Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alexandra Catarina Pereira Teixeira
Citation names
- Alexandra Teixeira
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- B61E-64B9-9605
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5685-625X
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2024/01/24
Concluded
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Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Vigo Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Spain
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal "Development of microfluidic nanobiosensors for early diagnosis and monitoring of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid
leukemia." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom |
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2016 - 2018
Concluded
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Ciências da Saúde (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Crosstalk between glutaminolysis and autophagy in AML cells." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
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2016
Concluded
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Biologia-Geologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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13 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/03/16 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/04/01 - 2024/04/01 | PhD student | Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal |
| International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal | ||
| 2018/08/01 - 2020/03/31 | Research Assistant in a Fellowship (IMPAct-L - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030782 (c)) | International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal |
| 2016/09/01 - 2019/07/02 | Student of Master in Health Sciences | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2013/10/02 - 2016/07/07 | Student of Bachelor in Biology and Geology | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/03/01 - 2026/12 | 3D spheroids derived from single cells for discovering stochastic patterns behind metastasis
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2018/08/01 - 2020/03/31 | IMPAct-L - Innovative Microfluidic Platform for Analysis of myeloid Leukemia blasts
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030782
Research Fellow
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Ongoing
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/01 - 2023/09/30 | PROBIO - PROtotyping an end-to-end universal sorting and dual sensing platform for multiomic BIOanalytical applications”
3000147
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
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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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/02 | Label-free Microfluidic-based isolation of Circulating Tumor cells from Gastrointestinal Cancer Samples | Final PortASAP Meeting
COST Action CA 16215 (Tallinn, Estonia)
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| 2022/02 | A microfluidic system for isolation and concentration of blasts and enabling a non-invasive detection of minimal residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia | Final Meeting of PortASAP
COST Action CA 16215 (Tallinn, Estonia)
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| 2021/09 | Isolamento e Recuperação de Células Tumorais Circulantes utilizando um Sistema de Microfluídica Modular | Encontro Nacional de Jovens Investigadores em Oncologia, 2021
Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/09 | Otimização de um dispositivo de microfluidica para o isolamento e enurmeração de células tumorais circulantes em cancro digestivo | Encontro Nacional de Jovens Investigadores em Oncologia, 2021
Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021 | Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy For Viral-Derived Nucleic Acid Detection. | 4th PortASAP Meeting (Online)
PortASAP
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| 2020 | SERS and microdroplets for multiplex phenotyping of cancer single cells. | Nanobiomed Online Conference (NBMO2020) |
| 2020 | A microdroplets-based platform for the phenotypic characterisation of single cancer cells | 3rd PortASAP Meeting
PortASAP (Creta, Greece)
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| 2019 | Development of an ultrasensitive and low cost paper-based SERS sensor for cell differentiation. | 3rd Annual Meeting CINBIO
CINBIO (Vigo, Spain)
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| 2017 | Glutaminolysis and autophagy interplay in acute myeloid leukemia cells | SIGNAL 2017 - 8th Meeting on Signal Transduction
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | • Prémio Liga Inovação 2024 |
