Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Susana Isabel Gonçalves Monteiro
Citation names
- Monteiro, Susana
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9415-59C1-1F93
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3037-9635
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=huOqfUQAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
- Researcher Id
- G-6965-2015
- Scopus Author Id
- 55571426800
Email addresses
- susanamonteiro@med.uminho.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- 253604839 (Professional)
Addresses
- Universidade do Minho - Escola de Medicina, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pathology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
Portuguese gestual language | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2016/07/01 - 2019/04/01
Concluded
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Postdoc - "Immunomodulatory strategies in spinal cord Injury" (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
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2011/06/01 - 2016/01/21
Concluded
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PhD in "Health Sciences" (Doutoramento)
Major in Neurociências - Neuroimunologia
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
"The role of IFNg in higher brain function: in health and under chronic stress" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007/09/01 - 2008/12/22
Concluded
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MSc - "Biomolecular Methods" (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, United Kingdom "Use of immunohistochemical techniques to investigate museum specimens of neurological disease" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2003/09/01 - 2007/06/30
Concluded
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BSc - "Pathological, Cytological and Thanatological Anatomy" (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Saude do Norte Escola Superior de Saúde do Vale do Sousa, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/04/02 - 2025/04/01 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal | ||
2016/07/01 - 2019/04/02 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal | ||
2011/06/01 - 2016/01/21 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal | ||
2009/06/01 - 2011/05/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2007/11/01 - 2009/05/31 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | University of Bristol Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, United Kingdom |
University of Bristol Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/04/02 - 2025/04/01 | Repairing the spinal-spleen circuit: a novel approach for spinal cord injury repair?
Principal investigator
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/07 - 2022/07 | Terapia Multidisciplinar para Reparar Lesões Vertebro Medulares.
Provided by PTCRIS: PTDC/BTM-MAT/29968/2017
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2011/06/01 - 2015/09/30 | The role of IFNg in higher brain function: in health and under chronic stress
SFRH / BD / 69311 / 2010
PhD Student Fellow
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/06 - 2015/09 | STRESS-RELATED COGNITIVE DEFICITS: ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Provided by PTCRIS: SFRH/BD/69311/2010
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2009/04/01 - 2011/05/31 | New approaches in multiple sclerosis diagnosis: the role of the choroid plexus.
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/12/01 - Current | Wireless Neural Guidance Device for Spinal Cord Injury Regeneration
HR23-00484
Researcher
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Fundação 'la Caixa'
Ongoing
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2023/07/01 - Current | Activated Macrophages and Spinal Cord Injury Repair: The Secretome Effect
WFL-PT-14/23
Researcher
Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation, United Kingdom
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Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - Current | Microglia-neutrophil interaction in spinal cord injury
2020.07534.BD
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | ICVS/3B¿s - Laboratório Associado, Instituto de Ciências da Vida e da Saúde / Grupo de Investigação em Biomateriais, Biodegradaveis
e Biomiméticos
LA/P/0050/2020
UID/Multi/50026/2019
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - 2023/07/31 | SymPATH - The peripheral sympathetic system as a target for immunomodulation in spinal cord injury pathophysiology
Principal investigator
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2022/01 - 2023/06 | Ação molecular do Baclofeno como Promotor da Recuperação Neuronal após Lesão Vertebro-Medular
Provided by PTCRIS: EXPL/MED-FAR/1529/2021
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018 - 2021/06/30 | A Multidisciplinary Therapy to Repair the Injured Spinal Cord: Time to Move
02/SAICT/2017 - Project: 29968 NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-029968
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal |
Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2018 - 2020/12/31 | CombiCORD - Inducing Spinal Cord Injury Regeneration through the combinatory action of pharmacotherapies, tissue engineering
and epidural stimulation
MC-004/17
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
Concluded
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2016/07/01 - 2019/11/30 | Farmacologia e Células Estaminais para Reparar as Lesões da Medula Espinhal: Será o Todo Maior que a Soma das suas Partes?
PTDC/DTP-FTO/5109/2014
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018/09/27 - 2019/09/27 | Wi-Nerved - Development of a Wireless device for NEural Repair Via Electric and Drug delivery
Wi-Nerved
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory Concluded
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2016/07/01 - 2018/04/30 | Combining Pharmacotherapy and Stem Cells to Repair the Injured Spinal Cord: Is it the whole greater than the sum of its parts?
