I graduated in Microbiology at School of Biotechnology - Portuguese Catholic University in 2004. Later, I obtained a MSc degree in Clinical Microbiology from Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon in 2008, having conducted my thesis research in the National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge. Then, I moved to IBMC where I did my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Anabela Cordeiro da Silva and Dr. Joana Tavares. During my thesis I evaluated Trypanosoma brucei asparagine synthetase A and ribose 5-phosphate isomerase B as potential drug targets against African sleeping sickness. I received my PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Faculty of Pharmacy - University of Porto in May 2015. I joined Cytoskeletal Dynamics in October 2015 for postdoctoral studies on the discovery of novel functional interactions involved in actomyosin-based contractility. In January 2019, I decided to return to infection field and I joined the Fish Immunology and Vaccionology Group. As a junior researcher I am now working in the project “Identification and characterization of virulence factors secreted by Photobacterium damselae piscicida with potential to be used as antigens for vaccination against fish photobacteriosis”.
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.100367 SCOPUS: 78650195216.
Tavares J., Ouaissi A., Lin P.K.T., Loureiro I., Kaur S., Roy N., Cordeiro-da-Silva A.,
DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200900367 SCOPUS: 74849088082.
Moreira D., Santarém N., Loureiro I., Tavares J., Silva A.M., Amorim A.M., Ouaissi A., Cordeiro-da-Silva A., Silvestre R.,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001469 SCOPUS: 84856584576.
Faria J., Loureiro I., Santarém N., Ceclio P., Macedo-Ribeiro S., Tavares J., Cordeiro-da-Silva A.,
DOI: 10.1038/srep26937 SCOPUS: 84971221975.
Loureiro I., Faria J., Clayton C., Macedo-Ribeiro S., Santarém N., Roy N., Cordeiro-da-Siva A., Tavares J.,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003430 SCOPUS: 84922219276.
Loureiro I., Faria J., Clayton C., Ribeiro S.M., Roy N., Santarém N., Tavares J., Cordeiro-da-Silva A.,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002578 SCOPUS: 84892749573.
Faria J., Loureiro I., Santarém N., Macedo-Ribeiro S., Tavares J., Cordeiro-da-Silva A.,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004365 SCOPUS: 84969443688.
Graça N.A.G., Gaspar L., Costa D.M., Loureiro I., Thoo-Lin P.K., Ramos I., Roura M., Pruvost A., Pemberton I.K., Loukil H., Macdougall J., Tavares J., Cordeiro-Da-silva A.,
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02490-15 SCOPUS: 84963699458.
Costa D.M., Sá M., Teixeira A.R., Loureiro I., Thouvenot C., Golba S., Amino R., Tavares J.,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33398-8 SCOPUS: 85054635985.
Loureiro I., Faria J., Santarem N., Smith T.K., Tavares J., Cordeiro-Da-Silva A.,
DOI: 10.2174/0929867325666171206094752 SCOPUS: 85059510668.