Joana Galante (EE11-14C1-57CE)

Curriculum Vitae

Joana Galante

Joana Galante holds a BSc in Microbiology (2013) and a MSc in Applied Microbiology (2018) both from Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto. During her BSc, she did an Erasmus internship, at University College London (UK), where she worked with Streptococcus pneumoniae and several molecular biology techniques. From 2015 to 2017 she worked in R&D at a microalgal biotechnology company, in Lisbon, gaining experience in microalgal cultivation and biotechnology and in 2018 she held a research grant at Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto, in the department of Prof. Ana Gomes. Currently, she is doing a PhD at i3S and FCUP, under the supervision of Dr. José das Neves and co-supervision of Prof. Bruno Sarmento and Prof. Paula Gomes and her current interests include Candida sp. antimicrobial peptides, antifungal drugs, microbiology, nanomedicine, and vaginal drug-delivery.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Joana Galante
Gender: Female

Citation names

Galante, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: EE11-14C1-57CE
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1523-2619

Addresses

i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/11 - 2022 Ongoing	Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal ""Antifungal peptide-loaded nanoparticles-in-films for the management of vulvovaginal candidiasis"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 Concluded	Microbiologia Aplicada (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal ""Co-culturing of Chlorella vulgaris and bacteria at laboratorial scale"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2013 Concluded	Microbiologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal ""Genetic and amino acid variation of the comD and growth behaviour of different quorum sensing pherotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/11/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

2018/11/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

2018/08/01 - 2018/10/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

2013/03 - 2013/08/31	Research Trainee (Research)	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/09/15 - 2017/09/01	Bióloga	A4F Algae For Future, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018/08/01 - 2018/10/31	ValorMar - Valorização Integral de Recursos Marinhos ValorMar Master Student Fellow Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal	Ongoing

Other

	Designation	Funders
2015/12 - 2017/09	European Project D-Factory EU 7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Researcher A4F Algae For Future, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Galante, Joana; Gomes, Paula; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José 1D1F-6FFF-1FCE; Teixeira, Catia. "Association of antimicrobial peptides and nanosystems as potential alternatives for the management of vulvovaginal candidiasis". Paper presented in 3rd PhDay - Back to the Future, 2020. Galante, Joana. "Galante, Joana; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José. Antifungal peptides as potential alternatives for the management of vulvovaginal candidiasis.". Paper presented in 17th Iberian Peptide Meeting, 2020. Galante, Joana. "Galante, Joana; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José. Development of Antifungal Peptide-Loaded Nanoparticles-in-Films for the Treatment of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis.". Paper presented in 2nd Meeting of the PhD in Biomedical Sciences, 2019. Galante, Joana. "Galante, Joana; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José. Development of Antifungal Peptide-Loaded Nanoparticles-in-Films for the Treatment of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis.". Paper presented in 8th i3S Annual Meeting, 2019. Galante, Joana. "Galante, Joana; Teixeira, Cátia; Gomes, Paula; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José. Antifungal peptide-loaded nanoparticles-in-films for the management of vulvovaginal candidiasis.". Paper presented in 2nd PhDay - PhD countdown: a time for science, 2019. Monte, Joana; Sá, Marta; Galante, Joana. "Monte J, Sá M, Parreira C, Mota R, Galante J, Nascimento P, Semião F, Galinha CF, Pereira VJ, Fonseca D, Costa L, Verdelho V, Jacobs F, Brazinha C, Crespo JG. Harvesting of the Fragile Alga Dunaliella salina by Membrane Filtration with Permeate Recovery for Microalgae Cultivation.". Paper presented in Algal Biorefineries for Europe, 2018.
Journal article	Galante, Joana. "Clotrimazole-loaded N-(2-hydroxy)-propyl-3-trimethylammonium, O-palmitoyl chitosan nanoparticles for topical treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis". Acta Biomaterialia (2021): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742706121001240?via%3Dihub. Published Fernando Notario-Pérez; Joana Galante; Araceli Martín-Illana; Raúl Cazorla-Luna; Bruno Sarmento; Roberto Ruiz-Caro; José das Neves; María-Dolores Veiga. "Development of pH-sensitive vaginal films based on methacrylate copolymers for topical HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis". Acta Biomaterialia 121 (2021): 316-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2020.12.019. 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.12.019 Notario-Pérez, Fernando; Cazorla-Luna, Raúl; Martín-Illana, Araceli; Galante, Joana; Ruiz-Caro, Roberto; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José; Veiga, María-Dolores. "Influence of Plasticizers on the pH-Dependent Drug Release and Cellular Interactions of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose/Zein Vaginal Anti-HIV Films Containing Tenofovir". Biomacromolecules 22 2 (2021): 938-948. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01609. 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01609 Notario-Pérez, Fernando; Cazorla-Luna, Raúl; Martín-Illana, Araceli; Galante, Joana; Ruiz-Caro, Roberto; das Neves, José; Veiga, María-Dolores. "Design, fabrication and characterisation of drug-loaded vaginal films: State-of-the-art". Journal of Controlled Release 327 (2020): 477-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.08.032. Published • 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.08.032 Monte, Joana; Sá, Marta; Parreira, Celina; Galante, Joana; Serra, Ana Rita; Galinha, Cláudia F.; Costa, Luís; et al. "Recycling of Dunaliella salina cultivation medium by integrated membrane filtration and advanced oxidation". Algal Research 39 (2019): 101460. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2019.101460. Published • 10.1016/j.algal.2019.101460 Mesquita, Letícia; Galante, Joana; Nunes, Rute; Sarmento, Bruno; das Neves, José. "Pharmaceutical Vehicles for Vaginal and Rectal Administration of Anti-HIV Microbicide Nanosystems". Pharmaceutics 11 3 (2019): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics11030145. 10.3390/pharmaceutics11030145 Galante, Joana; Ho, Alfred; Tingey, Sarah; Charalambous, Bambos. "Quorum Sensing and Biofilms in the Pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae". Current Pharmaceutical Design 21 1 (2014): 25-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666140905113336. Published • 10.2174/1381612820666140905113336
Thesis / Dissertation	Galante, Joana. "Co-culturing of Chlorella vulgaris and bacteria at laboratorial scale". Master, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, 2018.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2018/06/22	Co-cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris and bacterial at laboratorial scale.	IV Jornadas Universidade-Empresa na Formação Pós- graduada Escola Superior de Biotecnologia - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (porto, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/10/01 - Current	3rd PhDay - Back to the Future (virtual event) Meeting	3rd PhDay - Back to the Future Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/12/20 - Current	2nd Meeting of PhD in Biomedical Sciences Meeting	2nd Meeting of PhD in Biomedical Sciences Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2019/09/26 - Current	2nd PhDay - PhD countdown: a time for science Meeting	2nd PhDay - PhD countdown: a time for science Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2020/10/14 - 2020/10/15	15th EPTN Nanotherapies and Targeted Delivery Meeting (virtual event) Meeting
2020/02/05 - 2020/02/07	17th Iberian Peptide Meeting Meeting	17th Iberian Peptide Meeting Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2019/11/28 - 2019/11/29	8th i3S Annual Meeting Meeting	8th i3S Annual Meeting Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/01/16 - 2019/01/18	Nanogateway Winter School Other	Nanogateway Winter School 2019 - Nanotechnology for therapy and diagnostics International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
2018/11/29 - 2018/11/30	7th I3S Annual Meeting Meeting	7th i3S Annual Meeting Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/12/07 - 2017/12/09	Microbiotec 17 Congress	Microbiotec 17 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2019/05/27 - 2019/05/31	High Throughput Screening and Image Analysis	Course on High Throughput Screening and Image Analysis for Biosciences	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal