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Ana Catarina Duarte obtained her BSc (2013) and MSc (2014) degrees in Biomedical Sciences from Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI). In February of 2021 she completed the Ph.D. in Biomedicine at UBI, with a work focused on the characterization of the expression and function of bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) at the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. During the PhD, she was responsible for the supervision of younger students and lab management. She was also a member of the PhD Student Committee and participated in Project Management, Animal Experimentation, Calcium Imaging, and Python and Data Science courses. From 2021 to 2023, she was a researcher at Politécnico da Guarda. In 2023, she was a Junior Researcher at the Health Sciences Research Center (CICS-UBI). From 02/2023 she is an Invited Assistant Professor at Health Sciences Faculty of UBI. Enrolled in the lecture of Applied Molecular Biology, Genetics, Oncobiology to BSc and MSc degrees at UBI in Biochemistry, Biotecnology, and Biomedical Sciences. She is member of the CICS-UBI Scientific Council from 2022. Ana Catarina Duarte is author of 22 articles (h-index 11) in journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports and 1 book chapter. She is a referee of papers in international journals and Guest Editor of the Special Issue "The Brain Barriers: Functions and Implications" (Life, mdpi). In addition, has been part of the organizing committee of 4 national and 1 international meetings and has presented her work at several national and international scientific conferences (awarded with 5 travel grants). She was also awarded with the best joint paper in CICS-UBI Symposium in 2021. Currently, her research focus in the investigation of the role of TAS2Rs in the brain barriers permeability to therapeutic drugs.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Catarina Duarte

Citation names

  • Duarte, Ana Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6311-CC2F-7102
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5911-6521

Email addresses

  • acduarte@fcsaude.ubi.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/01/19 - 2023/01/27
Concluded
 Gestão de Projectos (Outros)
Instituto de Gestão e Administração Pública, Portugal
2023/01/16 - 2023/01/16
Concluded
 ORPHEUS Supervision Workshop - Best Practices for PhD Training (Outros)
Organisation for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System (ORPHEUS), Croatia
2015/09/01 - 2021/02/08
Concluded
 Biomedicina (Doutoramento)
Major in Neurociências
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
"Characterization of bitter taste receptors expression and function in the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/03/19 - 2019/06/04
Concluded
 Python & Ciência de Dados (Outros)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 17
2018/11/22 - 2018/11/23
Concluded
 Practical Course on Calcium Imaging (Outros)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2015/01/14 - 2015/02/17
Concluded
 Animal Experimentation Course (C Category) (Outros)
Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón, Spain
2014
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Bisphenol A effects in transthyretin and barrier integrity markers in the choroid plexus: implications in amyloid beta catabolism" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/01 - 2023/06/30 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2023/02/01 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico da Guarda Unidade de Investigação para o Desenvolvimento do Interior, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda Unidade de Investigação para o Desenvolvimento do Interior, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2021/06/30 Researcher (Research) Blood Reprogramming Technologies, Lda, Portugal
2017/06/02 - 2020/06/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current ClockABC
EEA Grants
Researcher
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - Current Health Sciences Research Centre - UIDB/00709/2020
UIDB/00709/2020
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - Current Health Sciences Research Centre - UIDP/00709/2020
UIDP/00709/2020
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/02 - 2023/06 Gliorganoides - Desenvolvimento de organoides de glioblastoma para avaliação pré-clínica do efeito anti proliferativo do lactisole
CENTRO-01-0246-FEDER-000044
Researcher
Concluded
2023/02 - 2023/06 Genome-based personalized medicine
CENTRO-08-5864-FSE-000039
Post-doc
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
 Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro
Concluded
2022/08 - 2023/06 SERIVITRO - Hidrogel de SERIcina para desenvolver modelos 3D in VITRO
CENTRO-01-0246-FEDER-000044
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda Unidade de Investigação para o Desenvolvimento do Interior, Portugal
Concluded
2021/09 - 2023/02 Recursos Humanos Altamente Qualificados
CENTRO-04-3559-FSE-000162
Researcher
European Social Fund
Concluded
2017/06/01 - 2020/06/30 ICON - Interdisciplinary Challenges On Neurodegeneration
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000013
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Health Sciences Research Centre
UID/Multi/00709/2019
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gonçalves, Isabel; Duarte, Ana Catarina; Quintela, Telma; Hubbard, Peter; Baltazar, Graça; Schwerk, Christian; Belin, Andrea; Tomás, Joana; Santos, Cecília R. A.. Corresponding author: Santos, Cecília R. A.. "Experimental Tools to Study the Regulation and Function of the Choroid Plexus". 2019.
    10.1007/978-1-4939-8946-1_13
Conference paper
  1. Santos, Cecília R. A.; Duarte, Ana Catarina; Quintela, Telma; Tomás, Joana; Gonçalves, Isabel. "Chemical sensing at the rat choroid plexus is regulated by sex hormones". Paper presented in XII Conference of the Iberian Association for Comparative Endocrinology (AIEC), Faro, 2019.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Maria José de Jesús Valle; Alexandra Mabel Rondon Mujica; Aránzazu Zarzuelo Castañeda; Paula Coutinho; Ana Catarina de Abreu Duarte; Amparo Sánchez Navarro. "Resveratrol liposomes in buccal formulations, an approach to overcome drawbacks limiting the application of the phytoactive molecule for chemoprevention and treatment of oral cancer". Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2024.105910.
    10.1016/j.jddst.2024.105910
  2. André Furtado; Ana Catarina Duarte; Ana R. Costa; Isabel Gonçalves; Cecília R. A. Santos; Eugenia Gallardo; Telma Quintela. "Circadian ABCG2 Expression Influences the Brain Uptake of Donepezil across the Blood–Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier". International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25095014.
    10.3390/ijms25095014
  3. André Furtado; André J. Esgalhado; Ana C. Duarte; Ana R. Costa; Ana R. Costa-Brito; Eva Carro; Hiroshi Ishikawa; et al. "Circadian rhythmicity of amyloid-beta-related molecules is disrupted in the choroid plexus of a female Alzheimer's disease mouse model". Journal of Neuroscience Research 101 4 (2023): 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.25164.
    Accepted • 10.1002/jnr.25164
  4. Duarte, Ana C.; Costa, Elisabete C.; Filipe, Hugo; Saraiva, Sofia; Jacinto, Telma; Miguel, Sónia; Ribeiro, Maximiano; Coutinho, Paula. "Animal-derived products in science and current alternatives". Biomaterials Advances (2023): 213428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2023.213428.
    10.1016/j.bioadv.2023.213428
  5. Costa, Ana R.; Duarte, Ana C.; Costa-Brito, Ana R.; Gonçalves, Isabel; Santos, Cecília R.A.. "Bitter taste signaling in cancer". Life Sciences 315 (2023): 121363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lfs.2022.121363.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.lfs.2022.121363
  6. Duarte, Ana Catarina; Costa, Ana Raquel; Gonçalves, Isabel; Quintela, Telma; Preissner, Robert; Santos, Cecília R.A.. "The druggability of bitter taste receptors for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders". Biochemical Pharmacology 197 (2022): 114915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2022.114915.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.bcp.2022.114915
  7. Ana Catarina Duarte; Sílvia Rodrigues; Andrea Luísa Fernandes Afonso; António Nogueira; P. Coutinho. "Antibiotic Resistance in the Drinking Water: Old and New Strategies to Remove Antibiotics, Resistant Bacteria, and Resistance Genes". Pharmaceuticals (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/15/4/393.
    Accepted • 10.3390/ph15040393
  8. Furtado, André; Mineiro, Rafael; Duarte, Ana Catarina; Gonçalves, Isabel; Santos, Cecília R.; Quintela, Telma. "The Daily Expression of ABCC4 at the BCSFB Affects the Transport of Its Substrate Methotrexate". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 5 (2022): 2443. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23052443.
    Accepted • 10.3390/ijms23052443
  9. Telma Quintela; André Furtado; Ana C. Duarte; Isabel Gonçalves; Jihwan Myung; Cecília R.A. Santos. "The role of circadian rhythm in choroid plexus functions". Progress in Neurobiology 205 (2021): 102129-102129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102129.
    10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102129
  10. Costa-Brito, Ana R.; Quintela, Telma; Gonçalves, Isabel; Duarte, Ana C.; Costa, Ana R.; Arosa, Fernando A.; Cavaco, José E.; Lemos, Manuel C.; Santos, Cecília R. A.. "The Choroid Plexus Is an Alternative Source of Prolactin to the Rat Brain". Molecular Neurobiology (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12035-020-02267-9.
    Published • 10.1007/s12035-020-02267-9
  11. Duarte, Ana C.; Furtado, André; Hrynchak, Mariya V.; Costa, Ana R.; Talhada, Daniela; Gonçalves, Isabel; Lemos, Manuel C.; Quintela, Telma; Santos, Cecília R.A.. "Age, Sex Hormones, and Circadian Rhythm Regulate the Expression of Amyloid-Beta Scavengers at the Choroid Plexus". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 18 (2020): 6813. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21186813.
    Published • 10.3390/ijms21186813
  12. Furtado, André; Astaburuaga, Rosario; Costa, Ana; Duarte, Ana C.; Gonçalves, Isabel; Cipolla-Neto, José; Lemos, Manuel C.; et al. "The Rhythmicity of Clock Genes is Disrupted in the Choroid Plexus of the APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease". Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 77 2 (2020): 795-806. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jad-200331.
    Published • 10.3233/jad-200331
  13. Almeida-Santos, D.; Duarte, A. C.; Gonçalves, I.; Ferreira, Catarina L.; Ferrer, I.; Ishikawa, Hiroshi; Schwerk, Christian; Schroten, Horst; Santos, Cecília R. A.. "Cadaverine and Spermine Elicit Ca2+ Uptake in Human CP Cells via a Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1 Dependent Pathway". Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12031-020-01684-8.
    Published • 10.1007/s12031-020-01684-8
  14. Duarte, Ana C.; Santos, José; Costa, Ana R.; Ferreira, Catarina L.; Tomás, Joana; Quintela, Telma; Ishikawa, Hiroshi; et al. "Bitter taste receptors profiling in the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid-barrier". Biochemical Pharmacology 177 (2020): 113954. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113954.
    Published • 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113954
  15. Duarte, Ana C.; Rosado, Tiago; Costa, Ana R.; Santos, José; Gallardo, Eugénia; Quintela, Telma; Ishikawa, Hiroshi; et al. "The bitter taste receptor TAS2R14 regulates resveratrol transport across the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier". Biochemical Pharmacology 177 (2020): 113953. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113953.
    Published • 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.113953
  16. Daniela Talhada; Ana Raquel Costa-Brito; Ana Catarina Duarte; Ana Raquel Costa; Telma Quintela; Joana Tomás; Isabel Gonçalves; Cecília Reis Alves Santos. "The choroid plexus: Simple structure, complex functions". Journal of Neuroscience Research (2020): https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.24571.
    10.1002/jnr.24571
  17. Santos, C.R.A.; Duarte, A.C.; Costa, A.R.; Tomás, J.; Quintela, T.; Gonçalves, I.. "The senses of the choroid plexus". Progress in Neurobiology 182 (2019): 101680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.101680.
    Published • 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.101680
  18. Tomás, Joana; Santos, Cecília R.A.; Duarte, Ana C.; Maltez, Maria; Quintela, Telma; Lemos, Manuel C.; Gonçalves, Isabel. "Bitter taste signaling mediated by Tas2r144 is down-regulated by 17ß-estradiol and progesterone in the rat choroid plexus". Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 495 (2019): 110521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2019.110521.
    Published • 10.1016/j.mce.2019.110521
  19. Quintela, Telma; Duarte, Ana Catarina; Gonçalves, Isabel; Furtado, André; Santos, Cecilia. "Circadian oscillation of Aß-related molecules at the blood cerebrospinal fluid barrier". IBRO Reports 6 (2019): S489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.1534.
    10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.1534
  20. Duarte, Ana. "Choroid plexus is an additional source of melatonin in the brain.". Journal of pineal research (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/jpi.12528.
    10.1111/jpi.12528
  21. Duarte, Ana. "The choroid plexus as a sex hormone target: Functional implications". Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology (2016):
    10.1016/j.yfrne.2016.12.002
  22. Duarte, Ana. "Sex hormone decline and amyloid ß accumulation in the brain: revisiting the amyloid cascade hypothesis". Journal of Neuroendocrinology (2016):
    10.1111/jne.12432
  23. Costa AR; Marcelino H; Gonçalves I; Quintela T; Tomás J; Duarte AC; Fonseca AM; Santos CR. "Sex hormones protect against amyloid-beta induced oxidative stress in the choroid plexus cell line Z310.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27328988.
    10.1111/jne.12404
  24. Quintela T; Marcelino H; Deery MJ; Feret R; Howard J; Lilley KS; Albuquerque T; et al. "Sex-Related Differences in Rat Choroid Plexus and Cerebrospinal Fluid: A cDNA Microarray and Proteomic Analysis.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26606900.
    10.1111/jne.12340
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Characterization of bitter taste receptors expression and function in the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier". PhD, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2021.
  2. "Bisphenol A effects in transthyretin and barrier integrity markers in the choroid plexus: implications in amyloid-beta catabolism". Master, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2014.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/03 Circadian Rhythmicity of Beta Amyloid Scavengers is Disrupted in the Choroid Plexus of ana Alzheimer's Disease mouse model. AD/PD 2022 Advances in Science and Therapy
(Barcelona, Spain)
2021/12/15 Antibiotic resistance in waste waters: impact in human health Seminários de Outono
(Guarda, Portugal)
2019/11 Resveratrol transverses the human blood-CSF-barrier by a mechanism dependent on the bitter taste receptor TAS2R14 III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Trends in Aging and Cancer
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/11 Circadian rhythmicity of amyloid beta scavengers in the choroid plexus. III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Trends in Aging and Cancer
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/11 Bitter taste signalling in glioblastoma: an alternative pathway to tackle chemoresistance? III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Trends in Aging and Cancer
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/11 Expression of Prolactin and Prolactin receptor in the Choroid Plexus. III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Trends in Aging and Cancer
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/07 Are polyamines detected by the Trace Amine-Associated Recptor-1 in the human Choroid Plexus? XIV CICS-UBI Annual Symposium
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/07 Modulation of choroid plexus circadian clock alzheimer´s disease. XIV CICS-UBI Annual Symposium
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2019/06 Characterization of bitter taste receptors expression and function at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier XVI Meeting of Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/07 Bitter taste receptors expression and function in the choroid plexus: analysis of resveratrol as a stimulus. XIII CICS-UBI Annual Symposium
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2018/07 Are polyamines detected by the TAAR receptor family in the human Choroid Plexus? XII CICS-UBI Annual Symposium
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2015/11 Regulation of the expression of amyloid beta scavengers in response to amyloid beta insults during aging of the choroid plexus I International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Trends in Endocrinology and Neurosciences
(Covilhã, Portugal)
2015/07 Choroid plexus regulation of amyloid beta scavengers expression throughout life X Annual CICS-UBI Symposium
Universidade da Beira Interior - Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde (Covilhã, Portugal)
2014/07 Bisphenol A effect in transthyretin expression and amyloid-beta clearance in rat choroid plexus IX Annual CICS-UBI Symposium
Universidade da Beira Interior - Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde (Covilhã, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current Avaliação da permeabilidade das barreiras do cérebro a compostos com propriedades anticancerígenas // Evaluation of the permeability of brain barriers to compounds with anticancer properties
Supervisor
 Ciências Biomédicas (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2024/09 - Current Comparação dos níveis de recetores do paladar em tumores cerebrais // Analysis of taste receptor levels in brain tumors
Co-supervisor
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2023/09 - Current The role of TAS2R14 in brain drug delivery
Supervisor
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/02 - Current Preclinical evaluation of the T1R2/T1R3 glucosensor as a therapeutic target in Glioblastoma
Co-supervisor
 Biomedicina (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/12 The choroid plexus as a gateway for brain metastasis
Co-supervisor
 Ciências Biomédicas (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/11 Avaliação da resposta fisiológica das células do plexo coróide à estimulação magnética // Evaluation of the physiological response of choroid plexus cells to magnetic stimulation
Co-supervisor
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/06 Análise da ativação do TAS2R14 pela quercetina no transporte da doxorrubicina através da barreira sangue-líquido cefalorraquidiano // Analysis of TAS2R14 activation by quercetin in the transport of doxorubicin across the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier
Supervisor
 Projeto em Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/06 Estudo do papel do TAS2R14 na integridade e permeabilidade da barreira sangue-líquido cefalorraquidiano // Study of the role of TAS2R14 in the integrity and permeability of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier
Supervisor
 Projeto em Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Pint of Science Festival in Guarda (2023/05)
Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022 - 2022 Pint of Science Festival in Guarda. (2022/05)
Festival (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/07/05 - 2018/07/06 Member of the organizing committee of the XIII Annual CICS-UBI Symposium, 5-6th July 201 8, Covilhã - Portugal. (2018/07/05)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2017/05/17 - 2017/05/20 Member of the organizing committee of the II International Congress in Health Sciences Research towards innovation and entrepreneurship: Trends in Biotechnology for Biomedical Applications, 17-20th May 2017 (2017/05/17)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2016/06/30 - 2016/07/01 Member of the organizing committee of the XI Annual CICS-UBI Symposium, 30th June - 1 st July 201 6, Covilhã - Portugal. (2016/06/30 - 2016/07/01)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Presentation of Poster "Amyloid-beta scavengers’ expression in the Choroid Plexus is age-, sex-, and circadian-dependent", Granada, Spain
Congress
 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience
2023/07 - Current Presentation of Poster "Olfactory Receptors gene expression in normal prostate and prostate cancer cells", UBI, Covilhã, Portugal XVIII International CICS-UBI Symposium
2020/07 - Current Presentation of Poster "Bitter taste receptor TAS2R14 mediates resveratrol transport and its effects in the human Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier" 12th FENS Forum of Neuroscience (Virtual)
2019/10 - Current Oral presentation "Resveratrol transverses the human blood-CSF-barrier by a mechanism dependent on the bitter taste receptor TAS2R14", UBI, Covilhã, Portugal
Congress
 III International Congress in Health Sciences Research: Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Trends in Aging and Cancer
2019/09 - Current Presentation of Poster "Expression and function of bitter taste receptors in the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid Barrier", Daegu, South Korea
Congress
 10th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience
2019/07 - Current Presentation of Poster "TAS2R14 regulates resveratrol transport in the human blood-cerebrospinal fluid", Belgrade, Servia
Congress
 FENS Regional Meeting
2019/06 - Current Oral presentation "Characterization of bitter taste receptors expression and function at the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier", Lisboa, Portugal. XVI Meeting of Portuguese Society for Neuroscience
2018/07 - Current Presentation of Poster "Sensing bitter compounds at the human Blood-cerebrospinal barrier", Berlin, Germany
Congress
 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience
2017/07 - Current Oral presentation "Unveiling the chemosensing mechanisms at the brain barriers: Taste and Olfactory signalling pathways", UBI. Covilhã, Portugal XII CICS-UBI Annual Symposium

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/22 Impact of Donor Variability in the Therapeutic Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in An Animal Model of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz Araújo (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/06/13 Impacto do ritmo circadiano na entrega de fármacos ao cérebro
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria Rodrigues Cardoso (Other)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/04/08 Resistências antimicrobianas e genes de resistência transmitidos por águas tratadas e não tratadas destinadas ao consumo humano
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Sílvia Marques Rodrigues (Master)
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/01 - Current Heliyon Cell Press
2023 - Current Environmental Pollution Elsevier
2023 - Current Ijerph mdpi
2023 - Current Pharmaceuticals mdpi
2023 - Current Cancers mdpi
2022 - Current Materials mdpi
2022 - Current BMC Neurology Springer Nature
2022 - Current Nutrients
2022 - Current Pharmaceutics mdpi
2022 - Current Cimb mdpi
2021/01 - Current Journal of Neuroinflammation Springer Nature

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2018 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências Membro
2016 - 2018 Associação Nacional de Ciências Biomédicas (ANCIB) Secretária Adjunta da Assembleia Geral

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/01 - Current Member of the CICS-UBI scientific council.
Member
 Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2016 - 2019 Member of the Ph.D. students committee of the Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde of the Universidade da Beira Interior (CAD-CICS-UBI)
Member
 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Biologia Molecular Aplicada Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Biologia Molecular Aplicada Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Oncobiologia Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Oncobiologia Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09 - Current Sistema Digestivo Medicina (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/02/09 - Current Genética Teóricas e Teórico Práticas Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/02/09 - Current Genética Teóricas e Teórico Práticas Biotecnologia Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/02/09 - Current Genética Teóricas e Teórico Práticas Ciências Biomédicas Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/02 Genética e Aplicações Clínicas (40h P) Biotecnologia Medicinal (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/09 - 2017/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/09 - 2017/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Ciências Biomédicas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/09 - 2017/02 Oncobiologia (TP e PL) Química Medicinal (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 CICS-UBI Best Annual Joint Paper Award
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2020 Travel Award
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
2019 Travel Award
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
2019 Travel Award
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
2019 Scholarship
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências, Portugal
2019 Research project award, 70th National Congress in Endocrinology, Braga, 2019.
Sociedade Portuguesa de Endocrinologia Diabetes e Metabolismo, Portugal
2018 Travel Award
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium