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Catarina Meireles. I am currently the Head of Translational Cytometry (TraCy) Scientific Platform in Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde of University of Porto. I completed my PhD in 2018 by University of Porto in which my studies mainly focused in the development and progenitor capacity of thymic epithelial cells. I obtained may bachelor in Microbiology by Universidade Católica Portuguesa and the master in Molecular Genetics by Universidade do Minho. I am co-author of 8 published articles in Immunolugy area and 2 published papers in microbiology field. I was the only organizer of a 4-days workshop in Flow Cytometry. I have received 3 awards in international and national conferences. Since 2017, I am also an invited professor to the lecture of theoretical and practical classes about Flow Cytometry at University of Porto, Bragança, Aveiro and University of Minho. Since the end of 2021, I am the coordinator of the national flow cytometry network, named PT-FlowCyt, which involves 19 national institutions that submitted to FCT the intention to integrate National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures (RNIE).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina Meireles

Citation names

  • Meireles, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FE18-9B2C-97AF
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1627-794X

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/02/01 - 2018/05/29
Concluded
 Biologia Molecular e Celular (Doutoramento)
Major in Immunology
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Refining thymic epithelial cell differentiation: from progenitor cell isolation to the identification of discrete mature lineages " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved
2008 - 2011
Concluded
 Genética Molecular (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants From Environmental Reservoirs: Focus on beta-lactams resistance in Gram-negative bacteria" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
2010 - 2010
Concluded
 IX Course on Laboratory Animal Science Category C accredited by FELASA (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
 Approved
2005 - 2008
Concluded
 Biociências, variante de Microbiologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
"Phenotype and genotype analysis of Staphylococcus aureus strains and Antimicrobial Resistance determination by detection of the mecA gene." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/02/01 - 2014/01/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2012/02/01 - 2013/01/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2011/09/19 - 2012/01/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2009/09/01 - 2010/12/31 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
2008/02 - 2008/07 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/10/01 - Current Head of Translational Cytometry (TraCy) Scientific Platform Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2014/02/01 - 2018/05/29 PhD student with the project: “Identifying Thymic Epithelial Cell progenitors”, financed by FCT (SFRH/BD/93109\2013) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/02/01 - 2014/01/31 Unveiling the thymic interleukin 7 niche in vivo - A framework to study the cellular and molecular control of a master regulator of T lymphopoiesis.
110116
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Caracterização do fenótipo e função das células Natural Killer T na deficiência em alfa-Galactosidase A
2022.01788.PTDC
10.54499/2022.01788.PTDC
Researcher
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Meireles, Catarina. "Resistome: Caracterization of antibiotic resistance pathways at the Environment/Animal interface". Paper presented in Microbiotec'11, Braga, 2011.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Silva, Cláudia; Andrade, Nelson; Guimarães, João Tiago; Cardoso, Emília; Meireles, Catarina; Pinto, Vanessa; Paiva, Joana; Martel, Fátima. "The pro-proliferative effect of insulin in human breast epithelial DMBA -transformed and non-transformed cell lines is PI3K -, mTOR - and GLUT1 -dependent". Cell Biochemistry and Function (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbf.3681.
    10.1002/cbf.3681
  2. Meireles, Catarina. "Biocompatibility of the Biopolymer Cyanoflan for Applications in Skin Wound Healing.". Marine drugs (2021): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8001550.
    10.3390/md19030147
  3. Ferreirinha, Pedro; Ribeiro, Camila; Morimoto, Junko; Landry, Jonathan J. M.; Matsumoto, Minoru; Meireles, Catarina; White, Andrea J.; et al. "A novel method to identify Post-Aire stages of medullary thymic epithelial cell differentiation". European Journal of Immunology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eji.202048764.
    10.1002/eji.202048764
  4. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Nicolas Serafini; Catarina Meireles; James P. Di Santo; Nuno L. Alves. "Intrathymic Deletion of IL-7 Reveals a Contribution of the Bone Marrow to Thymic Rebound Induced by Androgen Blockade". The Journal of Immunology 200 4 (2018): 1389-1398. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1701112.
    10.4049/jimmunol.1701112
  5. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Chiara Perrod; Jonathan J. M. Landry; Leonor Araújo; Isabel Pereira-Castro; Vladimir Benes; et al. "Thymic epithelial cells require p53 to support their long-term function in thymopoiesis in mice". Blood 130 4 (2017): 478-488. https://doi.org/10.1182%2Fblood-2016-12-758961.
    10.1182/blood-2016-12-758961
  6. Meireles C; Ribeiro AR; Pinto RD; Leitão C; Rodrigues PM; Alves NL. "Thymic crosstalk restrains the pool of cortical thymic epithelial cells with progenitor properties.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28318017.
    10.1002/eji.201746922
  7. Castro, Ana; Santos, Carla; Meireles, Helena; Silva, Joana; Teixeira, Paula. "Food handlers as potential sources of dissemination of virulent strains of Staphylococcus aureus in the community". Journal of Infection and Public Health 9 2 (2016): 153-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2015.08.001.
    10.1016/j.jiph.2015.08.001
  8. Ribeiro AR; Meireles C; Rodrigues PM; Alves NL. "The intermediate expression of CCRL1 reveals novel subpopulations of medullary thymic epithelial cells that emerge in the postnatal thymus.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25070355.
    10.1002/eji.201444585
  9. Ribeiro AR; Rodrigues PM; Meireles C; Di Santo JP; Alves NL. "Thymocyte selection regulates the homeostasis of IL-7-expressing thymic cortical epithelial cells in vivo.". (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23794633.
    10.4049/jimmunol.1203042
  10. Meireles, Catarina; Costa, Gonçalo; Guinote, Inês; Albuquerque, Teresa; Botelho, Ana; Cordeiro, Carlos; Freire, Patrick. "Pseudomonas putida are environmental reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance to ß-lactamic antibiotics". World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 29 7 (2013): 1317-1325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11274-013-1295-3.
    Published • 10.1007/s11274-013-1295-3
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Helena Catarina Teixeira Meireles. "Refining thymic epithelial cell differentiation: from progenitor cell isolation to the identification of discrete mature lineages". PhD, 2018. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/112276.
  2. Meireles, Helena Catarina Teixeira. "Caracterização de resistências antimicrobianas provenientes de reservatórios ambientais : estudo de mecanismos de resistência aos beta-lactâmicos em Gram-negativos". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18944.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2015/10 Thymic epithelial progenitor cells settle within the post-natal cortical niche and their pool size decreases with age XLI Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology
ICVS-Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (Braga, Portugal)
2015/06/12 Thymic epithelial progenitor cells settle within the post-natal cortical niche and their pool size decreases with age Thymus@Lisbon
IMM-Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/04/10 Thymic epithelial progenitor cells settle within the postnatal cortical niche and their pool size decreases with age. Venice Thymus Meeting
(Venice, Italy)
2011 Vth Congress of Veterinary Sciences 2011 Vth Congress of Veterinary Sciences 2011
INRB (Santarém, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/03/08 - 2021/03/22 TraCy Talks¿ aim to show the most frequent and recent applications of Flow Cytometry in different areas of research. As such, this initiative meant to transmit what are the best practices from up-to-date theory to experimental approaches by an expert in the field, concluding with a review of protocols minimizing frequent errors. ¿Tracy Talks¿ will take place on regular basis, with each edition having a main theme to be subdivided in related topics and explored. (2021/01 - 2021/04)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2019/10/07 - 2019/10/10 Flow Cytometry Workshop from basic knowledge to advance applications (2019/10/07 - 2019/10/10)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/04/11 - 2023/04/27 Invited Speaker of Cell with a talk entitled: Principles of cell sorting
Workshop
 Cell functional and phenotypical analysis: The usefulness of flow cytometry and related tools
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/07 Invited speaker of the Introductory Course to Cell Culture at Aveiro University. Talk entitled: Introduction to Flow Cytometry: Principles and Applications.
Workshop
 Introductory Course to Cell Culture
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/05 - 2019/05 Invited speaker of the 5th and 6th edition of the short course in Animal Cell Culture and Clinical Applications at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. May 2018 and 2019. Short training entitled Phenotypic Characterization by flow cytometry: from primary cells to cell - culture.
Workshop
 Animal Cell Culture and Clinical Applications
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/11 - Current Coordinator of a national network of Flow Cytometry. The network is named PT-FlowCyt and it is already constituted by 19 national research institutes and universities.
Coordinator
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Multicolor Flow Cytometry Biologia Molecular e Celular (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Practical session in The Immune System Module Biologia Básica e Aplicada (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2015 Best Poster Presentation Award at Venice Thymus Meeting; Thymic epithelial progenitor cells settle within the postnatal cortical niche and their pool size decreases with age.
2015 Best Poster Presentation Award at Thymus@Lisbon; Thymic epithelial progenitor cells settle within the postnatal cortical niche and their pool size decreases with age.
2015 Best Poster Presentation Award at SPI Braga; Thymic epithelial progenitors settle within the postnatal cortex and their pool decreases with age in a thymocyte-dependent manner