Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ana Raquel Pinho Freitas
- Date of birth
- 1981/01/14
Citation names
- Freitas, Ana R
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- CD1A-0BD1-FB98
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7326-4133
- Google Scholar ID
- Ana R Freitas
- Researcher Id
- D-6158-2013
- Scopus Author Id
- 23972359600
Email addresses
- anarpf@gmail.com (Professional)
- ana.freitas@iucs.cespu.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto. Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira nº 228 , 4050-313, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
- Campus Universitário de Gandra: Avenida Central de Gandra, 1317 , 4585-116, Gandra, Paredes, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Freitas6 (Professional)
- https://www.requimte.pt/ucibio/people/ana-raquel-freitas (Professional)
- https://toxrun.iucs.cespu.pt/?q=content/ana-raquel-freitas (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=SDyuq7QAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Public and Environmental Health
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2024/01/22 - 2024/03/03
Ongoing
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Artificial Intelligence for Teachers Course (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Educa-te, Portugal
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2019/02/26 - 2019/07/02
Concluded
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HiTech 2019: 4-month Program of translating cutting-edg technology and scientific discoveries into high-growth business opportunities.
Project: "Quick and low-cost bacterial strain typing" (http://hiseedtech.com/programs/hitech#overview) (Curso de Especialização
Tecnológica)
Major in Transfer of knowledge
HiSeedTech - Associação para a valorização do conhecimento, Portugal
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2018/07/16 - 2018/07/18
Concluded
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Curso-Taller Small World Initiative/MicroMundo Partner Instructor (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in allowing to participate as Instructor in the Tiny Earth/MicroMundo project
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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2017/03/27 - 2017/03/29
Concluded
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Introduction to Whole Genome Sequencing and Analysis for Microbial Diagnostics. Hørsholm, Denmark (Curso de Especialização
Tecnológica)
Center for Genomic Epidemiology, Denmark
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2006/01/02 - 2011/05/30
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Ciências Farmacêuticas - Especialidade de Microbiologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"Ecology and Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococcus: A multilayered molecular approach with emphasis in plasmid
diversity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada com Distinção (Maximum Classification) |
1998/10 - 2004/08
Concluded
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Ciências Farmacêuticas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Sixteen (16) values |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/10/01 - Current | Invited Coordinator Researcher (Research) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Toxicologia, Portugal |
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal | ||
2021/10/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal | ||
2018/11/01 - 2021/09/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal | ||
2018/12/02 - 2018/12/07 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Statens Serum Institut, Denmark |
2014/12/01 - 2018/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal (...) |
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2007/01/04 - 2010/12/24 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain |
2006/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (...) |
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2004/02/02 - 2004/06/18 | Research Trainee (Research) | Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/10/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2018/03/01 - 2021/09/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2010/01/01 - 2014/10/30 | Coordenador Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | Farmácia do Campo, Portugal |
2004/09/01 - 2005/12/30 | Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | Farmácia Álvaro Agante, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012/04/17 - 2013/12/31 | Collaborating Researcher | REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/06 - Current | Junior Researcher projet: Exploring bloodstream infections by Enterococcus faecium at the single-cell level
CEECIND/02268/2017
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2014/12/02 - 2018/10/31 | Pos-doc project: Identification of the risk factors promoting the emergence of Enterococcus faecium: a combined approach of
conventional methods and high-throughput technology
FCT/BPD/96148/2013
Post-doc Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2006/01 - 2009/12 | PhD project: Study of the factors implicated in the stability and dissemination of multiresistant Enterococcus spp. in different
metagenomes.
FCT/BD/24604/2005
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/01 - Current | NARES: Nasal colonization by Staphylococcus aureus in Health Sciences students: insights into lifestyle factors, antimicrobial
resistance and virulence profiles. Approved by the Ethical Committee of IUCS (23/CE-IUCS/2022).
NARES_GI2-CESPU-2023
Principal investigator
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Patologia Oral e Reabilitação, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário
Ongoing
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2024/01 - Current | APPLE - Assessing Prevalence, Population structure and resistance mechanisms of Linezolid-resistant Enterococci - a multicenter
study
ESCMID SG Research Grant APPLE
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Robert Koch-Institut Aussenstelle Wernigerode, Germany
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Handelshøgskolen ved UiT, Norway The University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Spain Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, Germany Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Klinik und Poliklinik für Interdisziplinäre Endoskopie, Germany Ekonomska sola Murska Sobota, Slovenia Medicinski universitet-Sofia, Bulgaria Narodowy Instytut Leków, Poland Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, France Universität Zürich, Switzerland UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Norway |
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Ongoing
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2023/01 - Current | CLEANWATER: Exploring the microbial diversity of water supply systems for early detection of emerging micropollutants
2022.02124.PTDC
Researcher
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal Águas de Douro e Paiva, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Institute for Health and Bioeconomy
LA/P/0140/2020
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDB/04378/2020
Researcher
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit
UIDP/04378/2020
Researcher
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2022/01/01 - 2023/10/31 | BENEFIT: Exploring the bacteriocinome of human Enterococcus faecium paving avenues towards multidrug-resistant infections
targeted therapies
EXPL/SAU-INF/0261/2021
Principal investigator
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Spain Chalmers tekniska högskola - Campus Lindholmen, Sweden |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2017 - 2023 | EU Consortium to study international Enterococcus faecalis genomes (5 EU partners).
ERC 742158
Researcher
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Concluded
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2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | IR Bactyping - A service of bacterial typing for real-time support of epidemiology and infection control
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
Fundação Amadeu Dias
Concluded
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2015 - 2018 | New Technologies for three Health Challenges of Modern Socities: Diabetes, Drug Abuse and Kidney Diseases (DESignBIOtecHealth).
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000024. Norte 2020 - Norte’s Regional Operational Programme.
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000024
Post-doc Fellow
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2015/01 - 2016/02 | Identification of the risk factors promoting the emergence of Enterococcus faecium at the interphase between humans, foodborne
animals and the environment. One of 15 awardees of ESCMID Research Grants funded by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology
and Diseases (ESCMID)
Principal investigator
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European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Concluded
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2013 - 2015 | Chelators for novel therapeutic strategies. Reference: NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000066. Member of team as Collaborating Researcher.
NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000066
Other
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Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
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2012 - 2013 | Selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria: a role for mercury?
Proj. Pluridisciplinares da UP
PhD Student Fellow
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Banco Santander Totta |
2010 - 2013 | Is aquaculture raising more than fish? Detecting antimicrobial resistance in an understudied ecological niche.
PTDC/AAC-AMB/103386/2008
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2009 - 2012 | Influencia de los elementos de transferência genética horizontal en la selección y persistência del complejo clonal 17 de
Enterococcus faecium: implicaciónes en la selección clonal de patogenos. FIS-PS09/02381. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain.
Member of team as External Consultant.
FIS-PS09/02381
Other
Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain
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Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Concluded
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2010 - 2011 | Bacterial resistance to copper and antibiotics: two sides of the same problem in animal production setting?
Proj. Pluridisciplinares da UP
PhD Student Fellow
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Banco Santander Totta |
2007 - 2011 | Approaches to control multi-resistant enterococci: studies on molecular ecology, horizontal gene transfer, fitness and prevention
(ACE). Reference: ACE-LSHE-2007-037410. Funded by EU – 6th Framework Programme. 13 EU partners. Member of team as Pos-Doc
Researcher.
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
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European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
Concluded
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2009 - 2010 | Population structure of Salmonella nontyphoidal causing human infections by multilocus sequence typing.
Proj. Pluridisciplinares da UP
PhD Student Fellow
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Banco Santander Totta |
2005 - 2009 | Indicators of swine industry pollution: antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
POCTI/AMB/61814/2004
PhD Student Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/09/01 - Current | MicroMundo @ IUCS_CESPU: an educational service-learning project for education in Microbiology. Coordination of its implementation
in CESPU. Co-organizer and supervisor of students.
Supervisor
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
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Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde
Ongoing
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2018/09 - 2022/07 | MicroMundo @ UPorto: an educational service-learning project for education in Microbiology. Co-coordenation of its implementation
in Portugal during 2018. Co-organizer and supervisor of students since 2019. Main contact with Spanish colleagues from MicroMundo@Spain.
Supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas Ongoing
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2004/01 - 2004/01 | Projeto de divulgação da Unidade de Farmacovigilância do Norte. Volunteer promotion of the pharmacovigilance and monitoring
of the safety of medicines in the metropolitan city of Porto. Audience: professionals in different pharmacies.
Volunteer
Technical development
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Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Magazine article |
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Manual |
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Newsletter article |
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Online resource |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/09/18 | O projeto de Ciência Cidadã MicroMundo. A 1ª edição do MicroMundo@IUCS-CESPU | You can be part of the change: Improving literacy about Antimicrobial Resistance and Science Communication
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (Gandra, Portugal)
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2023/05/24 | Detection of bacteria resistant to last-line antibiotics in dog foods commercialized in Europe: trend or threat? (BY INVITATION) | Seminários do Programa Doutoral em Ciências Biomédicas - 7ª. Edição
Instituto Universitário Ciências da Saúde
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2023/04/11 | A One Health perspective on Antimicrobial Resistance: from diagnostics to global surveillance and policymaking (BY INVITATION) | 3rd TOXRUN TalkScience e-zine (online)
TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit
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2023/04/07 | Novel insights into healthy humans’ faecal carriage of enterococci: Enterococcus lactis is as a dominant highly bacteriocinogenic species | II TOXRUN International Congress 2023: No Boundaries for Toxicology: One Health, One Society, One Planet
TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit (Porto, Portugal)
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2023/03/16 | Transferable linezolid resistance in staphylococci and enterococci. In: Pre-ECCMID Day on AMR - old problems, new challenges - Emerging resistance mechanisms spreading across sectors (INVITED as a Keynote Speaker) | 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Denmark)
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2022/10/27 | Resistência Antimicrobiana - Exemplos relevantes da pandemia silenciosa do século XXI (BY INVITATION) | Dia do laboratório de Microbiologia 2022
Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2022/10/17 | Diferenciação precisa de Enterococcus faecium e Enterococus lactis em fezes de humanos saudáveis indica E. lactis como espécie predominante (vídeo de ciência curto) | Microbiologia 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia (Portugal)
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2022/09 | First comprehensive reconstruction of the plasmidome of Enterococcus faecalis | 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) (Bath, UK)
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2022/04/21 | Glicopeptídeos, lipopeptídeos e polipeptídeos (BY INVITATION) | CURSO APFH 2022 | ANTIMICROBIANOS (online)
Associação Portuguesa de Farmacêuticos Hospitalares (Portugal)
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2022/04 | Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing hospital infections in Porto, Portugal (2009-2020): a retrospective analysis. | 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2021/11/23 | Analysis of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing hospital infections in Porto, Portugal, over the last decade (online) | Microbiotec21 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021 (online)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia (Portugal)
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2021/11/17 | IR Bactyping | Sessão de apresentação pública dos projetos vencedores do BIP Proof
Universidade do Porto Inovação
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2021/11 | IR Bactyping, the next cornerstone for Klebsiella pneumoniae strain typing towards real-time infection control | Microbiotec21 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021 (online)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia (Portugal)
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2021/09/24 | Presentation of UCIBIO TL3 (Safety in Human &Envirenmental Health) and highlights/aims of BacTdrugs research group (PRESENTING AUTHOR BY INVITATION) | Encontro i4HB
FCT-Nova (Portugal)
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2021/07/15 | Truncated EfrEF operons highly limit the growth of human Enterococcus faecalis ST40 populations under chlorhexidine stress | World Enterococcus Day (online) |
2021/07 | Truncated EfrEF operons highly limit the growth of human Enterococcus faecalis ST40 populations under chlorhexidine stress | 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
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2021/07 | In vitro activity of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds and occurrence of tolerance associated genes among Enterococcus faecalis from diverse origins and timespans (mini-oral) | 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
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2021/04/27 | Communication strategies: Explaining the Antibiotics Resistance to High School Students in a One Health Perspective. Flash oral presentation. | Simposio MicroMundo 2021 (online)
(Spain)
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2020/11 | Occurrence of copper tolerant and antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus faecium in poultry farms using feed supplemented with inorganic or organic copper forms (distinguished as the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION and research project in the category of Integrated Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences) | SIFFUP-Simpósio de Investigação FFUP
Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2020/09/18 | Fundamentals of Whole Genome Sequencing: an overview for microbial diagnostics (theoretical). Whole Genomic Sequencing for microbial diagnostics (practical). PRESENTING AUTHOR BY INVITATION | Summer School 2020: Interdisciplinary approaches to control infectious diseases
Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto
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2020/05 | Dispersion of arsenic tolerance genes among antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus spp from several sources and clonal lineages (distinguished as the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION) | One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting 2020 |
2019/11/28 | Widespread of ampicillin multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium in raw chicken meat (distinguished as the BEST ORAL PRESENTATION and research project in the category of Integrated Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences). |
SIFFUP-Simpósio de Investigação (Porto, Portugal)
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2019/10/04 | Workshop/Curso Novos métodos na identificação e diagnóstico bacteriológico. CO-PRESENTING AUTHOR BY INVITATION |
XXIII Encontro Científico APAC (Tomar, Portugal)
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2019/04 | Linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium carrying identical Tn6246::fexB-poxtA in humans and bovine from different continents. PRESENTING AUTHOR |
29th European Congress Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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2018/11 | MicroMundo: Combate à Resistência de Antibióticos. PRESENTING AUTHOR BY INVITATION |
XIII Congresso Científico AEFFUP (Associação Nacional das Farmácias, Porto, Portugal)
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2018/09 | Advances in the establishment of Enterococcus faecium key virulence factors. In the scientific session -Safety in Human and Environmental Health- PRESENTING AUTHOR BY INVITATION |
UCIBIO Annual Meeting (Caparica, Portugal)
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2018/04 | From farm to fork: dissemination of Tn554::fexA-optrA in linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecalis clones from chicken faeces and meat in Tunisia. PRESENTING AUTHOR |
28th European Congress Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) (Madrid, Spain)
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2015 | Filling the map for antimicrobial resistance in sub-Saharan Africa: ampicillin resistant enterococci from non-clinical sources of Angola | IJUP – 8º Encontro da Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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2014/05 | Antibiotic resistance, copper and mercury tolerance genes are carried by RepA-N pLG1-like megaplasmids among Enterococcus from several origins and clones | 24th European Congress Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2014 | Screening for Virulence Factors in Swine Enterococcus faecium Strains with Zoonotic Potential | IJUP – 7º Encontro da Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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2013 | Rainbow trouts containing enterococcus with virulence factors, antibiotic and biocide resistance genes: can your dinner be a matter of concern? | IJUP- 6º Encontro da Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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2012 | Occurrence of antibiotic-resistant enterococci from antibiotic-free trout aquacultures | 22nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(London, United Kingdom)
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2011 | Enterococcus spp.: comensal ou patogénico? BY INVITATION |
Seminar of Clinical Microbiology (Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal)
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2011 | Spread of vancomycin-resistant among Enterococcus faecalis: the influence of pAD1 and Inc18-plasmids (1987-2005) | 21th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(Milan, Italy)
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2011 | Fitness cost of widely disseminated conjugative plasmids carrying Tn1546-vanA among Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis | 21th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(Italy, Italy)
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2011 | Tracking antibiotic resistance along the Silk Road | 21th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(Milan, Italy)
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2011 | Diversidad y evolución de Enterococcus faecium-vanA ST78 en diferentes países (1991-2008) | XV Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC)
(Malaga, Spain)
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2011 | Coste biológico de plásmidos de resistencia a la vancomicina (Tn1546-vanA) en Enterococcus faecium y Enterococcus faecalis | XV Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC)
(Malaga, Spain)
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2010 | O impacto da transferência genética horizontal em Enterococcus. BY INVITATION | Course - Clones, genes e elementos genéticos móveis: peças do puzzle da resistência a antibióticos
FFUP Doctoral Programme (Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto, Portugal)
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2010 | Influence of pAD1 and Inc18-plasmids in the worldwide spread of vancomcycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis outbreak strains (1987-2005) | 3rd ASM Conference on Enterococci
(Portland, United States)
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2010 | Diseminación global de megaplásmidos portadores de hylEfm en cepas internacionales de Enterococcus faecium CC17. PRESENTING AUTHOR | XIV Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC)
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2010 | Estructura poblacional de Enterococcus faecium resistente a vancomicina (EfmRV) en hospitales españoles (1996-2010) | XIV Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC)
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2009/08 | The impact of plasmids in the evolution of CC17 Enterococcus faecium. PRESENTING AUTHOR | ACE - EU project WP2 meeting - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and demonstration
(Warsaw, Poland)
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2009 | Diversity of hyl plasmids among international CC17 Enterococcus faecium strains (1992-2009). PRESENTING AUTHOR | ESCMID Conference on Enterococci: from Animals to Man
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2009 | Population structure of international vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) strains causing outbreaks. PRESENTING AUTHOR | ESCMID Conference on Enterococci: from Animals to Man
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2009 | Portuguese piggeries as reservoir of antibiotic multi-resistant enterococci/ International spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (CC17, CC5) and Enterococcus faecalis CC2 among animals and humans | 1º Encontro Parcerias para a Investigação
(Vairão, Portugal)
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2008/12 | Summary of a detailed plasmid analysis on Enterococcus isolates from hospitals of different countries. PRESENTING AUTHOR | ACE-EU project WP3/4 meeting - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and demonstration
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
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2008/04 | Plasmid characterization of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecium strains causing outbreaks in different countries. PRESENTING AUTHOR | ACE-EU project Annual meeting - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and demonstration
(Barcelona, Spain)
|
2008 | Estructura poblacional y análisis molecular comparativo de Enterococcus faecalis resistente a vancomicina asociados a brotes nosocomiales en Europa y América. AWARD of best oral presentation | XIII Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC)
(Madrid, Spain)
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2007/10 | Characterization of vancomycin-resistant plasmids in clinical enterococci isolates from Portugal. PRESENTING AUTHOR | ACE-EU project WP3 meeting - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and demonstration
(Madrid, Spain)
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2007 | Multi-drug resistant enterococci among Portuguese swine after growth promoter ban | 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
(Munchen, Germany)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
|
---|---|---|
2023/12 - Current | Cultural and biochemical analysis of key bacterial indicators for calculating Postmortem Interval
Supervisor of Maria João Teixeira
|
Mestrado em Ciências Forenses (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
|
2023/10 - Current | Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of contemporary Enterococcus faecium from hospital infections
Supervisor of Beatriz Leite Antunes
|
Estágio de Investigação em Ciências Biomédicas (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2021/04 - Current | Understanding the plasmidome and bacteriocinome of human contemporary Enterococcus spp. for future targeted therapies against
multidrug-resistant infections (FCT fellowship UI/BD/151317/2021 )
Supervisor of Ana Cristina Santos
|
PhD program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2019/11/01 - 2024/06/17 | Adaptation of Enterococcus to dynamic environments: impact of biocides on the epidemiology of tolerant populations and resistance
to antibiotics (FCT fellowship SFRH/BD/144401/2019)
Co-supervisor of Ana Paula Pereira
|
PhD program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2021/12 - 2023/12/12 | Bacterial Mapping for Postmortem Interval Calculation (Masther thesis)
Supervisor of Ana Cláudia Coelho Ferreira
|
Mestrado em Ciências Forenses (final grade: 20/20) (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2022/10 - 2023/07/19 | Nasal colonization by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Health Sciences students and analysis of risk factors
Supervisor of Luís Miguel Gomes Sampaio
|
Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense (final grade: 20/20) (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2022/10 - 2023/07/19 | Perfis de resistência a antibióticos de Escherichia coli em bovinos de raças leiteiras e autóctones numa abordagem “Uma Só
Saúde”
Co-supervisor of Ana Beatriz da Silva Dias
|
Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense (final grade: 19/20) (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2021/10 - 2022/09/26 | Towards the accurate identification of enterococci species of human origin for forensic applications
Supervisor of Maria João Teixeira
|
Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense (final grade: 19/20) (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2021/04/01 - 2021/10/11 | Enterococcus spp. as a Producer and Target of Bacteriocins: A Double-Edged Sword in the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis Context
(PhD Seminar)
Supervisor of Ana Cristina Santos
|
Seminário integrado no Programa Doutoral em Ciências Farmacêutcias (PhD) (final grade: 19/20)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2021/02/01 - 2021/07/08 | Caraterização de Enterococcus spp. provenientes de pacientes hospitalizados antes e em diferentes fases da pandemica Covid-19
Supervisor of Maria Cabral
|
Estágio em Bioquímica da Faculdade de Ciências do Porto (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2019/09 - 2020/12/10 | Caracterização de Enterococcus resistentes a antibióticos oriundos de alimentos para animais de estimação (Master thesis)
https://sigarra.up.pt/ffup/pt/teses.teses_orientador?p_docente=555152
Supervisor of Liliana Finisterra
|
Mestrado em Controlo de Qualidade (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2019/09 - 2020/09/11 | Qualidade e segurança microbiológica de alimentos disponíveis no mercado para animais de estimação (Seminar)
Supervisor of Liliana Finisiterra
|
Seminário integrado no Mestrado de Controlo de Qualidade (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2019/11 - 2020/02 | Multidrug-resistant high-risk Enterococcus faecium clones: can we really define them? (PhD Seminar)
Co-supervisor of Ana Paula Pereira
|
Seminário integrado no Programa Doutoral em Ciências Farmacêutcias (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016 - 2020 | Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Enterococcus from different origins
Co-supervisor of Bárbara Duarte
|
Free Research (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2019/01 - 2019/07 | Resistência à ampicilina em Enterococcus faecium obtidos de carcaças de frangos (Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas
)
Co-supervisor of Carolina Ferreira
|
Experimental research associated with Project I Curricular Unit (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2018/09/10 - 2018/10/19 | Typing of Enterococcus faecalis resistant to vancomycin from Brasil
Co-supervisor of Emília Oliveira
|
Mestrado em Ciências Biológicas. Intercâmbio com Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
2018/06 - 2018/07 | Study of enterococci resistant to clinical relevant antibiotics in poultry meat samples
Co-supervisor of Christopher Scholes
|
Erasmus Program (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
2015/05 - 2018/01 | Characterization of Enterococcus sp. obtained from different origins in Tunisia. Original thesis: Étude des populations des
entérocoques (Enterococcus spp) d’origine animale et environnementale : Pathologie, résistance aux antibiotiques et clonalité
(Supervisor during three training periods in Portugal)
Supervisor of Houyem Elghaieb
|
Foreign PhD Program in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) (PhD)
Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2017 - 2017 | What are we missing when epidemiological cut-off are not used to evaluate ampicillin phenotypes among Enterococcus faecium?
(Experimental research associated with Project I Curricular Unit)
Co-supervisor of Ana Paula Pereira
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016/06 - 2016/07 | Impact of anaerobiosis in the transfer of ampicillin resistance among Enterococcus faecium
Co-supervisor of Chloe Allison
|
Erasmus Program (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
2016/02 - 2016/07 | Estudo dos fatores que promovem a transferência horizontal da resistência à ampicilina em Enterococcus faecium: optimização
de um protocolo
Co-supervisor of Flávia Mendes
|
Estágio em Bioquímica da Faculdade de Ciências do Porto (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2015/10 - 2016/05 | Characterization of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterococcus faecium isolates by spectroscopic and genotypic
methods
Co-supervisor of Jan Bavlovic
|
Erasmus Program (Other)
Univerzita Karlova Farmaceutická Fakulta v Hradci Králové, Czech Republic
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2016 - 2016 | Temporal shifts of clinical vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (Experimental research associated with Project I Curricular
Unit)
Co-supervisor of Sara Aguiar
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016 - 2016 | High rates of colonisation by ampicillin-resistant enterococci in residents of long-term care facilities in Porto, Portugal
Co-supervisor of Ana Paula Pereira
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2015 - 2016 | Virulence genes screening in Enterococcus faecium from different origins and countries
Supervisor of Sara Aguiar
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2015 - 2015 | Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium plasmids from wild birds (Supervisor in the training
period in Portugal)
Supervisor of Veronika Oravcová
|
Foreign PhD Program (PhD)
Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno, Czech Republic
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | Extended Virulence Profile of Enterococcus faecium from Swine (Europe/USA, 1998-2008) (Experimental research associated with
Project I Curricular Unit)
Co-supervisor of Elsa Martins
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2011 - 2011 | Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. from animals: do they share identity with human enterococcal
isolates? (Experimental research associated with Project I Curricular Unit)
Co-supervisor of Ana Isabel Cunha
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2011 - 2011 | Probiotics: a therapeutics in evolution (3-months Community Pharmacy Internship and final monograph)
Supervisor of Sylvie Certal
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Farmácia do Campo, Portugal |
2009 - 2011 | Population structure of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus sp. from animal origin
Supervisor of Ana Isabel Cunha
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010 - 2010 | Venous Insufficiency: from the feeling of tired legs to chronic pathology (3-months Community Pharmacy Internship and final
monograph)
Supervisor of Vanessa Azevedo
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Farmácia do Campo, Portugal |
2010 - 2010 | Atopic Dermatitis (3-months Community Pharmacy Internship and final monograph)
Supervisor of Sofia Mateus
|
Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Farmácia do Campo, Portugal |
2008 - 2009 | In vitro activity of tigecycline in Enterococcus sp. from different origins
Supervisor of Rosa Alves Correia
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2008 - 2009 | In vitro activity of tigecycline in Enterococcus sp. from different origins
Supervisor of Márcia Monteiro
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2008 - 2009 | Characterization of plasmids in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from Portuguese hospitals (1997-2007)
Supervisor of João Pires
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2008 - 2009 | Molecular characterization of Enterococcus sp. isolates from Portuguese hospitals: populational structure and plasmid diversity
Supervisor of Rosa Maria Silva
|
Free research not associated with a degree (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|
2024 - 2024 | Organizer of the ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) seminar (online): "Food Safety and One Health:
transmission of AMR and potentially uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) from animal sources" (2024/01/16 - 2024/01/16)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2023/06/01 - 2023/09/18 | Seminar "YOU CAN BE PART OF THE CHANGE: IMPROVING LITERACY ABOUT ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION" accepted
to be part of the International Microorganism Day commemorations (https://www.internationalmicroorganismday.org/blog/imd2023-portugal)
(2023/09/18 - 2023/09/18)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15 | Organizer of the ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) seminar (online): "The use of genomic approaches
for population studies and outbreak surveillance of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli" (2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2022/07 - 2023/09/14 | Member of the organizing committee of the 6th International Conference on Enterococci (ICE2023) (2023/09/11 - 2023/09/14)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
|
2022/09/20 - 2022/09/20 | Organizer of the 3rd ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) webinar (online): "Genomic surveillance
of viral pathogens: are we prepared for emergent global threats across One Health"
(2022/09/20 - 2022/09/20)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2021/01/11 - 2022/04/08 | Member of the organizing committee of the I TOXRUN Internacional Congress (2022/04/07 - 2022/04/08)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal |
2022/02/01 - 2022/03/15 | Organizer of the 2nd ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) webinar (online): "Genomics for the safety
assessment of food microorganisms: the Enterococcus faecium case"
(2022/03/15 - 2022/03/15)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2021/09/01 - 2021/12/09 | Co-organizer of the 1st ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) symposium (online): "Building up WGS-based
surveillance for food-borne pathogens in Europe - a look back and a look forward"
(2021/12/09 - 2021/12/09)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2021/04 - 2021/07 | World Enterococcus Day (online). WED is a conference about enterococci joining internationally recognized experts working
with Antimicrobial Resistance and the pathogenesis of Enterococcus. (2020/07/15 - 2021/07/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
|
2019/04/01 - 2019/07/19 | 1º Workshop MicroMundo@UPorto. The workshop counted with participants from other University institutions in Portugal (FCUP,
FMDUP, Escola Universitária Vasco da Gama-Coimbra, Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde–CESPU, Universidade Fernando
Pessoa, Universidade do Algarve, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco e Centro Ciência Viva-Bragança) and Spain (Universidade
de Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de La Rioja) that will expand the MicroMundo network and encourage students to pursue
careers in Biological Sciences. (2019/07/19 - 2019/07/19)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2018/09/01 - 2018/11/15 | Sessão de abertura do projeto MicroMundo@U.Porto. Salão Nobre do complexo ICBAS/FFUP. (2018/11/15 - 2018/11/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2008/09/01 - 2009/07/17 | 8th ESCMID Summer School. I was responsible for the local organization and secretariat of this international and prestigious
summer course organized by the European Society of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [sponsors, management of scientific
and social activities, didactic material, persons involved and requirement of course certification by the “European Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME)] (2009/07/11 - 2009/07/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2003 - 2003 | VII Jornadas Científicas de Análises Clínicas. Colégio da Especialidade em Análises Clínicas. Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Colaborator in the local organization. (2003 - 2003)
Conference (Other)
|
Ordem dos Farmaceuticos, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
|
---|---|---|
2024/10/16 - 2024/10/16 | INVITED Round-Table moderator in the Expert Talk "Industry and R&D: Partnerships with universities"
Round table
|
PhD Day IUCS 2024 VI Edition - Empowering Change: Strategies to achieve the goals of the 2030 agenda
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2024/04/27 - 2024/04/30 | Attendee in the 34th ESCMID Global (Barcelona, Spain)
Congress
|
34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Global,)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/09 | Attendee in Microbiotec23 (Covilhã, Portugal)
Congress
|
Microbiotec23 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2023
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/04/27 - 2023/04/28 | II TOXRUN International Congress 2023
Congress
|
II TOXRUN International Congress 2023: No Boundaries for Toxicology: One Health, One Society, One Planet
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Toxicologia, Portugal
|
2023/04/14 - 2023/04/18 | Attendee in the 33rd ECCMID (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Congress
|
33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2023/04/15 - 2023/04/15 | INVITED chair of 2-hour symposium (Interactions between human, animal, and environmental antibiotic resistomes)
Congress
|
33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2022/10/27 - 2022/10/27 | Attendee in Dia do Laboratório de Microbiologia 2022
Conference
|
Salão Nobre ICBAS/FFUP, Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2022/09/14 - 2022/09/17 | Attendee in 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII)
Congress
|
Bath, UK
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2022/09/14 - 2022/09/17 | INVITED chair of 1h30-hour symposium (One Health or Public Health in the case of AMR?)
Congress
|
13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII): ‘Establishing whole genome sequencing at the
core of epidemiological surveillance’
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2022/04/23 - 2022/04/26 | 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Congress
|
Lisbon, Portugal
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2022/04/23 - 2022/04/26 | INVITED chair of 1-hour symposium (Using water to monitor circulating pathogens)
Congress
|
32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/16 | Ação de formação: O papel do docente na gestão académica (5h)
Other
|
Formação Profissional: O papel do docente na gestão académica
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, Portugal
|
2021/11/23 - 2021/11/26 | Microbiotec21 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2021 (online)
Congress
|
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2021/07/09 - 2021/07/12 | INVITED chair of 1-hour symposium (Antimicrobial Susceptibility tomorrow)
Congress
|
31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2021/07/09 - 2021/07/12 | Attendee
Congress
|
31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2021/05/05 - 2021/05/07 | Attendee | IJUP’21 – 14º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
|
2020/09/23 - 2020/09/25 | Attendee
Conference
|
ESCMID Conference on Corona Virus Disease (ECCVID) (online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2020/09/23 - 2020/09/25 | INVITED chair of 1-hour symposium (Wastewater and COVID-19: a tool for disease and SARS-CoV-2 dynamic surveillance)
Conference
|
ESCMID Conference on Corona Virus Disease (ECCVID, online)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2020/09/03 - 2020/09/04 | Workshop on Interventions to Reduce the Development and Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance (online)
Conference
|
Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, Sweden
|
2020/05/27 - 2020/05/29 | Attendee
Meeting
|
One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting 2020 (OHEJP ASM 2020, online) |
2019/12/05 - 2019/12/07 | Atendee | MicroBiotec19, Congress of Microbiology and Biothecnology 2019
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal |
2019/11/15 - 2019/11/15 | DAY OF THE MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY: Microbiology, Immunology and Oncobiology: Interdisciplinary approaches to control infectious
diseases and cancer
Conference
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2019/09/18 - 2019/09/21 | 12th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM) “Moving towards genome-based pathogen surveillance
– lessons learnt and challenges ahead"
Congress
|
Dubrovink, Croatia
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2019/07/02 - 2019/07/02 | HiTech 2019 Closing session - Co-author of the final pitch of IR Bactyping business idea with a roundtable discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi9HJQRIBJA)
Other
|
HiSeedTech - Associação para a valorização do conhecimento, Portugal
|
2019/04/13 - 2019/04/16 | 29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Amsterdam, Netherlands
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2018/11/15 - 2018/11/15 | Como Comunicar Ciência?
Workshop
|
Opening session of MicroMundo@UPorto
Ciência Viva, Portugal
|
2018/09/28 - 2018/09/29 | UCIBIO Annual Meeting
Meeting
|
FCT Nova, Campus Caparica, Lisbon
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
|
2018/07/18 - 2018/07/18 | II Simposio Small World Initiative
Symposium
|
Madrid, Spain
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
|
2018/04/21 - 2018/04/24 | 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Madrid, Spain
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2018/04/12 - 2018/04/15 | Representant of REQUIMTE@UCIBIO in Mostra da Universidade do Porto
Exhibition
|
16ª Mostra da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2018/03/07 - 2018/03/07 | Revelando os segredos da microbiota urinária: impacto nas doenças do trato urinário
Conference
|
VI Ciclo de Conferências de Divulgação Científica FFUP/ICBAS
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2017/12/07 - 2017/12/09 | Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MicroBiotec17
Congress
|
Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia e Microbiologia
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
|
2017/07/12 - 2017/07/12 | Inovação e Propriedade Intelectual
Workshop
|
Faculdade de Ciências do Porto
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
|
2017/05/29 - 2017/05/29 | Writing your way into the right job – a CV skills workshop (with Sarah Blackford)
Workshop
|
i3S Post-doc Forum, at ISEP
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
|
2017/04/22 - 2017/04/25 | 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Vienna, Austria
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2017/01/23 - 2017/01/23 | Studying single DNA molecules using nanofluidic channels: from antibiotic resistance to DNA-protein interactions. By Fredrik
Westerlund (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Seminar
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
|
2016/10/20 - 2016/10/21 | Careers in science & beyond
Seminar
|
Post-doc Forum
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
|
2016/07/19 - 2016/07/19 | 1.º Encontro Anual do Departamento de Ciências Biológicas da Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto
Meeting
|
Salão Nobre ICBAS/FFUP, Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016/05/25 - 2016/05/25 | Development of an immunotherapy against infection by multiresistant bacteria (By Dr. Pedro Madureira)
Seminar
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016/04/09 - 2016/04/12 | 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2016/03/09 - 2016/03/11 | 11th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM) - "Navigating Microbial Genomes: Insights from the
Next Generation"
Congress
|
Estoril, Portugal
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2016/02/04 - 2016/02/05 | Encontro REQUIMTE – Rede de Química e Tecnologia
Meeting
|
Fátima
REQUIMTE, Portugal
|
2015/12/10 - 2015/12/12 | Congress of Microbiology and Biothecnology, MicroBiotec15
Congress
|
Sociedade Portuguesa de Biotecnologia e Microbiologia, Évora, Portugal |
2015/05/07 - 2015/05/08 | International Symposium Microbiology: Transmission
Symposium
|
Madrid, Spain
Fundación Ramon Areces, Spain
Fundación General CSIC, Spain |
2012/03/31 - 2012/04/03 | 22nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
London, UK
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2012/03/08 - 2012/03/08 | Rapid Next-Generation-Sequencing Conference for Public Health and Clinical Microbiology
Conference
|
Munster, Germany |
2010/11/18 - 2010/11/19 | 18th Scientific Symposium Microbiome: deciphering the last organ of human body
Symposium
|
Madrid, Spain
Fundación Lilly, Spain
|
2010/11/09 - 2010/11/10 | V Congresso Cientifico “Antibioterapia: uma abordagem complementar"
Congress
|
AEFFUP, Porto
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010/05/05 - 2010/05/05 | Biofilmes bacterianos – Mecanismos de formação, prevenção e tratamento
Seminar
|
Doctoral Program of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010/04/10 - 2010/04/13 | 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Vienna, Austria
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2010/03/16 - 2010/03/17 | Clones, genes e elementos genéticos móveis: peças do puzzle da resistência a antibóticos
Symposium
|
Doctoral Program of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010/01/11 - 2010/01/12 | Final Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development, and
Demonstration
Meeting
|
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2009/11/18 - 2009/11/20 | ESCMID Conference on Enterococci: from Animals to Man
Conference
|
Barcelona, Spain
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2009/09/14 - 2009/09/16 | I Reunión de la Red Española de Elementos Extracromosómicos (REDEEX)
Meeting
|
Spanish Network for the Study of Plasmids and Extrachromosomal Elements (REDEEX), Madrid, Spain |
2009/08/27 - 2009/08/28 | WP2 Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development, and
Demonstration
Meeting
|
Warsaw, Poland |
2009/05/16 - 2009/05/19 | 19th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Helsinki, Finland
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2008/12/01 - 2008/12/02 | WP3/4 Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development, and
Demonstration
Meeting
|
Copenhagen, Denmark |
2008/10/25 - 2008/10/28 | 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Congress
|
Washington, USA
American Society for Microbiology, United States
|
2008/06/30 - 2008/06/30 | Bacterial Identification, Typing and Detection
Workshop
|
Porto
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
|
2008/05/14 - 2008/05/17 | 8th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM)
Meeting
|
Zakopane, Poland
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
American Society for Microbiology, United States |
2008/04/24 - 2008/04/25 | Annual Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development,
and Demonstration
Meeting
|
Barcelona, Spain |
2008/04/23 - 2008/04/23 | 1st European Day of Fighting Infection
Conference
|
Barcelona, Spain
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2008/04/19 - 2008/04/22 | 18th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Barcelona, Spain
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2007/11/15 - 2007/11/16 | 12th Scientific Symposium Environmental changes, microbial systems and infections
Symposium
|
Madrid
Fundación Lilly, Spain
|
2007/09/30 - 2007/10/02 | 4th Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infections | Lisboa, Portugal |
2007/10 - 2007/10 | WP3 Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development, and
Demonstration
Meeting
|
Madrid, Spain |
2007/09/17 - 2007/09/20 | 47th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Congress
|
Chicago, USA
American Society for Microbiology, United States
|
2007/03/31 - 2007/04/03 | 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
Congress
|
Munchen, Germany
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
|
2007/04 - 2007/04 | First Meeting of the European Scientific Project ACE - Sixth Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and
Demonstration
Meeting
|
Tromso, Norway |
2007/03/15 - 2007/03/18 | Representant of REQUIMTE@UCIBIO in Mostra da Universidade do Porto
Exhibition
|
5ª Mostra da Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2006/07/04 - 2006/07/08 | 2nd FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists
Congress
|
Madrid, Spain
Federation Of European Microbiological Societies, Netherlands
|
2006/05 - 2006/05 | Course of Antibiotherapy (18h) by Prof. João Carlos Sousa
Other
|
Hospital-Escola da Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
|
2006/04/28 - 2006/04/28 | Seminar of Biological Safety
Seminar
|
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
|
2006 - 2006 | 4.º Encontro da Rede de Química e Tecnologia – REQUIMTE, Fátima.
Meeting
|
Fátima
REQUIMTE, Portugal
|
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
|
---|---|---|
2024/06/19 | Using Planctomycetes for the study of drifting of antibiotic resistance genes in nature
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Ofélia Henriques Dordio Godinho (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
|
2023/12/12 | Bacterial Mapping for Postmortem Interval Calculation
Supervisor
|
Ana Cláudia Coelho Ferreira (Master)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2023/07/19 | Nasal colonization by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Health Sciences students and analysis of risk factors
(Research Project realized on behalf of the Curricular Unit "Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense")
Supervisor
|
Luís Miguel Gomes Sampaio (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2023/06/20 | Evaluation of the PhD thesis project: "Preventive and therapeutic potential of plants extracts in oral candidiasis" on behalf
of the curricular unit "Projeto de tese" of the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Program
(Thesis) Arguer
|
Marie Odile Madeleine Maziere (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2023/03/24 | Exploring the genomes of the Norwegian vancomycin resistant enterococci
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Mushtaq AL Rubaye (PhD)
UiT Norges arktiske universitet, Norway
|
2022/09/26 | Rumo à identificação precisa de Enterococcus spp. de origem humana para aplicações forenses (Research Project realized on
behalf of the Curricular Unit "Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense")
Supervisor
|
Maria João Teixeira (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
|
2021/10/11 | Enterococcus spp. as a Producer and Target of Bacteriocins: A Double-Edged Sword in the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis Context
(PhD Seminar - Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Ana C. Almeida-Santos (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2020/07/31 | Occurrence of copper tolerant and antibiotic resistant Enterococcus faecium in poultry farms using feed supplemented with inorganic or organic copper forms (Arguer) | Carina da Cunha Baptista (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2020/02 | Multidrug-resistant high-risk Enterococcus faecium clones: can we really define them? (PhD Seminar - Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Ana Paula Pereira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2017 | What are we missing when epidemiological cut-off are not used to evaluate ampicillin phenotypes among Enterococcus faecium?
(Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Ana Paula Pereira (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016 | Estudo dos fatores que promovem a transferência horizontal da resistência à ampicilina em Enterococcus faecium: optimização
de um protocolo (Final grade: 18/20)
Supervisor
|
Flávia Mendes (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2016 | Temporal shifts of clinical vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Sara Aguiar (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2015 | Pesquisa de Enterococcus faecium resistentes à ampicilina ou vancomicina provenientes de diversos nichos ecológicos de Angola (Arguer) | Ana Rita Dias (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2015 | Avaliação da atividade antimicrobiana de agentes quelantes de ferro em bactérias clinicalmente relevantes (Arguer) | Ana Rita Rebelo (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2014 | Extended Virulence Profile of Enterococcus faecium from Swine (Europe/USA, 1998-2008) (Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Elsa Martins (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2012 | Disseminação horizontal de elementos de inserção cromossomal associados à resistência à ampicilina em Enterococcus faecium
oriundos de diferentes nichos ecológicos
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Ricardo Escada (Master)
Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
|
2011 | Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. from animals: do they share identity with human enterococcal
isolates? (Final grade: 18/20)
Supervisor
|
Ana Isabel Cunha (Other)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2011 | Probiotics: a therapeutics in evolution (Final grade: 18/20)
Supervisor
|
Sylvie Certal (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010 | Venous Insufficiency: from the feeling of tired legs to chronic pathology (Final grade: 18/20)
Supervisor
|
Vanessa Azevedo (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
2010 | Atopic Dermatitis (Final grade: 19/20)
Supervisor
|
Sofia Mateus (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
|
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
---|---|---|
2020/02 - Current | ANICT - National Association of Researchers in Science and Technology | Member |
2020 - Current | ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG) | Member |
2011/11 - Current | SPM - Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia | Member 348 |
2009 - Current | ESCMID Study Group for Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM) | Member |
2007 - Current | European Society of Clinical Microbioloy and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) | Member 4788 |
2004 - Current | Ordem dos Farmacêuticos | Member |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|
2024/01 - Current | Pós-Graduação em Análises Clínicas - 2.ª edição (B-learning) - Co-coordenador científico
Coordinator
|
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/12/08 - Current | Member of the Board of Direction of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology
Member
|
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal |
2022/04/20 - Current | Chair of the ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG), one of the 31 study groups from the European Society
of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases that are engaged in advancing scientific knowledge and/or disseminating professional
guidelines in the field of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Coordinator
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
2021/10 - Current | Comissão de acompanhamento do Curso Licenciatura em Ciências Biomédicas (2021/2022, 2022/2023)
Member
|
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2021 - Current | Coordinator of the Office of Communication and Image of the Toxicology Research Unit (TOXRUN)
Coordinator
|
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/10/16 - 2023/10/16 | Participation in a meeting of the External Evaluation Committee of the A3ES institutional evaluation process for IUCS-CESPU
as a co-coordinator of the 1H-TOXRUN research unit
Member
|
|
2023/04/12 - 2023/05/05 | Member of the working group related to "Estratégia institucional e políticas de promoção da atividade científica, tecnológica
e artística" in preparation of the institutional evaluation process by A3ES (Agência De Avaliação E Acreditação Do Ensino
Superior)
Member
|
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2021/03 - 2023/04 | Member of the UCIBIO Working Group of Communication (WG5) that regularly promotes scientific events, webinars and activities
on behalf of the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit.
Member
|
REQUIMTE Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal |
2020/07/06 - 2022/04/20 | Secretary of the ESCMID Food- and Water-borne Infections Study Group (EFWISG), one of the 31 study groups from the European
Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases that are engaged in advancing scientific knowledge and/or disseminating
professional guidelines in the field of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Other
|
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
---|---|---|
2023/12 - 2024/05/02 | III 1H-TOXRUN Congress. No boundaries for Toxicology: One Health, One Society, One Planet: the big challenges of the 21st century | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Toxicologia & Uma Só Saúde |
2023/12/04 - 2023/12/18 | 34th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 46 abstracts reviewed. | European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) |
2022/10/01 - 2023/04/28 | II TOXRUN Congress 2023. No boundaries for Toxicology: One Health, One Society, One Planet. 46 abstracts/communications reviewed. | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Toxicologia |
2022/12/05 - 2023/04/18 | 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 48 abstracts reviewed. | European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) |
2021/10 - 2022/10 | Microbiologia 2022 (online). 38 abstracts reviewed. | Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia |
2021/12/03 - 2021/12/21 | 32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID). 41 abstracts reviewed. | European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) |
2021/06/23 - 2021/07/05 | World Enterococcus Day (online). 17 abstracts reviewed. | |
2021/05/12 - 2021/06/01 | 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) (online). 49 abstracts reviewed. | European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|
2024/03/20 - 2024/03/21 | Invited expert at the "Oceans foresight Workshop" (Lisbon), in the framework of the project "Navigating Tomorrow’s Tide: Exploring the Future of Ocean Resources and Their Impact on Food and Feed Safety" | European Food Safety Authority, Italy |
2021/10 - 2021/12 | Hearing Expert for the Animal Health and Welfare Team of the Animal and Plant Health Unit of the European Food Safety Authority on 2 fact sheets about Enterococcus cecorum and Enterococcus faecclis. | European Food Safety Authority, Italy |
2017 - 2017 | External Referee of PhD thesis. Student: Ricardo León Sampedro. Thesis title: Enterococcus faecalis: new insights about population structure and the evolutionary impact of mobile genetic elements | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
---|---|---|---|
2022/02 - Current | Microbiologia Geral (Theoretical classes) - Regente | Medicina Veterinária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2022/02 - Current | Microbiologia Geral (Theoretical-practical and Laboratorial Classes) - Regente | Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2022/02 - Current | Microbiologia Geral (Laboratorial classes) | Medicina Dentária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2022/01 - Current | Investigação em Ciências Biológicas Aplicada à Saúde (Theoretical-practical classes) | Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2021/10 - Current | Metodologia e Projeto em Investigação Forense (research project) | Ciências Forenses (Licenciatura) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2021/09 - Current | Bacteriologia (Theoretical and Laboratorial Classes) - Regente | Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/11/24 - 2024/01/19 | Bacteriologia Clínica (Theoretical/Practical classes) - Regente | Pós-Graduação em Análises Clínicas (Pós-Graduação) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2023/01/27 - 2023/01/27 | Microbiologia Forense (Theoretical classes - 4 hours). | Curso de Especialização em Perícias Forenses (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
2021/03 - 2021/07 | Microbiologia Geral (Theoretical classes) | Medicina Veterinária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2021/02 - 2021/06 | Microbiologia Geral (Laboratorial classes) | Medicina Dentária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2020/02/17 - 2020/07/31 | Microbiologia Geral (Laboratorial Classes) | Medicina Dentária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2019/03 - 2019/07 | Microbiologia Geral (Laboratorial classes) | Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Dentária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2019/03/25 - 2019/03/29 | Guest instructor of practical classes in the curricular unit of Clinical Bacteriology "Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Skin microbiota. Examples of clinically-relevant bacteria and practical cases" | Análises Clínicas (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2018/02 - 2018/07 | Microbiologia Geral (Laboratorial Classes) | Medicina Dentária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2017/03/17 - 2017/03/22 | Guest instructor of practical classes in the curricular unit of Clinical Bacteriology "Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Skin microbiota. Examples of clinically-relevant bacteria" | Análises Clínicas (Mestrado) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2016/11 - 2016/11 | Guest instructor of practical classes in the curricular unit of Bacteriology "Antibiotic susceptibility: clinical breakpoints vs. ECOFFs; examples of clinically-relevant bacteria" | Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
2007 - 2007 | Guest instructor of practical classes in the curricular unit of Bacteriology “The fundament of PCR” | Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
---|---|---|---|
2024/01 - 2024 | Research Scholarship, under the "rapid and low-cost diagnosis for clinical microbiology typing using ftir" project (inv060596),
funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation under the grand challenges 2022 support program (role as alternate vowel)
Evaluator
|
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal | |
2023/01 - 2023 | Call for an Initial Research Fellowship (BIC) (Reference REQUIMTE 2023-02) on the project CLEANWATER: Combining ecological
status and microbiota diversity to decipher bioindicators for emergent micropollutants in water supply systems with reference
to the project 2022.02124.PTDC, supported by national funds by FCT/MCTES (role as Vowel).
Evaluator
|
REQUIMTE, Portugal | |
2016 - 2016 | Call for Post Doctoral Scholarship Reference ICETA 2016-61 at the Applied Biomolecular Sciences Unit - MULTI / 04378, with
financial support from FCT / MEC through national funds and when applicable co-financed by FEDER POCI-01-0145- FEDER-007728,
under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement for the REQUIMTE institution.
Member
|
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
---|---|---|
2024/02/11 | Celebrating Women in Science with ESCMID leaders - International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024 | ESCMID/news-media (online) |
2024/01/29 | Opinion article: "A enigmática Doença X: estratégias que podem revolucionar a Saúde" | Publico (online) |
2023/11/18 | Adeus Covid19. Agora é a resistência a antimicrobiana que preocupa a Europa. | Jornal Público |
2023/11/17 | Resistência a antibióticos de última linha é a grande dor de cabeça dos hospitais portugueses | Público (online) |
2020/07/13 | Interview for the prestigious American magazine "The Scientist" after a communication presented in the 30th ECCMID. - "Our Pets May Harbor Much More Than Coronavirus". | The Scientist |
2019/08/27 | I&D Interview regarding the concept, target and advantages of IR Bactyping and the business case built during HiTech program "As caçadoras de bactérias" | Exame Informática |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
---|---|---|
2024/04/22 - 2024/04/22 | Primeiro Jornal (SIC) | MicroMundo@IUCS-CESPU (2nd Edition): Sessão experimental na Escola Básica do Cristelo (9º ano) |
2023/11/27 - 2023/11/27 | TSF Pais e Filhos | A Legionella |
2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21 | TSF Pais e Filhos | Os pais também podem ajudar a combater as bactérias multirresistentes. Como? |
2023/08/18 - 2023/08/18 | A História do Dia (Rádio Observador) | Como é que uma bactéria mata um jovem de repente? |
2019/09 - 2019/09 | Exame Informática (SIC Notícias) | IR Bactyping: infravermelhos para detetar bactérias em hospitais |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
---|---|---|
2022/10 - Current | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) | Springer Nature |
2022/03 - Current | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (Section Editor: Molecular Epidemiology of Resistant Organisms; 28 articles edited) (2213-7165) | Elsevier |
2021/02/10 - Current | Clinical Microbiology and Infection (1469-0691) | Elsevier |
2020/03 - Current | RevSALUS - Revista Cientifica Da Rede Academica Das Ciencias Da Saude Da Lusofonia | |
2018/10 - Current | PLoS ONE (1932-6203) | Public Library of Science |
2018/10 - Current | BMC Microbiology (1471-2180) | Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.) |
2018/07/16 - Current | Frontiers in Microbiology [Part of Editorial Board: Review Editor in Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy] (1664-302X) | Frontiers Media SA |
2018/07 - Current | Environment International (0160-4120) | Elsevier |
2018/01 - Current | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (0924-8579) | Elsevier |
2013/06 - Current | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (2213-7165) | Elsevier |
2011 - Current | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1460-2091) | Oxford University Press |
2018/10 - 2020/03 | Frontiers in Microbiology [Guest Associated Editor of the Special Issue Antimicrobials and Anticancers of Bacterial Origins] (1664-302X) | Frontiers Media SA |
2018/09 - 2020/03 | Pathogens [Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Transmission of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria and Genes: Unveiling the Jigsaw Pieces of a One Health Problem"] (2076-0817) | MDPI AG |
2019/07 - 2019/08 | Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (2047-2994) | Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.) |
2018/07 - 2018/09 | International Journal of Food Science & Technology (1365-2621) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2017/06 - 2018/07 | Frontiers in Microbiology (1664-302X) | Frontiers Media SA |
2018/03 - 2018/04 | International Journal of Medical Microbiology (1438-4221) | Elsevier |
2018/01 - 2018/01 | Acta Veterinaria Brno (1801-7576) | University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
2013/10 - 2018 | The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (1972-2680) | Journal of Infection in Developing Countries |
2017/06 - 2017/11 | FEMS Microbiology Letters (1574-6968) | Oxford University Press |
2015/11 - 2017/06 | Journal of Medical Microbiology (1473-5644) | Microbiology Society |
2016/01 - 2016/03 | Journal of Pathogens (2090-3065) | Hindawi Limited |
2015/04 - 2015/06 | Folia Microbiologica (1874-9356) | Springer-Verlag |
2012/11 - 2012/12 | Microbial Drug Resistance (1931-8448) | Mary Ann Liebert |
2012/01 - 2012/02 | Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases (1651-1980) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
---|---|---|
2008 - Current | Training in classical and modern Microbiology techniques | Undergraduate and PhD students |
2024/02 - 2024/05 | MicroMundo@IUCS-CESPU (2nd Edition): Protocolo entre IUCS-CESPU e Escola Secundária do Cristelo | Simão Bettencourt; Rúben Rodrigues; Beatriz Antunes, Diana Leão, Joana Pinto; Mariana Alves; Hugo Lopes; Ricardo Faria |
2022/12 - 2023/05 | MicroMundo@IUCS-CESPU (1st Edition): Protocolo entre IUCS-CESPU e Escola Secundária do Cristelo | Luís Sampaio; Ana B. Dias; Simão Bettencourt; Luís Costa; Rúben Rodrigues; Clara Costa |
2022/02 - 2022/05 | MicroMundo@UPorto (4th Edition): Protocolo entre Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto e Escola Carolina Michaelis | Ana Paiva; Ana Per.; Ana Teix.; Beat. Lamas; Diana L.; Ema Pinto; L. Campos; M. Rito; Sabrina M. |
2020/02 - 2020/05 | MicroMundo@UPorto (2nd Edition): Protocolo entre Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto e Escola Carolina Michaelis | Ana Martins, Daniela Silva, Hugo Silva, Inês Castro, M. Vieira, Oriana Graça, Sandra Mota, Sofia R. |
2019/02 - 2019/05 | MicroMundo@UPorto (1st Edition): Protocolo entre Faculdade de Farmácia do Porto e Escola Irene Lisboa | Hugo Teixeira, Inês Todo Bom, Beatriz Rocha, Ana Sofia Magalhães, Joana Esteves |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2024/01/08 - 2024/01/09 | Reviewer of a Research Project application for funding by CESPU, under the call “GI2-CESPU-2023”, open from 17 November to 12 December, 2023. Gabinete para a Investigação e a Inovação (GI2) - CESPU Grants. | Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal |
2020/09/10 - 2020/09/30 | Reviewer of a research funding application from the Polish National Science Centre (NCN), which is a government agency that supports basic research in Poland. | National Science Centre , Poland |
2020/07/17 - 2020/08/12 | Reviewer of a research funding application from the Estonian Research Council (ETAg), which is the main research funding organization in Estonia that awards research grants on the basis of open competition. | Eesti Teadusagentuur, Estonia |
Distinctions
Award
2024 | Prémio Anual de Produtividade Científica do IUCS - 2023
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
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2023 | Prémio Anual de Produtividade Científica do IUCS - 2022
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
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2020 | Best oral presentation in One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting 2020 |
2020 | Best oral presentation of SIFFUP-Simpósio de Investigação FFUP
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2019 | Business Ignition Programme (BIP) Proof Funding
Fundação Amadeu Dias, Portugal
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2019 | Best oral presentation of SIFFUP-Simpósio de Investigação FFUP |
2018 | ESCMID Observership - Award given to Ana R. Freitas to visit a foreign institution (Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
and build a new web tool to access virulence genes of Enterococcus faecium genomes
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2013 | ESCMID/FEMS Research Award 2013 (Best ESCMID Research Gant project among 15 awardees; 500.00 eur)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2008 | Award for the best oral presentation on the XIII SEIMC (Madrid, Spain)
Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica, Spain
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Other distinction
2023 | Article selected as the Journal Title Story (The Future Is Now: Unraveling the Expanding Potential of Human (Necro)Microbiome
in Forensic Investigations; in Microorganisms)
MDPI AG, Switzerland
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2021 | Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the 31st ECCMID
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2021 | Ana Freitas's review highlighted as an Editor Choice in Antibiotics journal (https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/10/10/1215)
MDPI AG, Switzerland
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2020 | Affiliated Societies Travel Grant (as a member of ESCMID and Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2019 | Registration grant for the high quality of the research work presented on the 12th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological
Markers (IMMEM)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2018 | 2018 Travel Award (720 EUR)
Pathogens Journal (MDPI), Switzerland
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2017 | Ana Freitas's publication highlighted as an Editor’s Choice in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (https://www.requimte.pt/ucibio/news/ana-freitass-publication-highlighted-editors-choice-journal-antimicrobial-chemotherapy)
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, United Kingdom
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2016 | Registration grant for the high quality of the research work presented on the 11th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological
Markers (IMMEM)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2012 | Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the 22nd ECCMID (London, UK).
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2009 | Travel grant award attributed for the high quality of the research work presented on the 19th ECCMID (Helsinki, Finland)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2009 | Attendance grant attributed for assistance of the “ESCMID Conference on Enterococci: from animals to man” (Barcelona, Spain)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2008 | Travel grant award attributed for the high quality of the research work presented on the 18th ECCMID (Barcelona, Spain)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2008 | Registration grant for the high quality of the research work presented on the 8th IMMEM (Zakopane, Poland)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
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2008 | Travel grant award attributed for the high quality of the research work presented on the 48th ICAAC (Washington, USA)
American Society of Microbiology, United States
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2007 | Travel grant award attributed for the high quality of the research work presented on the 47th ICAAC (Chicago, USA)
American Society of Microbiology, United States
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