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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Branco Maranha Tiago

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
301C-9125-034E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9005-8377

Email addresses

  • amtiago@uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2010 - 2016/01/13
Concluded
 PhD in Biosciences (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"Molecular and biochemical studies of a mycobacterial maltokinase and a unique octanoyltransferase: Towards reconstruction of the pathway for methylglucose lipopolysaccharides biosynthesis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008 - 2010
Concluded
 MSc in Molecular Cell Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"A multifactorial approach to the biological role of the mycobacterial maltokinase" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2005 - 2008
Concluded
 Undergraduate Degree in Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 16/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2021/10/08 - 2022/04/07 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2018/10/18 - 2021/07/18 Contracted Researcher (Research) Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2017/04/01 - 2018/09/01 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/04/01 Researcher (Research) Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
2011/04 - 2015/04 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011/04/01 - 2014/04/01 PhD student (FCT SFRH/BD/74845/2010) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/04/01 - 2012/09/15 Visiting PhD student / Professor Anthony Clarke’s lab University of Guelph, Canada
2011/09/15 - 2011/12/21 Visiting PhD student / Professor Anthony Clarke’s lab University of Guelph, Canada
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/04 - Current AMRFight - Exploring bacterial interactions to find novel molecules to combat the antimicrobial resistance catastrophe
(2022.06809.PTDC
Principal investigator
2022 - Current NTMENACE: Nontuberculous mycobacteria from drinking water: beyond the lung disease epidemic
PTDC/BIA-MIC/0122/2021
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2024 The microbiome-miRNAs axis in Parkinson's disease: implications of mitochondria mediated inflammatory response (as co-PI).
EXPL/MED-NEU/1515/2021
Supervisor
Concluded
2020/11/01 - 2022 Project Health in Knowledge - A Saúde no Saber – coordinated by the CNC Science Communication office
-
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Ciência Viva
Concluded
2018 - 2021 POLYREP: An intriguing mycobacterial polysaccharide: recycling, replication and beyond
PTDC/BTM-TEC/29221/2017
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2017 - 2019 Microcare: Microbiome of diabetic ulcers: early diagnosis, prognosis and therapy.
, FIS-FIS-2015-01_DIA_20150630-144
Post-doc
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP
Ongoing
2013/07 - 2015/09 Biosynthesis of rare methylmannose polysaccharides in nontuberculous mycobacteria
128742
Provided by PTCRIS: 128742
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2014 - 2015 Produção e comercialização de compostos microbianos essenciais para investigação. (Production and commercialization of microbial compounds essential for research).
Programa Estratégico InovC Mais Centro/CCDRC/QREN
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
Concluded
2011/01 - 2014/06 Pathway for the synthesis of the mycobacterial MGLP. Biochemical and structural characterization of the key enzymes
Provided by PTCRIS: 110523
110523
Other
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
2012 - 2014 Unravelling the early steps in the biosynthesis of the mycobacterial MGLP
120123
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Koeki Zaidan Hojin Mizutani Toshitsu Kagaku Shinko Zaidan
Concluded
2011/04/01 - 2014 The enigmatic mycobacterial maltokinase
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/112459/PT
Researcher
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - 2026 Validation of bacterial-derived anti-inflammatory mediators in gut-first PD
CP code: SC01 (249.823 £)
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
 Cure Parkinson's
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia - Laboratório Associado
LA/P/0058/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0058/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa ¿Laboratório de Instrumentação Engenharia Biomédica e Física da Radiação, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2018 - 2020 Award Thomé Villar/Boehringer Ingelheim, Portuguese Society of Pneumology, 1st Prize. Prevalência e variabilidade genética de micobactérias não-tuberculosas em ambiente doméstico (Prevalence and genetic variability of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in domestic environment).
Award Thomé Villar/Boehringer Ingelheim, Portuguese Society of Pneumology, 1st Prize 2018
Post-doc
Sociedade Portuguesa de Pneumologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Susana Alarico; Daniela Machado; Ana Maranha; Mafalda Costa; Inês Roxo; Igor Tiago; Raquel Duarte; Nuno Empadinhas. "Nontuberculous mycobacteria from domestic water of infected patients". Paper presented in Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias Não Tuberculosas em Portugal, 2020.
