Silvina Samy, Msc. Email & Phone Number

Braga Area, Portugal

✔ Contributing to the early clinical validation of a biomicrofluidic system for rare cell isolation and characterization from whole blood of metastatic cancer patients to enable point-of-care liquid biopsy

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Braga Area, Portugal

✔ Great rapport with customers promoting the accurate recognition of what they require;✔ Advised customers on the location, availability, selection, price, delivery, use and care of merchandise;✔ Facilitated the package and delivery of merchandise for customers;✔ Expedited the availability of special orders for items out of stock, and notified customers upon goods arrival;✔ Assisted with stocktaking, product selection, ordering items and receiving deliveries;✔ Organized the merchandise presentation and prices, and operated on keeping the shop neat and attractive;✔ Recognized security risks and thefts, knowing how to prevent or handle these situations.

Braga, Portugal

✔ Succeeded on designing, testing and optimizing microfluidic platforms for nucleic acid separation and purification proving the proposed concept;✔ Presented a dimensional analysis to be used to build a mathematical model to lessen the number of experiments necessary for microfluidic design optimization.

Braga Area, Portugal

✔ Informed and enlightened Vodafone PT customers and potential customers; ✔ Guided and assisted customers, and potential customers, selecting Vodafone services; ✔ Provided costumer care unveiling and understanding the wants and needs of costumers.

Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

✔ Collaborated in the analysis of p27Kip1 protein role in the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control dopaminergic neurogenesis using mouse ESCs/iPSCs and p27Kip1 knockout mouse ESCs/iPSCs; ✔ Explored dopaminergic neuronal phenotype differentiation of ESCs/iPSCs cell lines using co-culture techniques (e.g. feeder layer cell culture); later analyzed by fluorescent imaging and molecular biology methods. ✔ Technical skills: ◉ Cell culture ➜ Culture and differentiation of different cell lines; viability and proliferation studies. ◉ Biochemistry ➜ SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, Bradford protein assay, Immunocytochemistry, Fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy of UV-Vis.

Braga Area, Portugal

✔ Productively collaborated on the development, characterization and evaluation of combined adult stem cells/3D scaffolds approaches and intracellular drug delivery systems for spinal cord injury regeneration (in vitro and in vivo), with an outcome of 4 co-authored papers contributing for the group distinction via financial funding of new projects.✔ Guided MD students undergoing rotation work who presented remarkable evaluations and co-authored 1 paper.✔ Technical skills: ◉ Cell culture ➜ Isolation and culture of distinct central nervous system derived primary cells cultures and different types of adult stem cells (ASCs); as well as culture of different cell lines. Co–cultures and cell viability and proliferation studies (MTS assay, Elisa BrdU assay, dsDNA quantification). ◉ Laboratory Animal Science ➜ Biomaterial implantation assistance, animals post-operative care, limb function recovery evaluation (BBB test). ◉ Biochemistry ➜ Immunocytochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, confocal microscopy, and spectroscopy of UV-Vis. ◉ Tissue Engineering ➜ Processing and biocompatibility evaluation of biodegradable polymeric materials.

Avepark, Zona Industrial Da Gandra, 4806-909 Caldas Das Taipas - Guimarães, Port

✔ Produced porous biomaterials and 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering applications.✔ Technical skills: ◉ Tissue Engineering ➜ Processing of biodegradable polymeric materials through freeze-drying technique; scanning electron microscopy (SEM), micro-computed tomography (µ-CT) and biocompatibility evaluation.

Specialization In Health Sciences, Health Sciences, 16 Out Of 20

Theoretical and practical knowledge in the disciplines of neurosciences, immunology, bioinformatics, laboratory animal sciences, research.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry, 15 Out Of 20

Theoretical knowledge and laboratory practice in various disciplines of biochemical sciences and life sciences in the areas of chemistry.

Bachelor'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, 15 Out Of 20

Activities and Societies: ✔ Volunteer contributor in the project "Recreational culture as a tool for preventing risk behaviors in children.