Dr Carla Paiva developed most of the experimental work of her doctoral thesis in our laboratory as a PhD Student in the Doctoral Program in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal (http://beb.cnbc.pt/), with a Fellowship supported by the Fundação para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal (http://www.fct.pt/index.phtml.en).
Project: Unraveling the metabolism of human sperm.
Academic Achievements: PhD by the University of Coimbra in 2015. Master degree in Cell and Molecular Biology (September 2008 – September 2010) by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Live Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal). Degree in Biology (September 2005 - July 2008) by the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Live Sciences, University of Coimbra (Portugal).
Publications
2: Paiva C, Amaral A, Rodriguez M, Canyellas N, Correig X, Ballescà JL, Ramalho-Santos J, Oliva R.
Identification of endogenous metabolites in human sperm cells using proton nuclear magnetic resonance ((1) H-NMR) spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).
Andrology. 2015;3:496-505.
1: Amaral A, Paiva C, Attardo Parrinello C, Estanyol JM, Ballescà JL, Ramalho-Santos J, Oliva R.
Identification of proteins involved in human sperm motility using high-throughput differential proteomics.
J Proteome Res. 2014;13:5670-84.