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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Lopes

Citation names

  • Lopes, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0818-8A8C-84DD
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4374-6577

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/10/20 - 2028/02/01
Ongoing
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Química e Biológica (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Enzyme-assisted remediation approaches for pollutant compounds and microplastics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2019/09/15 - 2022/02/23
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
"Biotransformation of environmental toxicants by different enzymes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16.70
2016/10 - 2019/07
Concluded
 Bioquímica (Licenciatura)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Respostas bioquímicas de pregados juvenis (Scophthalmus maximus) expostos a dietas contendo microplásticos contaminados com Bifenilos Policlorados (PCBs)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14.02
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/20 - 2024/01/20 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
2022/04/01 - 2022/07/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal
2021/02 - 2022/02 Researcher (Research) Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03 - Current DePaHE - degradação de compostos aromáticos policíclicos por enzimas
UIDB/50020/2020
Research Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Processos de Separação e Reacção Laboratório de Catálise e Materiais
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Sistemas biomoleculares multifuncionais para novos métodos de descontaminação, proteção e avaliação toxicológica
PTDC/BIA-MIB/31864/2017
Master Student Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2022/04/01 - 2022/07/31 Sistema bioelectroquímico para a mitigação do CO2
PTDC/BTA-BTA/0935/2020
Research Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Lopes, João; Marques-da-Silva, Dorinda; Videira, Paula A.; Lagoa, Ricardo. "Use of Lipid Vesicles for Revealing the Potential Contribution of Cytochrome C in the Metabolism of Environmental Toxicants". Paper presented in Biosystems in Toxicology and Pharmacology – Current challenges, Leiria, 2022.
    Published • 10.3390/bitap-12782
Conference poster
  1. Dorinda Marques-da-Silva; Ricardo José Lucas Lagoa; Lopes, João. Corresponding author: Dorinda Marques-da-Silva. "Methanol increases the efficiency of Anthracene degradation by Laccase". Paper presented in Conference of the European Federation of Biotechnology, 2020.
Journal article
  1. João Lopes; Dorinda Marques-da-Silva; Cláudia Peralta; Joaquim Rui Rodrigues; Daniela Vaz; Ricardo Lagoa. "Humic acid aggregates with laccase and decreases the performance of the enzyme catalytic systems through various mechanisms". International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.146405.
    10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.146405
  2. Lopes, João; Marques-da-Silva, Dorinda; Videira, Paula A.; Samhan-Arias, Alejandro K.; Lagoa, Ricardo. "Cardiolipin Membranes Promote Cytochrome c Transformation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their In Vivo Metabolites". Molecules 29 5 (2024): 1129. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29051129.
    10.3390/molecules29051129
  3. Marques-da-Silva, Dorinda; Lopes, João M.; Correia, Iris; Silva, João S.; Lagoa, Ricardo. "Removal of Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants and Copper by Alginate-Based and Polycaprolactone Materials". Processes 10 11 (2022): 2300. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr10112300.
    Published • 10.3390/pr10112300
  4. Lopes, João; Ricardo Lagoa; João M. Lopes; P A Videira. "Comparison of Laccases and Hemeproteins Systems in Bioremediation of Organic Pollutants". Current Protein & Peptide Science 23 6 (2022): 402-423. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389203723666220704090416.
    10.2174/1389203723666220704090416
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Lopes, João Ricardo Marques. "Biotranformation Of Environmental Toxicants By Different Enzymes". Master, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/139632.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/06/06 Humic acid inhibition of the laccase-catalyzed transformation of anthracene and methyl orange 9th International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics and SECOTOX Conference
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (SECOTOX) (Mykonos, Greece)
2022/09/09 Use of Lipid Vesicles for Revealing the Potential Contribution of Cytochrome C in the Metabolism of Environmental Toxicants Biosystems in Toxicology and Pharmacology – Current challenges
ESTG - Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Leiria, Portugal)
2022/08/23 Comparison of cytochrome c with conventional biocatalysts in the degradation of environmental toxicants American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2022
American Chemical Society (Chicago, United States)
2022/06/06 Removal of organic pollutants and copper by different alginate-based and PCL materials 9th International Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics and SECOTOX Conference
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Society of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (SECOTOX) (Mykonos, Greece)
2021/10/15 Differential effect of ABTS on the laccase and peroxidase-catalyzed degradation of organic pollutants XXI National Congress of Biochemistry
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/03/21 - Current Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Member