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Susana P. Pereira (SPP) graduated in Applied Biology from the University of Minho in 2007, completed her Master’s in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2009, and earned a Ph.D. in Biosciences in 2016 from the University of Coimbra. SPP research focuses on maternal nutrition, perinatal programming, and cardiometabolic health, exploring how early-life nutrition shapes the long-term health of offspring, particularly regarding cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. SPP is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Metabolism and Exercise (LaMetEx), Research Center in Physical Activity, Health, and Leisure (CIAFEL) at the Faculty of Sports, University of Porto (FADEUP). SPP is also a researcher at the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR). In addition, SPP is involved in clinical trials such as PARKEX, which investigates physical activity interventions for Parkinson’s disease, and PERIMYR, which focuses on perinatal programming. SPP also serves as an Invited Professor at the University of Coimbra, where SPP innovative teaching methods and commitment to science communication have been awarded. SPP has co-authored 3 book chapters (two as first author, one as last author) and 43 peer-reviewed publications (average IF 5.7), including 14 in top 10% journals, with 5 as first author, 16 as corresponding author, and 24 open-access articles. Her work has been cited over 1,000 times. SPP has delivered 72 oral presentations and presented 90 posters at international conferences, including 12 invited talks. SPP supervise 25 students (4 Ph.D. and 9 M.Sc.), many of whom have secured competitive fellowships and published in high-quality journals. SPP has contributed to 21 international research projects, attracting over €15 million in funding. SPP has participated in 13 thesis defense committees and serves as a reviewer for funding agencies (e.g., COST Action, UKRI Medical Research Council) and high-impact scientific journals (e.g., Circulation Research, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Alzheimer’s & Dementia). SPP has also acted as a guest editor for five special issues. SPP is a member of 11 scientific societies, including the European Society for Clinical Investigation, the European Society of Cardiology, and the Mitochondrial Physiology Society. SPP cultivates an extensive network of over 20 active collaborations with researchers and clinicians, both nationally and internationally. SPP outreach efforts emphasize the importance of scientific literacy and translating research into clinical applications. SPP actively engages in public science communication through events such as Pint of Science and European Researchers’ Night. SPP has received 9 scientific awards in the past five years for her impactful contributions to the field. SPP’s expertise spans perinatal programming, nutritional science, and cardiometabolic health, positioning her at the intersection of research, education, and clinical application with the goal of improving public health and advancing preventive medicine.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Pereira

Citation names

  • Susana P. Pereira
  • Susana SP Pereira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E61A-464E-4AF1
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1168-2444
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=d5B7ZdEAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id
E-7628-2013
Scopus Author Id
56270723500

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Nutrition, Dietetics
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/01 - 2024
Ongoing
 Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Medicine and Health Sciences (Pós-doutoramento)
Major in Clinical Medicine
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Actividade Física Saúde e Lazer, Portugal
2023/09 - 2023/09
Attended
 BioBoost – bio-entrepreneurship mentoring program (36h) (Outros)
Major in BiotechSTARS
Biocant Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/11 - 2022/11
Concluded
 European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health Summit Series 2020 (Outros)
EIT Health, Germany
2018/10 - 2018/10
Concluded
 MiPschool 2018 (40h) (Outros)
Major in MitoEAGLE Training School - MiPschool 2018
Mitochondrial Physiology Society, Austria
2017/06/18 - 2017/06/24
Concluded
 FEBS advanced lecture courses. Oncometabolism: from conceptual knowledge to clinical applications (56h) (Pós-Graduação)
Federation of European Biochemical Societies, United Kingdom

Sociedade Portuguesa de Bioquímica, Portugal
2016/03/16
Concluded
 Biosciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"Programming of fetal cardio-renal mitochondria by maternal nutrition" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 unanimously approved with distinction and praise
2014 - 2014
Concluded
 Entrepreneurship (Curso médio)
Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, Portugal
2014
Concluded
 Training in Seahorse Extracellular Flux Analyzer (16 h) (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Agilent Technologies Denmark ApS, Denmark
2013/08 - 2013/08
Attended
 The Mitochondrial Physiology Summer School (40 h), Mitochondrial Physiology: Theory and Praxis (Outros)
Major in Mitochondrial Physiology
Mitochondrial Physiology Society, Austria
2013 - 2013
Concluded
 Training School in the Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis (Curso médio)
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013
Concluded
 Statistical Data Analysis with SPSS (48 h) (Curso médio)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010 - 2010
Concluded
 Human Research, Biomedical Research (Curso médio)
University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio, United States
2010 - 2010
Concluded
 Working with Non-Human Primates in Research Settings (Curso médio)
University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio, United States
2009/07/23
Concluded
 Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"In vivo effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on heart and liver mitochondrial bioenergetics and ATP-sensitive potassium channels" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2008 - 2008
Concluded
 Biology of the Cell Death I: Mechanisms of apoptosis (42 h) (Curso médio)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2008 - 2008
Concluded
 Course in Laboratorial Animal Science - FELASA C Accreditation (80 h) (Pós-Graduação)
Major in Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
approved
2007/12/17
Concluded
 Biologia Aplicada (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal
"Avaliação da Toxicidade dos Herbicidas Metolacloro e Alacloro - Utilização de um modelo celular, Bacillus stearothermophilus e um modelo membranar, lipossomas de DPPC. (Toxicity assessment of the herbicides metolachlor and alachlor)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
2006 - 2006
Concluded
 Theoretical and Practical Course of Recovery and Wellness of Wildlife (Curso médio)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - 2024/12 Postdoc (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Actividade Física Saúde e Lazer, Portugal
(...)
2010/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Long School of Mediciine, United States
2010/07 - 2012/07 Visiting Researcher (Research) Southwest National Primate Research Center, United States
2010/07 - 2011/12 Research Trainee (Research) Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Genetics, United States
2010/06/01 - 2010/12/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Department of Genetics, United States
2007/11 - 2009/12/31 Science and Technology Management Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/01/01 - 2017/08/31 Research scientist with Postdoc fellowship in the project "CANCEL_STEM: Tackling Cancer Stem: a challenge and an opportunity to advance in anti-cancer therapy" (pro.no. 016390) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2016/05/17 - 2016/12/31 Research scientist in the project "EXERCISING THE FUTURE: Voluntary Exercise During Gestational Diabetes as a Means to Improve Mitochondrial Function in the Offspring" Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2014/08/01 - 2015/12/31 Research scientist in the project "An Epigenetic Engineering Approach to Reverse the Parkinson Disease Cell State (PD-state)" funded by Foundation Montepio. Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2014/08 Research scientist in the project "Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Fetal Cardio-Renal Programming in Rodents and Non-Human Primates" Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2010/06/01 - 2013/12/31 Research scientist at UTHSC - University of Texas Health Science Center, Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. San Antonio, Texas, USA. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Department of Microbiology Immunology & Molecular Genetics, United States
2010 - 2013 Co-investigator in the project "Clarification of the Mitochondrial Role in the Cardiotoxicity of Doxorubicin Using a Whole Heart Perfusion System, Impact of Different Doxorubicin Treatment Regime" Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2010 - 2013 Co-investigator in the project “Protective Activity of SIRT3 Against Drug-induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2009/12/01 Research Technician Felowship (BTI) associated with the project "Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms for the Cardioselective Toxicity of Doxorubicin" (PTDC/SAU-OSM/64084/2006) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2007/11/01 - 2007/12/31 Co-investigator in the project "Influence of Cell Differentiation State on Apoptosis Induced by Isoproterenol on Embryonic Ventricular H9c2 Cells - Signaling Pathways Involved" (PTDC/QUI/64358/2006) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09 - Current PREDICT – Predicting Cardiovascular Disease Risk at Birth
PREDICT
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Laboratório Associado para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional, Portugal
 CENTRO2020 Operational Program
2023/03/01 - Current PAS-GRAS: De-risking metabolic, environmental and behavioral determinants of obesity in children, adolescents and young adults
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH- 101080329
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2023/03 - Current New therapeutic approaches to obesity based on peripheral dopaminergic signaling
2022.05822.PTDC
Researcher
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
2023/03 - Current Mitochondria as potential drivers of sex-specific microglia dysfunctional remodelling and anxiety caused by prenatal stress
EXPL/MED-NEU/1002/2021
Researcher
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
2022 - Current Physical activity-induced metabolic and mitochondrial remodeling in fibroblasts from patients with Parkinson's disease
2022.01232.PTDC
Researcher
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
2022 - Current The PERInatal MYocardial Remodeling (PERIMYR) cohort study protocol: A prospective study of cardiac remodeling and “recovery” in pregnancy as a model to understand the impact of comorbidities in cardiac remodeling and reverse remodeling
CES 201/18
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022 - Current Perinatal Research Initiative: Providing placenta, blood, umbilical cord and maternal tissue samples for research
Approval No. 29-319 ex 16/17, 2017, last reviewed and renewed 2024
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Ongoing
2020 - Current Assessment of mitochondrial function, using skin fibroblasts as a biomarker in patients with Parkinson's disease: effects of two physical activity programs on motor function, quality of life, sleep, cognitive aspects and mood
2021-URL-Proj-004
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Ajuts a l’Activitat de Recerca del Personal Docent i Investigador de la Universitat Ramon Llull
2017/09 - Current EXERCISING THE FUTURE: Voluntary Exercise During Gestational Diabetes as a Means to Improve Mitochondrial Function in the Offspring
SFRH/BPD/116061/2016
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Desporto, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2020 - 2025/12/31 Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e translacional em Saúde Populacional Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health
LA/P/0064/2020
Researcher
Ongoing
2020 - 2024 Centro de Investigação em Actividade Física, Saúde e Lazer Research Center in Physical Activity , Health and Leisure
UIDB/00617/2020
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2023/12 BraveHEART: Improvig Nature by Addressing Bioactive Dietary Polyphenols to Mitochondria for the Protection of Cardiac Complications in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
EXPL/BIA-BQM/1361/2021
Researcher
Concluded
2023/01 - 2023/11 ON-BOARD: Integrated tutoring program for the prevention of academic insuccess and abandonment at the University of Coimbra
ON-BOARD
Researcher
European Social Fund
Concluded
2022/11 - 2023 MitoBOOST v2.0 - Proof of Concept for the Use of Mitochondrial Targeted Polyphenols to Treat Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-181226
Researcher
CENTRO2020 Operational Program, Portugal
2022/07 - 2023 Preservation of natural and cultural heritage and scientific validation of practices with medicinal plants from Côa Valley
COA/BRB/0019/2019
Researcher
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal
Concluded
2018/06 - 2021 Preclinical efficacy of sulforaphane or Brassica whole extract: a strategy to fight obesity and valorize Brassica byproducts
PTDC/ASP-HOR/29152/2017
 Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
2017/01/01 - 2017/08/31 CANCEL_STEM: Tackling Cancer Stem: a challenge and an opportunity to advance in anti-cancer therapy
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016390
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
2016/05 - 2016/12 EXERCISING THE FUTURE: Voluntary Exercise During Gestational Diabetes as a Means to Improve Mitochondrial Function in the Offspring
PTDC/DTP-DES/1082/2014
Research Technician Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2014/07/01 - 2015/12/31 An Epigenetic Engineering Approach to Reverse the Parkinson Disease Cell State (PD-state)
PD-state
Science and Technology Management Fellow
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
 Foundation Montepio
Concluded
2011/03 - 2014/08 Protective Activity of SIRT3 Against Drug-induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Provided by PTCRIS: 110952
110952
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2010/05 - 2013/10 Clarification of the Mitochondrial Role in the Cardiotoxicity of Doxorubicin Using a Whole Heart Perfusion System - Impact of Different Doxorubicin Treatment Regimens
104731
Provided by PTCRIS: 104731
 Ministério da Ciência Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
2010/04 - 2013/09 Can Phytoestrogens be Safe and Effective Food Additives for Women During Menopause? - An In Vitro and In Vivo Approach to the problem.
108326
Provided by PTCRIS: 108326
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2007/09 - 2010/03 Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms of Doxorubicin-induced Selective Cardiotoxicity
Provided by PTCRIS: 64084
64084
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2007 - 2009 Influence of Cell Differentiation State on Apoptosis Induced by Isoproterenol on Embryonic Ventricular H9c2 Cells – Signaling Pathways Involved”
PTDC/SAU-OSM/64084/2006
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e translacional em Saúde Populacional
LA/P/0064/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Research Center in Physical Activity , Health and Leisure
UIDB/00617/2020
10.54499/UIDB/00617/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Actividade Física Saúde e Lazer, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Desporto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - LA 1 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/SAU/LA0001/2011
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022 - Current Sweet-Baby: Unveiling Gestational Diabetes Programming and Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk in Offspring
Sweet-Baby
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Laboratório Associado para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Diniz, Mariana S.; Grilo, Luís; Tocantins, Carolina; Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Cellular Communication and Metabolic Networks in Cardiovascular Disease Programming by Gestational Diabetes". In Fetal programming in obesity and diabetes. Academic Press, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Susana P. Pereira; Luis F. Grilo; Renata S. Tavares; Rodrigo M. Gomes; João Ramalho-Santos; Susan E. Ozanne; Paulo Matafome. "Programming of early aging". In Aging: From Fundamental Biology to Societal Impact, edited by Oliveira PJ; Malva JO. Elsevier Science, 2022.
    In press • 10.1016/b978-0-12-823761-8.00031-8
  3. Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Pereira, S. P.; Cunha-Oliveira, T.. "Role of Mitochondria on the Neurological Effects of Cocaine". In The Neuroscience of Cocaine, 723-726. Elsevier, 2017.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-803750-8.00073-7
Conference abstract
  1. Carina C. Magalhães; Amorim, Ricardo; Ana I. Duarte; Adriana Marques-Carvalho; Susana P. Pereira; Grilo, Luís F.; Mena, Débora; et al. "The mitochondriotropic antioxidant AntiOxBEN2 prevents hepatic steatosis in male and female mice fed with high-fat high-sugar (HFHS) diet". Paper presented in 58th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2024.
    Published
  2. Tocantins, Carolina; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Grilo, Luís F.; Diniz, Mariana S.; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "Beyond pregnancy: Alterations in the maternal heart detected in the postpartum". 2024.
    10.1111/eci.14220
  3. Grilo, Luís F.; Susana P. Pereira; Laura A. Cox. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Age-associated hexosamine biosynthetic pathway stimulation promotes glycosaminoglycan accumulation in the heart's extracellular matrix inducing cardiac stiffness and hypertrophy". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2024.
    Published • European Journal of Clinical Investigation
  4. Grilo, Luís F.; Oliveira, Paulo J.; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Cardiac aging trajectory is altered in the offspring born to maternal obesity in a sex-dependent way.". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2024.
    Published • doi.org/10.1111/eci.14220
  5. Tocantins, Carolina; Elisa Weiss; Anna Rieder; Jasmin Struzt; Susana P. Pereira; Hiden, Ursula. "Unravelling the Link between ICAM-1 and inflammatory/atherogenic factors in cord blood plasma from gestational diabetes pregnancies". Paper presented in 58th Annual Scientific Meeting European Sociaty for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2024.
    Published • 10.1111/eci.14220
  6. Magalhães, Carina; Amorim, Ricardo; Duarte, Ana; Adriana Marques-Carvalho; Susana P. Pereira; Grilo, Luís F.; Mena, Débora; et al. "O impacto do antioxidante mitocondriotrópico AntiOxBEN2 na esteatose hepática de ratinhos no contexto de Fígado Gordo Não-Alcoólico". Paper presented in 20º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2024.
  7. Carolina Tocantins; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "Long-Term Impact of Pregnancy on Maternal Cardiovascular Health: Redox state alterations prevail in the cardiac tissue of female rats 8 weeks after an uncomplicated pregnancy". Paper presented in 4th HMO in pregnancy symposium & 2nd ELID workshop - The metabolic legacy of pregnancy, Graz, 2023.
  8. Susana P. Pereira. "Physical exercise during obesogenic pregnancy modulates young-adult offspring’s cardiac mitochondrial function in a sex-specific fashion". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2023.
    Published
  9. Susana P. Pereira. "Detraining of the heart: impact of exercise practice exclusively during gestational diabetes mellitus on maternal cardiac mitochondria". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2023.
  10. Susana P. Pereira. "Mitochondriotropic antioxidants based on hydroxycinnamic acids activates Nrf2-mediated cell signalling responses to oxidative stress: implications in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2023.
    Published
  11. Susana P. Pereira; Sousa, Diana; Amaro, A; Ferreira Junior, Marcos Divino; Rocha, Mariana; Barra, Cátia; Mello-Gomes, Rodrigo; Oliveira, Paulo; Matafome, Paulo. "Exposure to obesogenic environments during perinatal development modulates offspring nutriente-sensing pathways in adipose tissue". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2023.
    Published
  12. Carolina Tocantins; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Lina Carvalho; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Lost Gains: The long-term cardiovascular consequences of short-term exercise cessation after gestational diabetes for the maternal heart". Paper presented in 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Prague, 2023.
    Published
  13. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Breaking the Cycle: Exercise During Pregnancy Can Improve Cardiovascular Health in Offspring of High Fat, High Sugar-Fed Mothers". Paper presented in MitoPorto: Mitochondrial physiology, redox biology, and genetics, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  14. Mariana S. Diniz; Susana P. Pereira; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Exercício físico durante gestação obesogénica induz adaptações mitocondriais cardíacas em descendentes que prevalecem até à idade adulta". Paper presented in 19º Congresso Português de Diabetes, Vilamoura, 2023.
    Published
  15. Grilo, Luís F.; Susana P. Pereira; Laura A. Cox. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Age-Associated Glycosaminoglycans Accumulation In Heart Extracellular Matrix Via Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway Precedes Cardiac Hypertrophy". Paper presented in MAC2023 – Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2023.
    Published
  16. Susana P. Pereira; Diniz, Mariana S.; Oliveira, Paulo J.. "Sex-Specific Impact of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Exercise on Offspring's Cardiac Health: Insights into Mitochondrial Function and NO Signaling". Paper presented in MAC2023 – Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2023.
    Published
  17. Susana P. Pereira. "Impact of gestational exercise during maternal obesity in the offspring metabolic-endocrine environment: role of aging.". Paper presented in European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2022.
    Published
  18. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Maternal physical exercise during obesogenic pregnancy to protect the offspring cardiac mitochondrial function". Paper presented in Nature Conferences 2021, 2021.
  19. Susana P. Pereira; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; João Martins; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Maternal obesity induces fetal hepatic oxidative stress (OS) and mitochondrial damage predominantly in the right lobe". Paper presented in 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), 2021.
    Published
  20. Luís F. Grilo; Ivan Viegas; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; João D. Martins; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Maternal obesity (MO) during pregnancy induces maternal liver damage and compromises fetal hepatic function". Paper presented in 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2021.
    Published
  21. Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; João D. Martins; Inês Baldeiras; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Obesidade Gestacional Induz Stress e Dano Oxidativo Hepático Promovendo Macroautofagia No Fígado Materno". Paper presented in 17º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2021.
    Published
  22. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal obesity (MO) during pregnancy: are there implications for maternal hepatic mitochondrial activity?". Paper presented in 54rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2020.
    Published
  23. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal obesity-induced oxidative damage impairs macroautophagy and unbalance mitochondrial Dynamics.". Paper presented in 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2020.
    Published
  24. Susana P Pereira. "A mother's heart: impact of exercise and diet during gestation on maternal cardiac mitochondria and lipid metabolism". Paper presented in 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2020.
    Published
  25. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy Induces Oxidative Stress and Mitochondria Functional Alterations in the Maternal Liver.". Paper presented in 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), Vancouver, 2020.
    Published
  26. Susana P Pereira. "Effects of physical exercise during pregnancy on the modulation of liver mitochondrial function in an animal model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.". Paper presented in 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  27. Susana P Pereira. "Cardiac mitochondrial function in the offspring of sedentary and exercised mothers with gestational diabetes". Paper presented in 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  28. Susana P Pereira; Luis Grilo; Susana P. Pereira; João D. Martins; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Cardoso; Inês Baldeiras; et al. "Hepatic oxidative response to maternal obesity during pregnancy in an ewe model". Paper presented in 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  29. Susana P Pereira. "Physical exercise during pregnancy counteracts the deleterious effects imposed by gestational diabetes mellitus on the offspring liver mitochondrial function.". Paper presented in 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  30. Susana P Pereira. "Effects of physical exercise during pregnancy on cardiac mitochondrial function in a rodent model of high-fat, high-sugar diet-induced gestational diabetes.". Paper presented in 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, 2019.
    Accepted
  31. Susana P Pereira. "IUGR Remodels Fetal Cardiac Left Ventricular (LV) Mitochondria in Baboons.". Paper presented in 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), Paris, 2019.
    Published
  32. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Obesity (MO) in an Ovine Model Results in Disruption of Offspring (F1) Mitochondrial Respirasomes.". Paper presented in 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), Paris, 2019.
    Published
  33. Susana P Pereira. "Diabetes gestacional e programação fetal: pode o exercício físico durante a gestação melhorar a função cardíaca dos descendentes?". Paper presented in 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes - SPD, Vilamoura, 2019.
    Published
  34. Susana P Pereira. "Adaptações na fosforilação oxidativa hepática provocadas pela obesidade durante a gravidez num modelo ovino.". Paper presented in 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes - SPD, Vilamoura, 2019.
    Published
  35. Susana P Pereira. "Mitochondrial Changes in the Maternal Liver in a Model of Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy". Paper presented in 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2018.
    Published
  36. Susana P Pereira. "A high-throughput method for catalase activity determination". Paper presented in 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2018.
    Published
  37. Susana P Pereira. "Targeting dietary antioxidants to mitochondria ameliorate metabolic alterations of skin fibroblasts from patients with sporadic Parkinson’s Disease.". Paper presented in 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2018.
    Published
  38. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal obesity (MO) in sheep alters offspring mitochondrial hepatic biology and redefines the protein acetylation pattern". Paper presented in 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Barcelona, 2018.
    Published
  39. Susana P Pereira. "Diabetes e doença cardíaca: uma herança da vida intrauterina?". Paper presented in 14º Congresso Português de Diabetes - SPD, Albufeira, 2018.
    Published
  40. Susana P Pereira. "Alterações Mitocondriais no Fígado Materno num Modelo de Obesidade Gestacional.". Paper presented in 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes - SPD, Albufeira, 2018.
    Published
  41. Susana P Pereira. "Impacto da obesidade gestacional na função mitocondrial hepática fetal num modelo ovino". Paper presented in 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes - SPD, Albufeira, 2018.
    Published
  42. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Nutrient Excess and Obesity (MO) in Ewes during Pregnancy Leads to Alterations in Hepatic Mitochondrial Biology and Redox Balance". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), San Diego, 2018.
    Published
  43. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Obesity (MO) in Sheep Leads to Offspring (F1) Lobe-Dependent Impairment of Mitochondrial Hepatic Respiratory Chain Activity and Antioxidant Enzyme Activity.". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), San Diego, 2018.
    Published
  44. Susana P Pereira. "Remodeling of Cardiac Mitochondrial Profile in the Fetal Baboon by Moderate Global Maternal Nutrient Reduction". Paper presented in 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Genoa, 2017.
    Published
  45. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Obesity (MO) in Sheep Decreases Fetal Hepatic Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Activity and Total Mitochondrial Lipids.". Paper presented in 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2017.
    Published
  46. Susana P Pereira. "Altered metabolism and oxidative stress in skin fibroblasts from Parkinson’s disease patients.". Paper presented in 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Genoa, 2017.
    Published
  47. Susana P Pereira. "Establishing a new model for toxicological evaluation embining Sulforhodamine B and resazurin in humans cells.". Paper presented in 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Paris, 2016.
    Published
  48. Susana P Pereira. "Metabolic remodeling of human skin fibroblasts as model for studying mitochondrial diseases and drug-induced toxicity.". Paper presented in 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Paris, 2016.
    Published
  49. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal nutrition and fetal mitochondrial fitness.". Paper presented in 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Paris, 2016.
    Published
  50. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal nutrition reduction causes cardiac mitochondrial remodeling in 0.65G fetal baboons". Paper presented in 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Paris, 2016.
    Published
  51. Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Cox, L. A.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "Early renal mitochondrial adjustments to 30% global maternal nutrient restriction (MNR) at 0.9 gestation (G) in a non-human primate model". 2013.
  52. Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "Effect of 30% maternal nutrition restriction (MNR) on cardiac gene expression relevant to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in the fetal baboon". 2013.
  53. Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "Maternal nutrient restriction (mnr) affects fetal cardiac mitochondrial transcripts at 0.9 g in non-human primates (nhp)". 2013.
  54. Susana P Pereira; Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Cox, L. A.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "The Impact of Maternal Nutrition Excess (MNE) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts and Protein at 0.9G in Non-Human Primates (NHP)". Paper presented in 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Albufeira, 2013.
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  55. Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Cox, L. A.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "Effects of Maternal Nutrition Excess (MNE) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts and Protein at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates (NHP)". 2012.
  56. Pereira, G. C.; Pereira, S. P.; Lumini, J. A.; Pereira, C. V.; Magalhaes, J.; Ascensao, A.; Bjork, J. A.; et al. "Organ and treatment protocol-dependent doxorubicin-induced in vivo mitochondrionopathy". 2012.
  57. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal nutrition excess affects fetal cardiac mitochondrial transcripts and protein at 0.9 G in non-human primates.". Paper presented in 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Budapest, 2012.
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  58. Susana P Pereira. "Gender-Specific Effects of 30% Global Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) on Non-Human Primate Renal Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 Gestation". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  59. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Nutrient Restriction Down Regulates Cardiac Mitochondrial Proliferation in Male Non-Human Primates (NHP) at 0.5 Gestation". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  60. Susana P Pereira. "Maternal Nutrition Restriction (MNR) in Non-human Primates (NHP) Down-Regulates Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation Transcripts at 0.5G.". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  61. Susana P Pereira. "Effects of Maternal Nutrition Restriction (MNR) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  62. Susana P Pereira. "Effects of Maternal Nutrition Restriction (MNR) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  63. Susana P Pereira. "Sex Differences in Fetal Non-Human Primate (NHP) Heart Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 Gestation (G)". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2012.
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  64. Pereira, S. P.; Oliveira, P. J.; Cox, L. A.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Nijland, M. J.. "Maternal nutrition excess affects fetal cardiac mitochondrial transcripts and protein at 0.9 G in non-human primates". 2012.
  65. Pereira, S. P.; Pereira, G. C.; Pereira, C. V.; Carvalho, F. S.; Cordeiro, M. H.; Mota, P. C.; Ramalho-Santos, J.; et al. "Dioxin-induced cardiac mitochondrial oxidative stress and activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels". 2011.
    Published • 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.049
  66. Yan, X.; Nijland, M.; McDonald, T.; Pereira, S. P.; Zhu, M. J.; Nathanielsz, P. W.; Du, M.. "Maternal Over-Nutrition Is Associated with Chronic Inflammation and Decreased Mitochondrial Number in Fetal Baboon Skeletal Muscle (SM) at Late-Gestation". 2011.
  67. Susana P Pereira. "Regulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Fetal Baboon Skeletal Muscle (SM) by Maternal Nutrient Reduction at Mid-Gestation". Paper presented in 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), San Diego, 2011.
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  68. Pereira, Susana P; Oliveira, Paulo J; Cox, Laura A; Nathanielsz, Peter W; Nijland, Mark J. "Maternal Nutrient Restriction Down Regulates Cardiac Mitochondrial Proliferation in Male Non-Human Primates (NHP) at 0.5 Gestation (G)". 2011.
  69. Pereira, Goncalo C.. "Doxorubicin-induced cardiac, hepatic and renal mitochondrial toxicity in an acute versus sub-chronic treatment model". 2010.
    10.1016/j.bbabio.2010.04.245
  70. Susana P Pereira. "Chronic vs acute in vivo cardiac, renal and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity of Doxorubicin". Paper presented in 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Bari, 2010.
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  71. Pereira, G; Pereira, S; Lumini, J; Pereira, C; Magalhaes, J; Ascensao, A; Moreno, A; Santos, M; Oliveira, P. "Chronic vs. acute in vivo cardiac, renal and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity". 2010.
  72. Susana P. Pereira; Gonçalo C. Pereira; António J. Moreno; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Can We Predict Drug Safety and Reduce Animal Experiments by Using Isolated Mitochondria Franctions as a Toxicity Biosensor?". 2009.
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  1. Carina Magalhães; Ricardo Amorim; Ana I. Duarte; Adriana Carvalho; Susana P. Pereira; Luís Grilo; Débora Mena; et al. "Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant AntiOxBEN2 improved liver steatosis in male and female mice fed with high-fat high-sugar (HFHS) diet". Paper presented in BEB day 2024, 2024.
  2. Tocantins, Carolina; Elisa Weiss; Anna Rieder; Jasmin Strutz; Susana P. Pereira; Hiden, Ursula. "NT-proBNP cord plasma levels in GDM vs non-GDM pregnancies". Paper presented in Metabolism Day 2024, 2024.
  3. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Lina Carvalho; et al. "Sex-Specific Impact of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Exercise on Offspring's Cardiac Health: Insights into Mitochondrial Function and NO Signaling". Paper presented in Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death (MAC), 2023.
  4. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza. "Maternal physical exercise during obesogenic pregnancy modulates cardiacnitric oxide signaling in young-adult offspring". Paper presented in 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2023.
  5. Amorim, Ricardo; Ines CM Simoes; José Teixeira; Pedro Soares; Yaiza Potes; Sofia Benfeito; Ludgero C. Tavares; et al. "Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant AntiOxCIN4 prevents hepatic steatosis by enhancing mitochondrial function and autophagy in Western diet (WD)-fed mice". Paper presented in MitoPorto - Mitochondrial physiology, redox biology, and genetics, 2023.
  6. Grilo, Luís F.; Tocantins, Carolina; Diniz, Mariana S.; Martins, João D.; Mena, Débora; Amorim, Ricardo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Modulação na comunicação endócrina fígado-tecido adiposo e no estado redox ao longo do envelhecimento da descendência pela prática de exercício materno durante uma gestação obesogénica". Paper presented in 9º Congresso Portugês de Diabetes,, 2023.
  7. Amorim, Ricardo; Ines CM Simoes; José Carlos Santos Teixeira; Pedro Soares; Yaiza Potes; Fernando Cagide; Sofia Benfeito; et al. "Mitochondriotropic antioxidant AntiOxCIN4 improves mitochondrial function and prevents Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFL)-associated autophagic blockage in Western diet (WD)-fed mice". Paper presented in 56th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2022.
  8. Carolina Tocantins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "Maternal cardiac mitochondrial alterations induced by gestational diabetes mellitus prevail at 8 weeks postpartum". Paper presented in Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism: Metabolism at the crossroads of health and disease, 2021.
  9. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Preventing cardiac disease: maternal gestational exercise to mitigate obesity-induced cardiac metabolic impairment in the offspring". Paper presented in Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism: Metabolism at the crossroads of health and disease, 2021.
  10. Luís F. Grilo; João D. Martins; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; et al. "Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy Induces Oxidative Stress and Mitochondria Functional Alterations in Sheep Maternal Live". Paper presented in 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), 2021.
  11. Amorim, Ricardo; Inês C.M. Simões; José Teixeira; Yaiza Potes; Pedro Soares; Adriana Marques-Carvalho; Ludgero Tavares; et al. "Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant based on caffeic acid AntiOxCIN4 prevented hepatic lipid accumulation by avoided Western Diet-induced autophagic blockage". Paper presented in NAFLD summit, 2021.
  12. Luís F. Grilo; João Martins; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; et al. "Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy Induces Oxidative Stress and Mitochondria Functional Alterations in Sheep Maternal Liver". Paper presented in 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, 2021.
  13. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; José Teixeira; Rui F. Simões; Fernando Cagide; Sofia Benfeito; et al. "AntiOxCIN4 a new mitochondriotropic derivative based on the natural polyphenol caffeic acid reverts cellular and mitochondrial metabolic defects of fibroblasts from idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2021.
  14. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; José Teixeira; Rui F. Simões; Fernando Cagide; Sofia Benfeito; et al. "A novel phenolic acid- based mitochondria-targeted antioxidant improves cellular responses to oxidative stress in fibroblasts from sporadic Parkinson’s disease patients". Paper presented in 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2021.
  15. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Beating cardiovascular disease: Physical exercise performed during obesogenic pregnancy to improve offspring mitochondrial cardiac function". Paper presented in 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2021.
  16. Carolina Tocantins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "The metabolic challenge of pregnancy: A toll on the maternal heart aggravated by Gestational Diabetes Mellitus". Paper presented in 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2021.
  17. Susana P. Pereira; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; Carolina Tocantins; Luís F. Grilo; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; et al. "Could maternal obesity during gestation induce mitochondrial bioenergetic alterations in the offspring heart?". Paper presented in Biochemistry Olympiads 2021, 2021.
  18. Carolina Tocantins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "The effects of exercise during gestational diabetes mellitus on maternal cardiac metabolic function". Paper presented in Biochemistry Olympiads 2021, 2021.
  19. "Poderá a Obesidade Materna Alterar a Bioenergética Mitocondrial Cardíaca dos Descendentes?". Paper presented in 17.º Congresso Português de Diabetes, Virtual Meeting, March 11-17, 2021, 2021.
  20. Carolina Tocantins; Óscar M. Rodrigues; João D. Martins; Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Jelena Stevanovic-Silva; Jorge Beleza; et al. "Prática de Exercício Físico Durante Diabetes Gestacional como Estratégia para a Modulação da Função Cardíaca da Gestante". Paper presented in 17.º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2021.
  21. Grilo, Luís F.; Carolina Tocantins; Mariana S. Diniz; João D. Martins; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Obesidade Gestacional Causa Stress Oxidativo e Dano Mitocondrial Fetal Hepático Com Maior Impacto No Lóbulo Direito Do Fígado". Paper presented in 17.º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2021.
  22. Jlena Stevanovic; Jorge Beleza; Pedro Coxito; Rita Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Carlos M. Palmeira; António J. Moreno; et al. "Gestational physical exercise offers prolonged protection to liver mitochondrial function of female offspring against deleterious effects of maternal gestational diabetes". Paper presented in MIP2019 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping, 2019.
  23. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sofia Benfeito; Fernando Cagide; Fernanda Borges; Nuno Raimundo; Susana P Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira, PhD. "Human skin fibroblasts from sporadic Parkinson’s disease patients as a surrogate to measure the efficacy of novel mitochondria-directed antioxidant therapy". Paper presented in ESCI 2019 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2019.
  24. Jorge Beleza; Jlena Stevanovic; Pedro Coxito; Manoel Rios; Susana P. Pereira; Carlos M. Palmeira; António J. Moreno; et al. "Physical exercise during pregnancy counteracts the deleterious effects imposed by gestational diabetes mellitus on the offspring hepatic mitochondrial function". Paper presented in ESCI 2019 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2019.
  25. Jlena Stevanovic; Jorge Beleza; Pedro Coxito; Manoel Rios; Susana P. Pereira; Carlos M. Palmeira; António J. Moreno; et al. "Effects of physical exercise during pregnancy on the modulation of liver mitochondrial function in an animal model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease". Paper presented in ESCI 2019 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2019.
  26. Luis Grilo; Susana P. Pereira; João D. Martins; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Cardoso; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; et al. "Adaptações na fosforilação oxidativa hepática à obesidade gestacional num modelo ovino". Paper presented in 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2019.
  27. Susana P. Pereira; Ludgero C. Tavares; Ana I. Duarte; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Maria S. Santos; Alina Maloyan; et al. "IUGR Remodels Fetal Cardiac Left Ventricular (LV) Mitochondria in Baboons". Paper presented in 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of Society for Reproductive Investigation, 2019.
  28. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sofia Benfeito; Fernando Cagide; Fernanda Borges; Nuno Raimundo; Paulo J. Oliveira, PhD. "Targeting mitochondria with mitochondria-targeted cinnamic antioxidants: a new avenue for sporadic Parkinson¿s Disease therapy". Paper presented in MitoPorto - Advances in Mitochondrial Research: International Symposium, 2018.
  29. Luis Grilo; Chiara H. Cavallaro; João D. Martins; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Determination of the antioxidant enzymatic activity of catalase in animal samples by a novel high-throughput assay". Paper presented in MitoPorto – Advances in Mitochondrial Research, 2018.
  30. Susana P. Pereira; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Luis Grilo; João D. Martins; Inês Cardoso; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Inês Baldeiras; Stephen P. Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz. "Being obese during pregnancy: the mitochondrial impact on maternal hepatic tissue". Paper presented in MitoPorto – Advances in Mitochondrial Research, 2018.
  31. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sofia Benfeito; Fernando Cagide; Fernanda Borges; Nuno Raimundo; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Targeting dietary antioxidants to mitochondria ameliorate metabolic alterations of skin fibroblasts from patients with sporadic Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in ESCI 2018 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2018.
  32. Susana P. Pereira; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Luis Grilo; João D. Martins; Inês Cardoso; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; et al. "Mitochondrial Changes in the Maternal Liver in a Model of Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy". Paper presented in ESCI 2018 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2018.
  33. Luis Grilo; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Susana P. Pereira; João D. Martins; Paulo J. Oliveira. "A high-throughput method for catalase activity determination". Paper presented in ESCI 2018 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2018.
  34. Inês Cardoso; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sónia Pinho; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Baldeiras; Susana P. Pereira; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Maternal obesity (MO) in sheep alters offspring mitochondrial hepatic biology and redefines the protein acetylation pattern". Paper presented in ESCI 2018 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2018.
  35. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sofia Benfeito; Fernando Cagide; Fernanda Borges; Nuno Raimundo; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Mitochondria-directed antioxidants increased metabolic viability of human skin fibroblasts from Parkinson’s disease patients". Paper presented in Multi-target paradigm for innovative ligand identification in the drug discovery process (MuTaLig), 2018.
  36. Luis Grilo; Chiara H. Cavallaro; João D. Martins; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Alterações Mitocondriais no Fígado Materno num Modelo de Obesidade Gestacional". Paper presented in 14º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2018.
  37. Inês Cardoso; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Sónia Pinho; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Inês Baldeiras; Susana P. Pereira; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Impacto da obesidade gestacional na função mitocondrial hepática fetal num modelo ovino". Paper presented in 14º Congresso Português de Diabetes, 2018.
  38. Susana P. Pereira; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Luis Grilo; Inês Cardoso; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Maternal nutrient excess and obesity (MO) in pregnant ewes alters hepatic mitochondrial biology and redox balance". Paper presented in SRI 2018 – Society for Reproductive Investigation, 2018.
  39. Inês Cardoso; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Sónia Pinho; Inês Baldeiras; Susana P. Pereira; Stephen Ford; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Maternal obesity (MO) in sheep leads to offspring (F1) lobe-dependent impairment of mitochondrial hepatic respiratory chain activity and antioxidant enzyme activity". Paper presented in SRI 2018 – Society for Reproductive Investigation, 2018.
  40. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Nuno Raimundo; Paulo J. Oliveira, PhD. "Human skin fibroblast from Parkinson´s Disease patients reveal metabolic alterations and oxidative stress". Paper presented in EpiChemBio and MuTaLig actions joint annual meeting, September, 2017.
  41. Cláudio Costa; Joana Maleita; Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa L. Serafim; Vilma A. Sardão; Paulo J. Oliveira, PhD; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Characterization of mitochondrial parameters in cell lines in the presence or absence of glucose". Paper presented in MitoPorto ¿Advances in Mitochondrial Research: International Symposium, 2017.
  42. Susana P. Pereira; Mark J. Nijland; Ludgero C. Tavares; Ana I. Duarte; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Maria S. Santos; et al. "Effects of Moderate Global Maternal Nutrient Reduction on Fetal Baboon Cardiac Left Ventricular Mitochondria". Paper presented in MitoPorto - Advances in Mitochondrial Research, 2017.
  43. Teresa L. Serafim; Cláudia M. Deus; Sónia Pinho; Tatiana R. Martins; Vilma A. Sardão; Luis Grilo; Chiara H. Cavallaro; et al. "Impact of Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy on Fetal Hepatic Redox Profile and Quality Control Proteins". Paper presented in MitoPorto - Advances in Mitochondrial Research, 2017.
  44. Teresa L. Serafim; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Cláudia M. Deus; Inês Cardoso; Sónia Pinho; Shanshan Yang; Ablat Tuerxun; et al. "A Decreased Fetal Hepatic Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Activity caused by Maternal Obesity in Sheep". Paper presented in MitoPorto - Advances in Mitochondrial Research, 2017.
  45. Susana P. Pereira; Ludgero C. Tavares; Ana I. Duarte; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Maria S. Santos; Inês Baldeiras; Geoffrey Clarke; et al. "Influence of Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondria Outcome". Paper presented in XIX Meeting of the Portuguese Biochemical Society, 2016.
  46. Susana P. Pereira; Teresa L. Serafim; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Cláudia M. Deus; Irina G. Starostina; Vilena V. Ivanova; Albert A. Rizvanov; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Metabolic remodeling of human skin fibroblasts as model for studying mitochondrial diseases and drug-induced toxicity". Paper presented in ESCI 2016 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2016.
  47. Filomena S. G. Silva; Irina G. Starostina; Vilena V. Ivanova; Albert A. Rizvanov; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. "Establishing a new model for toxicological evaluation embining Sulforhodamine B and resazurin in humans cells". Paper presented in ESCI 2016 - European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2016.
  48. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Ludgero Tavares; Ana I. Duarte; Maria S. Santos; Inês Baldeiras; António J. Moreno; et al. "Influence of Maternal Nutrient Reduction on Fetal Nonhuman Primate Cardiac Mitochondria at 0.6 Gestation (G)". Paper presented in XII CNC Annual Meeting, 2014.
  49. Jesus, Fátima; Susana P. Pereira; Fernandes, Marco A.; James Francis Ranville; Nogueira, António J.A.. "Dissolution of silver nanoparticles under environmentally relevant conditions". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials, 2013.
  50. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Laura A. Cox; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Early Renal Mitochondrial Adjustments to 30% Global Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) at 0.9G in a Non-Human Primates (NHP) model". Paper presented in 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation, 2013.
  51. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Effect of 30% Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) on Cardiac Gene Expression Relevant to Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation in the Fetal Baboon". Paper presented in 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation, 2013.
  52. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Maternal Nutrient Restriction and the Kidney: Implications in Mitochondrial Gene Expression". Paper presented in MiP Summer 2013 – the Mitochondrial Physiology Summer School, Mitochondrial Physiology: Theory and Praxis, 2013.
  53. Jesus, Fátima; Sara Aguiar; Fernandes, Marco A.; Oliveira, Rhaul; Nogueira, António J.A.; Susana P. Pereira. "Long term effects of silver nanoparticles in Lemna minor: the influence of nanoparticles size". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials, 2013.
  54. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Laura A. Cox; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Maternal nutrition excess affects fetal cardiac mitochondrial transcripts and protein at 0.9 G in non-human primates". Paper presented in 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2012.
  55. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Laura A. Cox; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Maternal Nutrient Restriction Down Regulates Cardiac Mitochondrial Proliferation in Male Non-Human Primates (NHP) at 0.5 Gestation". Paper presented in 2012 SGI 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2012.
  56. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Sex Differences in Fetal Non-Human Primate (NHP) Heart Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 Gestation (G)". Paper presented in 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2012.
  57. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Effects of Maternal Nutrition Restriction (MNR) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates". Paper presented in 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2012.
  58. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Maternal Nutrition Restriction (MNR) in Non-human Primates (NHP) Down-Regulates Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation Transcripts at 0.5G". Paper presented in 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2012.
  59. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; Laura A. Cox; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Mark J. Nijland. "Gender-Specific Effects of 30% Global Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) on Non-Human Primate Renal Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 Gestation (G)". Paper presented in 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, 2012.
  60. Susana P. Pereira; Gonçalo C. Pereira; Cláudia V. Pereira; Filipa S. Carvalho; Marília Cordeiro; Paula C. Mota; João Ramalho-Santos; António J. Moreno; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Dioxin-induced cardiac mitochondria oxidative stress and activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels". Paper presented in ESCI – European Society for clinical investigation, 2011.
  61. Mark J. Nijland; Thomas J. McDonald; Susana P. Pereira; Mei J. Zhu; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Yan, X.; Nijland, M.; et al. "Regulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Fetal Baboon Skeletal Muscle (SM) by Maternal Nutrient Reduction at Mid-Gestation". Paper presented in 58th annual meeting – Reproduction and regenerative medicine, 2011.
  62. Mark J. Nijland; Thomas J. McDonald; Susana P. Pereira; Mei J. Zhu; Peter W. Nathanielsz. "Nutrition Is Associated with Chronic Inflammation and Decreased Mitochondrial Number in Fetal Baboon Skeletal Musce (SM) at Late-Gestation". Paper presented in 58th annual meeting – Reproduction and regenerative medicine, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, 2011.
  63. Susana P. Pereira; Gonçalo C. Pereira; Cláudia V. Pereira; Filipa S. Carvalho; Marília Cordeiro; Paula C. Mota; João Ramalho-Santos; António J. Moreno; Paulo J. Oliveira. "2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) causes in vivo increased oxidative stress and activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels on cardiac mitochondria". Paper presented in . Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism. Eighth Annual Scientific Sessions – Metabolic Signalling in the Cardiovascular System, 2010.
  64. Paula C. Mota; Marília Cordeiro; Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; João Ramalho-Santos. "Differential Effects of p,p'-DDE on testis and liver mitochondria - implications for Reproductive Toxicology". Paper presented in 16th European Workshop on Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology of the Testis, 2010.
  65. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; José A. Lumini; Cláudia V. Pereira; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Chronic vs acute in vivo cardiac, renal and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity of Doxorubicin". Paper presented in 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, 2010.
  66. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; José A. Lumini; Cláudia V. Pereira; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Cardiac, renal and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity of Doxorubicin in a chronic and acute in vivo model". Paper presented in 49th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, 2010.
  67. Susana P. Pereira; Maria A.S. Fernandes; João D. Martins; António J. Moreno; Romeu A. Videira; Joaquim A.F. Vicente; Amália S. Jurado. "Toxicity assessment of the herbicide alachlor using in vitro model systems". Paper presented in International Course on Toxicology 2010 – “Survival or Death as a Matter of Fat”, 2010.
  68. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Cláudia V. Pereira; José A. Lumini; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; Maria S. Santos; et al. "Doxorubicin-induced cardiac, hepatic and renal mitochondrial toxicity in an acute vs. sub-chronic treatment model". Paper presented in 16th European Bioenergetics Conference, 2010.
  69. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; José A. Lumini; Cláudia V. Pereira; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Characterization of mitochondrial dysfunction during organ-specific Doxorubicin toxicity: role of treatment protocol". Paper presented in Eighth Annual Scientific Sessions – Metabolic Signalling in the Cardiovascular System, 2010.
  70. Nuno G. Machado; Inês Baldeiras; Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Sub-chronic Administration of Doxorubicin to Wistar Rats Results in Oxidative Stress and Unaltered Apoptotic Signaling in the Lung". Paper presented in SFfRBM International XV Biennial Meeting, 2010.
    10.1016/j.cbi.2010.09.027
  71. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Cláudia V. Pereira; José A. Lumini; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; Maria S. Santos; et al. "Distinct alterations of mitochondrial-relevant transcripts in acute vs sub.chronic doxorubicin cardiotoxicity". Paper presented in 1st World Congress on Targeting-Mitochondria, 2010.
  72. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Maria S. Santos; António J. Moreno; Paulo J. Oliveira; Pereira, Goncalo C.; Pereira, Susana S.; et al. "Cardiac, Hepatic and Renal Mitochondrial Toxicity of Doxorubicin in a Sub-chronic in vivo Model". Paper presented in United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation – Mitochondrial Medicine 2009, 2009.
    10.1016/j.mito.2009.12.086
  73. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Maria S. Santos; António J. Moreno; Paulo J. Oliveira; Pereira, G. C.; Pereira, S. S.; et al. "Prevalent cardiac mitochondrial toxicity in a sub-chronic in vivo model of doxorubicin –induced toxicity". Paper presented in 34th FEBS Congress, 2009.
  74. Susana P. Pereira; Maria A. S. Fernandes; João D. Martins; Maria S. Santos; António J. Moreno; Joaquim A. F. Vicente; Romeu A. Videira; Amália S. Jurado. "Toxicity assessment of the herbicide metolachlor. Comparative effects on bacterial and mitochondrial model systems". Paper presented in ESTIV2008 - 15th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology, 2008.
  75. Susana Cardoso; Renato X. Santos; Cristina Carvalho; Sónia Correia; Sandrina Silva; Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; et al. "Brain mitochondria as a potential target of doxorubicin action". Paper presented in IV International Courses on Toxicology 2008 – “Metabolic Toxicology: From the Pathway to Organism”, 2008.
  76. Maria A.S. Fernandes; Amália S. Jurado; Susana P. Pereira; Romeu A. Videira; José B.A. Custódio; Maria S. Santos; António J. Moreno; Gunars Duburs; Joaquim A.F. Vicente. "Comparative effects of four 1, 4-dihydropyridine derivatives on the physical properties of synthetic lipid bilayers and on rat liver mitochondrial bioenergetics: structure-activity relationships". Paper presented in 1st Portuguese-Spanish-British Joint Biophysics Congress 2008, 2008.
  77. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "In vivo mitochondrial toxicity of doxorubicin on a subchronic treatment model: Predominance of cardiac effects". Paper presented in Mitochondrial Biology in Cardiovascular Health and Diseases, 2008.
  78. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Cláudia V. Pereira; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Characterization of doxorubicin-induced mitochondrial toxicity in wistar rats: hepatic, renal and cardiac effects". Paper presented in XVI National Congress of Biochemistry, 2008.
  79. Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; José A. Lumini; José Magalhães; António Ascensão; António J. Moreno; Maria S. Santos; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Tissue-specific adaptations and damage induced by doxorubicin-induced acute toxicity". Paper presented in International Course on Toxicology 2009 – “Mitochondria: between Life and Death”, 2008.
Journal article
  1. Tocantins, Carolina; Martins, João D.; Rodrigues, Óscar M.; Grilo, Luís F.; Diniz, Mariana S.; Stevanovic-Silva, Jelena; Beleza, Jorge; et al. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Maternal heart exhibits metabolic and redox adaptations post-uncomplicated pregnancy". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 1871 1 (2025): 167539. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2024.167539.
    Published • 10.1016/j.bbadis.2024.167539
  2. Sousa, Diana; Magalhães, Carina; Matafome, Paulo; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Adipose tissue-Liver Crosstalk: A route to hepatic dysfunction in pregnant women with obesity". Bioscience Reports (2024): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39083072/.
    Published • 10.1042/BSR20231679
  3. Grilo, Luís F.; Kip D. Zimmerman ; Sobha Puppala; Jeannie Chan; Isaac Ampong; Hillary F. Huber; Ge Li; et al. "Cardiac Molecular Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Metabolic Shift in the Left Ventricle Promoting Cardiac Remodelling Through Stimulation of the Hexosaminase Biosynthetic Pathway and Glycosaminoglycans Accumulation.". Journal Advanced Science (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202309211
  4. Kulovic-Sissawo, Azra; Tocantins, Carolina; Diniz, Mariana S.; Weiss, Elisa; Steiner, Andreas; Tokic, Silvija; Madreiter-Sokolowski, Corina T.; Pereira, Susana P.; Hiden, Ursula. "Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Unraveling Insights from Vascular Endothelial Cells". Biology 13 2 (2024): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology13020070.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/biology13020070
  5. Diniz, Mariana S.; Hiden, Ursula; Falcão-Pires, Inês; Oliveira, Paulo J.; Sobrevia, Luis; Pereira, Susana P.. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Fetoplacental endothelial dysfunction in gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal obesity: A potential threat for programming cardiovascular disease". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 1869 8 (2023): 166834. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166834.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166834
  6. Magaña, Juan Carlos; Deus, Cláudia Maria; Baldellou, Laura; Avellanet, Merce; Gea-Rodríguez, Elvira; Enriquez-Calzada, Silvia; Laguna, Ariadna; et al. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana Patricia. "Investigating the impact of physical activity on mitochondrial function in Parkinson’s disease (PARKEX): Study protocol for A randomized controlled clinical trial". PLOS ONE 18 11 (2023): e0293774. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293774.
    Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0293774
  7. Diniz, Mariana S.; Magalhães, Carina C.; Tocantins, Carolina; Grilo, Luís F.; Teixeira, José; Pereira, Susana P.. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Nurturing through Nutrition: Exploring the Role of Antioxidants in Maternal Diet during Pregnancy to Mitigate Developmental Programming of Chronic Diseases". Nutrients 15 21 (2023): 4623. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15214623.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/nu15214623
  8. Pereira, Susana P.; Diniz, Mariana S.; Tavares, Ludgero C.; Cunha-Oliveira, Teresa; Li, Cun; Cox, Laura A.; Nijland, Mark J.; Nathanielsz, Peter W.; Oliveira, Paulo J.. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Characterizing Early Cardiac Metabolic Programming via 30% Maternal Nutrient Reduction during Fetal Development in a Non-Human Primate Model". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 24 20 (2023): 15192. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242015192.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/ijms242015192
  9. Grilo, Luís F.; Martins, João D.; Diniz, Mariana S.; Tocantins, Carolina; Cavallaro, Chiara H.; Baldeiras, Inês; Cunha-Oliveira, Teresa; et al. "Maternal hepatic adaptations during obese pregnancy encompass lobe-specific mitochondrial alterations and oxidative stress". Clinical Science 137 17 (2023): 1347-1372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/cs20230048.
    Published • 10.1042/cs20230048
  10. Diniz, Mariana S.; Grilo, Luís F.; Tocantins, Carolina; Falcão-Pires, Inês; Pereira, Susana P.. "Made in the Womb: Maternal Programming of Offspring Cardiovascular Function by an Obesogenic Womb". Metabolites 13 7 (2023): 845. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/metabo13070845.
    Open access • 10.3390/metabo13070845
  11. Tocantins, Carolina; Martins, João D.; Rodrigues, Óscar M.; Grilo, Luís F.; Diniz, Mariana S.; Stevanovic-Silva, Jelena; Beleza, Jorge; et al. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Metabolic mitochondrial alterations prevail in the female rat heart 8 weeks after exercise cessation". European Journal of Clinical Investigation 53 11 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eci.14069.
    10.1111/eci.14069
  12. Sousa, Diana; Rocha, Mariana; Amaro, Andreia; Ferreira-Junior, Marcos Divino; Cavalcante, Keilah Valéria Naves; Monteiro-Alfredo, Tamaeh; Barra, Cátia; et al. "Exposure to Obesogenic Environments during Perinatal Development Modulates Offspring Energy Balance Pathways in Adipose Tissue and Liver of Rodent Models". Nutrients 15 5 (2023): 1281. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15051281.
    10.3390/nu15051281
  13. Juan Carlos MAGAÑA GALLARDO; Cláudia Deus; Deus, CM; Maria Giné-Garriga; Joel Montane; Pereira SP. "Exercise-Boosted Mitochondrial Remodeling in Parkinson's Disease". Biomedicines 10 12 (2022): 3228-3228. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10123228.
    10.3390/biomedicines10123228
  14. Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; Luis F. Grilo; Pereira SP. "The Bitter Side of Sugar Consumption: A Mitochondrial Perspective on Diabetes Development". Diabetology (2022): https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/review_info/b82370c44de6e15f27ed2e711c9e17a0.
    10.3390/diabetology3040044
  15. Ricardo Amorim; Inês C.M. Simões; José Teixeira; Fernando Cagide; Yaiza Potes; Pedro Soares; Adriana Carvalho; et al. "Mitochondria-targeted anti-oxidant AntiOxCIN4 improved liver steatosis in Western diet-fed mice by preventing lipid accumulation due to upregulation of fatty acid oxidation, quality control mechanism and antioxidant defense systems". Redox Biology 55 (2022): 102400-102400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2022.102400.
    10.1016/j.redox.2022.102400
  16. Luís F. Grilo; Mariana S. Diniz; Carolina Tocantins; Ana Luísa Areia; Pereira SP. "The Endocrine–Metabolic Axis Regulation in Offspring Exposed to Maternal Obesity—Cause or Consequence in Metabolic Disease Programming?". Obesities 2 3 (2022): 236-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/obesities2030019.
    10.3390/obesities2030019
  17. Carolina Tocantins; Mariana S. Diniz; Luís F. Grilo; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "The birth of cardiac disease: mechanisms linking gestational diabetes mellitus and early onset of cardiovascular disease in offspring". WIREs Mechanisms of Disease (2022): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsbm.1555.
    Published • 10.1002/wsbm.1555
  18. Susana P. Pereira; Sandra M.A. Santos; Maria A.S. Fernandes; Cláudia M. Deus; João D. Martins; Maria C. Pedroso de Lima; Joaquim A.F. Vicente; Romeu A. Videira; Amália S. Jurado. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Improving pollutants environmental risk assessment using a multi model toxicity determination with in vitro, bacterial, animal and plant model systems: The case of the herbicide alachlor". Environmental Pollution 286 (2021): 117239-117239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117239.
    Published • 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117239
  19. Cláudia M. Deus; Susana P. Pereira; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; José Teixeira; Rui F. Simões; Fernando Cagide; Sofia Benfeito; et al. "A mitochondria-targeted caffeic acid derivative reverts cellular and mitochondrial defects in human skin fibroblasts from male sporadic Parkinson's disease patients". Redox Biology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2021.102037.
    10.1016/j.redox.2021.102037
  20. Inês C. M. Simões; Ricardo Amorim; José Teixeira; Agnieszka Karkucinska-Wieckowska; Adriana Carvalho; Susana P. Pereira; Rui F. Simões; et al. "The Alterations of Mitochondrial Function during NAFLD Progression—An Independent Effect of Mitochondrial ROS Production". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22 13 (2021): 6848-6848. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22136848.
    10.3390/ijms22136848
  21. Luis F. Grilo; Carolina Tocantins; Mariana S. Diniz; Rodrigo Mello Gomes; Paulo J. Oliveira; Paulo Matafome; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Metabolic Disease Programming: from Mitochondria to Epigenetics, Glucocorticoid Signaling and Beyond". European Journal of Clinical Investigation (2021): https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13625.
    Published • 10.1111/eci.13625
  22. Susana P. Pereira; Ludgero C. Tavares; Ana I. Duarte; Inês Baldeiras; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; João D. Martins; Maria S. Santos; et al. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Sex-dependent vulnerability of fetal nonhuman primate cardiac mitochondria to moderate maternal nutrient reduction". Clinical Science (2021): https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20201339.
    Published • 10.1042/CS20201339
  23. Stevanovic-Silva, Jelena; Beleza, Jorge; Coxito, Pedro; Pereira, Susana; Rocha, Hugo; Gaspar, Tiago Bordeira; Gärtner, Fátima; et al. "Maternal high-fat high-sucrose diet and gestational exercise modulate hepatic fat accumulation and liver mitochondrial respiratory capacity in mothers and male offspring". Metabolism 116 (2021): 154704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2021.154704.
    10.1016/j.metabol.2021.154704
  24. Luís F. Grilo; João D. Martins; Chiara H. Cavallaro; Peter W. Nathanielsz; Paulo J. Oliveira; Susana P. Pereira. Corresponding author: Susana P. Pereira. "Development of a 96-well based assay for kinetic determination of catalase enzymatic-activity in biological samples". Toxicology in Vitro (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104996.
    Published • 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104996
  25. Bárbara Sousa; Joana Pereira; Ricardo Marques; Luís F. Grilo; Susana P. Pereira; Vilma A. Sardão; Fernando Schmitt; Paulo J. Oliveira; Joana Paredes. "P-cadherin induces anoikis-resistance of matrix-detached breast cancer cells by promoting pentose phosphate pathway and decreasing oxidative stress". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2020.165964.
    10.1016/j.bbadis.2020.165964
  26. Deus, Cláudia M.; Pereira, Susana P.; Cunha-Oliveira, Teresa; Pereira, Francisco B.; Raimundo, Nuno; Oliveira, Paulo J.. "Mitochondrial remodeling in human skin fibroblasts from sporadic male Parkinson's disease patients uncovers metabolic and mitochondrial bioenergetic defects". Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 1866 3 (2020): 165615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2019.165615.
    10.1016/j.bbadis.2019.165615
  27. Pereira, Gonçalo C; Pereira, Susana P; Pereira, Francisco B; Lourenço, Nuno; Lumini, José A; Pereira, Claudia V; Bjork, James A; et al. "Early Cardiac Mitochondrial Molecular and Functional Responses to Acute Anthracycline Treatment in Wistar Rats". Toxicological Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfz026.
    10.1093/toxsci/kfz026
  28. Susana P Pereira; Cláudia M Deus; Teresa L Serafim; Teresa Cunha-Oliveira; Paulo J Oliveira. "Metabolic and Phenotypic Characterization of Human Skin Fibroblasts After Forcing Oxidative Capacity". Toxicological Sciences (2018): https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfy068.
    10.1093/toxsci/kfy068
  29. Pereira, Gonçalo C; Pereira, Susana P; Tavares, Ludgero C; Carvalho, Filipa S; Magalhães-Novais, Silvia; Barbosa, Inês A; Santos, Maria S; et al. "Cardiac cytochrome c and cardiolipin depletion during anthracycline-induced chronic depression of mitochondrial function". 30 (2016): 95-104. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47559.
    10.1016/j.mito.2016.07.005
  30. Silva, F.S.G.; Starostina, I.G.; Ivanova, V.V.; Rizvanov, A.A.; Oliveira, P.J.; Pereira, S.P.. Corresponding author: Pereira, S.P.. "Determination of metabolic viability and cell mass using a tandem resazurin/sulforhodamine B assay". Current Protocols in Toxicology 2016 (2016): 1-15. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85026657309&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/cptx.1
  31. Pereira, Susana P.; Oliveira, Paulo J.; Tavares, Ludgero C.; Moreno, António J.; Cox, Laura A.; Nathanielsz, Peter W.; Nijland, Mark J.. "Effects of moderate global maternal nutrient reduction on fetal baboon renal mitochondrial gene expression at 0.9 gestation". American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 308 11 (2015): F1217-F1228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00419.2014.
    10.1152/ajprenal.00419.2014
  32. Ana Branco; Susana P. Pereira; Susana Gonzalez; Oleg Gusev; Albert A. Rizvanov; Paulo J. Oliveira; Branco, Ana F.; et al. "Gene Expression Profiling of H9c2 Myoblast Differentiation towards a Cardiac-Like Phenotype". PLoS One 29 (2015): 1-10. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26121149.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0129303.
  33. Ivanova, V.V.; Starostina, I.G.; Martynova, E.V.; Pereira, S.P.; Oliveira, P.J.; Rizvanov, A.A.; Ivanova, V. V.; et al. "Analysis of Bj fibroblasts mitochondrial respiratory chain function under glucose starvation and exposure to different doses of rotenone: Implications for neurogenerative diseases". Genes and Cells 10 4 (2015): 40-46. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962218626&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  34. Pereira, Susana P.; Pereira, Gonçalo C.; Pereira, Cláudia V.; Carvalho, Filipa S.; Cordeiro, Marília H.; Mota, Paula C.; Ramalho-Santos, João; Moreno, António J.; Oliveira, Paulo J.. "Dioxin-induced acute cardiac mitochondrial oxidative damage and increased activity of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in Wistar rats". Environmental Pollution 180 (2013): 281-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.049.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.049
  35. Mota, P.C.; Tavares, R.S.; Cordeiro, M.; Pereira, S.P.; Publicover, S.J.; Oliveira, P.J.; Ramalho-Santos, J.; et al. "Acute effects of TCDD administration: Special emphasis on testicular and sperm mitochondrial function". Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction 1 4 (2012): 269-276. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84929141935&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/S2305-0500(13)60091-3
  36. Pereira, Gonçalo C; Pereira, Susana P; Pereira, Claudia V; Lumini, José A; Magalhães, José; Ascensão, António; Santos, Maria S; et al. "Mitochondrionopathy phenotype in doxorubicin-treated Wistar rats depends on treatment protocol and is cardiac-specific". PLoS ONE 7 6 (2012): e38867-e38867. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47554.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0038867
  37. Mota, Paula C; Cordeiro, Marília; Pereira, Susana P; Oliveira, Paulo J; Moreno, António J; Ramalho-Santos, João; Paula C. Mota; et al. "Differential effects of p,p'-DDE on testis and liver mitochondria: implications for reproductive toxicology". Reproductive Toxicology 31 1 (2011): 80-85. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47553.
    Published • 10.1016/j.reprotox.2010.09.010
  38. Machado, Nuno G; Baldeiras, Inês; Pereira, Gonçalo C; Pereira, Susana P; Oliveira, Paulo J; Nuno G. Machado; Inês Baldeiras; et al. "Sub-chronic administration of doxorubicin to Wistar rats results in oxidative stress and unaltered apoptotic signaling in the lung". Chemico-Biological Interactions 188 3 (2010): 478-486. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47552.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cbi.2010.09.027
  39. Susana P. Pereira; Maria A.S. Fernandes; João D. Martins; Maria S. Santos; António J. Moreno; Joaquim A.F. Vicente; Romeu A. Videira; et al. "Toxicity assessment of the herbicide metolachlor comparative effects on bacterial and mitochondrial model systems". Toxicology in Vitro 23 8 (2009): 1585-1590. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887233309001702.
    Published • 10.1016/j.tiv.2009.06.032
  40. Pereira, Cláudia V; Moreira, Ana C; Pereira, Susana P; Machado, Nuno G; Carvalho, Filipa S; Sardão, Vilma A; Oliveira, Paulo J; et al. "Investigating drug-induced mitochondrial toxicity: a biosensor to increase drug safety?". Current Drug Safety 4 1 (2009): 34-54. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19149524.
    10.2174/157488609787354440
  41. Pereira, S.P.; Pereira, G.C.; Moreno, A.J.; Oliveira, P.J.. "Can drug safety be predicted and animal experiments reduced by using isolated mitochondrial fractions?". ATLA Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 37 4 (2009): 355-365. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449604749&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  42. Susana Cardoso; Renato X. Santos; Cristina Carvalho; Sónia Correia; Gonçalo C. Pereira; Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira; et al. "Doxorubicin increases the susceptibility of brain mitochondria to Ca2+-induced permeability transition and oxidative damage". Free Radical Biology and Medicine 45 10 (2008): 1395-1402. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089158490800470X.
    Published • 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.08.008
  43. Fernandes, Maria A. S.; Pereira, Susana P. S.; Jurado, Amália S.; Custódio, José B. A.; Santos, Maria S.; Moreno, António J. M.; Duburs, Gunars; et al. "Comparative effects of three 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives [OSI-1210, OSI-1211 (etaftoron), and OSI-3802] on rat liver mitochondrial bioenergetics and on the physical properties of membrane lipid bilayers: Relevance to the length of the alkoxyl chain in positions 3 and 5 of the DHP ring". The 1,4-dihydropyridines OSI-1210, OSI-1211 (etaftoron), and OSI-3802 are compounds with similar chemical structure. They differ by the length of the alkoxyl chain in positions 3 and 5 of the dihydropyridine (DHP) ring and by their pharmacological action characteristics. However, as far as we know, a clear relationship between the effects of these compounds and the length of the alkoxyl chain in p 173 3 (2008): 195-204. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/5293.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cbi.2008.03.001
Newspaper article
  1. Susana P. Pereira. "Coimbra team unveils (in international study) heart aging.", Público, 2024
  2. Susana P. Pereira; Paulo J. Oliveira. "Gravidez: uma janela de oportunidade para um futuro saudável / Pregnancy: a window of opportunity for a healthy future", Público, 2021, https://www.publico.pt/2021/11/17/ciencia/noticia/gravidez-janela-oportunidade-futuro-saudavel-1984781.
  3. Susana P. Pereira. "Feeding the Future: maternal habits during pregnancy and its impact on future health.", Público, 2020
Preprint
  1. Grilo, Luís F.; Zimmerman, Kip D.; Puppala, Sobha; Chan, Jeannie; Huber, Hillary F.; Li, Ge; Jadhav, Avinash Y. L.; et al. "Cardiac Molecular Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Metabolic Alterations Promoting Glycosaminoglycans Accumulation Via Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.17.567640.
    10.1101/2023.11.17.567640
  2. Magaña, Juan Carlos; Deus, Cláudia M.; Baldellou, Laura; Avellanet, M; Gea-Rodríguez, E; Calzada, Silvia Enriquez; Laguna, Ariadna; et al. Corresponding author: Pereira, Susana P.. "Investigating the impact of physical activity on mitochondrial function in Parkinson’s disease (PARKEX): Study protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.20.23297305.
    10.1101/2023.10.20.23297305
  3. Erich Gnaiger Erich ; Susana P. Pereira. "Mitochondrial physiology". 2020.
  4. Gnaiger E; Aasander Frostner E; Abdul Karim N; Abdel-Rahman EA; Abumrad NA; Acuna-Castroviejo D; Adiele RC; Susana P. Pereira. "Mitochondrial respiratory states and rates". 2019.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Susana P Pereira. "Programming of fetal cardio-renal mitochondria by maternal nutrition". PhD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/29635.
  2. Susana P Pereira. "In vivo effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on heart and liver mitochondrial bioenergetics and ATP-sensitive potassium channels”". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, 2009.
  3. Susana P Pereira. "Avaliação da Toxicidade dos Herbicidas Metolacloro e Alacloro. Utilização de um modelo celular, Bacillus stearothermophilus e um modelo membranar, lipossomas de DPPC”. (Toxicity assessment of the herbicides metolachlor and alachlor. Comparative effects on bacterial model, Bacillus stearothermophilus and membrane model system of lipossomes of DPPC)". Degree, Universidade do Minho, 2007.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10 Impact of maternal obesity on offspring cardiac aging 8th PhD Students Conference
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (Warsaw, Poland)
2024/06 Cardiac aging trajectory is altered in the offspring born to maternal obesity in a sex-dependent way ESCI 2024 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
(Barcelona, Spain)
2024/06 Unravelling the Link between ICAM-1 and inflammatory/atherogenic factors in cord blood plasma from gestational diabetes pregnancies ESCI 2024 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
2024/06 Beyond pregnancy: Alterations in the maternal heart detected in the postpartum ESCI 2024 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
(Barcelona, Spain)
2024/06 The mitochondriotropic antioxidant antiOxBEN2 prevents hepatic steatosis in male and female mice fed with high-fat high- sugar (HFHS) diet ESCI 2024 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
2023/12 Cardiac Molecular Analysis Reveals Aging-Associated Metabolic Alterations Promoting Glycosaminoglycans Accumulation Via Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway CIBB meeting 2023
2023/11 Sex-Specific Impact of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Exercise on Offspring's Cardiac Health: Insights into Mitochondrial Function and NO Signaling Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death (MAC2023)
(Portugal)
2023/10/05 Shaping offspring cardiac function by maternal metabolism 4th HMO in pregnancy symposium & 2nd ELID workshop - The metabolic legacy of pregnancy
Medical University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
2023/10 Long-Term Impact of Pregnancy on Maternal Cardiovascular Health: Redox state alterations prevail in the cardiac tissue of female rats 8 weeks after an uncomplicated pregnancy 4th HMO in Pregnancy Symposium and 2nd ELiD - The metabolic legacy of pregnancy
2023/05 How perinatal habits determines offspring cardiac health. 1st International Symposium of DOHaD and Epidemic: Lessons from Covid-19
State University of Maringá-Brazil (Maringá, Brazil)
2023/05 Offspring’s cardiac nitric oxide signaling is influenced by maternal physical exercise during an obesogenic pregnancy. 1st FEBS Redox Medicine Workshop: from cellular signaling to systems physiology and therapeutic targets
FEBS (Luso, Portugal)
2023/05 Breaking the Cycle: Exercise During Pregnancy Can Improve Cardiovascular Health in Offspring of High Fat, High Sugar-Fed Mothers. MitoPorto - Advances in Mitochondrial Research
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05 Breaking the Cycle: Exercise During Pregnancy Can Improve Cardiovascular Health in Offspring of High Fat, High Sugar-Fed Mothers MitoPorto
2023/05 Offspring’s cardiac nitric oxide signaling is influenced by maternal physical exercise during an obesogenic pregnancy FEBS Redox Medicine Workshop: from cellular signaling to systems physiology and therapeutic targets
2023/03 Mitochondriotropic antioxidant AntiOXCIN4 improves mitochondrial function and prevents the autophagic block associated with hepatic in mice fed with an obesogenic diet 19º Congresso Português de Diabetes
2023/02 Aging-Associated Metabolic Remodeling in the Cardiac Left Ventricle Reveals Stimulation of the Hexosaminase Biosynthetic Pathway in Baboons BEB Day 2022 - Science Challenges: This Fight of Ours!
2023/01 Molecular Analysis of the Heart Reveals Age-Associated Cardiac Extracellular Matrix Remodelling - A Potential Mechanism of Metabolic Programming Metabolism Aging and Disease Meeting - Inflammaging: From Societal to Clinical Challenges
2023/01 Obesity disrupts offspring’s cardiac aging trajectory via protein O-GlcNAcylation and stiffness with sex-dependent Metabolism, Ageing & Disease (MAD) Meeting - Disease & Therapeutics: from the Past to Future
(Portugal)
2022/12 Molecular Analysis of the Heart Left Ventricle Reveals Age-Associated Stimulation of Glycosaminoglycans Synthesis - A Potential Mechanism of Cardiac Remodeling Seminar of Center for Precision Medicine
Wake Forest School of Medicine (United States)
2022/12 Unraveling Mechanisms of Developmental Programming-Aging Interactions in the Heart. EIT Health Ageing Ph.D. School
(Portugal)
2022/11 Exposure to obesity-induced gestational diabetes causes offspring cardiac adaptations that prevail until adulthood European Group for the study of Insulin Resistance
2022/06 Detraining of the heart: impact of exercise practice exclusively during gestational diabetes mellitus on maternal cardiac mitochondria ESCI 2022
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Bari, Italy)
2022/05 Impact of gestational exercise during maternal obesity in the offspring metabolic-endocrine environment: role of aging ESCI 2022
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Bari, Italy)
2022/05 Mitochondriotropic antioxidants based on hydroxycinnamic acids activates Nrf2-mediated cell signalling responses to oxidative stress: implications in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). ESCI 2022
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Bari, Italy)
2022/05 Exposure to obesogenic environments during perinatal development modulates offspring nutriente-sensing pathways in adipose tissue. ESCI 2022
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Bari, Italy)
2022/04/22 Beating cardiac diseases at birth? VII Conference on Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2022/03 How to get over the fear of public speaking? IV Pedagogical Forum
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/03 O desenvolvimento perinatal em ambientes obesogénicos provoca alterações nas vias de sensibilidade aos nutrientes. 18º Congresso Português de Diabetes
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2021/11/21 The importance of healthy eating during pregnancy: the case of vegetarian diets during pregnancy 8th National Symposium for the Promotion of Healthy and Safe Eating (SPAS)
National Institute of Health (Portugal)
2021/07/06 Maternal obesity induces fetal hepatic oxidative stress (OS) and mitochondrial damage predominantly in the right lobe 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation
(United States)
2021/06 Maternal obesity (MO) during pregnancy induces maternal liver damage and compromises fetal hepatic function 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, ESCI 2021
European Society for Clinical Investigation
2021/03 Obesidade Gestacional Induz Stress e Dano Oxidativo Hepático Promovendo Macroautofagia No Fígado Materno 17º Congresso Português de Diabetes
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia (Portugal)
2020/10/16 Feeding the Future: maternal habits during pregnancy and its impact on future health Público, a Portuguese daily national newspaper
2020/09/22 A mother's heart: impact of exercise and diet during gestation on maternal cardiac mitochondria and lipid metabolism 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Virtual Edition 2020
European Society for Clinical Investigation
2020/09/22 Maternal obesity (MO) during pregnancy: are there implications for maternal hepatic mitochondrial activity? 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Virtual Edition 2020
European Society for Clinical Investigation
2020/03/10 Maternal Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy Induces Oxidative Stress and Mitochondria Functional Alterations in the Maternal Liver 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI)
Society for Reproductive Investigation (Vancouver)
2019/08 Gestational exercise protects against deleterious consequences imposed by diabetes mellitus on male offspring liver mitochondrial function Mitochondrial Physiology - from organelle to Organism
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
2019/07/08 Gestational exercise counteracts the deleterious consequences imposed by diabetes mellitus developed during pregnancy on 16 weeks old male offspring liver mitochondrial function. MIP2019 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Mitochondrial Physiology Society (MiPsociety) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/07 Gestational physical exercise offers prolonged protection to liver mitochondrial function of female offspring against deleterious effects of maternal gestational diabetes MIP2019 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Mitochondrial Physiology Society (MiPsociety) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/07 An approach to mitochondrial swelling in optical density microplate assays MIP2019 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Mitochondrial Physiology Society (MiPsociety) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05/22 Role of maternal obesity in fetal mitochondrial function in sheep model. 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05/22 Cardiac mitochondrial function in the offspring of sedentary and exercised mothers with gestational diabetes 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05 Effects of physical exercise during pregnancy on the modulation of liver mitochondrial function in an animal model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ESCI 2019 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/03/12 Maternal Obesity (MO) in an Ovine Model Results in Disruption of Offspring (F1) Mitochondrial Respirasomes. 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of Society for Reproductive Investigation
Society for Reproductive Investigation (Paris, France)
2019/03/07 Diabetes gestacional e programação fetal: pode o exercício físico durante a gestação melhorar a função cardíaca dos descendentes? 15º Congresso Português de Diabetes
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2018/10/20 Obesity-induced mitochondrial hepatic changes during pregnancy. MIP2018 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Mitochondrial Physiology Society (Tromso, Norway)
2018/10/20 Sweetheart: Cardiac consequences of fetal exposure to maternal gestational diabetes on the offspring mitochondrial function. MIP2018 – Mitochondrial Physiology and MitoEAGLE: Evolution – Age - Gender - Lifestyle – Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Mitochondrial Physiology Society (Tromso, Norway)
2018/03/16 Why your DNA isn’t your destiny Epigenetics and nutrition seminar
Coimbra Health School (coimbra, Portugal)
2018/03/09 Diabetes e doença cardíaca: uma herança da vida intrauterina? 14º Congresso Português de Diabetes
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia (Vilamoura, Portugal)
2017/05/17 Remodeling of Cardiac Mitochondrial Profile in the Fetal Baboon by Moderate Global Maternal Nutrient Reduction 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Genoa, Italy)
2017/05/17 Maternal Obesity (MO) in Sheep Decreases Fetal Hepatic Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Activity and Total Mitochondrial Lipids 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Genoa, Italy)
2017/05/17 Altered metabolism and oxidative stress in skin fibroblasts from Parkinson’s disease patients 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Genoa, Italy)
2017/04/20 Epigenetics and nutrition. V ENEDN - National Meeting of Dietetics and Nutrition Students
Coimbra Health School (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/02/08 Susana P. Pereira (2017 invited). "Biorself" XVIII Conference on Applied Biology
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/09/22 Maternal obesity during pregnancy influences the cardiac mitochondrial function of its offspring. I Symposium of Diabetes and Fertility
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2016/06/08 Programming of fetal cardiac mitochondria by maternal nutrition CNC.IBILI seminars
Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (Cantanhede, Portugal)
2016/04/27 Maternal nutrition and fetal mitochondrial fitness 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Paris, France)
2016/04/27 Maternal nutrition reduction causes cardiac mitochondrial remodeling in 0.65G fetal baboons. 50th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Paris, France)
2013/12/18 Effects of maternal nutrition excess on fetal baboon cardiac mitochondrial transcripts and protein at 0.9G X Annual Meeting of the Doutoral Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Universidade de Coimbra (Cantanhede, Portugal)
2013/04/17 Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) Affects fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9G in Non-Human Primates (NHP) 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation
European Society for clinical investigation (Albufeira, Portugal)
2013 The Impact of Maternal Nutrition Excess (MNE) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts and Protein at 0.9G in Non-Human Primates (NHP) 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation
European Society for clinical investigation ( Albufeira, Portugal, Portugal)
2012/03/26 Effects of Maternal Nutrition Excess (MNE) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts and Protein at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates (NHP). Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research Symposium - Influence of Obesity, Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Gender on Placental Function and Pregnancy Outcome
Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research Symposium (San Antonio, United States)
2012/03/21 Organ and Treatment Protocol-dependent Doxorubicin-induced in vivo Mitochondrionopathy 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Budapest, Hungary)
2012 Organ and Treatment Protocol-dependent Doxorubicin-induced in vivo Mitochondrionopathy 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation (Budapest, Hungary, Hungary)
2012 Effects of Maternal Nutrition Excess (MNE) on Fetal Cardiac Mitochondrial Transcripts and Protein at 0.9 G in Non-Human Primates (NHP) Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research Symposium - Influence of Obesity, Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Gender on Placental Function and Pregnancy Outcome
Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research (Texas, USA, United States)
2011 Treatment and organ-dependent doxorubicin-induced mitochondrionopathy on male Wistar rats XLI Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacological Society, XXIX Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and X Meeting of Toxicology
Portuguese Pharmacological Society (Coimbra, Portugal, Portugal)
2009/12/02 In vivo effects of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on heart and liver mitochondria. XL Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacological Society, XXVIII Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and IX Meeting of Toxicology
Portuguese Pharmacological Society (Porto, Portugal)
2009 Tissue specific doxorubicin-induced mitochondrial toxicity - predominance of cardiac effects International Course on Toxicology 2009 – “Mitochondria: between Life and Death”
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (Coimbra, Portugal, Portugal)
2009 Doxorubicin promotes Ca2+-induced mitochondrial permeability transition and oxidative damage in brain mitochondria International Course on Toxicology 2009 – “Mitochondria: between Life and Death”
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology ( Coimbra, Portugal, Portugal)
2009 Comparison of chronic vs acute in vivo doxorubicin-induced cardiac, renal and hepatic mitochondrial toxicity XL Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacological Society, XXVIII Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and IX Meeting of Toxicology
Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, Porto (Porto, Portugal, Portugal)
2009 In vivo effects of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on heart and liver mitochondria XL Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacological Society, XXVIII Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and IX Meeting of Toxicology
Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, Porto (Porto, Portugal, Portugal)
2008 Toxicity assessment of the herbicide metolachlor. Comparative effects on bacterial and mitochondrial model systems 15th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology
ESTIV2008 (Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden)
2008 Structure-activity relationships of some 1,4-dihydropyridine (DHP) derivatives evaluated by interactions with the physical properties of synthetic lipid bilayers and rat liver mitochondrial bioenergetics 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets
EHRLICH II (Nürnberg, Germany, Germany)
2008 Tissue specific doxorubicin-induced mitochondrial toxicity XXXIX Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Pharmacological Society, XXVI Meeting of Clinical Pharmacology and VIII Meeting of Toxicology
Portuguese Pharmacological Society ( Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Dietary modulation of neuroendocrine mechanisms of adipose tissue as a therapeutic strategy for obesity
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Health Sciences, specialitty in Biomedical Sciences
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - Current AdeNOheart: Unraveling gestational diabesity-induced vascular dysfunction contribution to the impairment of fetal cardiovascular function
Supervisor
 PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - Current Assessing Cardiovascular Disease risk in gestational diabetes mellitus offspring at birth
Supervisor
 PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/11/01 - Current CardioCLOCK: Unraveling Mechanisms of Developmental Programming-Aging interactions in the heart
Supervisor of Luís F. Grilo
 Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/09 - Current Assessment of mitochondrial function, using skin fibroblasts as a biomarker, in patients with Parkinson's disease: effects of two physical activity programs on motor function, quality of life, sleep, cognitive aspects and mood
Co-supervisor of Juan Carlos Magana Gallardo
 Programa de Doctorat en Ciencies de lEducacio i de lEsport (PhD)
Blanquerna Universitat Ramon Llull Facultat de Ciències de la Salut, Spain
2019 - Current Development and Validation of Computational Models for Analysis of Biological Data
Co-supervisor of Filipa Sousa
 Informática e Sistemas (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/01 - 2024/07 Exploring how O-GlcNAcylation influences metabolic pathways in Maternal Obesity
Supervisor
 Degree in Biotechnology (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/07 Assessment of Hepatic Tissue Responses to Extracellular Matrix Stiffness During an Obese Pregnancy
Supervisor
 Degree in Biotechnology (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/07 The Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Metabolic Memory in the Maternal Heart
Supervisor
 Biology Bachelor's Degree
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022 Offspring programming of central and peripheral nutrient-sensing pathways by the exposition to perinatal obesogenic environments
Co-supervisor of Diana Sousa
 Cellular and Molecular Biology (Master)
2020 - 2021/11 A mother's heart: impact of exercise and diet during gestation on maternal cardiac mitochondria and lipid metabolism
Supervisor of Carolina Tocantins
 Cellular and Molecular Biology (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - 2021/11 Made in the Womb: the maternal programming of offspring health and disease
Supervisor of Mariana S. Diniz
 Biochemistry (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2020 The heart of the question: Exercise during gestational diabetes, does it work?
Supervisor of Óscar M. Rodrigues
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/04/24 - 2019 Being obese during pregnancy: the mitochondrial impact in hepatic tissue
Co-supervisor of Patrycja Niewodowska
Medicine (Degree)
Uniwersytet Medyczny w Bialymstoku, Poland
2018 - 2019 Measurement of Respiratory Chain Enzyme Activities in Sheep Liver Homogenate
Supervisor of Mariana S. Diniz
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Obesity-induced hepatic changes during pregnancy
Supervisor of Luis F. Grilo
 Bioquímica (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Pregnancy: a second hit for liver disease in obesity?
Supervisor of Chiara Cavallaro
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Fetal Liver Mitochondria Alterations in an Ovine Model of Maternal Obesity
Co-supervisor of Inês Cardoso
 Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Measurement of hepatic catalase in a sheep model of maternal obesity during pregnancy
Supervisor of Carolina Tocantins
 Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2018 How to measure Hepatic Redox state alterations induced by obesity during pregnancy
Supervisor of Karyna Tarasova
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - 2017 A Simple and Rapid Kinetic Measurement of Catalase Activity in a Multiwell Plate Format
Supervisor of Luís F. Grilo
 Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/06 - Current Sky campus Teachers’ Wellness Retreat (2023/06)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/04 - Current Sky campus Happiness Retreat (2023/04)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/11 - 2023/12 Member of the organizing committee MAC2023: Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death (2023/11 - 2023/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/07 - 2023/12 Sky campus Silent Workshop (2023/07 - 2023/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01 - 2023/12 Sky campus Welcome ON-BOARD (2023/01 - 2023/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/04 Workshop Successful Stress Management (2023/04)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01/29 - 2023/01/30 Member of the organizing committee MAD meeting 2024, Mitochondria Aging and Disease – Diseases and Therapeutics: from past to future (2023/01/29 - 2023/01/30)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/11 - 2023 Sky campus Leadership and Coach Training (2023/11 - 2023/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/12/12 - 2019/12/12 Organization of Little discoverers: evaluation cell metabolism in yeasts using specific dyes and metabolism inhibitors (2019/12/12 - 2019/12/12)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/11/24 - 2019/11/30 Science and Technology week 2019 with open laboratory (2019/11/24 - 2019/11/30)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/21 Organization of Little discoverers: testing the plants (2019/11/21 - 2019/11/21)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30 Member of the organizing committee of PostDocs day 2019, Skills for the Future. (2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07 Organization of Little discoverers: Discovering tissues and cells (2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2019/05/22 - 2019/05/24 Member of the organizing committee of the 53th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (2019/05/22 - 2019/05/24)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019/05/07 - 2019/05/07 Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop Communicate to different publics (2019/05/07 - 2019/05/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/02/26 - 2019/02/26 Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop Teaming up Academia and Industry. (2019/02/26 - 2019/02/26)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/01/21 - 2019/01/21 President of the organizing committee of the Workshop Stress and Anxiety: Strategies to Relax (2019/01/21 - 2019/01/21)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Biocant Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/10/30 - 2018/10/30 Member of the organizing committee of PostDocs day 2018 (2018/10/30 - 2018/10/30)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/09/18 - 2018/09/18 Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop Communicating Science through the media (2018/09/18 - 2018/09/18)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/06/26 - 2018/06/26 Member of the organizing committee of the Workshop Media training in Science Communication (2018/06/26 - 2018/06/26) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/01 - 2018/03 Organizer of Science in Action activities. Promotion in schools of outreach activities linked to scientific projects. Gestational diabetes and effects of physical exercise during pregnancy. IEC - institute of Education and Citizenship, Mamarrosa, Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal (2018/01 - 2018/03/31)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2017/12/13 - 2017/12/13 President of the organizing committee of the Workshop - Self-empowerment and the art of public speaking (2017/12/13 - 2017/12/13)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2017/10/24 - 2017/10/24 President of the organizing committee of the Workshop on Competent Communication (2017/10/24 - 2017/10/24)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2013/04/17 - 2013/04/20 Member of the organizing committee of the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation (2013/04/17 - 2013/04/20)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Member of the organizing committee of the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for clinical investigation
Congress (Other)
 European Society for clinical investigation (ESCI), Portugal
2010/05/11 - 2010/05/14 Member of the organizing committee of the VI International Courses on Toxicology 2010 Survival or Death as a Matter of Fat (2010/05/11 - 2010/05/14)
Congress (Other)
 Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2009/05/05 - 2009/05/08 Member of the organizing committee of the V International Courses on Toxicology 2009 Mitochondria: between Life and Death (2009/05/05 - 2009/05/08)
Congress (Other)
 Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2008/04/09 - 2008/04/11 Member of the organizing committee of the IV International Courses on Toxicology 2008 Metabolic Toxicology: From the Pathway to Organism (2008/04/09 - 2008/04/11)
Congress (Other)
 Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2005/11/10 - 2005/11/12 Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the VII Jornadas de Biologia Aplicada - Vita Continuo (2005/11/10 - 2005/11/12)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015 Integrated management of hospital waste
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Biostatistics
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Advanced Excel
Other
Novatecna, Portugal
2013 - 2013 MiP Summer 2013 - The Mitochondrial Physiology Summer School, “Mitochondrial Physiology: Theory and Praxis
Other
2012 - 2012 Alternatives to Animal Use in Pre-clinical Studies
Other
Biocant, United States
2011 - 2011 Basic Radiation Safety
Other
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, United States
2011 - 2011 Safety – Basic Biological Safety Training
Congress
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, United States
2011 - 2011 Safety – Bloodborne Pathogens Training
Other
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, United States
2010 - 2010 1st Genome Research Day, Greehey Chindren’s cancer research institute
Conference
2010 - 2010 Immunology, Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Gene Therapy and Nuclear Biology, Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Oncobiology, Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2010 - 2010 VI International Courses on Toxicology 2010 – “Survival or Death as a Matter of Fat”
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Working with Rats in Research Settings
Other
CITI - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program, United States
2010 - 2010 Working with Mice in Research Settings
Other
CITI - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program, United States
2010 - 2010 Reducing Pain and Distress in Laboratory Mice and Rats
Other
CITI - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Biomedical Research
Other
CITI - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program, United States
2010 - 2010 Working with the IACUC, Investigators, Staff and Students
Other
CITI - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program, United States
2009 - 2009 Nanobiotechnology Symposium - Biomedical Applications of Molecular Scale in Regenerative Medicine
Symposium
2009 - 2009 V International Courses on Toxicology 2009 – “Mitochondria: between Life and Death”
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2009 - 2009 The Second Genome: Mitochondrial Genetics – from genotype to phenotype and clinical expression
Other
Faculty of Medicine and Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Biostatistics, Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2009 - 2009 Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Doctoral Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2008 - 2008 XII-ENEB - National Meeting Of Students From Biology - BioHorizontes
Meeting
2008 - 2008 IV International Courses on Toxicology 2008 – “Metabolic Toxicology: From the Pathway to Organism”
Other
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Post-Graduate and Update Course on Biology of the Cell Death I: Mechanisms of Apoptosis
Other
Faculty of Pharmacy, Portugal
2008 - 2008 Technical Seminar Invitrogen “Successful Approaches to Effective Real-Time RT PCR and From Petunia to Mammals: siRNA, a Tool to Study Gene Function
Other
IBILI – Instituto Biomédico da Investigação da Luz e Imagem da Faculdade de Medicina de Coimbra, Portugal
2006 - 2006 X-ENEB - National Meeting Of Students From Biology - Biology by Rubro
Meeting
2006 - 2006 Symposium on Bioethics
Symposium
2006 - 2006 VIII Journeys of Applied Biology - A new stage in the evolution
Conference
2006 - 2006 Theoretical and Practical Course of Recovery and Wellness of Wildlife
Other
Department of Health Sciences, University of Lusophone Humanities and Technology, Portugal
2004 - 2004 VI Journeys of Applied Biology - Discover Biology, Building the Future
Conference
2003 - 2003 V Journeys of Applied Biology - Where We saw, Where To Let?
Conference
2002 - 2002 IV Journeys of Applied Biology
Conference
2002 - 2002 III Journeys in Materials and Geological Resources,
Conference
1998 - 1998 Course Initiation to Informatics
Other
Regional Direction of Education of the North, Primary School, Roriz, Portugal, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/07/24 Assessment of Hepatic Tissue Responses to Extracellular Matrix Stiffness During an Obese Pregnancy
Supervisor
 João Correia (Other)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/07/04 Exploring how O-GlcNAcylation influences metabolic pathways in Maternal Obesity
Supervisor
 Daniela Garcês (Other)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/09 Inflammatory memory of fetal endothelial cells: intrauterine programming by maternal metabolism and influence of fetal sex
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Elisa Weiss (PhD)
Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria
2023/05 Perinatal programming for the development of obesity and metabolic dysfunction: the role of glication and PPARa activation
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lucas Saavedra (PhD)
Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil
2022/09 Offspring Programming of central and peripheral nutrient-sensing pathways by the exposition to perinatal obesogenic environments
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Diana Sousa (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/01/21 New insights into cholesterol-mediated ERRa activation in breast cancer metabolic rewiring, progression and pro-tumoral microenvironment orchestration
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Matteo Brindisi (PhD)
Università della Calabria, Italy
2021/11/29 A mother's heart: impacts of gestation habits on maternal cardiac mitochondria metabolism
Supervisor
 Carolina Tocantins (Master)
2021/11/29 Made in the Womb: the maternal programming of offspring health and disease
Supervisor
 Mariana Simões Diniz (Master)
2020/07/10 Computational analysis for the determination of biomarkers of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Beatriz Silva (Other)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/05/28 Oxidative stress mechanisms and parameters of mitochondrial dysfunction in lymphoblasts from patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Catarina Mendes (Other)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/02/26 The heart of the question: Exercise during gestational diabetes, does it work?
Supervisor
 Óscar M. Rodrigues (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/09/12 Obesity-induced hepatic changes during pregnancy
Supervisor
 Luis F. Grilo (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/11/21 Desenvolvimento de uma nanoformulação de compostos naturais para o tratamento de doenças degenerativas associadas ao envelhecimento
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Miguel Ângelo Freitas Ribeiro (Master)
REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal
2018/03/23 Pregnancy: a second hit for liver disease in obesity?
Supervisor
 Chiara Cavallaro (Master)
Università degli Studi del Sannio Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Italy

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Circulation Research
2022 - Current Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
2022 - Current Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
2022 - Current Genes
2022 - Current Metabolites
2022 - Current Molecular Metabolism
2022 - Current Sensors
2022 - Current Viruses
2021 - Current Aspects of Molecular Medicine
2021 - Current Biomedicines
2021 - Current British Journal of Nutrition
2021 - Current Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
2021 - Current Frontiers in Endocrinology
2021 - Current International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2021 - Current The Journal of Physiology
2019 - Current The FEBS Journal
2018 - Current European Journal of Clinical Investigation
2018 - Current Toxicology in Vitro

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current Mitochondrial Physiology Society
2018 - Current European Society of Cardiology
2018 - Current European Heart Rhythm Association
2018 - Current Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia
2016 - Current IEC- Alumni association since 2016 (founding member).
2012 - Current SGI - Society for Gynecologic Investigation / SRI - Society for Reproductive Investigation
2012 - Current Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI)
2010/01 - Current ESCI - European Society for Clinical Investigation
2008/09 - Current ESTIV - European Society of Toxicology in vitro
2008/08 - Current SPB - Portuguese Biochemical Society
2008 - Current The Institute for Education and Citizenship (IEC) since 2008

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/03 - 2024/03 The importance of gender in cancer-related studies MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2022/03/07 - 2022/03/12 ONE HEALTH and the Metabolism-Disease-Environment Triangle: When Biomedicine meets Innovation, Science Outreach and Social Sciences PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2013/04 - 2019/05 Advanced Course in Biomedicine: Mitochondria and Disease Biomedicine (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Instituto de Educação e Cidadania IEC, Portugal
2018/03/26 - 2018/03/28 Over-feeding during pregnancy: a burden for the descendants? PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Epigenetics and Nutrition Nutrition Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/01 - 2018/03 Coordinating Professor for the Advanced Course on Gestational Diabetes During Pregnancy: Impact of Physical Exercise on Offspring Reproductive Metabolism (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Instituto de Educação e Cidadania IEC, Portugal
2017/03 - 2017/03 Metabolism and Disease: Causes and Consequences of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2013/02 - 2013/02 Interactions of Nutrients with Mitochondria and Gene Expression PhD Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal
2007/03 - 2007/06 Collaboration in the classroom practice of the discipline Biochemistry and Biophysics Toxicology Biochemistry degree (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2016 - 2021 Metabolic Remodeling and Quality Control Mechanisms in Parkinson Disease Cláudia Deus
2014 - 2015 Metabolic remodeling of human skin fibroblasts as model for studying mitochondrial diseases and drug-induced toxicity Vilena V. Ivanova
Distinctions

Award

2024 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “Age-associated hexosamine biosynthetic pathway stimulation promotes glycosaminoglycan accumulation in the
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2023 Prize for Best Flash Talk Presentation in MitoPorto 2023 with the presentation “Breaking the Cycle: Exercise During Pregnancy Can Improve Cardiovascular Health in Offspring of High Fat, High Sugar-Fed Mothers”
2023 Prize for Best Oral Presentation in the 1st FEBS Redox Medicine Workshop: from cellular signaling to systems physiology and therapeutic targets with the presentation “Offspring’s cardiac nitric oxide signaling is influenced by maternal physical...
2023 Winner of BioBoost – bio-entrepreneurship mentoring program, a BiotechSTARS project, organized by Biocant, CNC UC and IATV, co-financed by Centro 2020, Portugal 2020 and European Social Fund with the project PREDICT
2023 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the Mitochondria in Aging, Cancer and Cell Death (MAC 2023) with the presentation “Age-Associated Glycosaminoglycans Accumulation In Heart Extracellular Matrix Via Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway Precedes Cardiac
2022 Winner of Pedagogical Innovation Prize from the University of Coimbra and Santander with the Project EDU360@UC
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Banco Santander Portugal, Portugal
2022 Prize for Best Oral Presentation in the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “Impact of gestational exercise during maternal obesity in the offspring metabolic-endocrine environment...
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2021 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the Biochemistry Olympiads 2021 with the presentation The effects of exercise during gestational diabetes mellitus on maternal cardiac metabolic function
Biochemistry Olympiads, Portugal
2021 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the 17th Portuguese Diabetes Meeting with the presentation Poderá a Obesidade Materna Alterar a Bioenergética Mitocondrial Cardíaca dos Descendentes?
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia, Portugal
2021 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Public Health Policies with the presentation Evaluating the efficacy of two physical activity programs to prevent parkinson’s disease progression using mitochondrial
Universidade Federal de Goiás Faculdade de Educação Física e Dança, Brazil
2020 SRI President’s Presenter’s Award with the work “Maternal Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy Induces Oxidative Stress and Mitochondria Functional Alterations in the Maternal Liver”
Society for Reproductive Investigation, United States
2020 Prize for Best Oral Presentation in the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “A mother's heart: impact of exercise and diet during gestation on maternal cardiac mitochondria and lipid...
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2020 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “Maternal obesity (MO) during pregnancy: are there implications for maternal hepatic mitochondrial activit
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2020 Winner of Coimbra Innovation Days 2020 organized by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health Summit Series 2020
EIT Health, Germany
2020 3. Winner of Pedagogical Innovation Prize from the University of Coimbra and Santander with the Project Happy@UC - UC Campus Happiness Program (presenter).
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Banco Santander Portugal, Portugal
2019 Prize for Best Poster Presentation in the 53nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “Physical exercise during pregnancy counteracts the deleterious effects imposed by gestational diabetes...
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2019 Award for Best New Investigator Poster Presentation at Society for Reproductive Investigation with the work “IUGR Remodels Fetal Cardiac Left Ventricular (LV) Mitochondria in Baboons”
Society for Reproductive Investigation, United States
2018 Prize for Best Oral Communication for Fundamental Research research in the 14th Portuguese Diabetes Meeting with the talk “Diabetes and Cardiac Disease: A Heritage from intra-uterine life?”
Portuguese Society for Diabetes, Portugal
2018 Prize for best poster presentation in the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation with the presentation “Mitochondrial Changes in the Maternal Liver in a Model of Obesity (MO) During Pregnancy”
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2017 Individual Postdoc fellowship in Clinical Medicine and Health Sciences
2012 Award for Best New Investigator Poster Presentation at Society for Gynecologic Investigation with the work Gender-Specific Effects of 30% Global Maternal Nutrient Restriction (MNR) on Non-Human Primate Renal Mitochondrial Transcripts at 0.9 Gestation (G
Society for Gynecologic Investigation, United States
2011 Grant from ESCI 2011 - European Society for Clinical Investigation
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2009 Individual PhD fellowship in Health Sciences, SFRH/BD/64247/2009

Other distinction

2024 Top Cited Article 2022-2023 – Wires Mechanisms of Disease, April, 2024
2024 Honourable Mention Award with the poster presentation “Maternal obesity alters the metabolic and redox aging trajectories of the male and female offspring”. BEB Day 2024, Coimbra, Portugal, May 15-16, 2024.
2019 Grant from GIFT - Grupo de Estudos de Investigação Fundamental e Translacional
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia, Portugal
2018 Grant from the SPD/Lilly
European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Germany
2018 Grant from COST Action CA15203
2018 Grant from GIFT - Grupo de Estudos de Investigação Fundamental e Translacional
Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia, Portugal
2017 Grant from ESCI 2017
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2016 Grant from ESCI 2016
European Society for Clinical Investigation, Netherlands
2008 Grant from ESTIV2008 - 15th International Congress on In Vitro Toxicology, Stockholm, Sweden, September 25-28th, 2008.
European Society of Toxicology In Vitro, Portugal
2007 Technical research scholarship in the project PTDC/SAL-OSM/64084/2006 “Novel Mitochondrial Mechanisms for the Cardioselective Toxicity of Doxorubicin”
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal