Paulo Jorge Bettencourt Girão
Background and activities
Background:
- Bachelor in Biochemistry (FCTUC, Coimbra, Portugal, 1997-2001)
- Undergraduate research project (Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, København, Denmark, 2000-2001): “Putative preconditioning effect of kainate on neocortical neuron cultures.”
Technical Interests:
- Optical microscopy
- Confocal microscopy
- Digital Image Processing
- Electrophysiology in vitro
- Programming and data analysis (MatLab, Python)
- Laser HSE
Other skills/interests:
- Hiking, running and cross-country skiing
- Traveling
- History, Philosophy, Science, World Literature
- Writing
- Language learning
Language skills:
- Portuguese (C2)
- English (C2)
- Norwegian (bokmål) (C2)
- German (B2)
- Can read and understand conversational Spanish, Danish and Swedish.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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2013
- (2013) Role of the vagus nerve in the gut-brain axis revealed by stimulation and blockade of the gastric vagus nerve. The 1st National PhD Conference in Neuroscience . NRSN; Stiklestad. 2013-09-10 - 2013-09-11.