Maria João Marinho Dias Cardoso (4B1E-E357-37E1)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria João Marinho Dias Cardoso

Maria João Cardoso holds a bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences and a master’s degree in Food Service Management with a focus on food safety, both from the University of Porto. She also has a second master’s in Applied Microbiology from the Portuguese Catholic University, where she studied Campylobacter spp. cross-contamination events in household settings as part of a European project aimed at reducing the health burden of food-borne illnesses. After the second master’s graduation, Maria João gained experience in microbiology research across public health, academic, and private sectors. She served as a visiting research fellow at the European Union Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli including Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (EURL-VTEC, Italy) using Erasmus + funds for recent graduates, and worked at Colab4Food as a researcher. Additionally, she has experience in clinical microbiology research from two international stints in Spain and the Netherlands. Most recently, she completed the European Public Health Microbiology Training Programme (ECDC EPIET/EUPHEM fellowship) after serving as a public health microbiologist at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Maria João is also a Guest Assistant Lecturer at University of Porto within the course "Microbiological analysis in the food chain for the catering and food service sector", funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria João Marinho Dias Cardoso
Date of birth: 1992/05/27

Citation names

Cardoso, Maria João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 4B1E-E357-37E1
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4241-0473

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/09/12 - 2025/01/29 Concluded	EUPHEM Fellowship (Pós-Graduação) Major in Microbiologia de Saúde Pública e Epidemiologia European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden	-
2016/09 - 2019/04 Concluded	Microbiologia Aplicada (Mestrado) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal	17
2015/09 - 2018/07 Concluded	Alimentação Coletiva (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal	17
2010/10 - 2015/06 Concluded	Ciências da Nutrição (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal	13

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/10/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen, Netherlands

2021/05/01 - 2021/11/30	Researcher (Research)	Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

2020/05/18 - 2021/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Laboratório Colaborativo para Inovação na Indústria Alimentar, Portugal
	Laboratório Colaborativo para Inovação na Indústria Alimentar, Portugal
2020/02/17 - 2020/05/16	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2019/05/01 - 2020/01/31	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
	Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
2018/10/01 - 2019/03/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
	Portuguesa Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/09/30	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09/12 - 2024/09/11	Microbióloga de saúde pública (em especialização)	Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit Geschäftsfeld Lebensmittelsicherheit, Austria
	European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden
2016/02/01 - 2016/09/30	Gestor de operações	Eurest Portugal Lda, Portugal

2015/07/01 - 2016/01/31	Nutricionista estagiário	Eurest Portugal Lda, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Cardoso, Maria João; Anurag Kumar Bari; Tim T. Severs; Basil Britto Xavier; Bhanu Sinha; John W.A. Rossen. Corresponding author: John W.A. Rossen. "Long-read sequencing reveals novel genetic factors in cefiderocol resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853: A stepwise adaptive evolution study". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, 2025. Cardoso, Maria João; Christian Borsodi; Vivien Brait; David Springer; Werner Ruppitsch; Stephan Aberle; Andreas Reich; Lukas Weseslindtner. "Comprehensive genotyping supports the epidemiological investigation of Austrian measles virus outbreaks in 2023". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, 2024. Cardoso, Maria João. "A study of cross-contamination events of Campylobacter spp. in domestic kitchens associated with consumer handling practices of raw poultry". Paper presented in IAFP's European Symposium on Food Safety, 2019. Cardoso, Maria João. "Prevalence of Campylobacter spp. in broiler meat purchased in Portugal and evaluation of cross-contamination events in domestic environment". Paper presented in 5º Simpósio Nacional “Promoção de uma Alimentação Saudável e Segura – SPASS 2018, 2018. Cardoso, Maria João. "SafeconsumE: Safer Food Through Changed Consumer Behavior: Effective Tools And Products, Communication Strategies, Education And A Food Safety Policy Reducing Health Burden From Foodborne Illnesses". Paper presented in 5º Simpósio Nacional “Promoção de uma Alimentação Saudável e Segura – SPASS 2018, 2018. Cardoso, Maria João. "Occurrence of Salmonella spp. in backyard eggs available in Portugal and Romania". Paper presented in FoodMicro Conference, 2018. Cardoso, Maria João. "Microbiological quality of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables purchased at retail in Portugal". Paper presented in MICROBIOTEC'17, 2017.
Journal article	Cardoso, Maria João; Dorothée Obach; Emma Löf; Gaetano Marrone; Laura Cornelissen; Myrofora Charalambous; Sandra Vohrnova; et al. Corresponding author: Vivian H Leung. "Multi-country surveillance of paediatric invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infection in the EU/EEA during the 2022–2023 season". Eurosurveillance (2026): Submitted Maria João Cardoso; David Rouhani; Adriana Cabal Rosel; Beatriz Daza Prieto; Miriam Hopfgartner; Anna Stöger; Petra Hasenberger; et al. "Complete genome sequence of Bordetella parapertussis strain 400431-b, isolated from a protracted course of whooping cough in Austria, 2023". Microbiology Resource Announcements (2024): https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00976-23. 10.1128/MRA.00976-23 Nânci Santos-Ferreira; Alexandra Lianou; Ângela Alves; Maria João Cardoso; Solveig Langsrud; Ana Rita Malheiro; Rui Fernandes; et al. "Cross-contamination of lettuce with Campylobacter spp. via cooking salt during handling raw poultry". PLOS ONE 16 5 (2021): e0250980-e0250980. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250980. 10.1371/journal.pone.0250980 Cardoso, M.J.; Nicolau, A.I.; Borda, D.; Nielsen, L.; Maia, R.L.; Møretrø, T.; Ferreira, V.; et al. "Salmonella in eggs: From shopping to consumption—A review providing an evidence-based analysis of risk factors". Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 20 3 (2021): 2716-2741. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85105677880&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/1541-4337.12753 Møretrø, T.; Nguyen-The, C.; Didier, P.; Maître, I.; Izsó, T.; Kasza, G.; Skuland, S.E.; et al. "Consumer practices and prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella and norovirus in kitchens from six European countries". International Journal of Food Microbiology 347 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85105260778&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2021.109172 Cardoso, Maria. "Cross-contamination events of Campylobacter spp. in domestic kitchens associated with consumer handling practices of raw poultry". International Journal of Food Microbiology (2020): 108984-108984. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.108984. 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.108984 Cardoso, Maria. "Occurrence of Salmonella spp. in eggs from backyard chicken flocks in Portugal and Romania - Results of a preliminary study". Food Control 113 (2020): 107180-107180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107180. 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107180
Preprint	Basil Britto Xavier; Anurag Kumar Bari; Tim T. Severs; Maria João Cardoso; Mykhailo Savin; Bhanu Sinha; John W. A. Rossen. "Enhancing antimicrobial resistance monitoring: Core Plasmid Multi-Locus sequence typing (cpMLST) with Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology (ONT)". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.25.620091. 10.1101/2024.10.25.620091

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/04/14	Long-read sequencing reveals novel genetic factors in cefiderocol resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853: A stepwise adaptive evolution study	ESCMID Global ESCMID (Viena, Austria)
2023/11/23	Increase of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections in Austria in 2023 - a genome-based characterization of invasive and non-invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolates	ESCAIDE European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/10/23	Sviluppo di un biosensore in grado di determinare la presenza delle Shiga Tossine (Stx) per la diagnosi rapida di infezione da STEC	XIX Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Diagnostica di Laboratorio Veterinaria – SIDiLV (Italy)
2019/02/13	Evaluation of microbiological quality of lettuce sanitized by two different methods and exposed to different times and temperatures of storage in food service units	12ª Edição do Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto – IJUP (Portugal)