  2. Ana Maranha; Mafalda Costa; Margarida Correia Neves; Nuno Empadinhas. "Distribution of Polymethylated Polysaccharides from Mycobacteria". Paper presented in MycoPORTO, 2019.
  3. Ana Maranha; Susana Alarico; Ermelindo Leal; Eugénia Carvalho; Sónia G. Pereira; Nuno Empadinhas. "Microcare project: the microbial impact in diabetic skin and wound and its potential". Paper presented in 15th Portuguese Diabetes Congress, 2019.
  4. Ana Maranha; Susana Alarico; Olga Cardoso; Sónia G. Pereira; Nuno Empadinhas. "Diabetic foot ulcers: the challenges of multidrug resistance and the possibilities interspecies competition may offer.". Paper presented in ESCMID/ASM Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance, 2018.
  5. Mafalda Costa; Vanessa Miranda; André Sequeira; Ripoll-rozada J.; Ana Maranha; Pedro J. B. Pereira; Rita M. Ventura; Nuno Empadinhas. "A key mannosyltransferase for elongation of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides: chemical synthesis of mannosides and enzyme properties". Paper presented in 1º Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias não Tuberculosas em Portugal., 2018.
  6. Susana Alarico; Sónia G. Pereira; Ana Maranha; Igor Tiago; Diogo Reis; Daniela Nunes-Costa; Olga Cardoso; Nuno Empadinhas. "Rare mycobacteria isolated from a hospital environment and from the skin of diabetic patients: profiling antimicrobial resistance". Paper presented in 1º Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias não Tuberculosas em Portugal (1st simposium of investigation in Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous mycobacteria)., 2018.
  7. Ana Maranha; Mafalda Costa; Margarida Correia Neves; Nuno Empadinhas. "Large-scale purification of polymethylated polysaccharides from mycobacteria". Paper presented in 1º Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias não Tuberculosas em Portugal (1st symposium of investigation in Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous mycobacteria))., 2018.
    10.29007/xk7x
  8. Susana Alarico; Sónia G. Pereira; Ana Maranha; Igor Tiago; Diogo Reis; Daniela Nunes-Costa; Olga Cardoso; Nuno Empadinhas. "Antimicrobial resistance in rare mycobacteria from hospital environment and diabetic foot ulcers". Paper presented in V International Conference on Antimicrobial Research - ICAR2018, 2018.
  9. Fraga, Joana; Silva, Alexandra; Maranha, Ana; Mendes, Vitor; Alarico, Susana; Empadinhas, Nuno; Pereira, Pedro José Barbosa; Macedo-Ribeiro, Sandra. "Molecular details of sugar biosynthesis in mycobacteria". Paper presented in 23rd Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, 2014.
  10. Nuno Empadinhas; Ana Maranha; Mendes, Vitor; Mafalda Costa; Marta S. Sousa; Daniela Nunes-Costa; Susana Alarico. "Deciphering a novel metabolic pathway in mycobacteria toward advanced therapies and early diagnosis of tuberculosis and other emerging infections.". Paper presented in Hovione and MIT Portugal Symposium, Showcasing Portuguese Pharma Science: Advances in Discovery, Development and Manufacturing., 2014.
  11. Maranha, Ana; Alarico, Susana; Costa, Mafalda; Andreia Lamaroso; Daniela Costa; Lourenço, Eva C.; Ventura, M. Rita; Mendes, Vitor; Empadinhas, Nuno. "The early steps in mycobacterial MGLP biosynthesis: the players". Paper presented in Eurocarb 17 Symposyum, 2013.
  12. Ana Maranha; Moynihan, Patrick J.; Fraga, Joana; Lourenço, Eva; Mendes, Vitor; Susana Alarico; Clarke, Anthony J.; Nuno Empadinhas. "Identification and functional characterization of a novel essential Acyltransferase, a potential target for the design of new drugs against XDR-TB". Paper presented in .XI CNC Annual Meeting, 2013.
  13. Maranha, Ana; Andreia Lamaroso; Alarico, Susana; Mendes, Vitor; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Biochemical studies of maltokinases from mycobacteria and pseudomonads". Paper presented in ICAR II conference, 2012.
  14. Tiago, Igor; Maranha, Ana; Mendes, Vitor; Alarico, Susana; Moynihan, Patrick J.; Clarke, Anthony J.; Macedo-Ribeiro, Sandra; Pereira, Pedro José Barbosa; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Genome sequence of Mycobacterium hassiacum, an exceptional source of heat stable mycobacterial proteins toward structure-guided drug discovery". Paper presented in ICAR II conference, 2012.
  15. Alarico, Susana; Maranha, Ana; Costa, Mafalda; Lourenço, Eva; Ventura, M. Rita; Empadinhas, Nuno. "The mycobacterial glucosylglycerate hydrolase is restricted to rapidly growing species". Paper presented in ICAR II conference, 2012.
  16. Fraga, Joana; Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Almeida, Bruno; Fernandes, Sara; Empadinhas, Nuno; Macedo-Ribeiro, Sandra; Pereira, Pedro José Barbosa. "Sugar biosynthesis in mycobacteria: a structural roadmap". Paper presented in 37th FEBS Congress and 22nd IUBMB Congress, 2012.
  17. Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Lamosa, Pedro; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Biochemical characterization of the Maltokinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Paper presented in Feira da Ciência e Tecnologia, 2011.
  18. Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Costa, Mafalda; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Comparative studies on mycobacterial maltokinases: saprophytes versus pathogens". Paper presented in 8th International Conference on the Pathogenesis of Mycobacterial Infections, 2011.
  19. Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Alarico, Susana; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "New insights into the biosynthesis of the mycobacterial MGLP arising from the identification of a novel glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase". Paper presented in Microbiotec11, 2011.
  20. Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Carmona, Vítor; Alarico, Susana; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Identification of genes and characterization of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of polysaccharides in Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Paper presented in Ciência 2010, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Mário F. Munoz-Pinto; Emanuel Candeias; Inês Melo-Marques; A. Raquel Esteves; Ana Maranha; João D. Magalhães; Diogo Reis Carneiro; et al. "Gut-first Parkinson’s disease is encoded by gut dysbiome". Molecular Neurodegeneration (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13024-024-00766-0.
    10.1186/s13024-024-00766-0
  2. Ana Maranha; Susana Alarico; Daniela Nunes-Costa; Inês Melo-Marques; Inês Roxo; Pedro Castanheira; Olga Caramelo; Nuno Empadinhas. "Drinking Water Microbiota, Entero-Mammary Pathways, and Breast Cancer: Focus on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria". Microorganisms (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12071425.
    10.3390/microorganisms12071425
  3. Olha Antoniuk; Ana Maranha; Jorge A. R. Salvador; Nuno Empadinhas; Vânia M. Moreira. "Bi- and tricyclic diterpenoids: landmarks from a decade (2013–2023) in search of leads against infectious diseases". Natural Product Reports (2024): https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NP00021H.
    10.1039/D4NP00021H
  4. Ana Maranha; Mafalda Costa; Jorge Ripoll-Rozada; José A. Manso; Vanessa Miranda; Vera M. Mendes; Bruno Manadas; et al. "Self-recycling and partially conservative replication of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides". Communications Biology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04448-3.
    10.1038/s42003-023-04448-3
  5. Tiago, Igor; Alarico, Susana; Maranha, Ana; Coelho, Catarina; Pereira, Sónia Gonçalves; Empadinhas, Nuno. "High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences of Rare Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Isolated from Surfaces of a Hospital". Microbiology Resource Announcements 8 21 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.00496-19.
    Published • 10.1128/mra.00496-19
  6. Pereira, Sónia Gonçalves; Alarico, Susana; Tiago, Igor; Reis, Diogo; Nunes-Costa, Daniela; Cardoso, Olga; Maranha, Ana; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Studies of antimicrobial resistance in rare mycobacteria from a nosocomial environment". BMC Microbiology 19 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1428-4.
    Published • 10.1186/s12866-019-1428-4
  7. Ripoll-Rozada, Jorge; Costa, Mafalda; Manso, José A.; Maranha, Ana; Miranda, Vanessa; Sequeira, André; Ventura, M. Rita; et al. "Biosynthesis of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides requires a unique 1-O-methyltransferase specific for 3-O-methylated mannosides". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 3 (2019): 835-844. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813450116.
    10.1073/pnas.1813450116
  8. Nunes-Costa, Daniela; Maranha, Ana; Costa, Mafalda; Alarico, Susana; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Glucosylglycerate metabolism, bioversatility and mycobacterial survival". Glycobiology 27 1 (2017): 213-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cww132.
    10.1093/glycob/cww132
  9. Fraga, Joana; Maranha, Ana; Mendes, Vitor; Pereira, Pedro José Barbosa; Empadinhas, Nuno; Macedo-Ribeiro, Sandra. "Structure of mycobacterial maltokinase, the missing link in the essential GlgE-pathway". Scientific Reports 5 - (2015): 8026-8026.
    Published • 10.1038/srep08026#sthash.hjz7R5KL.dpuf
  10. Maranha, Ana; Moynihan, Patrick J.; Miranda, Vanessa; Lourenço, Eva C.; Nunes-Costa, Daniela; Fraga, Joana S.; José Barbosa Pereira, Pedro; et al. "Octanoylation of early intermediates of mycobacterial methylglucose lipopolysaccharides". Scientific Reports 5 13610 (2015): 13610-13610.
    Published • 10.1038/srep13610
  11. Mendes, Vitor; Blaszczyk, Michal; Maranha, Ana; Empadinhas, Nuno; Blundell, Tom L.. "Structure of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile GlgE defines novel conformational states that contribute to the catalytic mechanism". Scientific Reports 5 17144 (2015): 17144-17144.
    Published • 10.1038/srep17144
  12. Alarico, Susana; Costa, Mafalda; Sousa, Marta S.; Maranha, Ana; Lourenço, Eva C.; Faria, Tiago Q.; Ventura, M. Rita; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Mycobacterium hassiacum recovers from nitrogen starvation with up-regulation of a novel glucosylglycerate hydrolase and depletion of the accumulated glucosylglycerate". Scientific Reports 4 - (2014): 6766-6766.
    Published • 10.1038/srep06766#sthash.hjz7R5KL.dpuf
  13. Nobre, A.; Alarico, S.; Maranha, A.; Mendes, V.; Empadinhas, N.. "The molecular biology of mycobacterial trehalose in the quest for advanced tuberculosis therapies". Microbiology 160 Pt_8 (2014): 1547-1570.
    Published • 10.1099/mic.0.075895-0
  14. Mendes, Vitor; Maranha, Ana; Alarico, Susana; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Biosynthesis of mycobacterial methylglucose lipopolysaccharides". Natural Product Reports 29 8 (2012): 834-834.
    Published • 10.1039/C2NP20014G
  15. Tiago, I.; Maranha, A.; Mendes, V.; Alarico, S.; Moynihan, P. J.; Clarke, A. J.; Macedo-Ribeiro, S.; Pereira, P. J. B.; Empadinhas, N.. "Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium hassiacum DSM 44199, a Rare Source of Heat-Stable Mycobacterial Proteins". Journal of Bacteriology 194 24 (2012): 7010-7011.
    Published • 10.1128/JB.01880-12
  16. Mendes, Vítor; Maranha, Ana; Alarico, Susana; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2419c, the missing glucosyl-3-phosphoglycerate phosphatase for the second step in methylglucose lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis". Scientific Reports 1 - (2011): 177-177.
    Published • 10.1038/srep00177
  17. Mendes, Vítor; Maranha, Ana; Lamosa, Pedro; da Costa, Milton S.; Empadinhas, Nuno. "Biochemical characterization of the maltokinase from Mycobacterium bovis BCG". BMC Biochemistry 11 1 (2010): 21-21.
    Published • 10.1186/1471-2091-11-21#sthash.hjz7R5KL.dpuf
Newspaper article
  1. Empadinhas, Nuno; Alarico, Susana; Ana Maranha; Daniela Nunes-Costa; Roxo, Inês; Caetano, André; Caetano, Carolina; et al. "“Water Mycobacteria: A Silent Threat” (in Portuguese)", Público newspaper , 2021, (https://www.publico.pt/2021/10/20/ciencia/noticia/micobacterias-agua-ameaca-silenciosa-1981724.
  2. João Ramalho Santos; Sara Varela Amaral; Nuno Miguel da Silva Empadinhas; André Caetano; Ana Maranha; Ana Teresa Viegas; Daniela Costa; et al. "Viagens na Tuberculose (Tuberculosis voyages)", Público, 2019, https://www.publico.pt/2019/03/24/fotogaleria/viagens-tuberculose-boicote-parede-derrubar-doenca-393840.
Online resource
  1. Ana Maranha; Simões, Carolina; Cardoso, João; Varela Amaral, Sara. “Should we fight all microorganisms with antibiotics?”. Animation under project Health in Knowledge. 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73FuMvEMRjw.
  2. Ana Maranha. Selfie Science (a CNC scicom initiative) video episode to explain the group's work with mycobacteria. 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=any-6aFdRgA.
  3. Ana Maranha. "Como se usam as máscaras?" how to wear a face mask. 2020. https://www.uc.pt/covid19/article?key=a-faa3fbd3bc.

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent
  1. 2016. "Processos para produção de intermediários acilados de polissacáridos micobacterianos essenciais. (Methods for production of acylated intermediates of essential mycobacterial polysaccharides)".
  2. 2016. "New method for efficient production and purification of maltose-1-phosphate (M1P) and related compounds.".

Other

Other output
  1. Board Game "Microbial seesaw - friends or indestructible foes?". Board game created under project AMRFight (2022.06809.PTDC) for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2024 to teach the concepts of AMR and One Health to school aged children.. 2024. Ana Maranha; Roxo, Inês; Nunes-Costa, Daniela.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/16 Self-recycling replication of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides for adaptation to cold. 7th Iberian Carbohydrate Meeting. Sitges, Barcelona
(Sitges, Spain)
2022/10/13 Pathway for the synthesis of methylmannose polysaccharides in mycobacteria The Eighth Symposium on the Alpha-Amylase Family - ALAMY_8
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Smolenice, Slovakia)
2022/04/20 Mycobacteria beyond leprosy and tuberculosis DCV Talks
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/06 Antimicrobial resistance in rare mycobacteria isolated from a tertiary hospital environment 4th International Caparica Congress In Antibiotic Resistance, Portugal
(Portugal)
2020/07/07 “Micobactérias: para além da lepra e da tuberculose” Mycobacteria: beyond leprosy and tuberculosis “Zooming on Science”, CNC online lecture cycle
CNC (Portugal)
2020/01/31 Differential distribution of polymethylated polysaccharides and their possible role in mycobacterial adaptation to stress II Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias Não Tuberculosas em Portugal (2nd simposium in Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Portugal)
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/02/01 Microbial signatures in diabetic skin: opportunities for therapeutic intervention. CNC seminar cycle.
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2015 O combate à tuberculose: novos intermediários metabólicos essenciais (fighting tuberculosis new essential metabolic intermediates). INESPO II Brookerage Event
INESPO (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014 The fourth link in the MGLP genomic puzzle : a new target in a deadly pathogen XII CNC Annual Meeting
(Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/02 - 2033/05 Antimicrobial activity of diabetic skin bacteria
Co-supervisor
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2024/09/02 - 2025/07/01 In search of novel antimicrobial agents against DFU harnessing the power of bacterial competition
Supervisor
 Master Degree in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
2022/04 - 2023/06 Conflicting interactions between Methylobacteria and Mycobacteria from drinking water
Co-supervisor
Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/10 The roles of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Diabetic foot ulcers disease
Co-supervisor
 Tesi di Laurea in Microbiologia e Virologia (Master)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - 2025/09/17 Part of organizing committee International joint meeting GLUPOR 15 & GLYCOTwinning 2025 (2024/10/01 - 2025/09/17)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/06/18 - 2018/06/18 Part of organizing committee of 1º Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias não Tuberculosas em Portugal (1st simposium in Tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Portugal). (2018/06/18 - 2018/06/18)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/06/18 - Current Poster presentation I Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias Não Tuberculosas em Portugal (1st symposium in Tuberculosis and Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in Portugal)
Symposium
 I Simpósio de Investigação em Tuberculose e Micobactérias Não Tuberculosas em Portugal (1st symposium in Tuberculosis and Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in Portugal)
2020/10/07 - 2020/10/14 Advanced courses ICVS U Minho. Workshop multivariate data analysis: variable grouping methods (October 7th), subject grouping methods (October 14th)
Workshop
 Workshop multivariate data analysis
Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/03 webinar 'Natural product antibiotics: from traditional screening to novel discovery approaches'
Other
 webinar 'Natural product antibiotics: from traditional screening to novel discovery approaches'
Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, Switzerland
2019/09/19 - 2019/09/20 Poster presentation, MycoPORTO-19th to 20thSeptember 2019 ICBAS, Porto, Portugal.
Conference
 MycoPORTO
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2019/07/18 - 2019/07/18 webinar and live discussion 'Enabling academia to fill the discovery gap - Learnings from industry and funders'
Other
Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, Switzerland
2019/02/04 - 2019/02/25 e-learning course "BACTERIAL GENOMES: ACCESSING AND ANALYSING MICROBIAL GENOME DATA"
Other
Wellcome Genome Campus, United Kingdom
2017/09 - 2017/09 Which bacteria are you?” Activity in European researcher’s night 2017.
Festival
 European researcher’s night
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/06 - 2017/06 “Which microorganism are you?” Activity in mystery nigh in the Science museum of University of Coimbra.
Festival
 mystery nigh in the Science museum of University of Coimbra
Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/04/07 - 2017/04/07 Workshop “Mycobacterium: molecular microbiology”. Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB), Madrid, Spain
Workshop
 Workshop “Mycobacterium: molecular microbiology”
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, Spain
2016 - 2016 5th workshop of mass spectrometry and carbohydrates
Workshop
 3rd workshop of mass spectrometry and carbohydrates
UA, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Capacitação em Valorização de Tecnologias
Workshop
INESPO, Portugal
2014 - 2014 3rd workshop of mass spectrometry and carbohydrates
Workshop
departamento bioquímica UA, Portugal
2014 - 2014 Poster presentation at Hovione and MIT Portugal Symposium, Showcasing Portuguese Pharma Science: Advances in Discovery, Development and Manufacturing.
Symposium
 Hovione and MIT Portugal Symposium, Showcasing Portuguese Pharma Science: Advances in Discovery, Development and Manufacturing
2013 - 2013 Poster presentation at XI CNC Annual Meeting
Meeting
 XI CNC Annual Meeting
2013 - 2013 Poster presentation Eurocarb 17 Symposyum. Israel.
Symposium
 Eurocarb 17 Symposyum
2012/09 - 2012/09 Gram staining of yogurt bacteria. Activity in European researcher’s night 2012.
Festival
 European researcher’s night
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012 - 2012 1st workshop of mass spectrometry and carbohydrates
Workshop
departamento bioquímica UA, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Poster presentation at ICAR II conference
Conference
 ICAR II conference
2011 - 2011 Advanced Course in Biostatistics
Other
 Course of PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
BEB, Portugal
2011 - 2011 Advanced course Metabolic remodeling (NMR spectroscopy methods in metabolomics)
Other
 Course of PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
BEB, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/02/29 Biological and genetic diversity of bacteria with ureolytic activity and its application in biocementation
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Adriana F. S. Catalão (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/04/11 “The impact of antimicrobial resistance and the potential of the sea to offer new antimicrobial counpounds”
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Filipa Veiga Martinez de Amorim (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Associate member
2017 - Current European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Associate member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/03 - 2023/07 Microbiology and Parasitology Microbiology and Parasitology (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/02 Cell Biology and Histology Cell Biology and Histology (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
2019/03 - 2019/03 Theoretical "Diabetic skin: challenges and possibilities of bacterial interspecies competition" and Practical Laboratory Class "The BEB microbiome (Biobanking)" in Fighting Infection course of PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Practical Laboratory Class in Fighting Infection course of PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia (CIBB), Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2022/08/01 Interview about skin microbiome for magazine issue Visão Saúde

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2020/12/24 - 2020/12/24 Are microorganisms our enemies and are antibiotics the best weapon to combat them? Café Olé, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra. Radio and video spots for project Health in Knowledge. "os microrganismos são nossos inimigos e são os antibióticos a melhor arma para os combater?" (are microorganisms our enemies and are antibiotics the best weapon to combat them?)
2015/12/14 - 2015/12/14 TV news news interview to divulge Maranha, et al.. Scientific Reports, v. 5, n. 13610, p. 13610-13610, 2015. Dez 2015

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2013 - Current Supervision of internship, masters and PhD students. Namley, advisor to 2 undergraduate ERASMUS students. Supervisor to 1 undergraduate ERASMUS student, 2 Masters students, 1 PhD student -
2024/10/21 - 2024/11/22 Antimicrobial agents against DFUs D. Kucova
2014/09 - 2019/06 Mycobacterial Methylmannose Polysaccharides Biosynthesis Mafalda Costa

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Peer review for articles in journals -Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine -Tuberculosis