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Cátia Soares is a PhD Student in Biotechnology at School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon. She holds a Bachelor in Biochemistry (16/20) and a Master in Biotechnology (18/20). She worked as a research fellow at Biomolecular Engineering Lab(UCIBIO) in the Sea2See Project- FCT (PTDC/BII-BIO/28878/2017) and in PROTEIOS Project - FCT (PTDC/CTM-CTM/3389/2021). During her master's thesis, she acquired skills in recombinant protein production and purification and biophysical characterization. The focus of her work was on the optimization of purification protocols of proteins used for bio-based materials production, which made possible a deep understanding of these proteins' self-assembling. Her work has been presented as oral presentation at international conferences and as poster communications. She is also the first co-author in a publication published in Separation and Purification Technology this year. As an enthusiastic person, she belongs to Young Biophysicists group (Pybphy). She works in the areas of Bioengineering and Biotechnology with an emphasis on molecular biology, protein engineering, and bio-based materials. She believes that her research will contribute to implementing protein-based materials as sustainable and functional bio-based materials.
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
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/01 - 2027
Ongoing
Biotechnology (Doutoramento)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09 - 2021/11
Concluded
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)
18
2016/09 - 2019/07
Concluded
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)
16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
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
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
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
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
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
2023/01 - Current Protein Tunable Materials for Non-Invasive Sensing
2022.11305.BD
PhD Student Fellow
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Barbosa, AJM; Calmeiro, Tomás; Martins, Rodrigo; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Exploring the Reversible Behavior of Cephalopod-inspired Nanostructures". Paper presented in Gordon's Bio-inspired Materials, 2024.
  2. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Barbosa, AJM; Martins, Rodrigo; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Insights into the dynamic self-assembly of cephalopod specific proteins". Paper presented in Biophysics festival, Covilhã, Portugal, 2024.
  3. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Barbosa, AJM; Calmeiro, Tomás; Martins, Rodrigo; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Characterization of Reflectins Dynamic Self-Assembly". Paper presented in ”. SupraLife Second School - “Bioinspired Supramolecular Self-Assemblies, 2024.
  4. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Padrão, Inês; Calmeiro, Tomás; Barbosa, AJM; Costa, Pedro M.; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Optimized production of reflectins and characterization of their reversible self-assembly". Paper presented in Microbiotec 2023, 2023.
  5. Barbosa, A.J.M.; Arianna Nurrito; Ana Margarida Dias; Soares, Cátia; Lychko, Iana; Roque, ACA. "Modeling studies of reflectin de novo peptide assembly". Paper presented in 15th National Physical Chemistry Meeting (15ENQF) and 4th Computational Chemistry Symposium, 2023.
  6. Barbosa, A.J.M.; Arianna Nurrito; Soares, Cátia; Lychko, Iana; Ana Margarida Dias; Ana Cecília Afonso Roque. "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reflectin-based peptides". Paper presented in Biophysics Festival 2022, 2022.
  7. Moura Barbosa, Arménio J.; Soares, CL; Lychko, Iana; Ana Margarida Dias; Nurrito, Arianna; Roque, ACA. "Molecular dynamics studies on the assembly of reflectin-based peptides". Paper presented in CCG UGM & Conference 2022 Europe, 2022.
  8. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Calmeiro, Tomás; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA. "Studying the reversibility and self-assembly of cephalopod-specific proteins". Paper presented in Cephalopods in the Anthropocene: multiple challenges in a changing ocean, 2022.
  9. Lychko, Iana; Soares, Cátia; Ana Margarida Dias; Roque, ACA; Pina, Ana Sofia. "Optimized production and characterization of stimuli-responsive marine proteins". Paper presented in Designer Biology 2021 European Federation of Biotechnology, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Ana Margarida Dias; Moreira, Inês P.; Lychko, Iana; Soares, Cátia; Arianna Nurrito; Moura Barbosa, Arménio J.; Viviane Lutz-Bueno; et al. "Hierarchical self-assembly of a reflectin-derived peptide". Frontiers in Chemistry - Sec. Supramolecular Chemistry 11 (2023): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2023.1267563/abstract.
    Accepted • 10.3389/fchem.2023.1267563
  2. Lychko, Iana; Soares, CL; Ana MGC Dias; Roque, ACA. "A scalable method to purify reflectins from inclusion bodies". Separation and Purification Technology 315 (2023): 123736-123736. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123736.
    Published • 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123736
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Production and Characterization of stimuli-responsive marine proteins". Master, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/129180.
  2. Soares, Cátia. "Optimization of the purification yield of the oxidoreductase complex (QmoABC)". Degree, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2019.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
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)
2023/09/10 Protein Based Materials - Bioinspired Systems for unusual applications Biological Making of Materials Summer School 2023
DIGS-BB (Dresden, Germany)
2023/06/05 Characterization of dynamic self-assembly of reflectins Affinity 2023
ISMR (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/06/01 Dynamic Self-Assembly Characterization of Reflectins Biophysics Festival 2023
i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
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)
2022/09 Strategies for the purification of cephalopod-specific structural proteins with biotechnological potential BPP 2022 - Biopartitioning & Purification Conference
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/06/20 Self-assembly analysis of cephalopod-specific intrinsically disordered structural proteins 8th International Iberian Biophysics Congress (IIBC2022)
(Bilbao, Spain)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
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)
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)
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)
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)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/06/16 - 2024/06/21 Gordon's Bioinspired Materials, Les Diablerets Conference Center
Conference
2024/03/10 - 2024/03/12 SupraLife Second School - “Bioinspired Supramolecular Self-Assemblies
Conference
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2023/09/15 Biological Making of Materials 2023 DIGS-BB Summer School TU Dresden (1 of 17 students)
Symposium
Biological Making of Materials 2023
Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering, Germany
2023/06/05 - 2023/06/08 Affinity 2023 - 25th meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition
Congress
Affinity 2023
International Society for Molecular Recognition, Sweden
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
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
Designer Biology 2021 -From proteins and cells to scaffolds and materials

Association member

Society Organization name Role
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
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
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
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/11 - 2019/07 Member of pedagogical comittee of Bachelor in Biochemistry
Member
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal