: Early programming of the oocyte epigenome temporally controls late prophase I transcription and chromatin remodeling.	EMBO Young Scientists' Forum EMBO
2016	Invited lecture at the Center of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology of the University of Münster (Germany). Title: An evolutionary approach to human spermatogenesis.	Invited seminar Center of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology - University of Münster. (Germany)
2015	Talk at the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Title: H3K4me3-dependent epigenetic memory regulates transcriptional reactivation in the oocyte.	31st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
2013	Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics. Title: Screening for novel germline genes using Drosophila melanogaster. Selected best presentation	Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética
2010	Invited lecture in a workshop organized by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Title: The fundamentals of spermatogenesis	ESHRE Workshop: Everything you forgot about gamete physiology and its impact on embryo quality. European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
2009	Talk at the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Title: Erroneous DNA methylation of the DAZL promoter CpG island is associated to abnormal human sperm.	25th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
2006	Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Human Genetics Society. Title: Understanding the partial AZFc deletion variable phenotype: is really gene content to blame? Selected best clinical research presentation	10th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Human Genetics Society Portuguese Society of Human Genetics (Portugal)
2005	Talk at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Medicine of Reproduction. Title: A novel methodology for characterizing the AZFc region of the Y chromosome reveals new recombination mechanisms linked to spermatogenic failure. Selected best basic research presentation	XXIII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Medicine of Reproduction Portuguese Society of Medicine of Reproduction (Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current	Supervisor of a Master's thesis entitled "Influence of proton gradients in spermatogenesis and fertilization". Supervisor	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024/01/01 - Current	Co-supervisor of a PhD project entitled "Unravelling the connection between metabolism and cellular functions in female fertility". Co-supervisor	Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2023/01/01 - Current	Co-supervisor of a FCT-funded PhD project entitled "Coordination between subcellular microenvironments during germ cell development". Co-supervisor of Joana Martins Almeida	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2023/07/01	Co-supervisor of a Master's thesis entitled "Role of condensin II in spermatogenesis and male (in)fertility". Final student grade: 19/20 Co-supervisor of Neide Silva	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019 - 2022	Supervisor of the Postdoctoral Project entitled "Network analysis of the core genetic program of male meiosis". Supervisor of Rion Brattig Correia	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Supervisor of a Master's thesis entitled "Functional characterization of evolutionarily-conserved sperm cell genes using an insect model." Supervisor of Joana Martins Almeida	Biotecnologia (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	Main co-organizer of a Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (SMBE) satellite meeting on the Evolution of Reproduction. This event established the first cross-disciplinary network dedicated to the Evolution of Reproduction. First time a SMBE event took place in Portugal. (2022 - 2022) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, United States
2020 - 2020	Co-organizer of "Infinite sculptures - a dialogue between art, science and medicine". This outreach event at the Calouste Gulbenkian Art Museum (Portugal) will bring together artists, scientists and clinicians for a discussion on the common ground between these domains. Cancelled event due to the pandemic (2020 - 2020) Conference (Co-organisor)	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Invited session chair at the 2020 International Andrology Meeting. (2020 - 2020) Congress (Other)	International Society of Andrology, Germany
2019 - 2019	Invited session chair at DevBioMed Symposium, organized by the Champalimaud Foundation and the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology. (2019 - 2019) Conference (Other)	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Invited session chair at the 31st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (2015 - 2015)	European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Belgium
2014 - 2014	Co-organizer of the first joint postdoctoral meeting of the Greater Lisbon Area. Participating Institutes: IGC, CEDOC and IMM. (2014 - 2014) Meeting (Co-organisor)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Invited session chair at the Workshop on Epigenetics in Reproduction organized by the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. (2014 - 2014) Workshop (Other)	European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Belgium
2013 - 2013	Invited session chair at the Florence-Utah International Symposium: Genetics of Male Infertility. (2013 - 2013) Symposium (Other)	International Society of Andrology, Germany

