Hugo Manuel Condessa Barreto (F317-0848-73D0)

Curriculum Vitae

Hugo Manuel Condessa Barreto

Hugo Manuel Condessa Barreto. Completed the Mestrado in Microbiologia Aplicada in 2013 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências and Licenciatura in Biologia - Ramo de Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia in 2011 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Attends the Doutoramento in Integrative Biology and Biomedicine by Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência since 2017/01/01. Is Researcher in Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Published 2 articles in journals. Organized 1 event(s). Has received 4 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Research Fellow in 1 project(s) and Research Technician Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Evolutionary Biology and Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Microbiology.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Hugo Manuel Condessa Barreto

Citation names

Barreto, Hugo C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F317-0848-73D0
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6980-1047

Email addresses

hbarreto@igc.gulbenkian.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, 2780-156, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6980-1047 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/01/01 - 2023/02/06 Concluded	Integrative Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal "Intrahost evolution of Escherichia coli in the gut of an aging host" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/07/14 - 2019/07/26 Concluded	Host-Microbe Symbioses: from genetics to metabolic interactions (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2018/05/02 - 2018/05/04 Concluded	ONEIDA Genomics Workshop – From Reads to Results (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016/11/11 Concluded	AET16 Applied Theoretical Evolution (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/10/16 Concluded	“SPCAL e-learning course on Laboratory Animal Sciences” according to category B recommendations by FELASA (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2015/09/29 - 2015/10/02 Concluded	IGC’s Practical Course on Animal Handling and Experimentation in Mice and Zebrafish (Outros) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2011 - 2013 Concluded	Microbiologia Aplicada (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Deciphering the genetic makeup of the <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> Esat-6-like secretion system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15/20
2008 - 2011 Concluded	Biologia - Ramo de Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14/20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

2016/03/01 - 2016/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal

2014/05/01 - 2016/02/28	Researcher (Research)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

2012/01/01 - 2014/04/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2017/01/01 - Current	IGC PhD Programme - Integrative Biology and Biomedicine PD/BD/128429/2017 PhD Student Fellow Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Ongoing
2016/03 - 2016/12	RACED RACED Research Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
2014/05 - 2016/03	ECOADAPT 260421 - ECOADAPT Research Technician Fellow Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Hugo C. Barreto; Beatriz Abreu; Isabel Gordo. "Fluctuating selection on bacterial iron regulation in the mammalian gut". Current Biology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.017.
10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.017
Barreto, Hugo C.; Sousa, Ana; Gordo, Isabel. "The Landscape of Adaptive Evolution of a Gut Commensal Bacteria in Aging Mice". Current Biology 30 6 (2020): 1102-1109.e5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.037.
Published • 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.037
Hugo C. Barreto; Nelson Frazão; Ana Sousa; Anke Konrad; Isabel Gordo. "Mutation accumulation and horizontal gene transfer in Escherichia coli colonizing the gut of old mice". Communicative & Integrative Biology 13 1 (2020): 89-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2020.1783059.
10.1080/19420889.2020.1783059
Baptista, Catarina; Barreto, Hugo Condessa; São-José, Carlos. "High Levels of DegU-P Activate an Esat-6-Like Secretion System in Bacillus subtilis". PLoS ONE 8 7 (2013): e67840. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067840.
Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0067840

Preprint

Hugo C. Barreto; Beatriz Abreu; Isabel Gordo. "Gut mélange à trois: fluctuating selection modulated by microbiota, host immune system, and antibiotics". 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.30.474527.
10.1101/2021.12.30.474527

Other

Other output

Rampant loss of social traits during domestication of a Bacillus subtilis natural isolate. 2019. Barreto, Hugo C.; Cordeiro, Tiago N.; Henriques, Adriano O.; Gordo, Isabel. https://doi.org/10.1101/751438.
10.1101/751438

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2020	The Landscape of Adaptive Evolution of a Gut Commensal Bacteria in Aging Mice	International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Genetics Portuguese Society of Genetics (Faro, Portugal)
2019/08/14	The Landscape of Adaptive Evolution of a gut commensal bacterium in Aging Mice	5th Annual ISEMPH Meeting International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (Zurich, Switzerland)
2018/10/12	The interplay between aging and the evolution of gut microbiota	XIV Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/12/20	Domestication leads to rapid loss of social traits in wild Bacillus subtilis	XIII Encontro Nacional de Biologia Evolutiva Associação Portuguesa de Biologia Evolutiva (Faro, Portugal)
2014/12/12	Domestication of the Bacillus subtilis gut strain BSP1	Mini-Symposium Biology and applications of a gut strain of Bacillus subtilis Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2018/10/22 - 2018/10/24	IGC Symposium 2018: Microbial Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics This meeting aimed to discuss recent developments in microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics research and serve as a venue for integrating the results obtained from different fields of evolution and ecology. (2018/10/22 - 2018/10/24) Symposium (Co-organisor)	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2020	EMBO/EMBL Symposia - The Organism and Its Environment - Poster Prize European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
2019	AMeeGuS 2019 - Best Poster Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Other distinction

2020	Travel Grant to attend EMBO/EMBL Symposia The Organism and Its Environment European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
2019	Travel Grant to attend 5th Annual ISEMPH Meeting International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, United Kingdom