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I am currently a PhD student on the Doctoral Program of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition from UA, UMINHO and UCP. I'm a member of the MEDIBEES project: Monitoring the Mediterranean honeybee subspecies and their resilience to climate change for the improvement of sustainable agro-ecosystems. I completed a MSc in "Genética Molecular e Biomedicina" in 2020 by NOVA School of Science and Technology|FCT NOVA and a Degree in "Genética e Biotecnologia" in 2017 by University of Trás os Montes e Alto Douto (UTAD). I worked as a Researcher in the project "Autent+: Desenvolvimento de abordagens inovadoras com vista à valorização e exploração do potencial de mercado do mel Português" in order to develop new methods to further application in the authentication of Portuguese honey produced by Apis mellifera subs. iberiensis lineage A. I have participated in several events and I have also published 3 scientific article, presented 6 posters at national and / or international congresses and 5 oral communications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mónica Gabriela dos Santos Honrado
Date of birth
1996/06/10
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Honrado, Mónica

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4712-B40B-4B0E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5126-4693

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agrarian and Food Biotechnology - Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/01/01 - 2026/01/01
Ongoing
 Ciência e Tecnologia Alimentar e Nutrição (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior Politécnica de Saúde Porto, Portugal
2017/09/20 - 2020/07/15
Concluded
 Genética Molecular e Biomedicina (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"miRNAs as biomarkers of cancer drug resistance" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2014/09/11 - 2017/07/01
Concluded
 Genética e Biotecnologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Escola de Ciências da Vida e do Ambiente, Portugal
 15
2015/09 - 2016/05
Concluded
 Plano de Soft skills (Outros)
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/07/09 - 2021/12/31 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/04/20 - 2020/05/25 Volunteer in a COVID-19 diagnostic laboratory Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/07/09 - 2021/12/01 AUTENT+ - Desenvolvimento de abordagens inovadoras com vista à valorização e exploração do potencial de mercado do mel Português
NIFAP9347573
Research Fellow
Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
 IFAP - Instituto de Financiamento de Agricultura e Pescas, I.P.
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - 2026/01/01 MEDIBEES - Monitoring the Mediterranean honey bee subspecies and their resilience to climate change for the improvement of sustainable agro-ecosystems
PRIMA S1 2020 FARMING SYSTEMS (RIA) sub topic A, European Commission (MEDIBEES-2011)
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Quaresma, Andreia; Amaral, Joana. "High resolution melting analysis of a COI mini-barcode as a simple approach for the entomological authentication of honey". Paper presented in Livro de Resumos do XV Encontro de Química dos Alimentos: Estratégias para a Excelência, Autenticidade, Segurança e Sustentabilidade Alimentar, 5-6 Setembro, Madeira, Portugal, pp.514-515, 2021.
  2. Honrado, Mónica; Quaresma, Andreia; Pinto, M. Alice; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Next-generation sequencing as a promising approach for assessing the entomological origin of honey". Paper presented in Livro de Resumos do XV Encontro de Química dos Alimentos: Estratégias para a Excelência, Autenticidade, Segurança e Sustentabilidade Alimentar, 5-6 Setembro, Madeira, Portugal, pp.525-526, 2021.
  3. Honrado, Mónica; Chakroun, Emir; Mafra, Isabel ; Amaral, Joana. "Tracing Californian Bay laurel (Umbellularia californica) as a potential adulterant of laurel (Laurus nobilis) leaves by a novel real-time PCR method". Paper presented in Livro de Resumos do XV Encontro de Química dos Alimentos: Estratégias para a Excelência, Autenticidade, Segurança e Sustentabilidade Alimentar, 5-6 Setembro, Madeira, Portugal, pp.529-530, 2021.
  4. Honrado, Mónica; Quaresma, Andreia; Pedro, Sónia; Pinto, M. Alice; Amaral, Joana. "Detection of species mislabeling in a plant sold as Nepeta cataria L.". Paper presented in Book of abstracts of the XXVII National Meeting of the Portuguese Chemical Society, 14-16 July, Braga, Portugal, pp. 199, 2021.
  5. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Development of a new approach based on NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (ND1) marker and high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis towards the authentication of the geographical origin of honey". Paper presented in Book of abstract Advance Food Chemistry - International conference, 14-17 April, Romania, 2021.
  6. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Development of a new approach based on real time PCR coupled with high resolution melting (HRM) analysis towards the entomological authentication of honey". Paper presented in 1st Natural products application: Health, Cosmetic and Food: book of abstracts, 4-5 february, Bragança, Portugal, pp. 225, 2021.
Conference poster
  1. Honrado, Mónica; Andreia Quaresma; Santos, Joana 0000-0002-2593-1050; Pinto, M. Alice; Amaral, Joana. "Avaliação da lise de grãos de pólen: comparação de duas metodologias de extração de DNA". Paper presented in Recursos Silvestres Congresso Nacional, 2023.
  2. Honrado, Mónica; Henriques, Dora; Carlos Ariel Yadró Garcia; Santos, Joana; Rufino, José; Pinto, M. Alice; Amaral, Joana. "A sequenciação de nova geração como uma abordagem promissora para a identificação da origem entomológica do mel". Paper presented in Recursos Silvestres Congresso Nacional, 2023.
  3. Honrado, Mónica; Andreia Quaresma; Santos, Joana 0000-0002-2593-1050; Pinto, M. Alice; Amaral, Joana 0000-0002-3648-7303. "Pollen grains lysis: comparison between an Automated vs. a Manual Nucleic Acid Extraction Methods". Paper presented in ICBEES- International congress on Bee Science, 2023.
  4. Honrado, Mónica; Chakroun, Emir; Mafra, Isabel ; Amaral, Joana. "Tracing Californian bay laurel (Umbellularia californica) as a potential adulterant of laurel (Laurus nobilis) leaves by a novel real-time PCR method". Paper presented in XV encontro de quimica dos alimentos, 2021.
  5. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Quaresma, Andreia; Amaral, Joana. "High resolution melting analysis of a COI mini-barcode as a simple approach for the entomological authentication of honey". Paper presented in XV encontro de quimica dos alimentos, 2021.
  6. Honrado, Mónica; Quaresma, Andreia; Pinto, M. Alice; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Next-generation sequencing as a promising approach for the identification of the entomological origin of honey". Paper presented in XV encontro de quimica dos alimentos, 2021.
  7. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Development of a new approach based on NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (ND1) marker and high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis towards the authentication of the geographical origin of honey". Paper presented in AdFoodChem, Advances in Food Chemistry, 2021.
  8. Honrado, Mónica; Pinto, M. Alice; Lopes, Ana R.; Henriques, Dora; Amaral, Joana. "Development of a new approach based on real time PCR coupled with high resolution melting (HRM) analysis towards the entomological authentication of honey". Paper presented in 1st International Online Conference Natural products application: Health, Cosmetic and Food, 2021.
  9. Santos, Flávia; Honrado, Mónica; Coelho, AC; Poeta, Patricia. "Identificação de fungos anemófilos em redes de metropolitano ligeiro do Porto". Paper presented in X Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia, 2018.
    Assistant staff
Journal article
  1. Andreia Quaresma; Markus J. Ankenbrand; Carlos Ariel Yadró Garcia; José Rufino; Mónica Honrado; Joana Amaral; Robert Brodschneider; et al. "Semi-automated sequence curation for reliable reference datasets in ITS2 vascular plant DNA (meta-)barcoding". Scientific Data (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02962-5.
    10.1038/s41597-024-02962-5
  2. Vânia Rodrigues; Mónica Honrado; Joana Santos; M. Alice Pinto; Joana S. Amaral. "Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the rapid detection of Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott as an adulterant of Ginkgo biloba (L.)". Phytomedicine (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phymed.2023.155322.
    10.1016/j.phymed.2023.155322
  3. Honrado, Mónica; Lopes, Ana R.; Pinto, M.Alice; Amaral, Joana S.. "A novel real-time PCR coupled with high resolution melting analysis as a simple and fast tool for the entomological authentication of honey by targeting Apis mellifera mitochondrial DNA". Food Research International 161 (2022): 111761. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2022.111761.
    10.1016/j.foodres.2022.111761
  4. Isabel Mafra; Mónica Honrado; Joana Amaral. "Animal Species Authentication in Dairy Products". Foods (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/8/1124.
    10.3390/foods11081124
  5. Gomes, Bruno C.; Honrado, Mónica; Armada, Ana; Viveiros, Miguel; Rueff, José; Rodrigues, António S.. "ABC Efflux Transporters and the Circuitry of miRNAs: Kinetics of Expression in Cancer Drug Resistance". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21 8 (2020): 2985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082985.
    Published • 10.3390/ijms21082985
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Honrado, Mónica. "microRNAs as biomarkers of cancer drug resistance". Master, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/114349.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/24 Development of a Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for detecting Styphnolobium japonicum as Ginkgo biloba adulterant XVIII National Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Chemistry
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/10/24 DNA-based techniques for the entomological authentication of honey: comparison of high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis and next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches XVI Encontro de Química dos Alimentos
(Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2022/06/16 Identification of the entomological origin of European honey by high resolution melting analysis of a COI mini-barcode International Congress on Bee Science
ICBEES
2021/11/22 DNA-based methods as a powerful tool for the entomological authentication of honey XXI EuroFoodChem Conference
2021/07/14 Detection of species mislabeling in a plant sold as Nepeta cataria L. XXVIII encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Quimica
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química (Braga, Portugal)
2018/03/07 Identificação de fungos anemófilos em estabelecimentos de restauração da cidade do Porto. X Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
(Vila Real, Portugal)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/03/07 - 2023/03/07 On-line conferences - Native honey bee subspecies in Mediterranean apiculture: Why it matters
Conference
 Native honey bee subspecies in Mediterranean apiculture: Why it matters
2022/10/23 - 2022/10/26 Participation in XVI Encontro de Química dos Alimentos with an oral presentation XVI Encontro de Química dos Alimentos
2022/06/16 - 2022/06/18 Participation in International Congress of Bee Science with an oral presentation
Congress
 International Congress on Bee Science
2021/11/22 - 2021/11/24 Participation on XXI EuroFoodChem Conference with an oral presentation
Conference
 XXI EuroFoodChem Conference
2021/09/05 - 2021/09/08 Participation in XV encontro de quimica dos alimentos
Congress
 XV encontro de quimica dos alimentos
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
2021/07/14 - 2021/07/16 Participation in XXVIII encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Quimica
Congress
 XXVIII encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Quimica
Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, Portugal
2021/04/14 - 2021/04/17 Participation in 1st Editon of AdFoodChem International conference, 2021 1st Editon of AdFoodChem - International conference, 2021
2021/02/04 - 2021/02/05 Participation in the 1st online conference Natural products application: Health, Cosmetic and Food
Conference
 Natural products application: Health, Cosmetic and Food
Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/10 Participation in the Jornadas ToxOmics 2019
Meeting
 Jornadas ToxOmics 2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Toxicogenómica e Saúde Humana, Portugal
2019/04 - 2019/04 Participation in the IV Jornadas de Investigação em Oncologia em Portugal
Meeting
 Investigação em Oncologia em Portugal
Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2018/10 - 2018/10 Participation in the 2nd NMS Symposium on Chronic Diseases and Translational
Symposium
 2nd NMS Symposium on Chronic Diseases and Translational Science 2018
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
2017/03 - 2017/03 Participation in the IX Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Meeting
 IX Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/02 Participation in the II Jornadas de Bioengenharia
Workshop
 II Jornadas de Bioengenharia
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2016/11 - 2016/11 Participation in the VI Palestras Solidárias
Meeting
 VI Palestras Solidárias
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03 Participation in the VIII Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Meeting
 VIII Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2015/03 - 2015/03 Participation in the VII Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Meeting
 VII Jornadas de Genética e Biotecnologia
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal