Curriculum Vitae
Sara Filipa Silva Pestana
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sara Filipa Silva Pestana
Citation names
- Pestana, Sara
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 651B-A763-ECF5
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0995-0040
Email addresses
- sara.pestana@nms.unl.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- 218803101 (Professional)
Addresses
- Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas. Rua Câmara Pestana nº 6, 6-A Edifício CEDOC II, 1150-082 L, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2018/03/01 - 2023/03/26
Concluded
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Mecanismos de doenças e medicina regenerativa (Doutoramento)
Major in Testing the role of extracellular vesicles in the early left right patterning
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
"Testing the role of extracellular vesicles in the early left right patterning" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2016
Concluded
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Genética Molecular e Biomedicina (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Screening for asymmetrically expressed genes in the left-right organizer of the zebrafish embryo" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
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2014
Concluded
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Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Identificação dos locais de expressão e acumulação da GRP em peixe-zebra" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/02/01 - 2018/02/28 | Gestão de Laboratório no grupo 'Cilia regulation and Disease' | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/05/01 - 2022/08/31 | Testing the role of Extracellular Vesicles in early Left-Right Patterning
COVID/BD/152586/2022
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Medical School, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2018/03/01 - 2022/04/30 | Testing the role of Extracellular Vesicles in early Left-Right Patterning
SFRH/BD/130272/2017
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Medical School, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | iNOVA4Health - Programa de Medicina Translacional (iBET, CEDOC/FCM, IPOLFG e ITQB)
UID/Multi/04462/2019
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Medical School, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2017/01/01 - 2018/02/28 | Quantitative analysis of asymmetric gene expression in the left-right organizer in response to flow forces: what comes downstream
of cilia driven flow?
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2021/09/14 | The extracellular vesicles in left-right organizer of zebrafish | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese network on Extracellular Vesicles
i3S
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| 2019 | The extracellular vesicles in left-right organizer | International Conference on Cilia, Flagella and Centrosomes
French Society of Cilia (Paris, France)
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| 2016 | Screening for asymmetrically expressed genes in the left-right organizer of the zebrafish embryo | Jornadas Intercalares das Dissertações Anuais dos Mestrados
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (Caparica, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2021/12/01 - 2021/12/10 | Apresentação poster "The extracellular vesicles in left-right organizer of zebrafish"
Conference
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Cell biology virtual 2021
American Society for Cell Biology, United States
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| 2020/04/14 - 2020/06/30 | Voluntariado na realização dos testes de diagnóstico ao COVID-19. | COVID-19 Task Force - CEDOC
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
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| 2019/08/04 - 2019/08/09 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "The extracellular vesicles in left-right organizer"
Conference
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FASEB: The Biology of Cilia and Flagella
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, United States
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| 2018/11/07 - 2018/11/10 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "Testing the role of extracellular vesicles in early left-right patterning"
Conference
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Joint meeting of the Portuguese, Spanish and French societies for development biology / 4th Meeting of the Portuguese society for development biology |
| 2018/10/02 - 2018/10/05 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "Testing the role of extracellular vesicles in early left-right patterning"
Conference
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EMBO Workshop Cilia 2018 |
| 2018/02/16 - 2018/02/17 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "Testing the role of extracellular vesicles in early left-right patterning"
Conference
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1st Meeting on Vesicular Biology |
| 2018/02/06 - 2018/02/09 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "A new possible role of V-ATPase in the left-right development"
Conference
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3rd BEAT-PCD Conference and Training School / 4th PCD Training School |
| 2017/06/01 - 2017/06/02 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "The Role of Rabconnectin3a in Cilia Length Regulation"
Conference
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SINAL 2017, 8th Meeting on Signal Transduction |
| 2017/04/18 - 2017/04/21 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "The Role of Rabconnectin3a in Cilia Length Regulation"
Conference
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2nd BEAT-PCD Conference and Training School / 3rd PCD Training School |
| 2017/02/12 - 2017/02/17 | Apresentação poster do trabalho "Notch signalling decides on cilia motility in the left-right organizer"
Conference
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Gordon Research Conference on Cilia, mucus and mucuciliary interactions |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/03/29 - 2019/04/01 | Research skills development course (RSD) | Research skills development course (RSD) (Outros) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2019 | Melhor apresentação oral na "International Conference on Cilia, Flagella and Centrosomes" |