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I am a registered Pharmacist and Dietitian-Nutritionist (Hons), currently doing a PhD in health sciences, specialising in neurosciences and patient-derived in-vitro models of Major Depressive Disorder (iPSCs).
I have always been deeply interested in these areas and have worked in a community pharmacy, serving the community by dispensing drugs, drug management (unit-dose packaging for people diagnosed with psychiatric diseases and neurodegenerative diseases), providing pharmacotherapy follow-ups and increasing health literacy, offering check-ups, emergency care (e.g., cuts, grazes, burn care and emergency contraception mostly). In this setting, I developed management skills as the person responsible for the inventory management of drugs dispensed upon medical prescription and together with the rest of the team, we managed daily orders, verified/validated electronic and manual prescriptions and worked closely with pharmaceutical sales representatives and managers and family doctors – in fact, I have been contacting with the medical community and pharmaceutical industry long before my degrees and for that reason, I am familiar with that business setting and confident and comfortable in analysing and writing clinical data.
I have got training in Monitoring clinical trials by specialists from Bayer and AbbVie.
Having been very interested in eating behaviour and neurocircuits underlying feeding and eating behaviour regulation and the bidirectional associations between eating behaviour, food preferences and nighttime sleep (and social jetlag), have taken me to the nutrition and public health team from the Public Health Institute from the University of Porto. My previous PI, who I am deeply grateful and admire, had approved my idea of exploring the associations between nighttime sleep and food preferences in a cohort of children aged 4 year-old. We decided to focus on the longitudinal trajectories of children aged 4 and 7-year-old (paper in review) and our work earned a second poster award at a national nutrition congress. Here, I did research and fieldwork – children and their mothers are evaluated in structured waves; I recruited pregnant women, and interviewed them a few days, 4, 8 and 12 months after the delivery (health and nutrition-related questions about the mother and babies, among others); corrected databases, learnt to convert data from food diaries into micro- and macronutrients and processed biological data. This experience and previous experience in the health division at a city hall revolutionized the way I plan and execute research – I am a better planner, have more vision and am better at human studies. Notwithstanding, starting new lines of research is challenging yet, it refines resilience and forces us to work across disciplines, exploring creativity and developing as a person and scientist.
Those experiences prepared me well to embark on the development of a cohort of persons diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. The work included the preparation of study protocols, databases, codification lists, and psychometric tests that were submitted to 2 Ethical Committees and a Data Protection Office (a colleague and I did it). My PhD project is rooted in this cohort and I am co-responsible for the study concept, design and responsible for the development of these disease models. Apart from pioneering the work with these human-based MDD models at the institute, I am interested in learning more and occasionally, I help in animal post-mortem studies and behavioural analysis. My research experience in microbiology allowed me to refine my skills in/learn molecular and genetic tests.
From the beginning of my PhD, I have been working on finding and writing project proposals to attract funds. These years of working on it have been helping me to write eloquently, know grant opportunities in pharma, philanthropists, associations and last year´s project (submitted to FCT) got a good score but unfortunately, was not awarded funds.
I am ambitious, curious, fastidious and proud to have served as an invited reviewer for Nature Masterclasses (course “Narrative Tools for Researchers “), being selected for my first IBRO-PERC “Support for Soft Skills Training: Building up a career in Neuroscience – Grant and CV writing + job interview preparation" (worldwide opportunity for 16 PhD students and Postdocs) and first FENS and IBRO-PERC stipend for the course “Current approaches in neurological disorder research: from animal models to human brain on the chip course” (worldwide, for 4 researchers – unfortunately, couldn´t attend because of personal issues).
In sum, I am always thrilled to learn more, challenge myself and teach what I know.
I am a supper club host and wannabe ceramist, lover of books, pub crawls, photography, walks in nature and of course, my gang of stray and feral cats.
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JOURNAL OF FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION (2022)
Microorganismsno. 2 (2020): 246
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