| Experimental Biology and Biomedicine | Student | Thesis Title | Date | Location | |
| Pedro Emanuel de Sousa Barbosa (júri – 12 de março de 2024) | |||||
| Milene Vieira Gonçalves (júri – 26 de março de 2024) |  |
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May 13th 2024, 10.30am | Sala 2.3, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Mariana Pereira Magalhães (júri – 19 de dezembro de 2023) |  |
Treating glioblastoma: a novel therapeutic approach based on natural products | March 4th 2024, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Staphylococcus aureus intracellular lifestyle: phenotypic profiles and underlying molecular determinants | January 30th, 2024, 10.00am | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
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Pedro Miguel Reis Figueiredo (júri – 14 de novembro de 2023) |
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Enzymatic synthesis of amphiphilic polymer-drug conjugates for cancer treatment | January 22nd 2024, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Beatriz Theresa Ruth Büschbell (júri – 08 de novembro de 2023) |
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Characterization of protein-protein interactions involving G-Protein-Coupled Receptor 143 by computational and pharmacological methods | January 22nd 2024, 9.30am | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Marcos António dos Santos Rodrigues Gomes (júri – 07 de novembro de 2023) |  |
Metabolic impact of GPCR-Associated Sorting Protein 2 in the pathophysiology of obesity | December 19th, 2023, 9.30am | Sala 2.3, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Luís Miguel de Almeida Monteiro (júri – 14 de setembro de 2023) |
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Bioengineered Approaches for Studying and Treating Cardiac Disease or Ageing | December 11th, 2023, 2.30pm | Auditório Laginha Serafim, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, FCTUC | |
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Mariana Barradas Serrano Laranjo (júri – 08 de novembro de 2023) |
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Dissecting the role of parvalbumin positive inhibitory neurons in the cellular and behavioural phenotypes associated with Gprasp2 deletion | December 5th, 2023, 9.30am | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Neurodevelopment effects of valproic acid exposure in human brain organoids | October 12th, 2023, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
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Gene therapy mediated by glycopolymers-based nanocarriers in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs as a potential therapeutic strategy for hepatocellular carcinoma |
July 17th 2023, 3.30pm |
Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
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MitoBone: Mitochondrial performance on osteoclast differentiation and function during E2 deprivation - Finding new targets for osteoporosis treatment | June 13th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
| Marina Manuela Ventura Rodrigues (júri – 27 de janeiro de 2023) |  |
Stargazin as a Regulator of Neuronal Excitability |
May 26th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Beatriz Figueiredo Rodrigues (júri – 03 de fevereiro de 2023) |  |
Biochemical and structural studies of a novel glucosamine kinase and a unique glycosyltransferase: new antimicrobial opportunities in actinobacterial glycobiology | April 26th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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A novel nanoparticle formulation for combined gene therapy and chemotherapy application in hepatocellular carcinoma |
April 24th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
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Maria Inês Morgado Oliveira Martins (júri – 03 de fevereiro de 2023) |
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Assessing the Role of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Mechanisms in Machado-Joseph Disease Pathogenesis | April 11th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala 2.3, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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António José Preto Martins Gomes (júri – 06 de fevereiro de 2023) |
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Deep-Learning application to in silico Drug Design | April 4th 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Daniela Cristina Nunes Costa (júri – 06 de fevereiro de 2023) |
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Biochemical and structural studies of a novel glucosamine kinase and a unique glycosyltransferase: new antimicrobial opportunities in actinobacterial glycobiology | March 21st 2023, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de atemática, FCTUC | |
| Tânia Milene Pires Lourenço (júri – 04 de outubro de 2022) |  |
Role of SP1 and PADI2 during Oligodendocyte Diffferentiation Enhanced by Mechanotransduction | December 20th 2022, 3.00 pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Differential regulation of GluN2A- and GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors by BDNF in the plasticity of hippocampal synapses |
December 12th 2022, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
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Sara de Jesus Gomes Escada Rebelo (júri - 04 de agosto de 2022) |
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Targeted molecules to assess and improve human sperm quality: a mitochondrial perspective |
December 6th 2022, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea as an Aging Trigger: from Mechanisms to Biomarkers |
November 3rd 2022, 3.00pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
Ricardo Fernando Santos Amorim: (júri - 17 de fevereiro de 2022) |
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MitoBULLET: Antioxidant Targeting of Mitochondria to Prevent Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-induced Oxidative Stress | April 21st 2022, 3.00pm | Sala 2.3, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Diana Bela da Luz Sequeira (júri - 26 de novembro de 2021) |
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Isolation, characterization and differentiation of stem cells from the apical papilla: potential uses in regenerative medicine |
January 31st 2022, 3.00pm |
Live streaming | |
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FRUCTOSE METABOLISM AND LIPOGENESIS FLUXES IN MICE MODELS OF DIET-INDUCED NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE |
January 14th 2022, 3.00pm |
Live streaming | ||
| Emanuel Monteiro Candeias (júri - 1 de setembro de 2021) |  |
The amazing anti-type 2 diabetic drugs in neurodegeneration: the impact of exendin-4, liraglutide and linagliptin in type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease | November 21st 2021, 10.00am | Live streaming | |
| Sara Isabel Monteiro Lopes (júri - 1 de setembro de 2021) |  |
Gene editing technologies to Machado-Joseph disease | October 21st 2021, 2.30pm | Live streaming | |
| Giada di Nunzio (júri - 2 de setembro de 2021) |  |
Tracing Hepatic Glycogen and Lipid Metabolism with Stable Isotope Tracers: Insights from Murine Studies |
October 14th 2021, 2.30pm |
Live streaming | |
| Jeannette Schmidt (júri - 1 de setembro de 2021) |  |
Characterization of the Rho GTPase Activating Protein, ARHGAP8, in the Central Nervous System | October 13th 2021, 2.30pm | Live streaming | |
| Mireia Alemany I Pagès (júri – 09 de junho de 2021) |  |
A Healthy Liver Will Always Deliver : Development of a Comic to Raise Awareness About Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (#NAFLD) and Other Metabolic Disorders | October 8th 2021, 10.00am | Live streaming | |
| Sulaiman I S Abuhaiba (júri – 21 de abril de 2021) | |
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND EPILEPSY: MULTIMODAL BRAIN IMAGING | September 20th 2021, 3.00pm | Live streaming | |
| Rui Fernando Vieira Lisboa Matias Simões (júri – 21 de abril de 2021) | |
Neuronal mitochondrial metabolism and dynamic profiling under physiological and pathological conditions using biological-based machine learning approaches | July 20th 2021, 10.00am | Live streaming | |
| Mariangela Natale (júri - 04 de março de 2021) | |
Ras-mediated fibroblast proliferation and lung fibrosis associated with epigenetic modifications provoke spontaneous lung adenocarcinoma | May 11th 2021, 3.00pm | Live streaming | |
| Catarina de Barros Pinto Salvador Domingues (júri - 23 de fevereiro de 2021) |  |
Mechanomodulation of the mesenchymal stem cell proteome elucidation of mechanisms and evaluation as a therapeutic | May 6th 2021, 3.00pm | Live streaming | |
| Cláudia Maria Carrudo de Deus (júri - 23 de fevereiro de 2021) |  |
Metabolic Remodeling and Quality Control Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease | April 1st 2021, 2.30pm | Live streaming | |
| Josephine Blersch (júri - 14 de outubro 2020) |  |
