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RODRIGO PIMENTA DE OLIVEIRA MONTEIRO. Completed the Mestrado in Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering in 2016/11/10 by Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia. Published 2 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books. Organized 1 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Medical Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Medical Biotechnology and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Medical Biotechnology with emphasis on Health-Related Biotechnology. In their professional activities interacted with 8 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: phage therapy; temperate phages; synthetic biology; antibiotic resistance; CRISPR-Cas; Acinetobacter baumannii; Prophage; Transduction; Biofilm; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
RODRIGO PIMENTA DE OLIVEIRA MONTEIRO

Citation names

  • Monteiro, Rodrigo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0A1E-2C41-ACB8
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2312-3989

Email addresses

  • rodrigo.m@ceb.uminho.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • University of Minho, Department of Biological Engineering Campus Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)
  • Department of Medical Microbiology - Molecular Bacteriology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), 9700 RB, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Health-Related Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10/15 - 2024/09/30
Ongoing
 Chemical and Biological Engineering Doctoral Program (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Netherlands
2016/11/10
Concluded
 Integrated Masters in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado)
Major in Clinical Engineering
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"The role of prophages on virulence transduction in Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/01/04 - 2019/06/04 Research fellow of Synphage project - Construction of synthetic phages to combat infectious bacterial diseases Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Understanding the role of prophages on Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenicity
SFRH/BD/143639/2019
10.54499/SFRH/BD/143639/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Netherlands
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/01/04 - 2019/06/17 Synphage - Construction of synthetic phages to combat infectious bacterial diseases
PTDC/BBB-BSS/6471/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Melo, Luís; Pires, Diana P.; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Azeredo, Joana. "Phage therapy of infectious biofilms: Challenges and strategies". In Phage Therapy: A Practical Approach, edited by Górski, Andrzej. Springer, 2019.
    Accepted • 10.1007/978-3-030-26736-0_11
Conference paper
  1. Diana Priscila Penso Pires; Meneses, Luciana; Monteiro, Rodrigo. Corresponding author: Diana Priscila Penso Pires. "Engineering P. aeruginosa phages with reduced genomes and improved functionalities towards bacterial detection and control". Paper presented in 10th Congress of European Microbiologists - FEMS 2023, Hamburg, 2023.
    Published
  2. Pires, Diana P.; Costa, Ana Rita; Duarte, A.; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Azeredo, Joana. "Bacteriophage interaction with P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii biofilms and colonizing human airway epithelium". Paper presented in Viruses of Microbes 2018 (EMBO Workshop), 2018.
    Published
  3. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii prophages reveals remarkable diversity and suggests profound impact on bacterial virulence and fitness". Paper presented in Viruses of Microbes 2018 (EMBO Workshop), 2018.
    Published
  4. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii prophages reveals remarkable diversity and suggests profound impact on bacterial virulence and fitness". Paper presented in CEB Annual Meeting 2017, 2017.
    Published
  5. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Biofilm phenotype potentiates virulence transduction in Acinetobacter baumannii". Paper presented in Microbiotec'17 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2017, 2017.
    Published
  6. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii prophages reveals remarkable diversity and suggests significant impact on bacterial virulence and fitness". Paper presented in BOD 2017 - Bioinformatics Open Days, 2017.
    Published
  7. Costa, Ana Rita; Konstantinides, Nico; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Melo, Luís; Azeredo, Joana. "Controlling Acinetobacter baumannii infections in abiotic and biotic surfaces with bacteriophages". Paper presented in Phage Therapy 2016 – Recent Advances & Clinical Strategies, 2016.
    Published
  8. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "The role of prophages on virulence transduction in Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms". Paper presented in Biofilms 7 - Microbial Works of Art, 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Monteiro, Rodrigo; VIEIRA, MARIA; Jelena Erdmann; Susanne Häussler; Azeredo, Joana. "Pseudomonas aeruginosa prophages: a new and simplified bioinformatic analysis". Paper presented in 25th Biennial Evergreen International Phage Meeting, 2023.
  2. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Santamarina, Beatriz; Hendrickx, Antoni P.A.; Bathoorn, Erik; Azeredo, Joana; Van Dijl, Jan Maarten. "Carbapenemases (NDM-1) in outer membrane vesicles from clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, a way to bacterial persistence". Paper presented in FEMS 2023, 2023.
  3. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Melo, Luís; DOMINGUES, RITA; Oliveira, H.; Van Dijl, Jan Maarten; Azeredo, Joana. Corresponding author: Azeredo, Joana. "The Acinetobacter baumannii SOS gene ddrR is crucial for prophage maintenance and induction". Paper presented in Viruses of Microbes 2022, 2022.
  4. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Melo, Luís; Van Dijl, Jan Maarten; Azeredo, Joana. "Different stress conditions lead to different prophage responses changing the phenotype of Acinetobacter baumannii". Paper presented in 32nd ECCMID, European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2022.
  5. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Pires, Diana P.; Azeredo, Joana; Melo, Luís. Corresponding author: Melo, Luís. "Flow Cytometry as a Tool for a Quick and Efficient Phage Screening". Paper presented in World Microbe Forum, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Melo, Luís; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Pires, Diana P.; Azeredo, Joana. "Phage-Host Interaction Analysis by Flow Cytometry Allows for Rapid and Efficient Screening of Phages". Antibiotics (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11020164.
    10.3390/antibiotics11020164
  2. Nogueira, Catarina L.; Pires, Diana P.; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Santos, Sílvio; Carvalho, Carla M.. "Exploitation of a Klebsiella Bacteriophage Receptor-Binding Protein as a Superior Biorecognition Molecule". ACS Infectious Diseases 7 11 (2021): 3077-3087. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00366.
    10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00366
  3. Pires, Diana P.; Monteiro, Rodrigo; Dalila Mil-Homens; Arsénio Fialho; Timothy K. Lu; Azeredo, Joana. "Designing P. aeruginosa synthetic phages with reduced genomes". Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41598-021-81580-2.
    10.1038/s41598-021-81580-2
  4. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Pires, Diana P.; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Phage Therapy: Going Temperate?". Trends in Microbiology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2018.10.008.
    Published • 10.1016/j.tim.2018.10.008
  5. Monteiro, Rodrigo; Costa, Ana Rita; Azeredo, Joana. "Genomic analysis of Acinetobacter baumannii prophages reveals remarkable diversity and suggests profound impact on bacterial virulence and fitness". Scientific Reports 8 1 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33800-5.
    Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41598-018-33800-5
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. MONTEIRO, RODRIGO. "The role of prophages in virulence transduction in Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms". Master, Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, 2016.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23 The Bacteriophage Biotechnology Group of the Centre for Biological Engineering at the University of Minho is organising a 5-days course on phage techniques entitled: "5th International hands-on PHAGE BIOTECHNOLOGY course" from 19-23 June, 2023. The course will consist both of theoretical and practical sessions and will cover basic topics such as phage isolation, production and characterization to more advanced tecnhiques focusing on genome annotation, phage display, flow cytometry and RT-PCR to study phage host interaction and phage genetic manipula (2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22 VoM2022 - Viruses of Microbes 2022 The meeting intends to spotlight the most recent advances in ecology and evolution of microbial viruses, virus structures and function, virus-host interaction, agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications and phage therapy. We believe that this will be of great interest to a wide-ranging audience, interested in both the fundamental and applied aspects of virus exploitation. (2022/07/18 - 2022/07/22)
Congress (Other)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal
2019/06/17 - 2019/06/21 The BBiG of the Centre for Biological Engineering at the University of Minho is organizing a 5-days course on phage techniques entitled: "4th International hands-on PHAGE BIOTECHNOLOGY course" from 17-21 June, 2019. The course will consist both of theoretical and practical sessions and will cover basic topics such as phage isolation, production and characterization to more advanced techniques focusing on genome annotation, phage display, flow cytometry and RT-PCR to study phage host interaction and phage genetic manipulation. (2019/06/17 - 2019/06/21)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal

Bacteriophage Biotechnology Group, Portugal
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/23 The Bacteriophage Biotechnology Group of the Centre for Biological Engineering at the University of Minho is organising a 5-day course on phage techniques entitled: "3rd International hands-on PHAGE BIOTECHNOLOGY course" from 19th to 23rd of June, 2017. The course will consist both of theoretical and practical lessons and will cover topics from isolation and production of phages to genomics, annotation, phage display and characterization of phage endolysins. (2017/06/19 - 2017/06/23)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade do Minho Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal

Bacteriophage Biotechnology Group, Portugal