Personal identification

Full name

Rita Sofia De Jesus Pita Domingues

Citation names

• Domingues, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

C911-DB49-3DE1

ORCID iD

0000-0003-2613-4763

Telephones

Mobile phone

• 913212281 (Personal)

Websites

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-domingues-a042a3152/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
• Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2024/03 - 2024/06 Ongoing	Specialization Course in Extracellular Vesicles (Outros) Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain
2023/03 - 2023/06 Concluded	Course not conferring an academic degree - B2 Independent English Course (Outros) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/11 - 2021/11/18 Concluded	Biochemistry (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Optimization of the recovery of extracellular vesicles from filamentous fungi" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2016/09 - 2019/07 Concluded	Biotechnology (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/05/01 - Current	Research Grantee	University of Coimbra; CNC-UC, Portugal
	University of Coimbra; CNC-UC, Portugal
2022/04 - 2023/03	Medical Sales Representative	Italfarmaco Produtos Farmacêuticos Lda, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/05/01 - Current	VARCAL- Roles of the Candida albicans variome in its interaction with the human host 2022.01376.PTDC Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2019	Conservação e Melhoramento Genético Vegetal para o medronheiro (Arbutus unedo L.) PDR2020-784-042742 Estagiária Voluntária
2018/08 - 2018/09	GO "FitoMicorrizas". FEDER-031718 PDR2020-101 Estagiária Voluntária
2018/06 - 2018/07	SOS VALOR- Sustainable Solutions for the Valorisation of Plant Natural Products and Industrial Waste CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-023631 Estagiária Voluntária

Publications

Conference poster

José Sousa-Batista; Ana Lenha-Silva; Rita Domingues; Daniela Calheiros; Edmilson Correia; Fernandes, Chantal; Teresa Gonçalves. Corresponding author: Fernandes, Chantal. ""Antidermatophytic activity of the Azorean black tea (Camellia sinensis)"". Paper presented in Microbiotec’23 – Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2023. Gonçalo Conde de Oliveira1,2; Fernandes, Chantal; Luís Rodrigues; Domingues, Rita; Daniela Calheiros; Michael Brad Strader; Aishwarya L. Saha; et al. ""Seeking for fungal sialidase inhibitors"". Paper presented in Microbiotec¿23 ¿ Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2023. Domingues, Rita; Mariana Afonso; Daniela Calheiros; Célia Nogueira; Michael B. Strader; Jay E. Slater; Ana Todo-Bom; et al. Corresponding author: Domingues, Rita. ""Characterization of Alternaria alternata extracellular vesicles. Proteome and interaction with host cells."". Paper presented in 2nd Meeting of the Portuguese Network Vesicles, 2023.

Thesis / Dissertation

"Optimization of the recovery of extracellular vesicles from filamentous fungi". Master, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/98211.