Senior members

  António Ascensão

  José Magalhães

António Natal, José Soares, Eduardo Oliveira (Apllied Physiology to Intermittent Exercise)

Paulo Oliveira, Paula Moreira, Rita Ferreira, Vilma Oliveira, Piero Portincasa (Bioernergetics and metabolism)

PhD students and researchers

2014-2017    Estela Santos-Alves, Effects of exercise and voluntary physical activity on mitochondria using an hepatotoxicity model induced by Doxorubicin in rats (supervised with  José Magalhães and Joan Ramon Torrella), Doutoral program Department of Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona.

2014-2018    Telma Bernardo; Effects of life-long physical exercise on brain function in Alzheimer disease and aging conditions - Relevance of mitochondrial-mediated mechanisms (supervised with José Magalhães and Paulo Oliveira), FCT grant (SFRH/BD/93281/2013), PhD course of in Exercise and Health of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2011/2015    Sílvia Rodrigues; Effects of endurance training on visceral adipose tissue: cross-talk between mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum functions (supervised with José Magalhães), FCT grant (SFRH/BD/89807/2012), PhD course of in Exercise and Health of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2010/2014    Pedro Coxito; Effect of aging and physical exercise on kidney mitochondrial bioenergetics submitted to deleterious insults (supervised with José Magalhães), FCT grant (SFRH/BD36626/2007), PhD course of Centre of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra in collaboration with Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2010/2014    Emanuel Passos; Exercise and obesity - the role of physical activity and endurance training against endoplasmic reticulum stress in obesity-induced liver disease (supervised with Maria João Martins and José Magalhães), FCT grant (SFRH/BD/71149/2010), PhD course of Metabolism and Nutrition, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine in collaboration with Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2009/2013    Inês Sofia Marques Aleixo; Cross-tolerance effect of exercise against anti-cancer therapy-induced cardiac and brain mitochondrial dysfunction (supervised with José Magalhães), FCT grant (SFRH/BD/61889/2009), PhD course of in Exercise and Health of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2009/2013    Inês Oliveira Gonçalves; Effect of physical exercise against non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH)-induced mitochondrial dysfunction (supervised with José Magalhães), FCT grant (SFRH/BD/62352/2009), PhD course of in Exercise and Health of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2006/2010 José António Lumini Oliveira; Effects of hyperglycemia and exercise on rat skeletal muscle and heart mitochondrial function and apoptotic signalling - With special reference to the permeability transition (supervised with José Magalhães) FCT grant (SFRH/BD/30906/2006) PhD course of in Exercise and Health of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure, Faculty of Sport, University of Porto.

2011-2013 Estela Alves - MSc Student and Technician

2011-2013 Diogo Mariani - MSc Student

2011-2013 Maria Manuela Balça - MSc Student

Collaborations

National

Paulo Oliveira (Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra)

Paula Moreira (Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra)

Rita Ferreira (Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro)

Rui Vitorino (Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro)

Maria João Martins (Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto)

João Tiago Guimarães (Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto)

Franklin Marques (Department of Clinical Analysis, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology)

Susana Povoas (ISMAI, Maia)

International

Joan Ramon Torrella (University of Barcelona)

Gines Viscor (University of Barcelona)

Teresa Pages (University of Barcelona)

Piero Portincasa (University of Bari)

Reid Hayward (University of Northern Colorado)

Helena Andersson (Swedish Football Association)

Ginés Viscor

David Rizo-Roca

Rita Ferreira

Piero Portincasa

Vilma Oliveira

Susana Póvoas

Paulo Oliveira

Paula Moreira

Telma Bernardo

Silvia Rodrigues

Inês M. Aleixo

Ines O. Gonçalves

José Lumini-Oliveira

Estela S. Alves

Jorge Beleza

Joan Ramon Torrella

Group photos