Curriculum Vitae
Diana Oliveira da Silva
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Diana Oliveira da Silva
- Date of birth
- 1993/12/16
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Diana O. Silva
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6C1F-2000-B971
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3225-4756
- Researcher Id
- B-3732-2018
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2014/09 - 2016/11
Concluded
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Biochemistry for Health (Mestrado)
Major in Bioquimica; Saude
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Chemical synthesis of new histone deacetylase inhibitors and their evaluation as anticancer agents" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011/09 - 2014/07
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Projecto Investigação : Utilização de nanopartículas de ouro na resolução da estrutura 3D de macromoléculas biológicas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/02/01 - Current | Bolseiro de investigação - PhD Student | Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal |
| Structural Biology for Drug Design (SBDD) Unit in iBET , Portugal | ||
| 2017/06/05 - 2017/06/09 | Estagio internacional na empresa Proteros com enfase em fragment screening, structure-based Drug Design e lead discovery. | Proteros Biostructures GmbH, Germany |
| 2016/11/01 - 2017/01/31 | Bi - Bolseiro de Investigação | Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/02/01 - Current | Target2cypd New opportunities to explore Cyclophilin D as an effective therapeutic drug target
Target2cypd
Master Student Fellow
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2018/04/23 | New approaches used in fragment screening for drug discovery | Macromolecular Crystallography Unit
(Oeiras, Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/05/15 | New opportunities to explore Cyclophilin D as an effective therapeutic drug target |
ITQB-NOVA (Oeiras, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2018/05/15 - 2018/11/17 | 8th ITQB NOVA PhD student´s meeting
(2018/11/15 - 2018/11/17)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2019/05/26 - 2019/05/31 | INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLIZATION - ISBC2019 provides five days of lectures and practical demonstrations
related to the crystallization of biological macromolecules, biominerals and biomimetic materials, with one full day devoted
to case studies on the crystallization of membrane proteins, viruses and large macromolecular complexes.
Workshop
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ISBC2019
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLIZATION - ISBC 2019, Spain
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| 2019/01/27 - 2019/01/27 | Remote X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation using Diamond Light Source facility in Oxford
Other
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Remote X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation using Diamond Light Source facility in Oxford
Diamond Light Source Ltd, United Kingdom
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| 2018/11/07 - 2018/11/09 | 9th ITQB NOVA PhD student´s meeting.
Included: Poster Session. Oeiras, Portugal
Meeting
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9th ITQB NOVA PhD student´s meeting
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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| 2018/09/03 - 2018/09/07 | eCheminfo Oxford 2018 - Training and Innovation Course in Drug Design.
Emerging modeling approaches and tools for all aspects of rational drug design
Included: Poster Session.
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, England
Workshop
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eCheminfo Oxford 2018 - Training and Innovation Course in Drug Design
Diamond Light Source Ltd, United Kingdom
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| 2018/07/23 - 2018/07/23 | Remote X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation using Diamond Light Source facility in Oxford
Other
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Remote X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation using Diamond Light Source facility in Oxford
Diamond Light Source Ltd, United Kingdom
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| 2018/07/09 - 2018/07/13 | 11th CERMAX practical course on basic NMR. Course topics included basic theoretical aspects of NMR. Introduction to the most
commonly used 1D and 2D homonuclear and heteronuclear techniques. Data acquisition and processing with a “hands-on” approach
Workshop
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11th CERMAX practical course on basic NMR
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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| 2018/06/28 - 2018/06/28 | X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation - Macromolecular Crystallography
Other
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X-ray Data Collection Experiment using synchrotron radiation - Macromolecular Crystallography
ESRF, France
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| 2018/06/08 - 2018/06/08 | 7th Nacional Meeting of Portuguese Users of Synchrotron Radiation . Anual gathering of a very special community that became
interested in the use of Synchrotron Radiation for the development of new frontiers in science and technology. Representatives
of three reputed institutions- ALBA (Barcelona, Spain), BESSY II (Berlin, Germany) and ESRF (Grenoble, France) Included:
Poster Session- Diana O. Silva, Micael Freitas, Pedro M. Matias, Rita Ventura, Tiago M. Bandeiras, Ulrich Graedler - Exploring
Cyclophilin D as an effective therapeutic drug target
Meeting
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7th Nacional Meeting of Portuguese Users of Synchrotron Radiation (ENURS2018)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2018/04/05 - 2018/04/06 | Instruct/CIISB course on fragment screening.
Included: Practical sessions on pre-screening using biophysical measurements, dispensing target protein crystals to a fragment
library, in situ testing of crystal diffraction; single crystal data collection and evaluation of the results. Poster session.
Best Poster Award – Diana O. Silva, Micael Freitas, Pedro M. Matias, Rita Ventura, Tiago M. Bandeiras, Ulrich Graedler - New
opportunities to explore Cyclophilin D as an effective therapeutic drug target.
Vestec, Prague-West, Czech Republic
Workshop
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Instruct/CIISB course on fragment screening using crystallography laboratory equipment - Centre of Molecular Structure (CMS),
Institute of Biotechnology CAS v.v.i., BIOCEV
Instruct/CIISB course on fragment screening using crystallography laboratory equipment - Centre of Molecular Structure (CMS),
Institute of Biotechnology CAS v.v.i., BIOCEV., Czech Republic
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| 2018/03/26 - 2018/03/29 | Science Communication Workshop
Workshop
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Science Communication Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2017/09 - 2019/01 | Bioquímica para a Saúde | Micael Freitas |
| 2018 - 2018 | Bioquímica para a Saúde | Barbara Sousa |
Distinctions
Award
| 2019 | Poster Winner - Diana O. Silva, Pedro M. Matias, Rita Ventura, Tiago M. Bandeiras, Ulrich Graedler - Cyclophilin D as a Drug Target - Towards the discovery of new and potent CypD inhibitors |
| 2018 | Best Poster Award - Diana O. Silva, Micael Freitas, Pedro M. Matias, Rita Ventura, Tiago M. Bandeiras, Ulrich Graedler - "New
opportunities to explore Cyclophilin D as an effective therapeutic drug target"
Instruct/CIISB course on fragment screening using crystallography laboratory equipment - Centre of Molecular Structure (CMS),
Institute of Biotechnology CAS v.v.i., BIOCEV., Czech Republic
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