PTDC/DTP-FTO/5109/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Strategic Project - LA 26 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/SAU/LA0026/2011
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Intellectual property
Patent |
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Provisional application for patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2022/06/13 | The impact of Spinal Cord Injury on immune cells: the role of the spleen sympathetic overstimulation | 2nd International of Portuguese Spinal Cord Injury Researchers
University of Porto
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2019/07/09 | Exploring the Importance of Splenic Nerve Sympathetic Fibers in the Inflammatory Response to Spinal Cord Injury | 5th International Symposium on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
European Society for the study of peripheral nerve repair and regeneration (Porto, Portugal)
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2018/05/21 | Importance of the Spleen for Spinal Cord Injury Inflammation | 4ªReunião da rede portuguesa em lesões vertebro-medulares
IBIMED (Aveiro, Portugal)
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2017/10/20 | Neuroprotective therapies for Spinal Cord Injury | Conferências Santa Casa Neurociências 2017
Santa Casa Misericordia Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2017/04/19 | Stress and its impact in the immune system | Mindfulness as a therapeutic approach
Escola Superior de Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
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2017/03/03 | How chronic stress affects your health and how to cope with it | Seminar Cycles at the Valongo Library - Senior audience (above 65 year old)
Biblioteca Municipal de Valongo (Valongo, Portugal)
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2013/05/30 | IFNgamma leads to an enhanced cognitive phenotype | Portuguese Society of Neuroscience (SPN)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Luso, Portugal)
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2011/09/16 | IL-10 plays a role in the several behavioral dimension of depression. | VI YES Meeting
(Porto, Portugal)
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2011/03/16 | IL-10 is a key molecule in different behavioral domains present in depression | International Medical Students' Conference (LIMSC)
(Leiden, Netherlands)
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2009/05/05 | Anatomy museum specimens: from building to restoring | II Simpósio Técnico de Anatomia Patológica
Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024 - Current | Neutrophils infiltration after SCI
Supervisor of Inês Maria Pereira de Castro
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Health Sciences (Master)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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2023/09/01 - Current | Sex differences in the sympathetic regulation of the immune response after Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor of Sara Rito Fernandes
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Health Sciences (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 | Microglia-Neutrophil Interaction in Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor of Andreia G Pinho
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Health Sciences (PhD)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2022/10/01 - 2023/10/01 | The impact of Spinal Cord Injury in the Sympathetic Neuronal Activity to the Spleen
Supervisor of Maria Moreira Moura
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MSc Molecular Genetics (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
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2023/03/01 - 2023/04/15 | The role of the splenic sympathetic signaling in SCI-associated neutrophil infiltration
Supervisor of Karen Nuely Xavier Furtado
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Minho MD - major Biomedical Research (Degree)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2022/09/01 - 2022/12/01 | Contribuição dos neutrófilos para a patologia da lesão medular
Supervisor of Inês Duarte Martins
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Mestrado Integrado em Medicina - Projeto Opção 3 (Scientific initiation) |
2019/06/01 - 2019/12/22 | Exploring the role of sympathetic signalling for inflammation after spinal cord injury
Supervisor of Mara Areias Macieira
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Mestrado Integrado em Medicina (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2017/09/01 - 2019/09/24 | Impact of the proteic and vesicular secretome of adipose tissue derived stem cells in spinal cord injury
Co-supervisor of Andreia Filipa Gomes Pinho
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Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde (Master)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Minocyclin as a neuroprotective therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor of Daniel Roçadas Santos Silva
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Integrated masters in Medicine (Optional Project 3rd year) (Other)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Minocyclin as a neuroprotective therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor of João Carlos Moreira Alves
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Integrated masters in Medicine (Optional Project 3rd year) (Other)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - 2019 | Neuroscience Research Domain Anual Retreat (2019 - 2019)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
2019 - 2019 | MiSCI - The Minho Spinal Cord Injury Meeting (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Portuguese Network for Spinal Cord Injury Research, Portugal |
2018 - 2018 | Neuroscience Research Domain Anual Retreat (2018 - 2018)
Meeting
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
2017 - 2017 | Neuroscience Research Domain Anual Retreat (2017 - 2017)
Meeting
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
2012 - 2012 | PhDESC Doctoral program Anual Retreat
(2012 - 2012)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
2011 - 2011 | Congress for the Portuguese Society of Pathological Anatomy technicians (2011 - 2011)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Anatomia Patológica, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2023/03/15 - Current | Neurospike
Exhibition
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Brain awareness week
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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2019 - Current | The current model of Science Publishing: where are we heading? (Moderator)
Round table
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2019 NeRD Retreat
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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2018/07/23 - Current | Summer in the Campus - Introduction to ICVS Research (prospective undergrad students)
Exhibition
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Summer in the Campus
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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2019/05/14 - 2019/05/14 | What is like to be a neuroscientist? (9-10 years old) - Outreach activity |
Escola Básica do Valado, Portugal
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2018/08/08 - 2018/08/08 | "Neuroscience for kids" (6-9year old) Outreach activity
Other
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Summer at the Library |
2015/11/25 - 2015/11/25 | Neuroscience for kids - Outreach activity
Exhibition
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Science and Technology Week
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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2015 - 2015 | The Nerve Impulse - Outreach activity
Exhibition
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Brain Awareness Week
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/01/29 | Extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stem cells reverse neuroinflammation and cognitive and motor impairment in rats with
mild liver damage
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Gergana Mincheva Ganeva (PhD)
Universitat de València, Spain
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2023/11/30 | From the gut to the brain: is microbiome a new paradigm for Parkinson's disease treatment?
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Cristiana Andreia Sousa Vilela (Master)
Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
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2023/11/28 | Determining the impact of perinatal inflammation induced by Group B Streptococcus
on long-term brain deficits
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Joana Cruz Soares (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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2023/04/26 | Exploring SNX3 and SNX27 role in nervous system function - insights from aged and “stressed” synapses
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Beatriz Lima da Costa Ferreira do Vale (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2022/09/29 | The role of aging-related microglia dysfunction in the neurodegenerative process of Machado-Joseph disease
(Thesis) Arguer
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Ana Bela Campos (PhD) |
Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023 - Current | Frontiers in Immunology | |
2022 - Current | Molecular Neurobiology | Springer |
2021 - Current | Journal of Neuroinflammation (1742-2094) | BioMed Central |
2020 - Current | Applied Sciences | |
2018 - Current | Brain Sciences (2076-3425) | MDPI AG |
2017 - Current | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (1422-0067) | MDPI AG |
2016 - Current | Translational Psychiatry (2158-3188) | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09 - 2023/09 | Fundamentals in Neuroscience | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | |
2023/02/27 - 2023/02/27 | Temas Avançados em Biologia - Neurodegeneração | Ensino de Biologia e Geologia no 3.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e no Ensino Secundário (Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal |
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/01 | Fundamentals in Neuroscience | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | |
2021/09/20 - 2021/09/20 | Fundamentals in Neuroscience | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | |
2020/03 - 2020/03 | Recent Trends in Regenerative Medicine | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) | |
2019/09 - 2019/09 | Fundamentals in Neuroscience | (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2023/03/21 - 2024/03/20 | Frontiers in Immunology - section Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology (Editorial board) | Frontiers |
2023/03/21 - 2024/03/20 | Frontiers in Neurology - section Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology (Editorial Board) | Frontiers |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2022/07/01 - 2022/08/01 | Exploring neuro-immune interactions after Spinal Cord Injury | Sarjo Danso |
2022/07/01 - 2022/08/01 | Exploring neuro-immune interactions after Spinal Cord Injury | Bálint Turcsàn |
2021/07/01 - 2021/07/31 | Exploring neuro-immune interactions after Spinal Cord Injury | Theresa Wculek |
2020 - 2020 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | Rita Caridade |
2020 - 2020 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | Natacha Gaspar |
2019 - 2019 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | Tiago André Moreira Gomes |
2019 - 2019 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | João Vítor Lemos Afonso |
2018 - 2018 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | Andreia Filipa Gomes Pinho |
2017 - 2017 | Laboratory rotation "Laboratory Animal Sciences" | Luís António Ferreira Rocha |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2024/02 - Current | Grant Evaluator | European Science Foundation, France |
Distinctions
Award
2020 | Manuel Teixeira da Silva
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2015 | Top 3 poster "Impact of dimethylfumarate on cognitive dysfunction and its correlates in the EAE mouse model"
Ordem dos Médicos, Portugal
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2013 | Best fire talk in Neuroinflammation "Absence of IFN-¿ leads to an enhanced cognitive phenotype"
Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, Portugal
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2011 | Honorable mention (oral presentation) "IL-10 plays a role in the several behavioral dimension of depression"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2010 | Best Poster "Chronic Mycobacterium avium infection reduces depressive-like behavior and improves cognitive performance of
CD1 mice"
Associação Nacional de Estudantes de Medicina, Portugal
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2010 | Honorable mention (poster) "Behaviour Disorders in CD1 Mice Chronically Infected with Mycobacterium avium"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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2008 | Top 3 poster “The Optimisation of Histological Methods for Investigating Museum Specimens of Neurological Disease
Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
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2008 | Honorable mention (poster) "From Macroanatomy to Microanatomy"
Institute of Anatomical Sciences, United Kingdom
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Other distinction
2018 | Junior Investigator position (competitive call - CEEC 2017)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2017 | Travel Grant European School of Neuroimmunology (AINI-ESNI), Venice, Italy
International Society for Neuroimmunology, Italy
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2010 | PhD Fellowship (competitive call) SFRH / BD / 69311 / 2010
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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