Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/10/12	The gourmet fly: dissecting the mechanisms underlying feeding decisions	DrosAfrica Virtual Workshop 2021 DrosAfrica (Virtual)
2021/10/08	Brain-body-microbiome interactions and the emergence of nutritional homeostasis: how needs turn into want	Department of Fundamental Neurosciences Symposium, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2021/09/22	Winged brains, bugs, nutrients, and behavior	Seminar Series of the School Biological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia School Biological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (Virtual, Australia)
2021/09/13	Winged brains, bugs, nutrients, and behavior	European Chemoreception Research Organization Meeting European Chemoreception Research Organization (Cascais, Portugal)
2021/09/06	The plat: nutritional decisions in Drosophila, including the impact of the gut microbes	European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/06	Winged brains, bugs, nutrients, and behavior	Reading Emotions Symposium Univeristy of Reading, UK (Virtual, United Kingdom)
2021/06/28	How the microbiome, metabolism, and neuronal circuits shape nutrient appetites	International Human Microbiome Consortium Congress 2021 International Human Microbiome Consortium (Virtual, Spain)
2021/05/27	Brain-body-microbiome interactions and the emergence of nutritional homeostasis: how needs turn into wants	Kjeldgaard Lecture, Aarhus University Aarhus University (Virtual, Denmark)
2021/03/26	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	14th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society German Neuroscience Society (Virtual, Germany)
2021/03/05	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions and reproduction	Making Reproductive Longevity a Reality National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Buck Institute (Singapore, Singapore)
2021/02/25	Cellular Mechanisms of Brain-Body Interactions	virtual HHMI Janelia Planning Workshop on “Cellular Mechanisms of Brain-Body Interactions” HHMI Janelia Research Campus (Ashburn, Virginia, United States)
2021/02/15	Identifying and testing the metabolites generated by two psychoactive gut bacteria to alter brain function and behavior	virtual "la Caixa" Foundation Scientific Advisory Board meeting "la Caixa" Foundation (Barcelona, Spain)
2020/10/22	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	Virtual Brown University Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Neuroscience seminar series Brown University Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Neuroscience (Providence, United States)
2020/10/12	The gourmet fly: dissecting the mechanisms underlying feeding decisions	DrosAfrica Virtual Workshop 2020 DrosAfrica
2020/09/28	Dissecting the neuronal basis of nutritional decisions	Oxford Autumn School in Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2020/06/24	The gourmet fly: how needs turn into wants	Virtual Crete Workshop on "Molecular & Developmental Biology of Drosophila"
2019/11/19	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	Weekly institute seminar series at the Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Cambridge, UK Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Cambridge, UK (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2019/10/22	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	Weekly institute seminar series at the Chronic Diseases Research Centre (CEDOC), NOVA medical school, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Chronic Diseases Research Centre (CEDOC), NOVA medical school, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/09/29	O cérebro e a dieta	Portuguese Cook Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/07/09	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional and foraging decisions	Invited speaker at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany (Konstanz, Germany)
2019/06/24	Identifying the circuit logic underlying foraging strategies	Kavli workshop "Neuronal circuits and behaviour of Drosophila" (Kolymbari, Greece)
2019/06/06	How Nutrients, Neuronal Circuits, and the Microbiome Shape Nutritional Decisions	Center for Advanced Studies Workshop “The Gut-Brain Axis in Health and Disease” Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich, Germany (Munich, Germany)
2019/06/01	O cérebro e a dieta	Public outreach seminar at the Gulbenkian Foundation Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05/08	How metabolic needs fuel wants	4th Bonn nutrition workshop” LIMES, University of Bonn, Germany (Bonn, Germany)
2019/04/16	Commensal bacteria control food choice behavior	“The microbiome: A Key regulator of the impact of diet on brain function” Symposium at the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Festival, Dublin, Ireland British Neuroscience Association (BNA) (Dublin, Ireland)
2019/03/28	The brain as a central nutritional regulator: how needs are turned into wants	Weekly institute seminar at the Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2019/02/01	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	PhD students seminar organized by the Neuroscience in Bordeaux Association, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Bordeaux, France Bordeaux Neurocampus, Bordeaux, France (Bordeaux, France)
2019/01/30	The gourmet fly: How needs are turned into wants	Dutch Belgian Drosophila Meeting Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
2018/10/15	Learning from a winged brain: How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and gut bacteria shape nutritional decisions	“International Conference on Mediterranean Diet and Gastronomy” University of Evora, Evora, Portugal (Evora, Portugal)
2018/10/11	Dissecting the neuronal basis of nutritional decisions	32nd French Drosophila Meeting (Presqu-‘ile de Giens, France)
2018/07/13	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	“Neuroday” of the Research Training Network – Neural Circuit analysis, University Cologne, Cologne, Germany University Cologne, Cologne, Germany (Cologne, Germany)
2017/12/04	How animals choose what to eat	Fens Kavli Network of Excellence Winter Symposium Fens Kavli Network of Excellence (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
2017/11/21	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	Weekly institute seminar Neuroscience Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan Neuroscience Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan (Nagoya, Japan)
2017/11/17	How nutrients, neuronal circuits, and the microbiome shape nutritional decisions	Institute seminar at the Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Systems Biology Course Meeting, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, and Systems Biology Course Meeting, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto, Japan)
2017/10/11	How animals choose what to eat	Champalimaud Research Symposium 2017: “Physiology from development to disease” Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/01/30	Dissecting the neuronal basis of nutritional decisions	Munich Psychiatry Lecture Series Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany (Munich, Germany)
2016/11/14	The gourmet fly – The neuronal basis of nutrition	Sidra conference “Senses Diets and Diseases” Sidra (Doha, Qatar)
2016/05/13	The gustatory basis of protein homeostasis	International Society for Developmental Neuroscience Conference International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (Antibes, France)
2016/01/26	The gourmet fly – matching feeding decisions to the internal state of the animal	Weekly institute seminar of the Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2016/01/25	The gourmet fly – matching feeding decisions to the internal state of the animal	Weekly institute seminar at the Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, University of Geneva, Switzerland Département des Neurosciences Fondamentales, University of Geneva, Switzerland (Geneva, Switzerland)
2015/12/15	The gourmet fly – matching feeding decisions to the internal state of the animal	Invited speaker by the student and postdoc body at the Institute of Functional Genomics Lyon (IGFL), Lyon, France Student and postdoc body at the Institute of Functional Genomics Lyon (IGFL), Lyon, France (Lyon, France)
2015/11/14	Metabolic disorders and winged brains	BIAL Fodum Diabetes BIAL (Porto, Portugal)
2015/07/07	The microbiome and the brain	EMBO workshop "Neuronal circuits and behaviour of Drosophila" EMBO (Kolymbari, Greece)
2014/11/12	The gourmet fly - the behavioral, nutritional, and neuronal basis of nutrient homeostasis	ESF-EMBO minibrains symposium: “Flies, worms and robots: combining perspectives on minibrains and behaviour.” ESF and EMBO (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain)
2014/09/11	Using iPad technology to study nutrient homeostasis	4th Junior European Drosophila Investigator meeting (Carry-le-Rouet, France)
2014/06/14	The brain as a central nutritional regulator: how needs are turned into wants	Center for Integrative Genomics Symposium: “Metabolism: molecules, diseases and personalized health”, Lausanne, Switzerland Center for Integrative Genomics, Univeristy of Lausanne, Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2013/08/15	Gourmet flies – Essential and non essential decisions in Drosophila	Third Junior European Drosophila Investigator meeting (Windsor, United Kingdom)
2013/07/26	Gourmet flies – Using winged invertebrates to understand how the brain and the body interact	7th PhD student's retreat of the Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg (Münstertal, Germany)
2013/05/03	Gourmet flies - Essential and non-essential decisions in Drosophila	Second nutritional homeostasis workshop LIMES Institute, University of Bonn, Germany (Bonn, Germany)
2013/03/16	Gourmet flies - using winged invertebrates to understand the brain	Meeting of the Portuguese Biomedical Sciences students (IV Jornadas Nacionais de Ciências Biomédicas) Portuguese Biomedical Sciences students (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012/10/22	The gourmet fly - the molecular and neuronal basis of nutrient decisions in Drosophila	Weekly institute seminar of ISPA (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada), Lisbon, Portugal ISPA (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada), Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/10/06	The gourmet fly - the molecular and neuronal basis of nutrient decisions in Drosophila	FP7 MBG-BRIDGE - Development and Function of the Nervous System Workshop Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (Istanbul, Turkey)
2011/12/01	The Molecular and Neuronal Control of Nutrient Decisions in Drosophila	Weekly seminar series of the Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2011/09/22	The Molecular and Neuronal Control of Food Choice in Drosophila	22nd European Drosophila Research Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/05/27	The Molecular and Neuronal Control of Nutrient Choice in Drosophila	XII Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010/10/21	The Molecular and Neuronal Control of Food Choice in Drosophila	ESF-EMBO conference on "Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains: From flies to robots, and back again." ESF and EMBO (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain)
2010/05/03	The Molecular and Neuronal Control of Food Choice in Drosophila	1st Nutritional Homeostasis Workshop LIMES, University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/03/01 - Current	The effects of tumorigenesis on nutrient cravings: dissecting the role of cellular metabolism in directing specific nutritional appetites to sustain high cell proliferation rates Supervisor	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2023/02/02	IDENTIFYING THE MOLECULAR AND NEURONAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER Supervisor	Neuroscience (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2023/01/17	Identifying neural circuits for nutrient exploration and decision making in Drosophila melanogaster Supervisor	Neuroscience (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2017/12/31	More than Fruit Flies: Neuronal mechanisms of nutrient selection in Drosophila Supervisor	Ph.D degree in Biology (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2012/08/01 - 2017/10/01	How the nervous system responds to and regulates amino acid homeostasis Supervisor	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
2011/08/01 - 2016/12/31	Tracking nutrient decisions in Drosophila melanogaster Supervisor	Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering Systems (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Centro Champalimaud, Portugal Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2020/05/01 - Current	Founder and Organizer of the weekly virtual "Brain-Body Interaction Seminar Series” which brings together leaders in this emerging field to discuss their science. https://www.brainbodyinteractions.org/ (2020/06/22) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Centro Champalimaud, Portugal Harvard Medical School, United States Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
2018/01/01 - 2019/06/01	Chair and main organizer of the "Science and Innovation congress Switzerland-Portugal 2019” celebrating 100 years of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Portugal" (2019/05/02 - 2019/05/03) Congress (President of the Organising Committee)	Swiss Embassy, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/10/13	Chair of the Champalimaud Research Symposium 2017, Lisbon Portugal (2017/10/09 - 2017/10/11) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2017/07/15	Local organizer of the 17th Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Awardees Meeting (2017/07/09 - 2017/07/12) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Human Frontier Science Program, France
2015/01/01 - 2016/09/26	Chair of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium (2016/09/21 - 2016/09/24) Conference (Co-organisor)	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2012/10/01	Co-Organizer of the second Junior European Drosophila Investigator meeting (2012/10/18 - 2012/10/20) Meeting (Co-organisor)

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021 - Current	FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Alumni	Member
2020/07/20 - Current	Elected Secretary-General of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) for the mandate of 2022-2024	Secretary-General-Elect of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
2018/09/01 - 2021/02/01	FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Alumni	Chair
2014/09/01 - 2018/07/01	FENS-Kavli Scholar - Founding member of the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence	Co-Founder and board member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2022/01/01 - Current	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Integrative Biology, CNRS-Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse France Member	Centre de Biologie Intégrative, France

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2021/09/07 - 2022/03/22	Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference	Computational and Systems Neuroscience
2019/01/01 - 2020/07/30	FENS Forum 2020	FENS
2017/01/01 - 2018/07/30	FENS Forum 2018, Berlin	FENS

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018/06/01 - Current	Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies on “Microbiota and the brain”, Venice, Italy
2016/07/09 - Current	Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Summer Course on "Drosophila Genomics and Genetics"		Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
2014/07/31 - Current	Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Summer Course on "Drosophila Genomics and Genetics"		Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
2009/06/01 - Current	Organizer and lecturer at the International Neuroscience Doctorate Programme (INDP) organized by the Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience Programme	(Doutoramento)	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2021/02/17 - Current	Member of the evaluation and selection committee for the FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize 2022 (YIP) and FENS EJN Award 2022. Member
2021/01/19 - Current	Member of the Dana/EDAB/FENS Brain Awareness Week Grants Selection Committee Member
2020/10/21 - Current	Member of the International peer review panel of the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Natural Sciences in the field of Molecular Biology and biochemistry Member		Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2019/06/25 - Current	Journal of Insect Physiology (0022-1910)	Elsevier

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2021/09/01 - Current	Superivison of a PhD student Rory Beresford	Rory Beresford
2020/03/01 - Current	Superivison of a PhD student Rita Figueiredo	Rita Figueiredo
2018/09/01 - Current	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Silvia Henriques	Dr. Silvia Henriques
2018/07/01 - Current	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Gili Ezra	Dr. Gili Ezra
2018/04/01 - Current	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ibrahim Tastekin	Dr. Ibrahim Tastekin
2009/01/01 - Current	Supervision of 7 technicians	Ana Carolina Doran, Liliana Costa, Celia Modesto Baltazar, Ana Patricia Tomé Francisco, Margarida An
2019/11/01 - 2023/12/31	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Raquel Barajas Azpeleta	Dr. Raquel Barajas Azpeleta
2017/09/01 - 2023/09/01	Superivison of a PhD student Dennis Goldschmidt	Dennis Goldschmidt
2019/10/01 - 2023/03/01	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Darshan Dhakan	Dr. Darshan Dhakan
2017/09/01 - 2023/03/01	Superivison of a PhD student Ana Patricia Tomé Francisco	Ana Patricia Tomé Francisco
2018/10/01 - 2019/05/31	Supervison of a Fulbright fellow Brittany Petros	Brittany Petros
2012/09/01 - 2018/02/01	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kathrin Steck	Dr. Kathrin Steck
2012/09/01 - 2017/12/31	Superivison of a PhD student Samuel J. Walker	Samuel J. Walker
2012/08/01 - 2017/10/01	Supervison of a PhD student Samantha L. Herbert	Samantha L. Herbert
2011/06/01 - 2017/06/01	Supervision of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Pavel Itskov	Dr. Pavel Itskov
2011/08 - 2016/12/31	Supervison of a PhD student Verónica María Corrales Carvajal, MIT Portugal student, co-supervised by Dr. Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London, UK	Verónica María Corrales Carvajal
2011/06/01 - 2015/09/01	Supervison of a postdoc	Dr. Ricardo Leitão-Gonçalves