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Vanessa has dedicated her career to scientific research, with a primary focus on cell division and the mechanical regulation of mitosis. The main keywords associated with her research are: Nucleus; Mitosis; Centrosome; Spindle; Cytoskeleton; Mechanobiology and Chromatin. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Matthieu Piel at Institut Curie / IPGG in France, where she investigates the mechanisms regulating nuclear volume, tension, and nuclear envelope surface area. Her work combines microfluidics, advanced imaging, and computational tools. Vanessa has also authored several scientific publications, presented at international conferences, and received 2 best talk awards. In addition to her research background, Vanessa has experience in teaching, student supervision, and science outreach.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vanessa Catarina Ribeiro Nunes

Citation names

  • Nunes, Vanessa
  • Nunes, V

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C315-83B4-9BBF
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8568-4269

Email addresses

  • vanessa.nunes@curie.fr (Professional)

Addresses

  • 6 Rue Jean Calvin, 75005 Paris, 75005, Paris, Paris, France (Professional)

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2018/03/01 - 2022/09/21
Concluded
 Biotecnologia Molecular e Celular Aplicada às Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"Biophysics of Mitotic Spindle Assembly" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2021/08/01 - 2021/08/31
Concluded
 Researcher Management and Leadership Training (Coursera) (Outros)
University of Colorado, United States
 97,5%
2021/08/01 - 2021/08/31
Concluded
 How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (Coursera) (Outros)
École Polytechnique, France
 93%
2021/04/20 - 2021/04/23
Concluded
 Course in Research Ethics/Integrity: Hands-on Approach (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/11/25 - 2019/11/25
Concluded
 Scientific Integrity (Outros)
Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, France
2019/05/06 - 2019/05/10
Concluded
 Light Microscopy (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 19
2019/04/29 - 2019/05/03
Concluded
 Histology and Electron Transmission (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 19
2018/07/02 - 2018/07/20
Concluded
 Biologia Molecular Essencial (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
 18
2018/06/18 - 2018/06/22
Concluded
 High Throughput Screening and Image Analysis for Biosciences (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 13
2018/02/05 - 2018/02/15
Concluded
 Business Ignition Programme (BIP) Talks (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Porto Business School, Portugal
2016/10/10 - 2016/10/11
Concluded
 Introduction to data analysis and image processing with MATLAB (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2015/12/09
Concluded
 Biologia Molecular e Celular (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
"Characterization of the genes determining pollen specificity in self-incompatibility mechanism of Malus x domestica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2012/09/22
Concluded
 Anatomia Patológica, Citológica e Tanatológica (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
"O efeito do ferro na diferenciação dos linfócitos T" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2004 - 2004
Concluded
 First Certificate in English (FCE) (Outros)
British Council Porto, Portugal
2000 - 2000
Concluded
 Preliminary English Test (PET) (Outros)
British Council Porto, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, France
2022/11/01 - 2023/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/03/01 - 2022/09/21 PhD Student at Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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2016/07/01 - 2018/02/28 Research Fellow at Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2015/09/22 MSc Student at Evolutionary Systems Biology Lab Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2012/04/28 - 2012/09/30 BSc Student at Basic & Clinical Research on Iron Biology Lab Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2012/03/21 - 2012/04/27 Trainee - Flow Cytometry Lab (Clinical Hematology) Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto EPE, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2011/11/28 - 2012/02/14 Trainee - Anatomic Pathology Lab (Diagnostic) Hospital de Braga, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2011/09/19 - 2011/11/22 Trainee - Anatomic Pathology Lab (Diagnostic) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/06/01 - 2019/12/31 Spatiotemporal Control of Mitotic Spindle Assembly
PTDC/BEX-BCM/1758/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Institute for Research and Innovation in Health
UIDB/04293/2020
10.54499/UIDB/04293/2020
LA/P/0070/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0070/2020
UIDP/04293/2020
10.54499/UIDP/04293/2020
UID/BIM/04293/2019
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2021 - 2023 Spatiotemporal dissection of nuclear mechanics in the maintenance of chromosomal stability
PTDC/BIA-CEL/6740/2020
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/01/01 - 2017/12/31 Dissecting the connection between centrosome positioning, intracellular forces and mitotic spindle assembly
PESSOA 441.00
Other
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. "High-Resolution Analysis of Centrosome Behavior During". 179-194. Springer {US, 2021.
    10.1007/978-1-0716-1538-6_13
Conference poster
  1. Barros-Carvalho, André; Nunes, Vanessa; Ferreira, Jorge; Claudio E Sunkel. "Identification of conserved mechanisms regulating polarity remodelling during epithelial cell division". Paper presented in 10th i3S Annual Meeting, 2023.
  2. Nunes, V. "A mechanical signal regulates Dynein on the nuclear envelope". Paper presented in Cell Bio 2022-An ASCB|EMBO Meeting, 2022.
  3. Castro, Domingos; Nunes, Vanessa; Lima, Joana T.; Ferreira, Jorge G.; Aguiar, Paulo. "Trackosome: a computational toolbox to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of the centrosomes, nuclear envelope and cellular membrane". Paper presented in i3S Annual Meeting 2019, 2019.
  4. Nunes, V. "Blueprints for an efficient spindle assembly". Paper presented in International Winter School on Molecular Mechanisms in Mitosis. 04-07 February 2019, Heidelberg, Germany., 2019.
  5. Nunes, V. "Biophysics of the mitotic spindle". Paper presented in Physics of integrated biological systems. . 11-21 September 2018, Cargése, France., 2018.
  6. Vieira, Jorge; Aguiar, Bruno; Pratas, Maria I.; Teixeira, Vanessa; Nunes, Vanessa; Iezzoni, Amy; van Nocker, Steve; Vieira, Cristina P.. "Malus domestica gametophytic self-incompatibility system: players and features of the pollen component determining specificity recognition". Paper presented in Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, in Groningen, Netherlands, 2017.
  7. Nunes, V. "Spatiotemporal regulation of mitotic spindle assembly". Paper presented in CellMech 2017 - European Conference of Cell Mechanics. 21-23 June 2017, Windermere, UK., 2017.
  8. Nunes, V. "Blueprints for an efficient spindle assembly". Paper presented in CNRS conference - Actin microtubule cytoskeleton: bridging scales from molecules to tissues. 8-12 May 2017, Roscoff, France., 2017.
Journal article
  1. Vanessa Nunes; Jorge G. Ferreira. "From the cytoskeleton to the nucleus: An integrated view on early spindle assembly". Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 117 (2021): 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.03.006.
    10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.03.006
  2. "Centrosome–nuclear axis repositioning drives the assembly of a bipolar spindle scaffold to ensure mitotic fidelity". Molecular Biology of the Cell 31 16 (2020): 1675-1690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e20-01-0047.
    10.1091/mbc.e20-01-0047
  3. Domingos Castro; Vanessa Nunes; Joana T. Lima; Jorge G. Ferreira; Paulo Aguiar. "Trackosome: a computational toolbox to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of centrosomes, nucleus and cellular membrane". Journal of Cell Science 133 24 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.252254.
    10.1242/jcs.252254
  4. Elisa Vitiello; Philippe Moreau; Vanessa Nunes; Amel Mettouchi; Helder Maiato; Jorge G. Ferreira; Irène Wang; Martial Balland. "Acto-myosin force organization modulates centriole separation and PLK4 recruitment to ensure centriole fidelity". Nature Communications 10 1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07965-6.
    10.1038/s41467-018-07965-6
  5. Maria I. Pratas; Bruno Aguiar; Jorge Vieira; Vanessa Nunes; Vanessa Teixeira; Nuno A. Fonseca; Amy Iezzoni; Steve van Nocker; Cristina P. Vieira. "Inferences on specificity recognition at the Malus×domestica gametophytic self-incompatibility system". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19820-1.
    10.1038/s41598-018-19820-1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Biophysics of mitotic spindle assembly". PhD, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/144104.
  2. Nunes, Vanessa. "Characterization of the genes determining pollen specificity in self-incompatibility mechanism of Malus x domestica". Master, Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15402.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/03/12 A mechanical signal regulates Dynein on the nuclear envelope ASCB Cell Bio 2022. 3-7 December 2022, Washington DC, USA.
The American Society for Cell Biology (Washington DC, United States)
2019/04/02 Blueprints for an efficient spindle assembly Bridging cell and tissue mechanics to fate specification in development. 02 – 05 April 2019, Santiago, Chile.
EMBO Workshop (Santiago, Chile)
2018/05/30 Spatiotemporal regulation of mitotic spindle assembly 1st PhDay at i3S - From bench to stage, from desk to forum. 30 May 2018, Porto, Portugal.
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
2018/04/13 Spatiotemporal regulation of mitotic spindle assembly Cell Biology and Cancer Course. 11 – 18 April 2018, Paris, France.
Institut Curie (Paris, France)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025/06/01 - 2025/08/31 How cell and nuclear volume during confinement are affected by nuclear transport using the N2FXm technique.
Co-supervisor
 Médicine-Sciences (Master)
École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, France

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/07/02 - Current 6th Biotech Health Symposium, SciCollabs - Upgrading your next big idea (2019/07/02)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/02 3rd Meeting of Young Biophysicists – Biophysics Festival 2023 (2023/06/01 - 2023/06/02)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/10/04 - 2024/10/05 La Fête de la Science
Exhibition
 La Fête de la Science
Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, France

Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, France
2022/12/03 - 2022/12/07 Poster: A mechanical signal regulates Dynein on the nuclear envelope.
Congress
 ASCB Cell Bio 2022. 3-7 December 2022, Washington DC, USA.
The American Society for Cell Biology, United States
2020/04/01 - 2020/07/31 Task Force COVID-19 Realization of detection tests of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by RT-qPCR.
Other
 Task Force - Covid-19
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/02/04 - 2019/02/07 Poster: Blueprints for an efficient spindle assembly
Workshop
 International Winter School on Molecular Mechanisms in Mitosis. 04-07 February 2019, Heidelberg, Germany.
2018/09/11 - 2018/09/21 Poster: Biophysics of the mitotic spindle
Workshop
 Physics of integrated biological systems. . 11-21 September 2018, Cargése, France.
EMBO Press, Germany
2018/01/01 - 2018/07/31 Yscience – “Science education for kids”
Other
 Yscience – “Science education for kids”
2017/06/21 - 2017/06/23 Poster: Spatiotemporal regulation of mitotic spindle assembly
Conference
 CellMech 2017 - European Conference of Cell Mechanics. 21-23 June 2017, Windermere, UK.
2017/05/08 - 2017/05/12 Poster: Blueprints for an efficient spindle assembly.
Congress
 CNRS conference - Actin microtubule cytoskeleton: bridging scales from molecules to tissues. 8-12 May 2017, Roscoff, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/01/22 - 2025/01/22 Cours Biologie Cellulaire 2 Cours Biologie Cellulaire 2 (Master) École Normale Supérieure, France
2024/12/02 - 2024/12/03 Dynamic cell confinement; Hands-on activity on how to dynamically confine cells in two dimensions. Dynamic cell confinement France-BioImaging National Coordination Team, France
Distinctions

Other distinction

2018 Cell Biology and Cancer Course - Best Talk Award
Institut Curie, France
2018 1st PhDay at i3S - From bench to stage, from desk to forum - Best Talk Award
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal