Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Cátia Soares
Citation names
- Soares, CL
- Soares, Cátia Lopes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- FA19-0AE2-62C2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3517-9050
Email addresses
- cl.soares@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://biomolecular-engineering-lab.pt/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Bioproducts Biomaterials
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2023/01 - 2027
Ongoing
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Biotechnology (Doutoramento)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2019/09 - 2021/11
Concluded
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Biotecnologia (Mestrado)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Production and Characterization of stimuli-responsive marine proteins (19/20), Biomolecular Engineering Lab" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
2016/09 - 2019/07
Concluded
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Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Optimization of the purification yield of the oxidoreductase complex (QmoABC)(17/20), Bacterial Energy Metabolism (ITQB)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/01/14 - 2022/12/31 | Research Assistant (Research) | Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/01/01 - Current | PhD Student | Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal | ||
2020/09/01 - 2021/11/18 | Research Assistant (Master thesis) | Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal | ||
2019/01 - 2019/06/17 | Research Assistant (BSc Biochemistry thesis) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal | ||
2018/07/01 - 2018/07/31 | Voluntary Internship (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/01/01 - Current | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDB/04378/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/01/01 - Current | Institute for Health and Bioeconomy
LA/P/0140/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/01/01 - Current | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDP/04378/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2023/01 - Current | Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing
2022.11305.BD
PhD Student Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/07 - 2022/12 | PROTEIOS: Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing
PTDC/CTM-CTM/3389/2021
Research Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/14 - 2022/06/30 | Sea2See - Bio-inspired materials for fish spoilage control
PTDC/BII-BIO/28878/2017
Research Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
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Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Conference poster |
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Journal 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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2023/11/07 | A scalable method to purify reflectins from inclusion bodies | 42nd international symposium on the separation of proteins, peptides and polynucleotides ISPPP 2023
BOKU, Vienna, Austria (Viena, Austria)
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2023/09/10 | Protein Based Materials - Bioinspired Systems for unusual applications | Biological Making of Materials Summer School 2023
DIGS-BB (Dresden, Germany)
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2023/06/05 | Characterization of dynamic self-assembly of reflectins | Affinity 2023
ISMR (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2023/06/01 | Dynamic Self-Assembly Characterization of Reflectins | Biophysics Festival 2023
i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
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2022/11/02 | Cell-based vs Cell-free production and purification of marine-based structural proteins | 6th Applied Synthetic Biology in Europe
European Federation of Biotechnology (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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2022/09 | Strategies for the purification of cephalopod-specific structural proteins with biotechnological potential | BPP 2022 - Biopartitioning & Purification Conference
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2022/06/20 | Self-assembly analysis of cephalopod-specific intrinsically disordered structural proteins | 8th International Iberian Biophysics Congress (IIBC2022)
(Bilbao, Spain)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09 - 2024/07 | 4th Meeting of Biophysics Festival at University of Beira Interior organized by Portuguese Young Biophysicists (PYBphy) group. (2024/05/09 - 2024/05/10)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Portuguese Young Biophysicists, Portugal |
2023/02 - 2023/06 | 3rd Meeting of Biophysics Festival at I3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde organized by Portuguese Young
Biophysicists (PYBphy) group. (2023/06/01 - 2023/06/02)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Portuguese Young Biophysicists, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal |
2018/10 - 2019/02/08 | JORTEC Biochemistry: Biomedicine - The New Urgent Diseases.
Jornadas Tecnológicas de Bioquímica, named in Portuguese, is an annual event organized by the student community. This event
promotes scientific communication in the field of biochemistry. It consists of two parts: presentations by speakers and workshops. (2019/02/04 - 2019/02/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2017/10 - 2018/02 | Jornadas Tecnológicas de Bioquímica, named in Portuguese, is an annual event organized by the student community. This event
promotes scientific communication in the field of biochemistry. It consists of two parts: presentations by speakers and workshops. (2018/02 - 2018/02)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2024/06/16 - 2024/06/21 | Gordon's Bioinspired Materials, Les Diablerets Conference Center
Conference
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2024/03/10 - 2024/03/12 | SupraLife Second School - “Bioinspired Supramolecular Self-Assemblies
Conference
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Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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2023/09/11 - 2023/09/15 | Biological Making of Materials 2023 DIGS-BB Summer School TU Dresden
(1 of 17 students)
Symposium
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Biological Making of Materials 2023
Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering, Germany
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2023/06/05 - 2023/06/08 | Affinity 2023 - 25th meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition
Congress
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Affinity 2023
International Society for Molecular Recognition, Sweden
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2022/04/02 - 2022/04/08 | Cephalopods in the Anthropocene: multiple challenges in a changing ocean Participation: I attended this conference, where
the poster entitled "Studying the reversibility and self-assembly of cephalopod-specific proteins" was presented.
Conference
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Cephalopods in the Anthropocene: multiple challenges in a changing ocean |
2021/09/08 - 2021/09/10 | Designer Biology 2021-From proteins and cells to scaffolds and materials (Virtual conference) Participation: I attended this
conference, where the poster entitled "Optimized production and characterization of stimuli-responsive marine proteins" was
presented.
Conference
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Designer Biology 2021 -From proteins and cells to scaffolds and materials |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2023/04 - Current | Portuguese Biophysics Society | Member |
2022/03 - Current | European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) | |
2022/03 - Current | International Society for Molecular Recognition (ISMR) |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/02 - Current | Portuguese Young Biophysicists (PYBphy) group is an affiliated group of the Portuguese Biophysics Society. The group aims
to dynamize biophysical community by organizing the event Biophysics Festival
Member
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Sociedade Portuguesa da Biofísica, Portugal |
2021/06 - 2021/12 | Student Member of External Evaluation Commitee- Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES)
Member
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Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |
2017/11 - 2019/07 | Member of pedagogical comittee of Bachelor in Biochemistry
Member
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Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal |