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Vitor Cabral Completed the Licenciatura em Biologia - Ramo Científico in 2008 at Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia , followed by a PhD in Eukaryote and Prokaryote Microbiology in 2012 at Institut Pasteur and by Université Paris Diderot under the supervision of Professor Christophe d'Enfert. Vitor Cabral has had Postdoctoral appointments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University, and is now a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, working in 2 projects in the area of Natural sciences with emphasis on Microbiology. Vitor Cabral has mentored several students, including Medical, MD/PhD, and PhD, as well as trained Postdoctoral researchers. Vitor Cabral has published 12 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 1 book chapter. Vitor Cabral has organized 5 events. Finally, Vitor Cabral has received 1 award and/or honor.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vitor Cabral

Citation names

  • Cabral, Vitor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
531D-AA4D-15AF
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0367-3521

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 PhD in Eukaryote and Prokaryote Microbiology (Doctor)
Institut Pasteur, France

Université Paris Diderot, France
"Identification of new genes of <i>Candida albicans</i> involved in biofilm formation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 first class with honours (mention très honorable)
2008
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Biologia - Ramo Científico (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Relevance of HIV Vpr protein variants on the mitochondrial dysfunction of HIV patients" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/05 - Current Postdoc (Research) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2014/09/16 - 2016/04/22 Postdoc (Research) Columbia University Irving Medical Center, United States
2013/09/02 - 2014/09/15 Postdoc (Research) Yeshiva University Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
2009/03/03 - 2013/03/30 Researcher (Research) Institut Pasteur, France
2007/09/01 - 2009/02/28 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - Current Identification of novel quorum sensing signals in the mammalian gut microbiota
PTDC/BIA-MIC/30487/2017
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/05/16 - 2020/04/30 Role of the microbiota in the defense against multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae
Infect-ERA/0004/2015
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/10 - 2012/09 Pathogenomics and Systems Biology of Fungal Infections – An Integrative Approach
214004
 European Commission

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Microbial therapy against gut inflammation — MAGI
843183
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Research Executive Agency
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2019/10/01 Identification of novel quorum sensing signals in the mammalian gut microbiota
PTDC/BIA-MIC/30487/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Cabral, V.; Chauvel, M.; Firon, A.; Legrand, M.; Nesseir, A.; Bachellier-Bassi, S.; Chaudhari, Y.; Munro, C.A.; D'Enfert, C.. Modular gene over-expression strategies for Candida albicans. 2012.
    10.1007/978-1-61779-539-8_15
Journal article
  1. Oliveira RA; Cabral V; Torcato I; Xavier KB. "Deciphering the quorum-sensing lexicon of the gut microbiota.". Cell host & microbe (2023): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/37054672.
    10.1016/j.chom.2023.03.015
  2. Mourer T; El Ghalid M; Pehau-Arnaudet G; Kauffmann B; Loquet A; Brûlé S; Cabral V; d'Enfert C; Bachellier-Bassi S. "The Pga59 cell wall protein is an amyloid forming protein involved in adhesion and biofilm establishment in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.". NPJ biofilms and microbiomes (2023): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/36697414.
    10.1038/s41522-023-00371-x
  3. Djukovic A; Garzón MJ; Canlet C; Cabral V; Lalaoui R; García-Garcerá M; Rechenberger J; et al. "Lactobacillus supports Clostridiales to restrict gut colonization by multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.". Nature communications (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/36153315.
    10.1038/s41467-022-33313-w
  4. Rita A. Oliveira; Vitor Cabral; Karina B. Xavier. "Microbiome–diet interactions drive antibiotic efficacy". Nature Microbiology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00926-8.
    10.1038/s41564-021-00926-8
  5. Rita A. Oliveira; Katharine M. Ng; Margarida B. Correia; Vitor Cabral; Handuo Shi; Justin L. Sonnenburg; Kerwyn Casey Huang; Karina B. Xavier. "Klebsiella michiganensis transmission enhances resistance to Enterobacteriaceae gut invasion by nutrition competition". Nature Microbiology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0658-4.
    10.1038/s41564-019-0658-4
  6. *Carlotta Ronda (co-first author); *Sway Chen (co-first author); *Vitor Cabral (co-first author); Stephanie J. Yaung; Harris H. Wang. "Metagenomic engineering of the mammalian gut microbiome in situ". Nature Methods 16 2 (2019): 167-170. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0301-y.
    10.1038/s41592-018-0301-y
  7. *Renáta Tóth (co-first author); *Vitor Cabral (co-first author); Ernst Thuer; Flóra Bohner; Tibor Németh; Csaba Papp; Leonardo Nimrichter; et al. "Investigation of Candida parapsilosis virulence regulatory factors during host-pathogen interaction". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19453-4.
    10.1038/s41598-018-19453-4
  8. Legrand M; Bachellier-Bassi S; Lee KK; Chaudhari Y; Tournu H; Arbogast L; Boyer H; et al. "Erratum: Generating genomic platforms to study Candida albicans pathogenesis.". Nucleic acids research (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30107554.
    10.1093/nar/gky747
  9. Legrand M; Bachellier-Bassi S; Lee KK; Chaudhari Y; Tournu H; Arbogast L; Boyer H; et al. "Generating genomic platforms to study Candida albicans pathogenesis.". Nucleic acids research (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29982705.
    10.1093/nar/gky594
  10. Cabral, V.; Xavier, K.B.. "Bacterial Call to Arms for Warfare at the Infection Site". Cell Host and Microbe 23 3 (2018): 285-287. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042912353&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.chom.2018.02.009
  11. Basso, V.; Znaidi, S.; Lagage, V.; Cabral, V.; Schoenherr, F.; LeibundGut-Landmann, S.; d'Enfert, C.; Bachellier-Bassi, S.. "The two-component response regulator Skn7 belongs to a network of transcription factors regulating morphogenesis in Candida albicans and independently limits morphogenesis-induced ROS accumulation". Molecular Microbiology 106 1 (2017): 157-182. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85027830946&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/mmi.13758
  12. *Mihu, M.R. (co-first author); *Cabral, V. (co-first author); Pattabhi, R.; Tar, M.T.; Davies, K.P.; Friedman, A.J.; Martinez, L.R.; Nosanchuk, J.D.. "Sustained nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles interfere with methicillinresistant staphylococcus aureus adhesion and biofilm formation in a rat central venous catheter model". Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 61 1 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85009239981&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1128/AAC.02020-16
  13. Sheth, R.U.; Cabral, V.; Chen, S.P.; Wang, H.H.. "Manipulating Bacterial Communities by in situ Microbiome Engineering". Trends in Genetics 32 4 (2016): 189-200. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962538599&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.tig.2016.01.005
  14. Krausz, A.E.; Adler, B.L.; Cabral, V.; Navati, M.; Doerner, J.; Charafeddine, R.A.; Chandra, D.; et al. "Curcumin-encapsulated nanoparticles as innovative antimicrobial and wound healing agent". Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine 11 1 (2015): 195-206. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919666704&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.nano.2014.09.004
  15. *Cabral, V. (co-first author); *Znaidi, S. (co-first author); Walker, L.A.; Martin-Yken, H.; Dague, E.; Legrand, M.; Lee, K.; et al. "Targeted Changes of the Cell Wall Proteome Influence Candida albicans Ability to Form Single- and Multi-strain Biofilms". PLoS Pathogens 10 12 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84919683254&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.ppat.1004542
  16. Schwarzmüller, T.; Ma, B.; Hiller, E.; Istel, F.; Tscherner, M.; Brunke, S.; Ames, L.; et al. "Systematic Phenotyping of a Large-Scale Candida glabrata Deletion Collection Reveals Novel Antifungal Tolerance Genes". PLoS Pathogens 10 6 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903457483&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.ppat.1004211
  17. Chauvel, M.; Nesseir, A.; Cabral, V.; Znaidi, S.; Goyard, S.; Bachellier-Bassi, S.; Firon, A.; et al. "A Versatile Overexpression Strategy in the Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans: Identification of Regulators of Morphogenesis and Fitness". PLoS ONE 7 9 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866709385&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0045912
Preprint
  1. Vitor Cabral; Rita A. Oliveira; Margarida B. Correia; Miguel F. Pedro; Carles Ubeda; Karina B. Xavier. "Novel gut probiotic engages microbiota for recovery and pathobiont clearance while preventing inflammation". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.566997.
    10.1101/2023.11.14.566997
  2. Bachellier-Bassi S; Mourer T; Ghalid ME; Pehaut-Arnaudet G; Kauffmann B; Loquet A; Cabral V; d'Enfert C. "The Pga59 cell wall protein is an amyloid forming protein involved in adhesion and biofilm establishment in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans.". 2022. http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR560113.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-2159129/v1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/18 Novel probiotic therapy for intestinal inflammatory disorders Farm to Fork: our food, our health, our future
Centro de Apoio Tecnológico Agro Alimentar (Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2023/04/26 Gut Microbiome Biofilms PhD Program in Molecular Biosciences
ITQB-UNL (Oeiras, Portugal)
2023/01/04 Gut Bacterial Biofilms PhD Programme in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine
Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
2022/01/24 Bacterial Biofilms: A Gut Lifestyle Integrative Biology and Biomedicine PhD program
Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência; ITQB-NOVA (Oeiras, Portugal)
2018/02 Biofilms: A Bacterial Neighbourhood Velhos Amigos¿ Novas Ameaças, XIX Nephrology Symposium
Portuguese Society of Nephrology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/04/02 An over-expression screen reveals genes involved in biofilm formation in Candida albicans 11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis
American Society for Microbiology (San Francisco, United States)
2011/12/15 An over-expression approach for the identification of Candida albicans genes involved in biofilm formation 5ème journée des Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Institut Pasteur
Insitut Pasteur (Paris, France)
2011/10/12 Identification of Candida albicans genes involved in biofilm formation by an over-expression approach FINSysB Conference, Candida Infection Biology
FINSysB Marie Curie ITN (Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Weekly seminar series for PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows to present their work to the institutional research community. (2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/10/20 International IGC-BI-MPI Joint PostDoc Retreat. International retreat for postdoctoral researchers from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal), Babraham Insitute (UK), and Max Planck Institute (Germany), held in Portugal. (2017/10/18 - 2017/10/20)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/10/19 - 2017/10/19 Workshop titled "Do’s and don’ts of talking to the media", aimed at Postdoctoral Researchers on how to improve science-related to communication with media outlets. (2017/10/19 - 2017/10/19)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2017/03/17 - 2017/03/31 Workshop titled "Advice and tips to improve CV" aimed at researchers at any level. (2017/03/17 - 2017/03/31)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Member of the Postdoc Committee, organizing body of several activities for the postdoctoral community, such as an International Postdoctoral Retreat (for 3 institutes), Portuguese classes, Curriculum Vitae workshop.
Member
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016 - 2016 Training Postdoctoral Fellow Carlotta Ronda
2014 - 2015 Mentoring PhD student Sway Chen
2013 - 2014 Mentoring Medical student Aimee Krausz
2013 - 2014 Mentoring Medical student Brandon Adler
2013 - 2013 Training PhD student Juliana Rizzo
Distinctions

Award

2022 InnOValley Proof-of-Concept Award
Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
2018 Postdoctoral Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Research Executive Agency, Belgium
2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal