Miguel Godinho Ferreira
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Miguel Godinho Ferreira
@miguelgf.bsky.social
Research scientist interested in #cancer and #aging. Studies the ends of #chromosomes - #telomeres 🧬 - and what happens when they get fu€&ed up💥... and all this using #zebrafish! 🐟🐟🐟

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8363-7183
Happy and proud with our lab’s presentations at Second @frenchzebrafish.bsky.social meeting in Toulouse!
Go Fish 🇫🇷🐟!
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
📢 Hiring 2 Postdocs (CNRS Research Engineer) @ IRCAN (Université Côte d’Azur), Nice 🇫🇷. Spread the word, please.

Focus: intestine aging & immunity in fish 🐟
Start Nov–Dec 2025 • ~€3,175/mo

Apply:
ImmunoGUT (zebrafish) → tinyurl.com/3jx9a4ks
GUTPOWER (reef fish) → tinyurl.com/mt2ekpks
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Join us in Lisbon for the GIMM Festival: #Aging and #Longevity, happening September 4–6! Explore the future of aging with 20+ invited international experts.
Secure your spot on: gimm.pt/gimm-festival/
@nataging.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It was a pleasure to invite our neighbour Corine BERTOLOTTO to IRCAN. It was a great review of the lab's work and a very nice return to Hopital Pasteur, Nice.

"Uveal melanomas: identification of new prognosis biomarkers and therapeutic targets"
June 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
TODAY - You are still on time for early bird registration for the GIMM Festival on #Aging and #Longevity!
Lisbon from 4–6 September 2025.
June 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Join the GIMM Festival on #Aging and #Longevity! 🌟
Over three days, we’ll explore key questions:
1️⃣ Can we move toward a unifying theory of aging?
2️⃣ What are the top targets for longevity therapies?
3️⃣ How will aging research reshape society?
Lisbon, 4–6 Sept 2025! 🇵🇹
👉 gimm.pt/gimm-festival/
May 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Lifetime quotes.
March 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are looking for a #Postdoc to join our team to work on a funded project by La Ligue investigating the role of #gut permeability as a cause of #cancer with #age. 🐟🐟🐟
#zebrafish #telomerase #microbiome DEADLINE: 29/Jan/2025
Please help us spread the word! 🙏
January 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My latest review👇
#zebrafish🐟 surpass #mice as models of telomere-driven aging! With human-like #telomere dynamics🧬, they reveal how organ-specific short telomeres activate #cGAS-STING #inflammation 🔥, systemic organ dysfunction and #aging.
🐟 Go Fish! 🐟

cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...
December 20, 2024 at 12:58 PM
It was a great pleasure to be invited to talk at the #SPIM - Skin Physiology International Meeting in #Vichy about our model of #telomerase 🧬 mutant premature #aging in #zebrafish🐟. It was great to highlight the potential of this vertebrate model to pharmaceutical💊and clinical scientists🩺.
Go Fish!
November 23, 2024 at 12:07 AM
A very scenic morning at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Great science at the Nucleic Acid Immunity at #NAIS2024 meeting. Some very tantalizing work from James “Lasker” Chen on #aging and #senescence of cGAS deficient mice.
October 16, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Spent a great day at the @institutpasteur. It was very gratifying to give a seminar on the role of the #gut in #zebrafish #aging at the place where this idea was born more than 100years ago! Thank you @HanLi_Pasteur for the invitation! #Metchnikoff
October 11, 2024 at 5:14 PM
50 years have passed from the carnation revolution that brought liberty, the end to an unjust war and democracy. This song is from one of the major poets in the Portuguese language. #25deAbrilSempre

Translation and context follow the link below:https://lyricalbrazil.com/2012/04/25/tanto-mar/
April 25, 2024 at 7:54 AM
cGAS-STING and IFNs are responsible for aging of #telomerase deficient #zebrafish🐟. Despite short #telomeres, absence of #cGAS-STING prolongs #lifespan and  healthspan without increased risk of #cancer. Happy to share our new #preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Register for the EMBO telomere workshop. This recurrent meeting discusses telomeres and telomerase from molecules to disease and evolution. Travel and child care grants are available! Looking forward to seeing you in Rome!
#EMBOtelomere 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/24-tel...
January 25, 2024 at 10:58 AM
We are looking for a #Postdoc to join our team to work on a funded project investigating the role of #gut permeability as a cause of #cancer with #age.
#zebrafish #telomerase #microbiome
Please help us spread the word! 🙏
January 19, 2024 at 3:34 PM