Angela M Costa graduated in Biochemistry by the Faculty of Sciences-Porto University in 2004. During the last year of graduation she was trained at Department of Microbiology of Pharmacy Faculty of Complutense University of Madrid, under the Erasmus Programme, in a project focused on Candida albicans molecular signaling, supervised by Federico Garcia-Navarro. In August 2004 she joined the Thyroid Cancer Lab of IPATIMUP as a research fellow, under the supervision of Ginesa Garcia-Rostan. In 2006 Angela M Costa moved to Céu Figueiredo's Lab, and as a research fellow, started to work in the interaction of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori and gastric cells. Under the same subject, she did her PhD studies, supervised by Céu Figueiredo from IPATUMUP, and co-supervised by Thomas F. Meyer from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In October 2012, she got her PhD in Biomedicine, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto with a thesis entitled "Exploring the relationship between Helicobacter pylori and host cell invasion: from phenotypes to molecular mechanisms". After the PhD Angela M Costa moved to ICVS, Braga, to work in Rui M Reis Lab, studing the molecular signaling pathways associated with the invasive process in gliomas. In the end of 2014 Angela M Costa did a short passage at the LEPABE (Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, and Energy and Biotechnology Engineering) in Chemical Engineering Department of FEUP, working under the supervision of Nuno Azevedo and Filipe Mergulhão, and in the beginning of 2015 was at Jorge Correia-Pinto lab, at ICVS, working in benign prostatic hyperplasia. Since October 2015, Angela M Costa is a FCT post-doctoral fellow at I3S. She is working under the supervision of Maria José Oliveira, and is now devoted at studying the influence of tumor associated macrophages in colorectal cancer cell invasion. Angela M Costa's main research interests are cellular and molecular aspects related to cancer cell invasion, adhesion and motility, the cellular microbiology, in particular the study of interaction between bacteria and host cells, signaling transduction and cellular biology. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8911-1043