Ana Margarida Nunes

Projects

Management

• Medea-Chart: The Medieval and Early Modern Nautical Chart: Birth, Evolution and Use (ERC-2016-STG #714033).

Science and Society

• Discursos do Cérebro: revelações das neurociências, Culturgest (2016-2017)
• O que é a cultura científica? Rota do Cérebro, Mercado de Algés, Fundação Champalimaud (2017)
• Comunicação Visual em Ciência, NOVA Escola Doutoral (2014)
• Aqui há Planta, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (2014)

Publications

1. Nunes A, Nogueira R., Sendra D., Ilharco A, Higher Education in Emergencies: notes for the Lisbon conference, 5^th April 2018, Gulbenkian Foundation  (Science Politics)

2. Simons AP, Machado N, Goncalves N, Kaster M, Simões AT, Nunes A, Pereira de Almeida L, Goosens K, Rial D, Cunha R (2016) Adenosine A2A Receptors in the amygdala control synaptic plasticity and contextual fear memory, Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(12): 2862-2871. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.98.
3. Kaster MPª, Machado NJª, Silva HBª, Nunes Aª, Ardais AP, Santana M, Baqid Y, Müllerd CE, Rodrigues ALS, Porciúncula LO, Chen JF, Tomé AR, Agostinho P, Canas PM, Cunha RA (2015) Caffeine acts through neuronal adenosine A2A receptors to prevent mood and memory dysfunction triggered by chronic stress, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, 112:25, 7833–7838. (ª equal contribution); doi: 10.1073/pnas.1423088112.
4. Nunes AM (2012), 15 neuroscience chronicles, Ciência Hoje, Porto. (Outreach)
5. Nunes A, (2010) Niemann-Pick type C as a Model to study the Amyloid Hypothesis of Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease, King's College London
6. Nunes A, Pressey S., Cooper J., Soriano S. (2011), Loss of APP in Niemann-Pick type C mouse model exacerbates neuropathological phenotype, Neurobiology of Disease, 42(3): 349-59. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.01.028.
7. Nunes A, Ohadi M., Rahimi A., Aghajani A., Najmabadi H., Currais A., Soriano S. (2008) A mutation in the calreticulin gene promoter in a family case of schizoaffective disorder leads to its aberrant transcriptional activation, Brain Research, 1239: 36-41. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.064.
8. Malik B, Currais A, Andres A, Towlson C, Pitsi D, Nunes A, Niblock M, Cooper J, Hortobágyi T, Soriano S. (2008) Loss of neuronal cell cycle control as a mechanism of neurodegeneration in the presenilin-1 Alzheimer's disease brain, Cell Cycle, 7(5): 637-46. doi: 10.4161/cc.7.5.5427.

Participação em Sociedades Científicas e outras Instituições

• Associação Viver a Ciência (Membro e Presidente do Conselho Fiscal)
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurociências (Membro)