Personal identification

Full name

Ana Rita Correia Barata

Citation names

• Barata, Ana Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

A811-9E92-4951

ORCID iD

0000-0003-1899-8641

Scopus Author Id

57916003400

	Degree	Classification
2022 - 2026 Ongoing	Ciências Químicas e Biológicas (Doutoramento) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2019 - 2021 Concluded	Segurança Alimentar (Mestrado) Major in Microbiologia Alimentar Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal "Occurrence and identification of Campylobacter species in dairy farms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015 - 2019 Concluded	Ciências Bioanalíticas (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - 2023	Contracted Researcher (Research)	INIAP, Portugal
	INIAP, Portugal
2020 - 2021	Research Trainee (Research)	INIAP, Portugal
	INIAP, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/01 - 2026/12	PhD Fellow (2023.04257.BDANA) “Dairy cattle and swine farms as reservoirs of Campylobacter: epidemiology, genetic diversity, molecular characterization, and improvements in detection methodologies” 2023.04257.BDANA	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/11/02 - 2023/10/31	VALICET - Valorise foods and Improve Competitiveness through Emerging Technologies applied to food by-products within the circular economy framework PRIMA/0001/2020 Research Fellow INIAP, Portugal	Ongoing

Publications

Conference poster	Barata, Rita; Ferreira, Beatriz; Soares, Inês; Oliveira, Patrícia; Guedes, Hugo; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Cold Survival: Does Strain Origin Affect the Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in Milk at Storage Temperatures?". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2025. Barata, Rita; Ferreira, Beatriz; Oliveira, Patrícia; Guedes, Hugo; M. José Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Impact of Refrigeration on the Viability of Campylobacter spp. in Water". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2025. Ferreira, Beatriz; Barata, Ana; M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Listeria monocytogenes: Dead or Just Pretending? Unveiling the VBNC State". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2025. Barata, Rita; M. José Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Padrões Globais de Resistência: Campylobacter spp. em Humanos e Animais ao Longo da Última Década". Paper presented in ZOOTEC'24: XXIV Congresso Nacional de Zootecnia, 2024. Barata, Rita; Ferreira, Beatriz; Oliveira, Patrícia; Guedes, Hugo; M. José Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Garantia da segurança alimentar na casa do consumidor: avaliação da higiene em frigoríficos domésticos". Paper presented in 2º Simpósio INIAV para a Segurança Alimentar, 2024. Barata, Rita; M. José Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Campylobacter em Portugal: Análise Uma Só Saúde dos reservatórios Animais e Ambientais para o Bem-Estar Global". Paper presented in Ciência 2024, 2024. Barata, Ana; Nunes, Bárbara; Nogueira, Teresa; M. J. Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocyotogenes isolates from dairy farms". Paper presented in Microbiotec, 2023. Lemos, Matheus; Ferreira, Ana; Barata, Ana; M. J. Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of plant origin by-products extracts on bacteria and yeasts". Paper presented in Microbiotec, 2023. Barata, Ana; Ferreira, Catarina; Guedes, Hugo; Saavedra, Maria José ; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Grow of persistent and sporadic strains of Listeria monocytogenes in cow's milk". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2023. Lemos, Matheus; Ferreira, Ana; Barata, Ana; Soares, Inês; M. J. Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of pomegranate byproduct extract against bacteria". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2023. Ferreira, Ana; Lemos, Matheus; Barata, Ana; M. J. Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Survival of Listeria monocytogenes adhered to inox surface to starving and drying". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2023. Barata, Ana; Guedes, Hugo; Costa, João; Saavedra, Maria José ; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Sequence-type and antibiotic resistance genes of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from dairy farms". Paper presented in Under One Health Concept, 2022. Nunes, Bárbara; Barata, Ana; Oliveira, Ricardo; Guedes, Hugo; Almeida, Carina; Silva, Gabriela; M. J. Saavedra; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Fecal carriage of Listeria monocytogenes in dairy cows". Paper presented in Under One Health Concept, 2022. Barata, Ana; Nunes, Bárbara; Oliveira, Ricardo; Guedes, Hugo; Almeida, Carina; Saavedra, Maria José ; Silva, Gabriela; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Raw milk as a source of food zoonotic pathogens". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2021. Dimitros, Ioannis; Barata, Ana; Khwaldia, Khaoula; Sendón, Raquel ; Pataro, Gianpiero; Sanches Silva, Ana; Almeida, Gonçalo. Corresponding author: Almeida, Gonçalo. "Antimicrobial properties of extracts obtained from plums, cherries and dates by-products". Paper presented in Dare2Change, 2021.
Journal article	Barata, Rita; Saavedra, Maria José; Almeida, Gonçalo. "A Decade of Antimicrobial Resistance in Human and Animal Campylobacter spp. Isolates". Antibiotics 13 9 (2024): 904. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13090904. 10.3390/antibiotics13090904 Nunes, Bárbara; Barata, Ana Rita; Oliveira, Ricardo; Guedes, Hugo; Almeida, Carina; da Silva, Gabriela Jorge; Nogueira, Teresa; Saavedra, Maria José; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Occurrence and diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in Portuguese dairy farms". The Microbe 3 (2024): 100063. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microb.2024.100063. 10.1016/j.microb.2024.100063 Pais, Sandra; Costa, Mariana; Barata, Ana; Rodrigues, Lígia; Afonso, Isabel M.; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Evaluation of Antimicrobial Resistance of Different Phylogroups of Escherichia coli Isolates from Feces of Breeding and Laying Hens". Antibiotics 12 1 (2022): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics12010020. Published • 10.3390/antibiotics12010020 Barata, Ana Rita; Nunes, Bárbara; Oliveira, Ricardo; Guedes, Hugo; Almeida, Carina; Saavedra, Maria José; da Silva, Gabriela Jorge; Almeida, Gonçalo. "Occurrence and seasonality of Campylobacter spp. in Portuguese dairy farms". International Journal of Food Microbiology 383 (2022): 109961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109961. 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109961
Thesis / Dissertation	"Occurrence and identification of Campylobacter species in dairy farms". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, 2021.

Award

2021	Menção honrosa