Pedro Miguel de Sousa Barbosa (5C1D-FB0F-7DD8)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Miguel de Sousa Barbosa

Pedro Barbosa is currently a PhD student in NemaLab/MED (Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development) at the University of Évora (Portugal), with a PhD grant funded by national funds through FCT (2018-2021). His PhD main objectives are the evaluation of compounds produced by plants and bacteria for the control of the plant-parasitic nematode Pratylenchus penetrans and to access the host plant (Solanum tuberosum) response to the application of the nematotoxic compounds. Pedro Barbosa took part in the scientific team of 6 national projects and in 5 national and 2 international projects as a research fellow. Since 2012, collaborates with the Portuguese Institute for Nature and Forests Conservation (ICNF) in the PANCNMP program ¿Plano de Ação Nacional para Controlo do Nemátodo da Madeira do Pinheiro¿, in the evaluation of wood samples for the control of the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in the Portuguese forests. Has a 15 year-expertise in providing technical consultancy to individual farmers or to agriculture related and golf related companies, concerning the presence of plant-parasitic nematodes in soils. Presented his work in oral and panel communications in national and international meetings and congresses. Author and co-author of 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 1 book chapter. He co-supervised undergraduate students in the practical classes of Nematology. His fields of interest are plant-parasitic nematode biocontrol, nematode taxonomy, and detection and population dynamics of plant-parasitic nematodes.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro Miguel de Sousa Barbosa

Citation names

Barbosa, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 5C1D-FB0F-7DD8

Telephones

Telephone

266740800 Ext.: 24460 (Professional)

Addresses

NemaLab, Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (MED). Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra - Apartado 94, 7006-554, Évora, Évora, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.icaam.uevora.pt/NemaLab (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2021/03/01 - Current	Plant metabolomics for the control of the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans PTDC/ASP-PLA/0197/2020 Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/01/01 - 2023/05/15	A motif to unveil mechanisms of parasitism gene regulation in the pinewood nematode as a target for disease control and plant resistance PTDC/ASPPLA/ 1108/2021 Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/01 - 2022/09/30	Pine host chemistry and environmental factors driving the epidemiology of the pinewood nematode PTDC/ASP-SIL/29774/2017 Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/07/01 - 2019/11/30	Biotechnology approaches towards the control of the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans PTDC/AGR-PRO/2589/2014 Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2015/02/28	Characterization of the pinewood nematode / Pinus system: a phytochemical and histopathological approach PTDC/AGR-CFL/120184/2010 Research Fellow Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/01/01 - 2012/09/30	PlantBioNem – Plant biotechnology in phytonematicidals screening PTDC/AGR-CFL/117026/2010 Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2009/01/01 - 2010/12/31	Projecto Nacional AFN “O nemátode-da-madeira-do-pinheiro (NMP), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus”. Projecto AFN Researcher Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Instituto das Florestas e Conservação da Natureza Concluded
2008/05/01 - 2010/11/30	Evaluation and development of effective natural control for economically-important parasitic nematodes using phytochemicals from the Brassicaceae and essential oil-producing species PTDC/AGR-AAM/74579/2006 PTDC/AGR-AAM/74579/2006 Research Fellow Universidade de Évora Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2007/10 - 2008/03	Análise e aplicação da sinalização do crescimento radicular por fungos ectomicorrízicos sobre rebentos de Pinus. PTDC/AGR-CFL/71437/2006 Integration into Research Grant Fellow Universidade de Évora, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2006/01/01 - 2006/07/31	Development of improved pest risk analysis techniques for quarantine organisms using pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, in Portugal as a model system PHRAME QLK5-CT-2002-00672 Research Fellow	Concluded

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/06/03	Nematicidal activity of oxygen-containing compounds against the root lesion nematode	III Bio.Natural – Bioactive Natural Products Research Meeting Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/12/11	Host plant response to the application of nematicidal phytochemical	VII PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture MED / Évora University (Évora, Portugal)
2022/05/24	Is potato development influenced by nematicidal phytochemicals?	73rd International Symposium on Crop Protection Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
2022/03/24	Produtos naturais da flora Portuguesa no controlo de nemátodes fitoparasitas	III Colóquio Nacional de Plantas Aromáticas e Medicinais (CNPAM2021) Associação Portuguesa de Horticultura (Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2021/05/28	Plant metabolites against Pratylenchus penetrans: from in vitro bioassays to pot experiments	ESN´s Virtual Nematology Conference European Society of Nematologists
2020/12/09	Potato growth under environment chamber conditions	V PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture Évora MED (Évora, Portugal)
2019/11/22	Compostos produzidos por plantas para o controlo do nemátode das lesões radiculares em batateira	Workshop: Controlo do nemátode das lesões radiculares Pratylenchus penetrans: uma abordagem biotecnológica Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (Oeiras, Portugal)
2019/11/11	Plant secondary metabolites for the control of two major plant parasitic nematodes	IV PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (Évora, Portugal)
2019/07/27	Nematicidal effect of terpene molecules in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and Pratylenchus penetrans	I Bio.Natural – Bioactive Natural Products Research Meeting Universidade Lusófona, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/12/15 - 2020/12/15	Advances in Nematology 2020 Conference	Advances in Nematology 2020 Association of Applied Biologists, United Kingdom
2019/11/22 - 2019/11/22	Workshop: Controlo do nemátode das lesões radiculares Pratylenchus penetrans: uma abordagem biotecnológica Meeting	Workshop: Controlo do nemátode das lesões radiculares Pratylenchus penetrans: uma abordagem biotecnológica Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal
2019/03/18 - 2019/03/28	VI Jornadas Técnicas da Batata Meeting	VI Jornadas Técnicas da Batata Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2019	Flash Presentation Award "Nematicidal effect of terpene molecules in Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and Pratylenchus penetrans" Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Portugal
2015	Scientific Poster Prize. 67th International Symposium on Crop Protection Universiteit Gent Faculteit Bio-Ingenieurswetenschappen, Belgium

Other distinction

2017	FCT PhD Fellowship 2018-2021 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal