PhD Thesis
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Florian Raphael Steinfeld
Auditory decision making in mice: Behavioural characterisation and neural correlates in auditory cortex
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Francisco Romero Ferrero
Deep learning tools to study collective behaviour
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Frederico Ribeiro da Silva Severo
Auditory Subcortical Circuitry in Rodents Insights into push-pull interactions from advanced functional MRI
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Gabriela Tondolo Fioreze
The contribution of cortical feedback projections to sensory representations in the mouse primary visual cortex
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Gonçalo Dias Pereira Guiomar
Parallel loops of behavioural control by opponent striatal circuits
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Hedi Young
Laminar-specific cortico-cortical loops in mouse visual cortex
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Inês Correia Dias
Love me or leave me: Hypothalamic circuits linking the reproductive cycle to female sexual behavior
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Inês de Oliveira Rodrigues e Vaz da Cunha
The striatum encodes action-specific forces of the forelimb
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Jaime Arlandis Castro
Psychedelics, population dynamics, and the generation of experience
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Joana Pernadas Carmona
Modeling the directionality of interactions between cortical areas
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Joaquim António da Silva Melo Contradanças
Whole-brain mechanisms of delay and trace conditioning in larval zebrafish
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Jovin Robert Jacobs
Investigating the role of various cerebellar circuit elements in locomotion and its adaptation
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Juan Ramón Castiñeiras de Saa
Bounded accumulation of evidence in decision making and optimal stochastic intermittent control
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Kcénia Bougrova
The activity of neuromodulators during decision-making
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Kristin Fischer
The Enteric Immune Landscape in Response to High-Fat High-Sugar Diet
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Madalena Stilwell Ferreira da Fonseca
Serotonin, impulsive behaviour, and brain-wide networks
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Margarida Nunes de Almeida Rodrigues de Sousa
Signatures and Consequences of Distributional Reinforcement Learning
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Marina Fridman
Contextual modulation of visual thalamocortical circuits
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Matheus Augusto Farias da Silva
On the mechanisms by which descendingneurons control defensive behaviors in fruit flies
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Mauricio Alejandro Toro Espejo
Context dependent expectation signals in behavior and brain
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Merit Kruse
Mechanisms of cross-modal transfer incerebellar associative learning
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Mert Erginkaya
Movement-dependent central processing of visual feedback for self-motion estimation in Drosophila melanogaster
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Miguel Anthony Grilo Gaspar
Mate Competition Drives Aggressive Behaviour in Female Drosophila
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Miguel Gonçalo Salgueiro do Paço
Principles of Flexible Coordination and Anticipation in Drosophila Courtship Pursuit
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Mirjam Heinemans
Social Modulation of Defensive Behaviors in Drosophila
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Neuza Tatiana Almeida Silva
Neuronal mechanisms of cerebellar associative learning Investigating acquisition and consolidation of eyeblink conditioning in mice
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Nuno João Machado Loureiro
Operant EEG-based BMI: Learning and consolidating device control with brain activity
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Nuno Miguel Beja Rito
The competitive advantage of using your head:Gaze control for high performance courtship pursuit in Drosophila
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Oihane Horno Garcia
Revealing Structures in Data: Understanding Innate Behaviors and Neural Representations Using Latent Variables
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Pietro Vertechi
Latent variable decoding in biological and artificial agents: Towards a unified approach
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Radhika Rajan
Functional organization of cortico-cortical feedback originating from diferent laminar sources and how it is shaped by experience
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Rita Cardoso Figueiredo
Mapping metabolism in a whole animal atsingle-cell resolution
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Rita Dziezaski Terenas Ferreira Gil
Unravelling spatiotemporal mechanisms of rodent visual function via advanced magnetic resonance imaging
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Rita Leiria Lopes Félix
Sensory and motor representations in the inferior olive of larval zebrafish
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Roberto Enrique Medina Ramirez
Optimal Decision Making for Temporally Exended Actions
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Rodrigo Manuel da Silva Duarte Ferreira Dias
The role of visual experience in the organization of cortico-cortical feedback
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Severin Michael Berger
Towards a normative understanding of higher-order brain activity
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Silvana da Costa Araújo
Unravelling the activity patterns of midbrain dopaminergic neurons during male sexual behaviour
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Sofia Ferro Freitas
Temporal Control at Multiple Scales: Distinct Behavioural and Neural Signatures of When and How to Act
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Solène Suzanne Cecile Joelle Marie Sautory
Evolution of Serotonin Responses to Visual Stimuli
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Teresa Silva Serradas Duarte
Contributions of basal ganglia and cerebellum for discrete and continuous motor control
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Thomas Nathaniel Soares Mullen
A Dynamical Systems Approach To Understanding Motor Control
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Tiago João Páscoa Costa
Controllability of real and artificial agents
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Tiago Marçal Quendera
Dissecting Complex Human Behaviour: From the lab, through the clinic and beyond
[PhD Thesis in Neurosciences] Tomás Lopes da Cruz
Multimodal self-motion integration for multilevel control of walking in Drosophila
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Ana Margarida Colaço Rodrigues
Mass Spectrometry-Based Forest Tree Metabolomics. Pinus pinaster Metabolite Responses to Pinewood Nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) Infection
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Ana Margarida Novais de Sampaio
Unravelling the genetic control of Fusarium oxysporum resistance in Lathyrus sativus
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Ana Rita Mendes Leal
Histologic and molecular characterization of root phellem development and suberization –from Arabidopsis thaliana to Quercus suber
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] André João Cardinho Alexandre Folgado
High-value molecules from Cynara cardunculus L. Development of alternative plant-based platforms for the production of cardoon aspartic proteases and valuable secondary metabolites
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Armin Horn
Towards photosynthetic cell factories from moss: Elucidating regulatory elements in the biosynthesis of terpenoids and flavonoids in the moss Physcomitrium patens
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Bruno Alexandre Teixeira Peixoto
The SnRK1 kinase: novel regulatory mechanisms and its role in metabolic homeostasis
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Carlos Jorge da Silva Moreira
Cutin as a key player in plant immunity: from the polymer chemistry to the biological function of its composing oligomers
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Chandra Shekhar Misra
Transcriptome Dynamics in the Arabidopsis thaliana Male Germ Unit: From Mature Pollen Grain to Pollen Tube
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Davide Coelho Martins
The genetics and mechanisms of resistance to powdery mildew and rust in Lathyrus sativus
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Filipa Lara Fernandes Lopes
Regulation of the shoot apical meristem by metabolic signals and the SnRK1 protein kinase
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Hélia Joana da Silva Peixoto de Sales
Olea europaea: contribution to the valorization of the most important Portuguese olive tree variety ‘Galega vulgar’
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Inês Sofia Barrios Modesto
Exploring genetic variability of Pinus pinaster in the molecular response pathways to the pinewood nematode as a source of markers for assisted selection
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] José Ricardo Torrão Dias Parreira Salvado
Deciphering seed development mechanisms in Phaseolus vulgaris L.
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Letice Gonçalves
Exploiting legume genetics as a tool for a demand-driven improvement in agronomical and nutritional quality
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Luís Carlos Lopes de Andrade
How diel-regulated responses are modulated by environmental cues in rice
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Maria Saraiva Mendes Assunção
Decoding the molecular mechanisms controlling graft success in Vitis spp.
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Maria Vicente Faustino
Towards rice multibiofortification
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Patrícia Morais Fernandes
Molecular and histological approaches to unravel Castanea spp. responses to Phytophthora cinnamomi infection
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Pedro Daniel Santos de Carvalho
Unveilling the Setaria viridis PEPC1 promoter regulatory network in Rice
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences - Plants for Life] Bárbara Almeida Rebelo
Sustainable production of high-value moleculesusing engineered plant cultured cells
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences - Plants for Life] Cláudia Isabel Rodrigues Lopes
A molecular approach to understand embryo development to seed filling in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences - Plants for Life] Diana Reis Barata
Interplay between TPS proteins and the SnRK1 kinase in the regulation of plant growth and development
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Rui Filipe dos Reis Mata Albuquerque Martins
SR Proteins and Pre-mRNA Splicing in ABA Signalling and Metabolism
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Sara Tedesco
Dissecting grapevine graft incompatibility with particular reference to its early detection and underlying causes
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Stefano Nones
Ecological cork oak-ambrosia beetle interactions in a scenario of climate change
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Susana Fernandes Torres Lopes
Dissecting molecular pathways involved in periderm function and differentiation
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Susana Murtinheira da Trindade Leitão
Unravelling the genetic control of combined biotic/abiotic stress resistance in Phaseolus vulgaris L
[PhD Thesis in Plant Sciences] Telma Cristina Oliveira Fernandes
Regulation of DELLA rice protein interactors and their influence on plant development
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry]Agostinho Manuel dos Reis Carrondo Alexandre
Potential of Arbutus unedo as a source of high-added value bioactives:a biorefinery approach
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Ana Elisabete da Silva Fernandes
Towards cooperative organometallic and enzymatic catalysis to develop new value chains from organic wastes
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Ana Nunes Nunes
Green strategies to extract and formulate natural-based pigments: from red to blue hues
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Andreia Sofia de Almeida Baptista Forte
Novel Strategies for early detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Giulia Francescato
Metal Complexes Stabilized by Nucleobases and Their Analogues: Synthesis and Applications
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry]Maha Miled Abdallah
Extraction of bioactives from marine by-products using- Deep Eutectic Solvents for Dry Eye Disease treatment
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Mara Sofia da Fonseca Pinto
Manganese and iron complexes with N-Heterocyclic carbene ligands: Synthesis and Catalysis
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Márcia Alexandra dos Reis Ribeiro Rénio
Development of new thiourea organocatalysts for asymmetric reactions
[PhD Thesis in Sustainable Chemistry] Sofia Manuela Pinto Friões
Triazolylidene Manganese and Rhenium Complexes: Synthesis and Reactivity
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Ana Carina Santos Ferreira da Silva
Strategies for improved Adenovirus and PPR vaccine production in diferente cell lines: from bioprocess development to final formulation
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Ana Catarina Pereira Pinto
Targeting Cancer Vulnerabilities: from molecular targets to antitumor immunity
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Anabela Carvalho Vieira
Investigation of the N2O emissions in wastewater treatment plants, using a molecular, analytical and engineering approach
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Bernardo Martins da Cunha Abecasis
Engineering human in vitro cardiac tissue models for preclinical research
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]David José Souto Patinha
Development of new solid phase microextraction phases based on poly(ionic liquids)
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Filipe Serrão Santos Oliveira
Azeotropic Separation: Playing with the Ionicity of Ionic Liquids
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Francisca Sarreira Simões Horta Monteiro
Rational design of insect cell-based vaccine production: Bridging metabolomics with mathematical tools to study virus-host interactions
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Hélio Antunes Tomás
Development of novel HIV-1 based lentiviral vector producer cells. The impact of mutated T26S HIV-1 protease in lentiviral vector production
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Hugo Ferrão Dias de Almeida
Treatment of aqueous effluents contamined with active pharmaceutical ingredient
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Hugo Ricardo Loureiro Soares
Viral and cell host factors influencing the development of an HCV vaccine candidate
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Maria João Carvalho Sebastião
Towards novel stem cell and protein based therapies for myocardium regeneration
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Marta Maria Vieira Matutino Estrada Magalhães e Menezes
Novel cell models to study breast tumour microenvironment and disease progression
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Marta Sofia Marques Silva
Stem cell bioprocessing strategies for cardiac regeneration. Unveiling CCBE1 role as a modulator of human cardiomyocyte differentiation
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Nicole Sofia Morgado Vieira
Fluorinated Ionic Liquids for the Development of New Drug Delivery Systems
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Paulo David Machado Fernandes
Bioprocess design of canine adenovírus vectors for gene therapy applications
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences] Piergiuseppe Nestola
Improving downstream processing for viral vectors and viral vaccines
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Sofia Baptista de Carvalho
Downstream strategies for VLPs as candidate universal vaccine for Influenza
[PhD Thesis in Technological and Engineering Sciences]Sofia de Almeida Santos de Castro e Abreu
Development of cell models for Translation Cancer Research
