Teacher
Joana Catita

Resume

Joana Araújo Nobre Catita. Completed the Integrated Master in Veterinary Medicine in 2012 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, DVM in 2007 by Universidade de Extremadura - Facultad de Veterinaria de Cáceres and PhD in Veterinary Medicine (Animal Morphology) in 2017 by Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Is an Assistant Professor of Animal Anatomy in Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa and in Instituto Politécnico da Lusofonia. Published 21 articles in journals. Participated in 5 scientific event(s) and has received 1 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated in 8 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Human and Animal Health Sciences with emphasis on Anatomy, Morphology and Function. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: retinopatia; gliose; GFAP; padrões de expressão proteica; retinopathy; gliosis; protein expression patterns.

Graus

• Doctorat
  Veterinária
• Mestrado integrado
  Medicina Veterinária
• Licenciatura
  Veterinária
• Pós-Graduação
  Pós-graduação em Cirurgia de Animais de Companhia
• Pós-Graduação
  Pedagogia no Ensino Superior

Publicações

Journal article

• 2026-04-15, Morphological study of the supratrochlear foramen in Canis lupus ssp., Journal of Anatomy
• 2025, Abstract- Histological assessment of retinal thickness in a murine model of retinal iron overload, Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia.
• 2025, Abstract - How Self-Study Strategies Influence Veterinary Anatomy Learning. , Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia. V54
• 2025, Abstract - Exploring the Use of an Interactive Canine Musculoskeletal Model. , Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia
• 2025, Abstract - Dichotomous key for the anatomical identification of fish in the context of veterinary food safety official controls in Portugal, Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia
• 2024, Abstract- The supratrochlear foramen in dogs and iberian wolves humeri: to have or not to have, Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
• 2023-12, Abstracts - Student perception of interdisciplinary integration in the integrated masters of veterinary medicine. , Journal of Small Animal Practice
• 2023-10-18, Principais doenças das abelhas Apis em Portugal:, ACTA Apicola Brasilica
• 2022-01, Abstracts - Transferrin and TfR1 expression in the retina of a deficient TIM2 mouse. , Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia
• 2022-01, Abstracts - Sirt1 as a novel promoter of blood vessel stability in the retina, Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia
• 2022, Transdisciplinary development of a bovine surgery simulator
• 2022, Towards collaborative research between veterinarians, zooarchaeologists and geneticists: the case of the CRIAS project
• 2022, Promover a aprendizagem cooperativa no ensino da Anatomia Animal com o método JIGSAW, CNaPPES 2021
• 2022, Livro de Resumos - Caracterização imagiológica do esqueleto apendicular do porco em idade pediátrica , RPCV
• 2022, Como comunicam as células? : em busca de Notch e dos seus parceiros
• 2022, Caracterização imagiológica do esqueleto apendicular do porco em idade pediátrica, Revista Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias (RPCV)
• 2022, Apicultura : revisão de literatura
• 2021-01, TIM2 modulates retinal iron levels and is involved in blood-retinal barrier breakdown, Experimental Eye Research
• 2021, National survey of cat tumors in 2019: a retrospective study
• 2020, Particularidades da audição e da visão no toiro de lide , Revista Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias 2020 - RPCV
• 2019-02-01, Vascular Interstitial Cells in Retinal Arteriolar Annuli Are Altered During Hypertension, Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
• 2017-06-01, Cellular Senescence Is Associated With Human Retinal Microaneurysm Formation During Aging, Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
• 2017-02-14, Blood Vessel Basement Membrane Alterations in Human Retinal Microaneurysms During Aging, Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
• 2015-09, Angiography reveals novel features of the retinal vasculature in healthy and diabetic mice, Experimental Eye Research
• 2015-06, Imaging of cellular aging in human retinal blood vessels, Experimental Eye Research
• 2014-09-26, L-Ferritin Binding to Scara5: A New Iron Traffic Pathway Potentially Implicated in Retinopathy, PLoS ONE
• 2012, Particularidades da audição e do olfato no toiro , Novo Burladero

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2017-06, PhD, The role of sirt1 in the formation of retinal miroaneurysms during aging
• 2012, Master, Identificação de padrões de resposta das células de Müller na retinopatia degenerativa em murganho
• 2012, Master, Identificação de padrões de resposta das células de Müller na retinopatia degenerativa em murganho

Book

• 2016, Morphological Mouse Phenotyping: Anatomy, Histology and Imaging , 1, Ruberte, Jesús; Navarro, Marc; Carretero, Ana; Ramos, David; Mendes-Jorge, Luísa, Editorial Médica Panamericana S.A.

Conference paper

• 2025-07-07, Creole dogs from cape verde - a molecular study regarding their vector-borne pathogens
• 2024-07-05, Breaking barriers in veterinary education: SimuBov project

Conference abstract

• 2022-09, Identifying young-aged animal remains: the case of Rua da Sé, a Medieval Islamic context in Silves, Portugal, 1st ICAZ Medieval Period Working Group Meeting
• 2018, TIM2: a new player in iron homeostasis in the retina, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever 2018
• 2018, SIRT1 overexpression induces VEGF expression and pericyte recruitment in the retina, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever 2018
• 2018, Epiretinal membranes in a db/db model of diabetic retinopathy, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever 2018,
• 2013, Serum ferritin transport across blood-retinal barrier into the retina, European Join Congress of Clinical Anatomy
• 2013, Scara5 involvement in retinal iron metabolism , European Association for Vision and Eye Research Conference
• 2013, Müller cell response during degenerative retinopathy in mice , European Association for Vision and Eye Research Conference (EVER)
• 2013, GFAP expression patterns during degenerative retinopathy, European Join Congress of Clinical Anatomy
• 2012, Blood-retinal barrier serum ferritin transport in mouse retina , European Association for Vision and Eye Research Conference (EVER)

Conference poster

• 2025-07-22, Perceptions of veterinary students regarding cadaver dissection in anatomy teaching.
• 2025-07-22, How Self-Study Strategies Influence Veterinary Anatomy Learning
• 2025-07-22, Exploring the Use of an Interactive Canine Musculoskeletal Model.
• 2025-07-22, Dichotomous key for the anatomical identification of fish in the context of veterinary food safety official controls in Portugal
• 2025-07-22, In anatomy learning do not jump on the bandwagon just because you will have less opposition- recruit the educational methodology showing the best results, even a not brand new.
• 2025-07-22, Histological assessment of retinal thickness in a murine model of retinal iron overload
• 2025-05-15, Vector-borne pathogens in stray dogs from são vicente (cape verde) – an ongoing molecular study
• 2025-03-19, Preliminary Results of Electroencephalography (EEG) in Small Animals with Suspected Epilepsy: A Retrospective Study at a Neurology Referral Centre.
• 2024-09-20, Quebrar barreiras no ensino veterinário: projeto simubov
• 2024-07-05, Fauna 3D modelling contribution for zooarchaeological research: a pilot study on pig paediatric specimens.
• 2024-07-05, Exploring genomics and immunity of the Cape Verde stray dogs
• 2024-05-24, CREOLEs – Genomics and Immunity of Cape Verde Stray Dogs, III Meeting AL4ANIMALS 2024
• 2023-09-27, STUDENT PERCEPTION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION IN THE INTEGRATED MASTERS OF VETERINARY MEDICINE , World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress 2023
• 2023-07-28, Práticas de hospitalidade: percepções dos alunos sobre a sua experiência no primeiro ano do Ensino Superior.
• 2023-07-25, Rumen chroma phenotype in different biohydrogenation pathways of lambs.
• 2023, The curious case of the supratrochlear foramen in dogs and Iberian wolves humeri. , EAVA Congress 2023
• 2022-11-11, Retinal iron overload is associated with BRB breakdown and leakage, The CIISA Congress 2022 under the theme ¿Innovation in Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Research
• 2022-11, Canine humerus supratrochlear forâmen morphological study, CIISA congresso 2022 Innovation in animal, and veterinary biomedical research
• 2022-09, Indentifying younf-aged animals remains: the case of Rua da Sé, Medieval Islamic context in Silves, Portugal, 1st ICAZ Medieval Period Working Group Meeting
• 2021-10, Estudo retrospectivo da frequência de tumores de pele em Portugal, XVII Congresso Internacional Veterinário Montenegro
• 2021-07-28, Transferrin and TfR1 expression in the retina of a deficient TIM2 mouse. , XXXIIIrd Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Anatomists – EAVA Congress
• 2021-07-28, Sirt1 as a novel promotor of blood vessel stability in the retina., XXXIIIrd Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Anatomists – EAVA Congress
• 2021-06-25, 2019 Cancer registry of feline tumours in Portugal, ISFM European Congress, Annual Congress
• 2021-06-07, The use of anatomy videos as a learning tool in online osteology classes, II International Congress of Education in Animal Sciences (ICEAS)
• 2019, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy of extracellular vesicles as a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's disease, 5th GEIVEX Symposium
• 2018-11, TIM2: a new membrane receptor for H-ferritin in the mouse retina, CIISA Congress 2018
• 2018-10-04, TIM2: a new player in iron homeostasis in the retina, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever
• 2018-10-04, SIRT1 overexpression induces VEGF expression and pericyte recruitment in the retina, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever
• 2018-10-04, Epiretinal membranes in a db/db model of diabetic retinopathy, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Congress - Ever
• 2018-03-01, TIM2 involvement in retinal iron homeostasis, 14th International Symposium on Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, ISOPT Clinical
• 2018-03-01, SIRT1 overexpression induces pericyte recruitment in the retina , 14th International Symposium on Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, ISOPT Clinical
• 2013, Serum ferritin transport across blood-retinal barrier into the retina, European Join Congress of Clinical Anatomy
• 2013, Müller cell response during degenerative retinopathy in mice, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Conference -EVER
• 2013, GFAP expression patterns during degenerative retinopathy, European Join Congress of Clinical Anatomy
• 2012, Blood-retinal barrier serum ferritin transport in mouse retina, European Association for Vision and Eye Research Conference (EVER)