Joana Vieira da Silva
About
Holds a Bachelor degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Master in Molecular Biomedicine obtained from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. The master thesis was performed in collaboration with the Justus-Liebig-University, Germany.
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Doctoral degree in Biomedicine (University of Aveiro and Nova University of Lisbon) performed in collaboration with the Molecular Pharmacology Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
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Post-Doctoral researcher in Clinical Medicine at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde - I3S and Unidade Multidisciplinar de Investigação Biomédica - UMIB (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal) and at Instituto de Biomedicina- iBiMED (University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal).
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The main research fields of expertise comprise signal transduction and male (in)fertility.
Most representative publications
Joana Vieira Silva, Daniel Cruz, Mariana Gomes, Bárbara Regadas Correia, Maria João Freitas, Luís Sousa, Vladimiro Silva, Margarida Fardilha. Study on the short-term effects of increased alcohol and cigarette consumption in healthy young men's seminal quality. Scientific Reports. 2017. DOI: 10.1038/srep45457
Joana Vieira Silva, Sooyeon Yoon, Pieter-Jan De Bock, Alexander V Goltsev, Kris Gevaert, José F Mendes, Margarida Fardilha. Construction and analysis of a human testis/sperm-enriched interaction network: Unraveling the PPP1CC2 interactome. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects. 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.11.041
Joana Vieira Silva, Maria João Freitas, Bárbara Regadas Correia, Luís Korrodi-Gregório, António Patrício, Steven Pelech, Margarida Fardilha. Profiling signaling proteins in human spermatozoa: Biomarker identification for sperm quality evaluation. Fertility and Sterility. 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.06.039