>SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal data:

Name:
 David Marçal
Place and date of birth
 Lisbon (Portugal), Nov 10th, 1976
Address:
 Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Avenida da República
2784-505, Oeiras, Portugal
Telephone / Fax:
 351- 21446 9669 / 351-2143 3644
e-mail:
dmarcal@itqb.unl.pt

2. Academic qualifcations:

Graduate in Applied Chemistry at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000.

3. Positions (In reverse chronological order):

  • Protein Crystallography Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal, Post-graduate researcher, since 2002. PhD student since 2003.

  • R&D Department, Hovione FarmaCiencia SA, Portugal: Junior Scientist, January 2001 to July 2002. Hovione FarmaCiencia is a pharmaceutical company.

  • BM29 EXAFS beamline, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France: trainee, July 1999 to October 1999

  • Protein Crystallography Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal, under-graduate researcher, September 1997 to July 2000.

4. Workshops and courses attended:

  • Análise Estrutural de Proteínas. Um curso prático, January 1998, I.S.T. Lisbon, Portugal

  • Structure and Function of Metalloproteins, 7 to 19 September, 1998, ISTAS Oeiras, Portugal

  • Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology and Chemistry of Materials, 6 to 10 October, 1998, ESRF, Grenoble, França

  • The 29th Course of The International School of Crystallography: Data Mining in Crystallography, 12 to 23 May, 1999, Erice, Italy

  • ChiraSource Conference and Exhibition, 8 to 10 April, 2002, Lisbon

  • Fundamentals of modern methods in biocrystallography, 10 to 19 October, 2002, Oeiras, Portugal

  • SPINE (Structural Proteomics in Europe) meeting, 26 and 27 February, 2004, Oxford, England

  • 8th International School for the Crystallography of Biological Molecules, 21 to 26 de May, 2006 em Como, Italy

5. Research topics:

Structural characterization of host-pathogen interaction mechanisms.

Cloning, expression and purification of proteins

Protein function and structure.

Protein crystallography and structure determination

6. Science and society:

Science journalist at the newspaper Publico , 2006.

Writing science themes for children (7-13) at kulto magazine, 2004 to 2005.

7. Publications

D. Marçal, A.T. Rego, M.J. Fogg, K.S. Wilson, M.A. Carrondo and F.J.Enquita “Crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of 1-3-propanediol dehydrogenase from the human pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae”, Acta Cryst. (2007) F63, 249-251

F. J. Enguita, D. Marçal, L. O. Martins, R. Grenha, A. O. Henriques, P. F. Lindley and M. A. Carrondo "Substrate and dioxygen binding to the endospore coat laccase from Bacillus subtilis", J Biol Chem. (2004) 279: 23472-23476.

I. A. Abreu, A. I. Lourenço, A. V. Xavier, J. LeGall, A. V. Coelho, P. M. Matias, D. M. Pinto, M. A. Carrondo, M. Teixeira and L. M. Saraiva “A novel iron centre in the split-Soret cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774” J. Biol. Inorg. Chem, (2003) 8: 360-370.

8. Other activities and interests:

Creative writing, web-design, sports (rowing, rock climbing, mountain climbing), photograph and travel.