Biocompatible Nanoparticles to Modulate Cell Activity | January 11th 2021, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Silvia Maria do Couto Rodrigues (júri de 14 de outubro 2020) |  |
Dissecting the Mechanisms Governing Skin Wound Healing Induced by an Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Product | January 5th 2021, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Cátia João Monteiro da Santa (júri -13 de maio 2020 |  |
Analysis of the proteome of the hippocampus and cortex of mice exposed to psychotropic medication | November 2nd 2020, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | |
| Ana Raquel Ligeiro Coelho (júri - 14 de outubro de 2019) | |
Molecular Mechanism of Horizontal Mitochondrial Transfer from Stromal Cells to Cancer Cells with Damaged Mitochondrial DNA | March 23rd 2020, 2.00pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Xinli Xu (júri - 4 de novembro de 2019) | |
February 28th 2020, 2.30pm | Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC | ||
| Luís Filipe Maximino Martins (júri - 16 de outubro de 2019) | |
February 3rd 2020, 3.00pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro | ||
| Dina Maria da Silva Rodrigues Pereira (júri -18 de outubro de 2019) | |
January 9th 2020, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | ||
| João Filipe Alves de Amorim (júri - 16 de outubro de 2019) | |
December 11th, 2019, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | ||
| Maria Mafalda Santos Costa (júri - 17 de maio de 2019) | |
Mycobacterial Methylmannose Polysaccharides Biosynthesis | July 23rd 2019, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Sofia Alexandra Ramos Ferreira (júri - 17 de outubro de 2018) | |
The role of P2 receptors in the migration of medial ganglionic eminence-derived interneurons | January 29th 2019, 10.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Patrícia Sofia Alçada Tomás de Morais (júri - 19 de julho de 2018) | |
The Role of adenosine A2A receptor in the migration of cortical principal neurons | November 16th 2018, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Lara Oliveira Franco (júri - 01 de junho de 2018) | |
Long-term impact of early life stress on adult social behavior and prefrontal cortical circuits | October 10th 2018, 2.30pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Andreia Marques Gomes (júri - 01 de junho de 2018) | |
Elucidating blood origin: from reprogramming to ontogeny | October 8th 2018, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Amber Kerkhofs (júri - 04 de abril de 2018)* | |
* Didn't defend at Univ Coimbra | |||
| Dominique Moreira Fernandes (júri - 04 de abril de 2018) | |
Role of Caspr1 and Caspr2 in the regulation of glutamatergic transmission and synaptic plasticity - implication for disease pathogenesis | June 18th 2018, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Mariline Mendes Silva (júri - 14 de dezembro de 2017) | |
Unveiling the role of miRNAs in synaptic plasticity | March 6th 2018, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Sofia Pereira Constantino Romano (júri - 21 de novembro de 2017) | |
Novel anti-nucleolin antibodies for targeted cancer therapy | February 20th 2018, 2.30pm | Carlos Ribeiro Room (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Blanka Kellermayer (júri - 02 de dezembro de 2017) | |
Super resolution imaging reveals differential organization and regulation of NMDA receptor subtypes | January 25th 2018, 10.30am | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Sara Raquel Reis de Oliveira (júri - 06 de novembro de 2017) | |
Carbon monoxide modulation of astrocytic viability following an ischemic injury - metabolic targets disclosure | January 23rd 2018, 2.30pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Mohamed Edfawy Soliman Hussien (júri - 01 de outubro de 2017) | |
Dissecting the role of GPRASP2 in autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability |
December 22th 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Gladys Caldeira (júri- 1 de outubro de 2017) | |
The Role of Stargazin in the Pathogenesis of Psychiatric Disorders | December 20th 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| João Carlos Ribas de Almeida (júri - 01 de outubro de 2017) | |
Vascular organ-on-a-chip platforms for disease modeling | December 6th 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Tânia Marisa Melim Perestrelo (júri - 19 de setembro de 2017) | |
Framing Pluripotency: from gene to image | November 28th 2017, 10.30am | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| António Manuel Carvalho da Silva (júri - 23 de dezembro de 2016) | |
Neurobiology of the circadian clock. METABOLISM CONTROL & IMPLICATIONS FOR Alzheimer´s disease | April 5th 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Udaya Geetha Vijayakumar (júri - 23 de dezembro de 2016) | |
Role of microRNA deregulation in the pathogenesis of Machado-Joseph disease | March 21st 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Ana Patrícia Barreira Marques (júri - 31 de dezembro de 2016) | |
Role of hypoxia and fibrosis in adipose tissue | March 6th 2017, 2.30pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Catarina Oliveira Praça de Almeida (júri - 19 de novembro de 2016) | |
Brain-like endothelial cells derived from stem cells to study BBB development and targeting | February 14th 2017, 10.00am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| André Filipe Marques Soares (júri - 22 de novembro de 2016) | |
Rlri and Rlr2, two novel arabidopsis thaliana atypical aspartic proteases involved in primary root development and lateral root formation | February 8th 2017, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Ivan Lalanda Salazar (júri - 31 de dezembro de 2016) | |
Regulation of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in brain ischemia: impact on the neuronal proteome | February 7th 2017, 10.00am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Sofia Marques Ribeiro Carlton (júri - 24 de outubro de 2016) | |
Metabolic control of neuronal activity by fuel substrate switching: a role for BAD | December 16th 2016, 2.30pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Rui Manuel Vicente Benfeitas (júri - 02 de setembro de 2016) | |
Active and passive defenses against oxidative stress: a computational study | December 9th 2016, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Ângela Filipa Valério Fernandes (júri - 25 de abril de 2016) | |
Targeting Nucleolin in Lung Cancer: towards a personalized therapy | July 19th 2016, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Ana Cristina Leal Gregório (júri - 25 de abril de 2016) | |
Meeting the needs of breast cancer: a nucleolin's perspective | July 14th 2016, 2.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Pedro José Azeredo de São Bento Gouveia (júri - 12 de abril de 2016) | |
Cardiac Tissue Constructs for Drug Screening | June 2nd 2016, 10.00am | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Marcelo José Marques Correia (júri - 17 de novembro de 2015) | |
Mechanisms underlying metabolic shift in pluripotent stem cells: The potential role of sirtuins | January 27th 2016, 3.00pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Jimmy George (júri - 15 de janeiro de 2016) | |
Purines control neuron-glia interaction during neuroinflammation | January 21st 2016, 2.30pm | Sala Carlos Ribeiro (Colégio de Jesus) | |
| Joana Ribeiro Guedes (júri - 17 de novembro de 2015) | |
Inflammation in Alzheimer's disease: deregulation and modulation of miRNA expression in the mononuclear phagocyte system | December 22nd 2015, 3.00pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Maria Joana Guimarães Pinto (júri - 07 de setembro de 2015) | |
Presynaptic formation and function under the control of ubiquitin and the proteasome | November 27th 2015, 3.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Carla Maria Nunes Lopes (júri - 18 de setembro de 2015) | |
Characterization of Human stem cells and therapeutic strategies involving IGF-I and shRNA in Huntington´s disease | October 15th 2015, 10.00am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Carla Patrícia Rodrigues Paiva (júri - 02 de junho de 2015) | |
Human Sperm Motility: Proteins and Metabolites Towards the Same Journey´s end | July 30th 2015, 9.30pm | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Joana Rita Domingues Vindeirinho (júri - 02 de junho de 2015) | |
The Adenosinergic System in the Context of Diabetic Retinopathy: From Alterations to Modulation | July 21st 2015, 10.30am |
Sala dos Capelos | |
| Fátima Patrícia da Costa Oliveira Martins (júri - 03 de novembro de 2014) | |
Brain-Liver Nitric Oxide Axis: A Major Regulatory Player in Insulin Clearance and Action | December 2nd 2014, 10.30am | Sala dos Capelos | |
| Rodrigo Luiz dos Santos (júri - 03 de novembro de 2014) | |
Mechanisms of induced pluripotency: The role of the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylase complex |
December 1st 2014, 10.30am |
Sala José Anastácio da Cunha, Departamento de Matemática, FCTUC |