Personal identification

Full name

António Maria Malaquias Seixas

Gender

Male

Citation names

• Seixas, António M.M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

731B-97C1-BB4C

ORCID iD

0000-0002-3484-3474

Email addresses

• amseixas@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)

Addresses

• Rua da Quinta Grande 6 , 2780-156, Oeiras, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2019 - 2024 Concluded	Biotecnologia e Biociências (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Surf Bcc: Exploiting surface-exposed proteins to develop new therapeutic strategies against Burkholderia cepacia complex infections " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction and Honour
2016 - 2018 Concluded	Microbiologia (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "The Burkholderia cenocepacia membrane proteins BCAL2958, BCAL2645 and BCAS0764: identification, characterization, and detection of antibodies in sera from B. cepacia complex-infected Cystic Fibrosis patients" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2013/09 - 2016/06 Concluded	Biologia Celular e Molecular (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal	14

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/07 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2019/01/01 - 2019/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/04/30	CNCVir - O viruloma codificante e não-codificante de Burkholderia cenocepacia PTDC/MAR-BIO/1547/2014 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal	Concluded

Publications

Conference poster	Seixas, António M.M.; Sousa, Sílvia A.; Silva, C.; Gomes, Sara C.; Ferreira, Mirela R.; Moreira, Leonilde M; Leitão, Jorge. "Cross effect of a polyclonal antibody against cystic fibrosis bacterial pathogens as a new alternative therapy.". Paper presented in Microbiotec’23, 2023. António M. M. Seixas; Sílvia A. Sousa; Feliciano, Joana R.; Jorge H. Leitão. "Surfomics reveal a new target for the development of immunotheraphies to tackle Burkholderia cenocepacia infections". Paper presented in 9th Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Microbiotec’21), 2021. Feliciano, Joana R.; Michaux, Charlotte; Bischer, Thorsten; Pita, Tiago; Barquist, Lars; Sousa, Sílvia A.; Seixas, António M.M.; Vogel, Jörg; Leitão, Jorge H.. "The distinct in vivo RNA global profiles of the Hfq, Hfq2 and ProQ from Burkholderia cenocepacia K56-2". Paper presented in 8th Congress of European Microbiologists (FEMS 2019), Glasgow, Scotland, 2019. Sousa SA; Seixas AMM; Pita T; Feliciano JR; Soares-Castro P; Seixas, António; Leitão JH. "Exploiting immunoreactive outer membrane proteins for the development of new therapeutic strategies against Burkholderia cepacia complex infections". Paper presented in 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID2018), Madrid, Spain, 2018. Sousa SA; Seixas AMM; Pita T; Feliciano JR; Soares-Castro P; Santos PM; Leitão JH. "Exploiting immunoreactive outer membrane proteins for the development of new therapeutic strategies against Burkholderia cepacia complex infections". Paper presented in 7th Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (Microbiotec’17), Porto, Portugal, 2017.
Journal article	António M. M. Seixas; Carolina Silva; Joana M. M. Marques; Patrícia Mateus; Manuel J. Rodríguez-Ortega; Joana R. Feliciano; Jorge H. Leitão; Sílvia A. Sousa. "Surface-Exposed Protein Moieties of Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 in Microaerophilic and Aerobic Conditions". Vaccines (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12040398. 10.3390/vaccines12040398 António Seixas; Sara C. Gomes; Carolina Silva; Leonilde M. Moreira; Jorge H. Leitão; Sousa SA. "A Polyclonal Antibody against a Burkholderia cenocepacia OmpA-like Protein Strongly Impairs Pseudomonas aeruginosa and B. multivorans Virulence". Vaccines (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/2/207. 10.3390/vaccines12020207 António M. M. Seixas; Sílvia A. Sousa; Jorge H. Leitão. "Antibody-Based Immunotherapies as a Tool for Tackling Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections". Vaccines (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10111789. 10.3390/vaccines10111789 António M. M. Seixas; Sílvia A. Sousa; Joana R. Feliciano; Sara C. Gomes; Mirela R. Ferreira; Leonilde M. Moreira; Jorge H. Leitão. "A Polyclonal Antibody Raised against the Burkholderia cenocepacia OmpA-like Protein BCAL2645 Impairs the Bacterium Adhesion and Invasion of Human Epithelial Cells In Vitro". Biomedicines (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9121788. 10.3390/biomedicines9121788 Sousa SA; António Seixas; Joana Monteiro Marques; Jorge H. Leitão. "Immunization and Immunotherapy Approaches against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia Complex Infections". Vaccines (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/6/670. 10.3390/vaccines9060670 Sousa SA; António Seixas; Manoj Mandal; Manuel J. Rodríguez-Ortega; Jorge H. Leitão. "Characterization of the Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 Surface-Exposed Immunoproteome". Vaccines (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/8/3/509. 10.3390/vaccines8030509 Joana Feliciano; António Seixas; Tiago Pita; Jorge H. Leitão. "Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Analysis of RNA-Binding Proteins of Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 and Other Members of the B. cepacia Complex". Genes (2020): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/2/231. 10.3390/genes11020231 Sousa, Sílvia A.; Soares-Castro, Pedro; Seixas, António M.M.; Feliciano, Joana R.; Balugas, Bernardo; Barreto, Celeste; Pereira, Luísa; Santos, Pedro M.; Leitão, Jorge H.. "New insights into the immunoproteome of B. cenocepacia J2315 using serum samples from cystic fibrosis patients". New Biotechnology 54 (2020): 62-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2019.08.006. 10.1016/j.nbt.2019.08.006 Sousa, Sílvia; Seixas, António; Leitão, Jorge. "Postgenomic Approaches and Bioinformatics Tools to Advance the Development of Vaccines against Bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex". Vaccines 6 2 (2018): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines6020034. 10.3390/vaccines6020034
Thesis / Dissertation	"Surf Bcc: Exploiting surface-exposed proteins to develop new therapeutic strategies against Bcc infections.". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2024. Seixas, António. "The Burkholderia cenocepacia membrane proteins BCAL2958, BCAL2645 and BCAS0764: identification, characterization, and detection of antibodies in sera from B. cepacia complex-infected Cystic Fibrosis patients". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2018.

Other distinction

2019	Diploma de Excelência Académica Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018	Diploma de Mérito Académico Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal