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I received my BSc (2011) and MSc degrees (2013) in Biochemistry from the University of Porto (UP), Portugal. After small internships in experimental groups, I have started my scientific career in the Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry (TCB) group with Prof. Maria João Ramos and Prof. Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, with a BSc fellowship (FCT), in the project "New drugs for hypertension" (PTDC/QUI-QUI/121744/2010). I have conducted my PhD studies in the same group, until September of 2018, with a PhD fellowship, financed by FCT (SFRH/BD/95962/2013). During this stage, I attended the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Chemistry (at UP, University of Aveiro and Nova University Lisbon). During my PhD I explored the origin of the catalytic power of different enzymes (Renin (ACS Catal., 2015), PatG macrocyclase (Chem. Eur. J.,2016), HIV-1 protease (JCTC,2017; Chem. Sci.,2019), and alpha-amylase (ACS Catal. 2018)). I have studied the atomistic details of their catalytic mechanism, and the influence of conformational diversity in catalysis, using QM/MM methods and MD simulations. From these works resulted 6 publications in high impact factor journals. In 2018, I was awarded with a 2 years postdoc fellowship from Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmästare (grant 190-0335) and I moved to Sweden, to work with Prof. Lynn Kamerlin, at Uppsala University (UU). From August 2020 to July 2022, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the same group. My research was focus on applying different computational methods to understand biological processes, such as enzyme catalysis and phosphate hydrolysis. I was involved in multidisciplinary projects, working with different enzymes, such as GTPases (JACS, 2019), Lactonases, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases (Chem. Sci. 2022), in close collaboration with different theoretical and experimental groups. In 2022 I was awarded with a Scientific Employment Stimulus contract by FCT, as a Junior Researcher at LAQV-REQUIMTE. Currently, my research is focused on molecular targets for flavivirus drug discovery. During my scientific career, I have published 14 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 5 of them as first author. I have participated in national/international meetings, totalling 18 communications (6 oral and 12 posters). I was involved in teaching activities both at Uppsala University and Porto University. Additionally, I have participated in supervising training courses ("Doctoral Supervisor Training Course" and "Supervising PhD Students Course"), organised by the Faculty of Science and Technology (Uppsala University) and I have mentoring/supervised 9 students at bachelor and master level.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Rita de Almeida Calixto Silva
Date of birth
1989/07/16

Citation names

  • Ana Rita Calixto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A318-F7AE-A46A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1123-0413
Researcher Id
ADA-6749-2022
Scopus Author Id
56414628800

Email addresses

  • ana.rita@fc.up.pt (Professional)
  • anaritacalixto@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • Departamento de Química e Bioquímica Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/06/01 - 2018/09/11
Concluded
 PhD Program in Sustainable Chemistry (Doutoramento)
Major in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Biochemistry
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"The origin of the catalytic power of enzymes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/10 - 2013/09
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Biochemistry (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Elucidating the catalytic mechanism of human renin with hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics studies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20 (class B in the ECTS grading scale)
2008/09 - 2011/09
Concluded
 Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"The angiogenic paradox in diabetes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20 (class A in the ECTS grading scale)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Researcher (Research) REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal
REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal
2018/06/01 - 2022/07/31 Postdoc (Research) Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2012/06/01 - 2014/05/31 Researcher (Research) REQUIMTE, Portugal
REQUIMTE, Portugal
2010/11/01 - 2011/09/09 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/06/01 - 2018/05/31 PhD student REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
2009/12/01 - 2010/07/29 Extracurricular Internship Program Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/08/01 - 2020/07/31 Att första och designa de kemiska mekanismerna och den allosteriska regleringen av GTPases
190-0335
Post-doc Fellow
Uppsala biomedicinska centrum, Sweden
 Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmästare
Ongoing
2014/06 - 2018/05 The origin of the catalytic power of enzymes
SFRH/BD/95962/2013
PhD Student Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/05 - 2014/04 New drugs for hypertension
grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 121744
Research Fellow
REQUIMTE, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/08/01 - 2028/07/31 Targeting Flaviviruses enzymes: from computational chemistry to antiviral drugs
2021.00645.CEECIND/CP1662/CT0001
10.54499/2021.00645.CEECIND/CP1662/CT0001
Researcher
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/01 Unraveling the role of NS2 cofactor in flavivirus NS2B-NS3 protease activity
Projecto ID FCT: 2023.09592.CPCA.A1
Principal investigator
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Ana Rita Calixto; Cátia Moreira; Anna Pabis; Carsten Kötting; Klaus Gerwert; Till Rudack; Kamerlin, Shina Caroline Lynn. "Understanding Biological GTP Hydrolysis through Molecular Simulation". Paper presented in 12th WATOC, 2022.
  2. Ana Rita Calixto; Cátia Moreira; Anna Pabis; Carsten Kötting; Klaus Gerwert; Till Rudack; Kamerlin, Shina Caroline Lynn. "Unraveling the catalytic mechanism of GTP hydrolysis by GTPases using computational approaches". Paper presented in ACS Spring Meeting: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century, 2021.
  3. Ana Rita Calixto. "Computational modeling of biological phosphate hydrolysis". Paper presented in LatinXChem Twitter Conference, 2020.
  4. Ana Rita Calixto. "GTP hydrolysis without an active site base: A unifying mechanism for Ras and related GTPases". Paper presented in Twitter Poster Conference IOPPPoster, 2020.
  5. Ana Rita Calixto; Maria João Ramos; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes. "The Influence of conformational diversity on enzyme catalysis". Paper presented in 6th Meeting of Young Researchers in Structural Computational Biology, 2018.
  6. Ana Rita Calixto; Maria João Ramos; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes. "The relationship between conformational fluctuations and activation energies of the HIV-1 protease catalytic mechanism". Paper presented in 8th International Theoretical Biophysics Symposium, 2017.
  7. Ana Rita Calixto; Maria João Ramos; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes. "The influence of protein motions and frozen atoms on the energetic barrier of HIV-1 protease’s catalytic mechanism - A QM/MM study". Paper presented in 5th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting and 1st European Young Chemists Meeting, 2016.
  8. Raquel Costa; Raquel Costa Almeida; Ana Rita Calixto; Ilda Rodrigues; Luisa Guardão; João Tiago Guimarães; Rita Negrão; Raquel Soares. "Complicações vasculares associadas à Diabetes". Paper presented in 11º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2014.
  9. Ana Rita Calixto; Natércia Fernandes Brás; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "Elucidating the catalytic mechanism of human renin with a QM/MM study". Paper presented in XVIII National Meeting from the Portuguese Chemical Society, 2013.
  10. Ana Rita Calixto; Natércia Fernandes Brás; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "A QM-MMM investigation of the catalytic mechanism of human renin protease". Paper presented in XVIII Luso Galician Meeting of Chemistry, 2012.
  11. Ana Rita Calixto; Natércia Fernandes Brás; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "Computational study of the catalytic mechanism of Human Renin protease". Paper presented in 5th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2012), 2012.
Journal article
  1. Marina Corbella; Joe Bravo; Andrey O. Demkiv; Ana Rita Calixto; Kitty Sompiyachoke; Celine Bergonzi; Alfie-Louise R. Brownless; Mikael H. Elias; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. "Catalytic Redundancies and Conformational Plasticity Drives Selectivity and Promiscuity in Quorum Quenching Lactonases". JACS Au (2024): https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c00404.
    10.1021/jacsau.4c00404
  2. Crean, Rory M.; Corbella, Marina; Ana Rita Calixto; Hengge, Alvan C.; Kamerlin, S. C. L.. "Sequence – Dynamics – Function Relationships in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases". QRB Discovery (2024): 1-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qrd.2024.3.
    10.1017/qrd.2024.3
  3. Rory M. Crean; Michal Biler; Marina Corbella; Ana R. Calixto; Marc W. van der Kamp; Alvan C. Hengge; Shina C. L. Kamerlin. "Correction to “Loop Dynamics and Enzyme Catalysis in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases”". Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022): https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c04624.
    10.1021/jacs.2c04624
  4. Ruidan Shen; Rory M. Crean; Keith J. Olsen; Marina Corbella Morató; Ana R. Calixto; Teisha Richan; Tiago A. S. Brandão; et al. "Insights into the importance of WPD-loop sequence for activity and structure in protein tyrosine phosphatases". Chemical Science 13 45 (2022): 13524-13540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc04135a.
    10.1039/d2sc04135a
  5. Bras, N. F.; Ferreira, P.; Calixto, A. R.; Jaspars, M.; Houssen, W.; Naismith, J. H.; Fernandes, P. A.; Ramos, M. J.. "The Catalytic Mechanism of the Marine-Derived Macrocyclase PatGmac (vol 22, pg 13089, 2016)". Chemistry - A European Journal (2021): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/40968255/.
    10.1002/CHEM.202100062
  6. Sérgio F. Sousa; Ana R. Calixto; Pedro Ferreira; Maria J. Ramos; Carmay Lim; Pedro A. Fernandes. "Activation Free Energy, Substrate Binding Free Energy, and Enzyme Efficiency Fall in a Very Narrow Range of Values for Most Enzymes". ACS Catalysis (2020): 8444-8453. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c01947.
    Published • 10.1021/acscatal.0c01947
  7. Ana Rita Calixto; Cátia Moreira; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. "Recent Advances in Understanding Biological GTP Hydrolysis through Molecular Simulation". ACS Omega (2020): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c00240.
    Published • 10.1021/acsomega.0c00240
  8. Cátia Moreira; Ana Rita Calixto; John P. Richard; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. "The role of ligand-gated conformational changes in enzyme catalysis". Biochemical Society Transactions 47 5 (2019): 1449-1460. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20190298.
    Published • 10.1042/BST20190298
  9. Ana Rita Calixto; Maria João Ramos; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes. "Conformational Diversity Induces Nanosecond-Timescale Chemical Disorder in the HIV-1 Protease Reaction Pathway". Chemical Science 10 (2019): 7212-7221. https://doi.org/10.1039%2Fc9sc01464k.
    Published • 10.1039/c9sc01464k
  10. Ana Rita Calixto; Cátia Moreira; Anna Pabis; Carsten Kötting; Klaus Gerwert; Till Rudack; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. "GTP Hydrolysis Without an Active Site Base: A Unifying Mechanism for Ras and Related GTPases". Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019): https://doi.org/10.1021%2Fjacs.9b03193.
    Published • 10.1021/jacs.9b03193
  11. Diogo Santos-Martins; Ana Rita Calixto; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "A Buried Water Molecule Influences Reactivity in a-Amylase on a Subnanosecond Time Scale". ACS Catalysis 8 5 (2018): 4055-4063. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b04400.
    Published • 10.1021/acscatal.7b04400
  12. Ana Rita Calixto; Maria João Ramos; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes. "Influence of Frozen Residues on the Exploration of the PES of Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 13 11 (2017): 5486-5495. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00768.
    Published • 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00768
  13. Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Ana Rita Calixto. "Moléculas magníficas". Revista de Ciência Elementar 5 2 (2017): https://doi.org/10.24927%2Frce2017.027.
    Published • 10.24927/rce2017.027
  14. Natércia Fernades Brás; Pedro Ferreira; Ana Rita Calixto; Marcel Jaspars; Wael Houssen; James Henderson Naismith; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "The Catalytic Mechanism of the Marine-Derived Macrocyclase PatGmac.". Chemistry 22 37 (2016): 13089-13097. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27389424.
    Published • 10.1002/chem.201601670
  15. Ana Rita Calixto; Natércia Fernandes Brás; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Maria João Ramos. "Reaction mechanism of human renin studied by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations". ACS Catalysis 4 11 (2014): 3869-3876. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84910096204&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1021/cs500497f
Preprint
  1. Christian Gusenda; Ana Rita Calixto; Joana Margarida Ribeiro da Silva; Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes; Martin Grininger. "The Kinetics of Carbon-Carbon-Bond Formation in Metazoan Fatty Acid Synthase and its Impact on Product Fidelity". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.03.601458.
    10.1101/2024.07.03.601458
  2. Marina Corbella; Joe Bravo; Andrey O. Demkiv; Ana Rita Calixto; Kitty Sompiyachoke; Celine Bergonzi; Mikael H. Elias; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. "Catalytic Redundancies and Conformational Plasticity Drives Selectivity and Promiscuity in Quorum Quenching Lactonases". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.01.592096.
    10.1101/2024.05.01.592096
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Calixto, Ana Rita. "The origin of the catalytic power of enzymes". PhD, Universidade do Porto, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/115766.
  2. Calixto, Ana Rita. "Elucidating the catalytic mechanism of human renin with hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics studies". Master, Universidade do Porto, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/69472.

Other

Other output
  1. Contribution of oxyanion stabilization to kemp eliminase efficiency - Faculty Opinions. 2020. Ana Rita Calixto; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. https://facultyopinions.com/prime/contributor/evaluate/article/738151194.
    10.3410/f.738151194.793575634
  2. Foldamer hypothesis for the growth and sequence differentiation of prebiotic polymers - Faculty Opinions. 2018. Ana Rita Calixto; Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin. https://facultyopinions.com/prime/contributor/evaluate/article/729083320.
    10.3410/f.729083320.793552002
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06 GTP hydrolysis without an active site base: resolving a decades old controversy Girona seminar 2022
Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain)
2019/08/26 Computational modeling of biological phosphate hydrolysis – a unifying mechanism for Ras and related GTPases CECAM workshop, Modeling noncovalent interactions in supra/bio catalysis
Sorbonne Université - Paris (Paris, France)
2016/06/22 Studying the role of protein motions in enzyme catalysis – computational approaches on HIV-1 protease XII National Meeting of Physical Chemistry/ I Symposium of Computational Chemistry
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2015/08/05 The atomistic details of patellamide macrocyclization described by QM/MM studies on PatG macrocyclase Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2014/02/12 QM/MM studies on the catalytic mechanism of the human renin 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2014)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2013/02/13 The catalytic mechanism of human renin protease – a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study 6th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2013)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2024/10 Bee Venom Phospholipase A2
Co-supervisor
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/06 Mecanismo de ação e desenvolvimento de antídotos para o veneno de víbora terciopelo
Co-supervisor
 Química (Degree)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/09/05 - 2016/10/01 11th Intensive Course of the European Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (2016/09/05 - 2016/10/01)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/02/17 - 2016/02/19 Collaborator in the young researchers meeting of University of Porto (IJUP) (2016/02/17 - 2016/02/19)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2015/05/13 - 2015/05/15 Collaborator in the young researchers meeting of University of Porto (IJUP) (2015/05/13 - 2015/05/15)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/07 - Current 12th WATOC
Conference
 12th WATOC
2022/06 - Current Girona Seminar
Conference
 Girona seminar 2022
Universitat de Girona, Spain
2022/05 - Current SoapBox Science
Other
 SoapBox Science
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2021/10 - 2021/10 Structural Bioinformatics 2021 EMBL-EBI
Workshop
European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
2021/05 - 2021/05 EMBO-Self-Leadership for Women Scientists
Workshop
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2021/03/05 - 2021/03/16 ACS Spring Meeting: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century
Conference
2020/09/07 - 2020/09/07 LatinXChem Twitter Conference
Conference
 LatinXChem Twitter Conference
2020/07/15 - 2020/07/16 Twitter Poster Conference IOPPposter
Conference
 Twitter Poster Conference IOPPposter
IOP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom
2019/11/04 - 2019/12/18 Academic Teacher Training Course
Workshop
 Academic Teacher Training Course 3 - autumn 2019
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2019/09/25 - 2019/12/06 Supervising PhD Students Course
Workshop
 Supervising PhD Students, autumn 2019
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2019/11/28 - 2019/12/05 Supervising Training Course
Workshop
 Supervising Training Course, autumn 2018
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2019/08/26 - 2019/08/30 CECAM workshop, Modeling noncovalent interactions in supra/bio catalysis
Workshop
 CECAM workshop, Modeling noncovalent interactions in supra/bio catalysis
Association Sorbonne Université, France
2019/06/10 - 2019/06/13 PRACE/BioExcel Seasonal School 2019
Workshop
 HPC for Life Sciences
Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe, Belgium

BioExcel Center of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research, Sweden
2018/12/21 - 2018/12/21 Meeting of Young Researchers in Structural Computational Biology (EJIBCE)
Meeting
 Meeting of Young Researchers in Structural Computational Biology (EJIBCE)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/06/26 - 2017/06/30 8th International Theoretical Biophysics Symposium
Symposium
 8th International Theoretical Biophysics Symposium
Donostia International Physics Center, Spain
2016/07 - 2016/07 Molecular Modelling and Protein Structure for undergraduate students
Other
 Escola da Química 2016 – Modelação Molecular da Estrutura de Proteínas
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/06/22 - 2016/06/24 XII National Meeting of Physical Chemistry/ I Symposium of Computational Chemistry
Symposium
 XII National Meeting of Physical Chemistry/ I Symposium of Computational Chemistry
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2016/04/26 - 2016/04/29 5th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting and 1st European Young Chemists Meeting
Meeting
 5th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting and 1st European Young Chemists Meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
2015/10/05 - 2015/10/05 Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
Workshop
 Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2015/07 - 2015/07 Molecular Modelling and Protein Structure for undergraduate students
Other
 Escola da Química 2015 – Modelação Molecular da Estrutura de Proteínas
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2014/02/12 - 2014/02/14 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2014)
Meeting
 7th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2014)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2013/06/12 - 2013/06/14 XVIII National Meeting of the Portuguese Chemical Society
Meeting
 XVIII National Meeting of the Portuguese Chemical Society
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2013/02/13 - 2013/02/15 6th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2013)
Meeting
 6th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2013)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2012/11/28 - 2012/11/30 XVIII Luso Galician Meeting of Chemistry
Meeting
 XVIII Luso Galician Meeting of Chemistry
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2012/02/22 - 2012/02/24 5th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2012)
Meeting
 5th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto (IJUP 2012)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/06/02 Computational Strategies For Understanding The Molecular Basis Of Biochemical And Biocatalytic Processes
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carla Calvó-Tusell (PhD)
Universitat de Girona, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - 2023/12 Bioquímica Computacional Bioquímica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/12 Modelação de Bioestruturas Química (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/09 - 2021/10 Structural Bioinformatics (Lecture/Tutorial) Computational Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules (Master) Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2020/09 - 2020/10 Structural Bioinformatics (Lecture/Tutorial) Computational Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules (Master) Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
2019/09 - 2019/10 Structural Bioinformatics (Lecture/Tutorial) Computational Chemistry for Biological Macromolecules (Master) Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/09 - 2023/10 New antidotes for Bothrops asper venom: a study of PLA2 protein Roberto Pinto
2022/02 - 2022/04 Hydrolysis of Phosphotriesters Alexandros Zantis
2019/09 - 2019/12 GTPases - the influence of active-site mutations on the activation barrier Neli Sedej
2019/09 - 2019/11 GTPases - the influence of active-site mutations on the activation barrier Bruno Cuevas Zuviría
2019/05 - 2019/10 Computational Simulations on GTPases Radost Herboth
2017/07 - 2017/07 Exploring the Identity of the General Base for a DNA Polymerase Catalyzed Reaction Using QM/MM: The Case Study of Human TLS Polymerase Katie A. Wilson
2015/04 - 2016/09 The Catalytic Mechanism of the Marine-Derived Macrocyclase PatGmac Pedro Ferreira
Distinctions

Award

2011 Best Final Grade in the 1st Degree of Biochemistry
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Other distinction

2018 Postdoctoral Grant (grant 190-0335)
Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmästare, Sweden
2014 PhD grant SFRH/BD/95962/2013
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal