Personal identification

Full name

Bárbara Ferreira

Citation names

• Ferreira, Bárbara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

CB13-BE6C-36B6

ORCID iD

0000-0001-9727-9906

Email addresses

• barbara.ferreira@euvg.pt (Professional)
• bferreira@cnc.uc.pt (Professional)
• barbarajferreira@outlook.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

• 239 488 40 (Professional)

Addresses

• Polo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara-Ferreira-55 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences
• Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Parasitology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
• Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
• Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2021 - 2025 Ongoing	PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Doutoramento) Major in Microbiology and Parasitology Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022 Attended	Course on Laboratory Animal Science (FELASA Category B) (Outros) Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório, Portugal
2015/07/27 - 2021/07/28 Concluded	Integrated Master in Veterinary Medicine (Mestrado integrado) Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal "Development and validation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of avian coronavirus" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09 - Current	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2021 - Current	Research Trainee (Research)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09 - Current	Assistant (University Teacher)	Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal
	Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/03/01 - 2021/04	Curricular Internship	LABOFARM Laboratory (Finalab Group), France
	Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/02	Curricular Internship	ALS Life Sciences Portugal, Portugal
	Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/09/01 - Current	Development of an oral vaccine for companion animals based on Giardia Extracellular Vesicles 2022.10912.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama, Portugal Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama Centro Investigação Vasco da Gama, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Publications

Conference poster	Ferreira, Bárbara; Sousa, Sérgio; Maria do Céu Rodrigues de Sousa. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Bárbara. "Zoonotic intestinal parasites in shelter dogs from the Center region of Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd Egas Moniz One Health, 2023. Faria, Clarissa Perez; Ferreira, Bárbara; Ágata Lourenço; Mateus, Daniela; Sebastião, Ana Isabel; Neves, Bruno; Cruz, Maria Teresa; Maria do Céu Rodrigues de Sousa . Corresponding author: Maria do Céu Rodrigues de Sousa. "Extracellular Vesicles of Giardia lamblia modulate host cell innate immunity: new avenues for the exploitation of novel therapies". Paper presented in 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), 2023.
Journal article	Clarissa Perez Faria; Maria de Fátima Matos Almeida Henriques de Macedo; Barbara Ferreira; Ágata Lourenço; Inês Guerra; Tânia Melo; Pedro Domingues; et al. "Lipidome of extracellular vesicles from Giardia lamblia". PLOS ONE (2023): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291292. 10.1371/journal.pone.0291292 Bárbara Ferreira; Ágata Lourenço; Maria do Céu Sousa. "Protozoa-Derived Extracellular Vesicles on Intercellular Communication with Special Emphasis on Giardia lamblia". Microorganisms (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10122422. 10.3390/microorganisms10122422
Preprint	Joana Ferrolho; Sandra Antunes; Hugo Vilhena; Sofia Anastácio; Sérgio Ramalho de Sousa; Gonçalo Frouco; Bárbara Ferreira; Ana Domingos. "The Complexities of Canine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis: Insights into Ehrlichia canis and Its Vector Rhipicephalus sanguineus". 2024. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202411.1325.v1. 10.20944/preprints202411.1325.v1
Thesis / Dissertation	Ferreira, Bárbara Joana Malta. "Development and validation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of avian coronavirus". Master, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/38124.

Award

2022	Portuguese Society of Veterinary Sciences Awards: Bernardo Lima Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências Veterinárias, Portugal

Title

2023	Accreditation as Investigator for Scientific Experimentation involving Animals (rats and mice) Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Portugal

Other distinction

2021	Eramus Grant for Student Trainee in MSc Dissertation Erasmus Plus, Belgium