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021	Panel member on a debate on the intersection between Art and Science, part of the Application of Oeiras for the 2027 European Capital of Culture (Portugal). Link: https://www.cogito.pt/dia-oeiras-27/ Round table	Oeiras 27 - Candidatura a Capital Europeia da Cultura Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Invited by the organizers of the Joint meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology to explain to the general public what is developmental biology. Short report of this initiative: http://thenode.biologists.com/opening-the-doors-of-scientific-conferences-to-local-citizens/outreach/	Joint meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Societies for Developmental Biology
2018 - 2018	Speaker in "À Conversa com Cientistas" - an initiative, part of the Gulbenkian Institute Open Day, that fosters dialogue between scientists and the general public. Topic of the session: Reproduction and fertility: what can cells teach us? Other	Dia Aberto do Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016 - 2016	Selected for the ART DEVO - the hidden beauty of the embryo exhibition in the Museum of Natural History and Science (Lisbon). Artwork: One nude (for Calvin Bridges). Stereoscopic image of a Drosophila melanogaster eggshell. Exhibition	ART DEVO exhibition - the hidden beauty of the embryo Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/07	Examiner of the Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Antisperm antibodies-related infertility: new insights on sperm functionality". (Thesis) Arguer	Andreia Silva (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/05	Examiner of the PhD thesis entitled: "The role of the 3D genome organisation in shaping mammalian chromosome evolution". (Thesis) Arguer	Lucía Álvarez-González (PhD) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2024/01	Examiner of the Ph.D. thesis entitled: "The impact of age and bisphenol A exposure in human sperm molecular profile". (Thesis) Arguer	Joana Santiago (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/11/27	Examiner of the Master's thesis entitled "Epigenetic regulation of intestinal stem cell ageing in Drosophila melanogaster". (Thesis) Main arguer	Mariana Martins (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/03/09	Examiner of the Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Dissecting polarity formation in the Drosophila oocyte". (Thesis) Arguer	Ana Milas (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal
2023/03/08	Main examiner of the Ph.D. thesis entitled: "Sperm metabolic mechanisms associated with ageing: Impact of male reproductive potential." (Thesis) Main arguer	Susana Almeida (PhD) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/03	Examiner of the Master's thesis entitled "Optimization of a single-oocyte subcellular transcriptomic approach to study Drosophila oocyte patterning". (Thesis) Main arguer	Leonor Ferraz (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019	Examiner of the Ph.D. thesis entitled "Dissecting Non-Canonical Roles of Condensin Complexes". (Thesis) Arguer	Cíntia Patrícia Horta Ramos (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017	Examiner of the Master's thesis entitled "Application of decision support methods to infertile couples". (Thesis) Main arguer	Maria Manuela Silva Sá Couto (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2022/01/01 - Current	Member of the executive committee of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology. Coordinator	Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022 - 2022	Member of the Scientific Program Organizing Committee of the 12th European Congress of Andrology.	European Academy of Andrology

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020 - Current	Lecturer of the Master's in Evolutionary Medicine (University of Lisbon - Faculty of Sciences). Lecture: From the evolution of sexual reproduction to human infertility.	Mestrado em Medicina Evolutiva (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Lecturer of the Master's in Clinical Laboratory Techniques (Lisbon School of Health Technologies). Lecture: Cutting-edge techniques in Reproductive Medicine.	Mestrado em Ciências Clínico-Laboratoriais (Mestrado)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Lecturer in the Ph.D. program in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Gulbenkian Institute). Lecture: Germ cell evolution.	PhD program in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Lecturer of the Master's in Biotechnology (Instituto Superior Técnico). Lecture: From basic to clinical research in reproductive biology.	Mestrado em Biotecnologia (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013 - 2013	Lecturer of the Master's in Developmental Biology (NOVA University of Lisbon). Lecture: Gametogenesis and Infertility.	Mestrado em Biologia do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 - 2012	Invited lecturer for the Medical degree of the Algarve Medical School. Lecture: Assisted Reproduction Techniques.	Medicina (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Algarve Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2011 - Current	Evaluator of research project calls (in 2011 and 2019) for France's main research funding agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). Evaluator	Agence nationale de la recherche, France	Agence nationale de la recherche

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2018	Invited by the Company of Biologists (UK) to comment the reported birth of the first CRISPR-edited humans. Link: http://thenode.biologists.com/the-reported-birth-of-crispr-edited-humans-reactions-from-the-field/discussion/	Company of Biologists
2018	Interviewed by Portuguese media outlet (Sapo24) regarding a recently published study on the unpacking of the paternal chromosomes at fertilization (co-corresponding author, published in EMBO reports). Link: https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/cientistas-portugueses-identificam-proteina-que-pode-ajudar-a-combater-casos-de-infertilidade	Sapo24
2018	Work on the unpacking of the paternal chromosomes at fertilization featured in different national and international media outlets. (In Portuguese: https://observador.pt/2018/07/24/cientistas-portugueses-identificam-proteina-que-coloca-cromossomas-de-pai-e-mae-em-pe-de-igualdade/)
2016	Work on the temporal control of meiotic transcription featured in different media outlets. Link: https://www.labroots.com/trending/cell-and-molecular-biology/3882/dormant-ovules-awakened-molecular-clock

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2020 - 2020	Featured in a program dedicated to science ("90 Segundos de Ciência") in a Portuguese national radio channel (Antena 1). Link: https://www.rtp.pt/play/p2936/e446106/90-segundos-ciencia

Distinctions

Award

2022	Best poster award at the 12th European Congress of Andrology (to Joana Almeida, PhD candidate) European Academy of Andrology, Hungary
2016	Best work developed by a Portuguese Postdoc in 2016. Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology. Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Other distinction

2019	Awarded a meeting organization grant (as main proponent) from the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (USA). Total: €20.000 Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, United States
2019	Awarded a meeting organization grant (as main proponent) from the Company of Biologists (UK). Total: €2.000 The Company of Biologists, United Kingdom
2010	Selected for the Roche Continents program (innovation in art and science) F Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland