Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Vasco Sequeira Oliveira
Citation names
- Sequeira, Vasco
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E819-B225-EEA7
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9192-7674
Email addresses
- Sequeira_V@ukw.de (Professional)
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2016/02/24
Concluded
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PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences (Doktor (PhD))
VU medisch centrum School of Medical Sciences, Netherlands
"Cross-bridging the gap between energetics, Ca2+, sarcomere length and diastolic dysfunction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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20 |
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2011/01/14
Concluded
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MSc in Cardiovascular Sciences and Genetics (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Wnt signaling as a cause of diabetic cardiomyopathy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 |
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2008/08/15
Concluded
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Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Licenciatura Biologia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/01/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universitäts-Augenklinik Würzburg Bibliothek, Germany |
| 2015/07/01 - Current | Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Cardiovascular, Portugal |
| 2015/09/01 - 2017/12/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States |
| 2011/02/01 - 2015/08/01 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | VU medisch centrum School of Medical Sciences, Netherlands |
| 2007/09/01 - 2011/01/01 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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| Newspaper article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2019/04 | The novel role of Calmodulin modulation of myofilament function | Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kardiologie
(Mannheim, Germany)
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| 2018/07 | Energy insufficiency-mediated ADP elevations as cause of diastolic dysfunction in HCM | 35th ISHR-European Section Meeting
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| 2018/07 | Energetic aspects of HCM | DZHI Retreat Kloster Schöntal
(Wurzburg, Germany)
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| 2018/06 | Calmodulin-myosin interaction: a novel interaction regulating muscle function | I-Notes Congress – Novel Therapeutic Strategies for non-commutable diseases
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Energy insufficiency-mediated ADP elevations as cause of diastolic dysfunction | ISHR-ES/SERVIER meeting
(Paris, France)
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| 2017/09 | Energy insufficiency-mediated ADP elevations as cause of diastolic dysfunction | CVON-RECONNECT Summer School
(. De Beukenhof, Netherlands)
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| 2017/09 | Enhancing mitochondrial bioenergetics with SS31 recovers ventricular conduction abnormalities caused by energy-deprivation in a cTnT HCM mouse | 10th Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society Meeting
(Yokohama, Japan)
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| 2017/06 | Energy insufficiency-mediated ADP elevations as cause of diastolic dysfunction in HCM | 34th ISHR-European Section Meeting
(Hamburg, Germany)
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| 2017/05 | Energy insufficiency in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by depressed energy-buffering systems | Annual meeting of the Working Groups on Myocardial Function and Cellular Biology of the Heart of the ESC
(Varenna, Italy)
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| 2017/04 | Energetic aspects of HCM | Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure from the ESC Cardiology
(Paris, France)
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| 2017/04 | Energy insufficiency-mediated ADP elevations as cause of diastolic heart failure | Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences Symposium – Heart Failure & Arrhythmias
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| 2016/11 | ADP-stimulated contraction: a predictor of thin-filament activation in cardiac disease | 2016 WCN XXIXth Annual Scientific Congress – What you see is what you get!
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| 2016/06 | Enhancing mitochondrial function with SS31 prevents ventricular conduction abnormalities caused by focal energy-deprivation in a cTnT HCM mouse | Gordon Research Conference – Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms. Colby-Sawyer College
(New Hampshire, United States)
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| 2016/04 | ADP-stimulated contraction: a predictor of thin-filament activation in cardiac disease | XXII ISHR World Congress
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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| 2015/07 | Synergistic role of ADP and Ca2+ in diastolic myocardial stiffness | 33rd Meeting of the European Section of ISHR
(Bordeux, France)
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| 2015/02 | Implications of ADP-stimulated cross-bridge cycling for diastolic and/or systolic heart failure | Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting
(Baltimore, United States)
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| 2014/09 | Implications of ADP-stimulated cross-bridge cycling for diastolic and/or systolic heart failure | 43rd European Muscle Conference
(Salzburg, Australia)
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| 2014/06 | Implications of ADP-stimulated cross-bridge cycling for diastolic and/or systolic heart failure | Modifiers and Modulators of Myofilament Function
(Wisconsin, United States)
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| 2013/02 | Blunted length-dependent activation caused by the homozygous TNNT2 mutation K280N | Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting
(Pennsylvania, United States)
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| 2012/11 | Blunted length-dependent activation caused by the homozygous TNNT2 mutation K280N | 3rd Rembrandt Symposium of the Rembrandt Institute for Cardiovascular Science
(Noorwijkerhout, Netherlands)
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| 2012/09 | Perturbed length-dependent activation in human HCM with sarcomere mutations in thin and thick filament proteins | II Florence International Symposium on Advances on Cardiomyopathies – 9th Meeting of the European Myocardial and Pericardial
Diseases WG of the ESC
(Florence, Italy)
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| 2012/04 | Perturbed length-dependent activation in human HCM with sarcomere mutations in thin and thick filament proteins | Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology – 2nd Meeting of the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science
(London, United Kingdom)
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/07 - 2018/07 | 35th ISHR-European Section Meeting | Amsterdam, Holland |
| 2017/07 - 2017/07 | 34th ISHR-European Section Meeting | Hamburg, Germany |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/03 - Current | Journal of Clinical Investigation | |
| 2019/11 - Current | European Journal Heart Failure | |
| 2019/07 - Current | Basic Research Cardiology | |
| 2019/07 - Current | Cardiovascular Research | |
| 2019/03 - Current | Scientific Reports | |
| 2019/03 - Current | Nature Communications | |
| 2019/03 - Current | Nature Medicine | |
| 2018/09 - Current | ESC Heart Failure | |
| 2018/09 - Current | Circulation Heart Failure | |
| 2018/05 - Current | European Heart Journal | |
| 2018/05 - Current | Cell Metabolism | |
| 2017/11 - Current | The Journal of Physiology | |
| 2017/06 - Current | Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports | |
| 2016/04 - Current | Journal of Experimental and Molecular Pathology | |
| 2016/03 - Current | European Journal of Clinical Investigation | |
| 2016/03 - Current | Frontiers in Physiology | |
| 2015/08 - Current | Netherlands Heart Journal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Travel Grant Award from Japanese Cardiovascular Science Council Forum on Basic Cardiovascular Research |
| 2023 | Research Grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| 2023 | JSPS - FY2023 Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan |
| 2022 | Research Grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - SFB1525 |
| 2022 | Best abstract presentation Award Prize - ESC Winter Meeting |
| 2021 | Bristol Myers Squibb Research Grant |
| 2020 | Amgen Preclinical Research Grant |
| 2019 | Grant Award from the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kardiologie |
| 2019 | Philipp Thomas Poster Award |
Other distinction
| 2017 | CVON-RECONNECT (Proof-of-Concept) Talent Program Award |
| 2017 | International Society for Heart Research (ISHR-SERVIER) Research Fellowship |
| 2016 | De 3e WCN Onderzoeksprijs 2015/2016 |
| 2016 | Hamburger award for best Dutch Physiology thesis 2015-2016 |
| 2016 | Travel Grant Award |
| 2016 | PhD Thesis Book grant |
| 2015 | Manuscript Honorarium Award |
| 2015 | PostDoctoral Grant Research Award
Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Netherlands
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| 2015 | PhD Thesis Book financial support |
| 2015 | Best Poster Presentation Award |
| 2014 | Best Poster Presentation Award |
| 2013 | European Society of Cardiology (ESC) First Contact Initiative Grant
Société Européenne de Cardiologie, France
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| 2012 | Young Investigator Prize (Poster presentation) |
