Curriculum Vitae
Catarina Nunes
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Catarina Nunes
Citation names
- Nunes, Catarina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 581D-A6C2-0FF8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1336-0238
Email addresses
- cdnunes@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Rua Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- 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) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2016/01/01 - 2020/10
Ongoing
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Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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2015
Concluded
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Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Molecular Physiology and Evolution of a New Developmental Stability Pathway" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2013
Concluded
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Biologia Molecular e Genética (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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152 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/01/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
| 2014/06 - 2015/11 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Hormonal regulation of immunity pathways in insects from evolutionary aspects
PD/BD/114344/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020/02/14 | Immunity and Hormones: Co-option in the Evolution of Drosophila Metamorphosis |
Imperial College London (Londres, United Kingdom)
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| 2019/10 | How the larva got its fly: the co-option of immune mechanisms in the evolution of metamorphosis |
Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2019/06 | Establishing an Evolutionary Link Between Immune Response and Metamorphosis | The International Insect Hormone Workshop
(Kolymbari, Greece)
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| 2018/11 | Co-option in Drosophila: Metamorphosis and the Immune System | The XIV National Encounter for Evolutionary Biology (ENBE)
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/09 | Co-option in Drosophila: Metamorphosis and the Immune System | The 2018 edition of The DrosTuga: Annual Drosophilla Portuguese Meeting
(Tomar, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/12 - 2020/07 | Co-organiser of a selected symposium for the Euro Evo-Devo Conference, to happen in July 2020, in Naples (2020/07/07 - 2020/07/10)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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| 2018/10 - 2019/06/01 | Organisation of the 25th European Meeting for PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB), funded by the European Society
for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB).
I was involved in the committee that organised the event and selected and contacted international speakers. The committee
had to select and organise abstract submissions from delegates, contact sponsors and organise the venue for the event. (2019/05/26 - 2019/06/01)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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| 2016/09 - 2017/05 | Organisation of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Gulbenkian Students, that took place on Vimeiro, Portugal.
Annually, the PhD students of the Gulbenkian Institute have a meeting in which they expose their work to their peers and to
principal investigators, both international and from the institute.
I was part of the organising committee for the 11th edition of the meeting and was responsible for contacting and organising
the venue, logistic arrangements, contacting international invited speakers and selecting abstracts from the delegates. (2017/05 - 2017/05)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Distinctions
Award
| 2020 | 2nd Best Oral Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Gulbenkian Students |
| 2019 | 2nd Best oral presentation at The 2019 International Insect Hormone Workshop |
| 2018 | Best Oral Presentation Prize at the 2018 edition of The DrosTuga: Annual Drosophilla Portuguese Meeting. |