EDUCATION & TRAINING
2013 – 2018 : Integrated Master in Bioengineering Molecular Biotechnology branch (17/20 score) Faculty of Engineering & Institute for the Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar University of Porto, Portugal Thesis (Fev-Oct 2018): Dissecting the Niche for Haematopoietic Stem Cells Expansion: A Cellular and Molecular Portray at the Developing Haematopoietic System-Foetal Liver Crossroads, under the orienta- tion of Dr Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó (i3S, Porto)
FeB-July 2017 : Erasmus+ Internship Programme (19/22 score) Centre for Cell Engineering (CCE) University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Project: Dormancy/ Recurrence model to recreate metastatic niche environment in bone marrow, under the orientation of Dr Catheri- ne Berry (CCE, Glasgow)
Sep 2019 : Introduction to Digital Bioimage Analysis i3S, Porto, Portugal
Nov 2018 : Pluripotent Stem Cell training: Reprogramming, Maintenance and Differentiation by STEMCELLTM Technologies, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
May 2018 : PDA18 – Proteomics Data Analysis with Lennart Martens, Harald Barsnes and Lieven Clement, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon, Portugal
April 2018 : Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science 21st edition Function D – European Directive 2010/63/EU i3S, Porto, Portugal
April 2018 : ADER18F – Analysis of Differential Expression (using RNAseq data) with Daniel Sobral, Daniel Faria and Daniel Neves, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon, Portugal
WORK EXPERIENCE :
CURRENT POSITION : PhD Student (1st year) PhD programme: Biomedical Sciences, ICBAS, University of Porto
Jan – Dec 2019 : Master Fellowship Project: AbSCisSA – Disclosing hemAtopoietic Stem Cell SelfrenewAl at the developing fetal liver intersection (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032656) i3S, Porto
RESEARCH INTERESTS :
Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC)
HSC Expansion
Fetal Liver Development
Bioinformatics
Bioengineering
OUTPUTS :
CONFERENCE POSTER :
- Peixoto, M; Soares-da-Silva, F; Lima-Araújo, J; Laundos, T; Cumano, A; Pinto-do-Ó, P. 2019. “Dissecting the foetal liver niche for haematopoietic stem cell expansion”. Paper presented in 11th International Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC), 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Soares-da-Silva, F; Peixoto, M; Burlen-Defranoux, O; Resende, T; Schmutz, S; Novault, S; Talaei, N; Chang, Q; Vassilevskaia, T; Ornatsky, O; Pinto-do-Ó, P; Cumano, A. 2019. “The mouse fetal liver stroma: signals for HSC expansion”. Paper presented in International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), 2019, Los Angeles, USA.
- Peixoto, M; Soares-da-Silva, F; Lima-Araújo, J; Laundos, T; Cumano, A; Pinto-do-Ó, P. 2019. “Dissecting the niche for haematopoietic stem cells expansion at the developing haematopoietic system – foetal liver crossroads”. Paper presented in 12º Edição – Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto (IJUP), 2019, Porto, Portugal.
- Peixoto, M; Soares-da-Silva, F; Lima-Araújo, J; Laundos, T; Cumano, A; Perpé- tua Pinto-do-Ó. 2018. “Dissecting the niche for haematopoietic stem cells expansion at the developing haematopoietic system – foetal liver crossroads”. Paper presented in 7th i3S Annual Meeting, 2019, Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal.
AWARDS :
Best Poster Communication IJUP 2019
LANGUAGES :
Portuguese (native speaker)
English (C1 level, spoken, written and read)