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Beatriz H. Ferreira holds a BSc in Biotechnology (2013) from the University of Aveiro and a MSc in Health Sciences (2016) from the University of Minho, Portugal. She completed her PhD in 2024 at University of Aveiro, where she investigated the immune mechanisms underlying inflammation, autoimmunity and fibrosis, with a specific emphasis on the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells, ER stress and cellular metabolism in systemic sclerosis. Currently, Beatriz is a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), studying the mechanisms driving myositis pathogenesis. She has actively contributed to multidisciplinary and collaborative projects and has mentored bachelor’s and master’s students. Beatriz has presented her work at national and international conferences and is first author/co-author of five research articles, as well as co-author of another five publications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Beatriz Henriques Ferreira
Date of birth
1995/01/31

Citation names

  • Ferreira, Beatriz H

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B816-B498-0650
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1497-7440

Email addresses

  • beatriz.henriques.ferreira@ki.se (Professional)

Addresses

  • Division of Rheumatology, Dept of Medicine, CMM L8:05, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, 171 76, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Rheumatology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09 - 2024/07/23
Concluded
 Biomedicine (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016 - 2018
Concluded
 Health Sciences (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
"Sporothrix brasiliensis: from the genome to the phenotype" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2013 - 2016
Concluded
 Biotecnology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"New materials with antimicrobial activity: porphyrin synthesis and its antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/02/17 - Current Postdoc (Research) Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2018/08 - 2018/12 Research Trainee (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

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/09 - 2024/07/23 PhD student Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
(...)
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/02/29 Immunomodulation of innate cells to tackle lung fibrosis
10.54499/SFRH/BD/144706/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Role of ER-stress associated molecules IRE1 and GADD34 on innate activation by nucleic acids
PTDC/IMI-IMU/3615/2014
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016768
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2023 - Current Exploring the RNA biology during dendritic cell activation
2022.03217.PTDC
Researcher
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; Mazeda, Carolina; Barros, Daniela; Barcelos, Anabela; Paton, Adrienne W; Paton, James C; Argüello, Rafael J; et al. "Analysing the metabolic profile of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in systemic sclerosis". Paper presented in 8th Systemic Sclerosis World Congress, 2024.
  2. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; Silva, Inês S; Barros, Daniela; Leite-Pinheiro, Fátima; Mendes, Andreia; Paton, Adrienne W; Paton, James C; et al. "The involvement of pDC and ER stress in systemic sclerosis-associated fibrosis". Paper presented in XLVIII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology, 2023.
  3. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; Barros, Daniela; Silva, Inês S; Leite-Pinheiro, F; Paton, Adrienne W; Paton, James C; Duarte, Iola F; Pierre, Philippe; Almeida, Catarina R. "Unravelling the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells and ER stress in fibrosis". Paper presented in The 2nd Immunosensation2-IFReC International School on Advanced Immunology, 2023.
  4. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Barros, Daniela; Mendes, Andreia; Leite-Pinheiro, Fátima ; Camosseto, Voahirana; Adrienne, Paton W.; James, Paton C.; et al. "The impact of ER stress on plasmacytoid dendritic cell activation". Paper presented in 6th European Congress of Immunology, 2021.
  5. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Barros, Daniela; Mendes, Andreia; Leite-Pinheiro, Fátima; Camosseto, Voahirana; Gatti, Evelina; Almeida, Catarina R; Pierre, Philippe. "Role of ER stress on plasmacytoid dendritic cells activation". Paper presented in XLVI Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology, 2021.
  6. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Barros, Daniela; Silva, Carolina; Camosseto, Voahirana; Gatti, Evelina; Almeida, Catarina R; Pierre, Philippe. "The effect of the unfolded protein response on plasmacytoid dendritic cells activation". Paper presented in 3rd IGC symposium - Crosstalks of Immunity and Metabolism, 2019.
  7. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Barros, Daniela; Silva, Carolina; Camosseto, Voahirana; Gatti, Evelina; Almeida, Catarina R; Pierre, Philippe. "ER stress as a modulator of plasmacytoid dendritic cells activation". Paper presented in V Post-Graduate Symposium in Biomedicine, 2019.
  8. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Barros, Daniela; Silva, Carolina; Camosseto, Voahirana; Gatti, Evelina; Almeida, Catarina R.; Pierre, Philippe. "Role of PERK in activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells". Paper presented in 5th Workshop on Dendritic Cell Biology: Anti-tumoral immunotherapy, from biology to the clinic, 2019.
  9. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Neves, Gabriela W. P.; Cunha, Cristina; Sampaio, Paula; Pais, Célia; Goldman, Gustavo H.; Lopes-Bezerra, Leila M.; Carvalho, Agostinho; Rodrigues, Fernando. "Ploidy and genetic transformation of Sporothrix brasiliensis". Paper presented in ICVS Open Day, 2018.
  10. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Neves, Gabriela W. P.; Ramírez-Prado, Jorge H.; Sampaio, Paula; Pais, Célia; Felipe, Maria Sueli S.; Goldman, Gustavo H.; et al. "Towards a genetic toolkit for Sporothrix brasiliensis analysis". Paper presented in XXI Jornadas de Biologia de Leveduras “Professor Nicolau van Uden”, 2018.
  11. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Neves, Gabriela W. P.; Cunha, Cristina; Sampaio, Paula; Pais, Célia; Goldman, Gustavo H.; Lopes-Bezerra, Leila M.; Carvalho, Agostinho; Rodrigues, Fernando. "Sporothrix brasiliensis: ploidy and genetic transformation". Paper presented in 7th Microbiotec – Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Barros, Daniela; FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; Garcia-Gonzales, Paulina; Carbone, Francesco; Luka, Marine; Leite-Pinheiro, Fátima; Antas, Paulo; et al. "Induction of the ISR by AB5 subtilase cytotoxin drives type I IFN expression in pDC via STING activation". (2025):
    Submitted
  2. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; Mazeda, Carolina; Dourado, Eduardo; Simões, João Lindo; Prata, Ana R; Argüello, Rafael; Duarte, Iola F; Pierre, Philippe; Almeida, Catarina R. "The metabolic profile of circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells from patients with systemic sclerosis". (2024):
    Under revision
  3. Antas, Paulo; Machado, Mariana; Leite-Pinheiro, Fátima; Daniela Barros; Carlota Ramalhinho; Andreia Mendes; FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H; et al. "VPS34-IN1 inhibits cap-mediated translation and synergizes with STING to drive type-I IFN expression in human plasmacytoid DCs". (2024):
    Submitted
  4. Inês S. Silva; Beatriz H. Ferreira; Catarina R. Almeida. "Molecular Mechanisms Behind the Role of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Systemic Sclerosis". Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12020285.
    10.3390/biology12020285
  5. Almeida, Catarina R.; FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Duarte, Iola F.. "Targeting PCSK9: a promising adjuvant strategy in cancer immunotherapy". Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy 6 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41392-021-00530-6.
    Published • 10.1038/s41392-021-00530-6
  6. dos Reis, Thaila Fernanda; Silva, Lilian Pereira; de Castro, Patrícia Alves; do Carmo, Rafaela Andrade; Marini, Marjorie Mendes; da Silveira, José Franco; FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; et al. "The Aspergillus fumigatus Mismatch Repair MSH2 Homolog Is Important for Virulence and Azole Resistance". mSphere 4 4 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00416-19.
    Published • 10.1128/msphere.00416-19
  7. Nora, Luísa Czamanski; Gonçales, Relber Aguiar; Martins-Santana, Leonardo; FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Rodrigues, Fernando; Silva-Rocha, Rafael. "Synthetic and minimalist vectors for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of fungi". Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 2 (2019): 395-398. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0221.
    10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0221
  8. FERREIRA, BEATRIZ H.; Ramírez-Prado, Jorge H.; Neves, Gabriela W. P.; Torrado, Egídio; Sampaio, Paula; Felipe, Maria Sueli S.; Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza; et al. "Ploidy Determination in the Pathogenic Fungus Sporothrix spp.". Frontiers in Microbiology 10 (2019):
    Open access • Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00284
  9. Thaila Fernanda dos Reis; Lilian Pereira Silva; Patrícia Alves de Castro; Pollyne Borborema Almeida de Lima; Rafaela Andrade do Carmo; Marjorie Mendes Marini; José Franco da Silveira; et al. "The Influence of Genetic Stability on Aspergillus fumigatus Virulence and Azole Resistance". G3 Genes|Genome|Genetics 8 1 (2018): 265-278.
    10.1534/g3.117.300265
Preprint
  1. Daniela Barros; Beatriz H. Ferreira; Paulina Garcia-Gonzalez; Francesco Carbone; Marine Luka; Fátima Leite-Pinheiro; Paulo Antas; et al. "Induction of the ISR by AB5 subtilase cytotoxin drives type-I IFN expression in pDCs via STING activation". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.07.616986.
    10.1101/2024.10.07.616986
  2. Beatriz H. Ferreira; Carolina Mazeda; Eduardo Dourado; João L. Simões; Ana Rita Prata; Rafael J. Argüello; Iola F. Duarte; Philippe Pierre; Catarina R. Almeida. "Distinct metabolic profiles of circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells in systemic sclerosis patients stratified by clinical phenotypes". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.27.625448.
    10.1101/2024.11.27.625448
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Ferreira, Beatriz H. "Sporothrix brasiliensis: from the genome to the phenotype". Master, Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024 ER stress-activated plasmacytoid dendritic cells trigger fibroblast activation: unravelling pro-fibrotic mechanisms in systemic sclerosis XLIX Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology
(Porto, Portugal)
2023/09 Unravelling the role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells and ER stress in fibrosis The 2nd Immunosensation2-IFReC International School on Advanced Immunology
Immunosensation – University of Bonn (Germany)
2023/07/13 The metabolic profile of plasmacytoid dendritic cells on systemic sclerosis Research Summit 2023
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/05/26 The contribution of pDC and ER stress to fibrosis VI iBiMED Symposium
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/07/14 Plasmacytoid dendritic cells and ER stress involvement in systemic sclerosis-associated fibrosis Research Summit 2022
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/06/23 The role of pDC and ER stress in systemic sclerosis-associated fibrosis Symposium on Immunomodulation in Cancer & Regeneration
i3s (Porto, Portugal)
2022/02/23 The role of pDC in systemic sclerosis: studying pDC-mediated fibrosis MEDISIS Open Day 2022
iBiMED/DCM, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/02/18 The role of pDC in systemic sclerosis: studying pDC-mediated fibrosis Mye + Info + Bank Young Researcher Virtual Workshop
Mye-InfoBank: COST action CA20117 (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/09 Plasmacytoid dendritic cell activation during ER stress Research Summit 2021
University of Aveiro (Portugal)
2021/05/21 Role of ER stress on plasmacytoid dendritic cells activation XLVI SPI Annual Meeting
Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia (SPI) (Portugal)
2019/04/03 On the way to unravel the virulence mechanisms of the emerging pathogen Sporothrix brasiliensis 7th Workshop in Immunology
Centro de Espectrometria de Massa, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/04/29 - 2022/04/29 Science Dissemination - Celebrations of the International Day of Immunology with Fábrica Ciência Viva, University of Aveiro, Laboratory sessions for high school students
Workshop
 Laboratório de Imunologia
Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal
2022/04/07 - 2022/04/07 Key lecturers and hands-on sessions (with audiovisual tools) focused on communicating science to broad audiences and in different platforms.
Workshop
 Science Communication Workshop
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2021/06/12 - 2021/06/12 Science Dissemination about Immunology with Fábrica Ciência Viva, University of Aveiro, Laboratory sessions for children
Workshop
 Imunologia trocada por miúdos
Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal
2019/04/29 - 2019/04/29 Science Dissemination - Celebrations of the International Day of Immunology with Fábrica Ciência Viva, University of Aveiro, Laboratory sessions for High school children
Workshop
 Celebrations of the International Day of Immunology - Laboratory Sessions
Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva, Portugal
2017/04/29 - 2017/04/29 Science Dissemination - Celebration of the International Day of Immunology. Organization of several activities for the community - undergraduate students, children and elderly people.
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2017/03/13 - 2017/03/31 Advanced Course - Cell Functional and phenotypical analysis: the usefulness of flow cytometry and relates tools, 2nd edition
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
2017/01/30 - 2017/02/10 Advanced Course - Laboratory Animal Sciences, 12thEdition
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/09 - 2022/10 Mentoring of a master student in Molecular Biomedicine during the realization of her dissertation Inês Silva
2022/04/29 - 2022/06/24 Mentoring of three bachelor students (Biomedical Sciences) during laboratory rotation Ana Carvalho, Ana Moita, Raquel Moura
Distinctions

Award

2021 Waived Registration Grant: 6th European Congress of Immunology
European Federation of Immunological Societies, Netherlands
2019 PhD Scolarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal