Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Verónica Domingues
Citation names
- Domingues, Ana Verónica
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- B314-2818-1F65
Email addresses
- pg32668@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)
- id8807@alunos.uminho.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://icvs.uminho.pt/member/ana-veronica-domingues/ (Professional)
- https://reward-aversion.org/index.php/team/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2019/09/01 - 2023
Ongoing
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Doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Major in Neurociências
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
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2022/05/02 - 2022/05/21
Concluded
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CAJAL course on Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour (Outros)
Bordeaux Neurosciences, France
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2018/01/30 - 2018/02/10
Concluded
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Laboratory Animal Science (LAS) (Outros)
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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2016 - 2018
Concluded
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Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde (Mestrado)
Major in Neurociências
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
"Finding new secretomes for Parkinson's Disease Regenerative Medicine Applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013 - 2016
Concluded
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Bioquimica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
"Clarify the role of Tau protein in dynamics of mitochondria morphometry and neuronal structure under stressful conditions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/08/03 - 2019/07 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/10 - 2018/06 | Master in Health Sciences; Thesis project: "Finding new secretomes for Parkinson's Disease Regenerative Medicine Applications" | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
2016 - 2016 | Final Research Stage of Licenciatura em Bioquímica- "Clarify the role of Tau protein in dynamics of mitochondria morphometry and neuronal structure under stressful conditions" | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023 - 2023/11/30 | Genetic and functional maps of neuronal ensembles encoding natural rewards versus drugs of abuse
2022.01467.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021 - 2023/11/30 | Defining how cocaine alters laterodorsal tegmentum to nucleus accumbens inputs and relevance for the development of natural
reward deficits
PTDC/SAU-TOX/6802/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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2021 - 2023/11/30 | Neuronal circuits of reward and aversion: where do endogenous opioids stand?
PTDC/MED-NEU/4804/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021 - 2023/11/30 | Challenging current models of Valence encoding in the mammalian brain
ERC Consolidator 101003187
Researcher
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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European Research Council
Ongoing
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2021 - 2023/11/30 | The role of nucleus accumbens in the perception of natural rewards
175/20
Researcher
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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Fundação Bial
Ongoing
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2020 - 2023/11/30 | Encoding reward and aversion in the mammalian brain: the overlooked role of endogenous opioids
HR20-01000
Researcher
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
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Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona
Ongoing
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2018 - 2021/06/30 | Impact of prenatal stress in the reward system: from depression to addiction and back
PTDC/MED-NEU/29071/2017
Other
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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2018 - 2021/01 | Combining Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) Secretome and Pharmacotherapies for the treatment of Parkinson's Disease
PTDC/MED-FAR/29751/2017
Other
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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2018/08/03 - 2020 | Exploring the Neural Basis of Motivation
30/2016
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Fundação Bial, Portugal |
Fundação Bial
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019/08 | Convergence of reward and aversion processing in nucleus accumbens medium spiny neuron subtypes | 2019 ISN- ASN Meeting
International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) and American Society of Neurochemistry (ASN) (Montreal, Canada)
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2019/03/08 | Finding new secretomes for Parkinson's Disease Regenerative Medicine Applications | ECNP Workshop for Early Career Scientists in Europe
ECNP (Nice, France)
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2019/02 | Stress coping in adulthood in a model of prenatal stress: gender differences | XLIX Annual Meeting of The Portuguese Pharmacological Society
Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia (Porto, Portugal)
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2018/11/03 | Nucleus accumbens microcircuit underlying D2-MSN-driven increase in motivation. | SfN Neuroscience 2018
Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (San Diego, United States)
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2018/04 | Nucleus accumbens microcircuit underlying D2-MSN-dependent increase in motivation. | The Brain Conference on Computational Neuroscience of Prediction
The brain prize (Rungstedgaard, Denmark)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2018/06 - 2018/12 | 1st international symposium Secretome With]Out[ Borders. (2018/12/06 - 2018/12/07)
Congress (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022/04/26 - 2022/05/09 | Advanced methods for imaging and manipulation of neuronal circuits in vivo | (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2022 | Travel award for Cajal course on Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour |
2022 | Travel award for ISN-APSN meeting 2022 |
2019 | Travel award for the ECNP workshop on Neuropsychopharmachology for Junior Scientists in Europe |