Paulo Jorge Bettencourt Girão
About
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.
Publications
2022
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Donate Lagartos, Maria Jose;
Doan, Thanh Pierre;
Bettencourt, Girao Paulo Jorge;
Witter, Menno.
(2022)
Postnatal Development of Projections of the Postrhinal Cortex to the Entorhinal Cortex in the Rat.
eNeuro.
volum 9 (3).
Academic article
Journal publications
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Donate Lagartos, Maria Jose;
Doan, Thanh Pierre;
Bettencourt, Girao Paulo Jorge;
Witter, Menno.
(2022)
Postnatal Development of Projections of the Postrhinal Cortex to the Entorhinal Cortex in the Rat.
eNeuro.
volum 9 (3).
Academic article
Media
2013
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Academic lectureJohannessen, Helene; Revesz, David; Kodama, Yosuke; Cassie, Nikki; Skibicka, Karolina P.; Lyle, Robert; Bettencourt, Girao Paulo Jorge; Popovic, Miroljub; Witter, Menno; Barrett, Perry; Dickson, Suzanne L.; Holst, Jens J.; Rehfeld, Jens F.; Takeuchi, Koji; Kulseng, Bård; Thorlin, Thorleif; Ben-Menachem, Elinor; Zhao, Chun-Mei; Chen, Duan. (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.