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Ana Santos is a dedicated PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences specializing in microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. Her research, supported by a FCT grant (UI/BD/151317/2021), focuses on the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant genes in different Enterococcus species, among both healthy individuals and hospitalized patients. She also explores the presence of bacteriocins and their role in antimicrobial activity within Enterococcus species. With a strong background in classical and molecular microbiology, molecular biology, and genomics, Ana conducted a valuable traineeship at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands, enhancing her bioinformatic skills under the guidance of the Medical Microbiology bioinformatics team. Ana's impactful research has resulted in the publication of five articles in scientific journals, including an Editor's Choice publication in Microorganisms. She has also contributed to scientific journals and conducted reviews for respected publications such as the Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance and the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Additionally, her work has been presented in numerous international congresses, earning her four travel grants at the prestigious ECCMID congress in the span of three years.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Cristina Fidalgo Almeida Santos
Date of birth
1996/02/09
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Ana Almeida-Santos
  • Ana Santos
  • Ana C. Almeida-Santos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1F1A-506E-D0FA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6711-4780

Email addresses

  • acfasantos@gmail.com (Professional)
  • up201404762@up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Nutrition, Dietetics
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Genetics and Heredity
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/04/01 - 2025
Ongoing
 PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Microbiology
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2017/09/21 - 2019/12/09
Concluded
 Ciências do Consumo e Nutrição (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal
"Oral microbiome characterization in patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and diet as an influencing factor" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2014/09/09 - 2017/06/17
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Fellowship funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UI/BD/151317/2021, Portugal, Portugal
Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal
2016/09/05 - 2017/06/09 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024 - Current APPLE - Assessing Prevalence, Population structure and resistance mechanisms of Linezolid-resistant Enterococci - a multicenter study
SCMID SG Research Grant APPLE
Ongoing
2022 - Current Exploring the bacteriocinome of human Enterococcus faecium paving avenues towards multidrug-resistant infections targeted therapies
EXPL/SAU-INF/0261/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/04/01 - 2025/03/31 Understanding the plasmidome and bacteriocinome of human contemporary Enterococcus spp. for future targeted therapies against multidrug-resistant infections
UI/BD/151317/2021
10.54499/UI/BD/151317/2021
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2023 - 2024 MicroMundo @ UPorto: an educational service-learning project for education in Microbiology.
MicroMundo@UPorto
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Antunes, Beatriz; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Read, Antónia; Alves, Valquíria; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. Corresponding author: Antunes, Beatriz. "In-depth characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from hospitalized patients at a Portuguese hospital, 2022-2023". Paper presented in 17.º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto, 2024.
    Published
  2. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Duarte, Bárbara; Luís M. Silva; Júlio Teixeira; Ana P. Castro; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "A challenge in antibiotic stewardship: detection of vancomycin-variable Enterococcus faecium (VVE) in human clinical and commensal samples (2009-2022). Scientific Letters, 1(Sup 1). https://doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.162". Paper presented in III 1H-TOXRUN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2024, Porto, 2024.
    Published • doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.162
  3. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Duarte, Bárbara; Michael Brilhante; Teresa M. Coque; Novais, Carla; Freitas, Ana R; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Bacteriocin Dynamics in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis: Implications for Clinical and Commensal Strain Interactions. Scientific Letters, 1(Sup 1). https://doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.131". Paper presented in III 1H-TOXRUN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2024, Porto, 2024.
    Published • doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.131
  4. Beatriz Antunes; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Antónia Read; Alves, Valquíria; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "Characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing infections in one Portuguese hospital (2022-2024). Scientific Letters, 1(Sup 1). https://doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.163". Paper presented in III 1H-TOXRUN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2024, Porto, 2024.
    Published • doi.org/10.48797/sl.2024.163
  5. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Maria J. Teixeira; Ana P. Tedim; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "Novel insights into healthy humans’ faecal carriage of enterococci: Enterococcus lactis as a dominant highly bacteriocinogenic species. Scientific Letters: Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.48797/sl.2023.51". Paper presented in II TOXRUN International Congress 2023, 2023.
    Published
  6. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Ana P. Tedim; Miguel D. Fernández-de-Bobadilla; Luís M Silva; Helena Ramos; Teresa M. Coque; et al. "Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium circulating in a Portuguese hospital (2009-2021) challenges classical infection control. Scientific Letters. Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.48797/sl.2023.78". Paper presented in II TOXRUN International Congress 2023, 2023.
    Published
  7. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Maria J. Teixeira; Duarte, Bárbara; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "Diferenciação precisa de Enterococcus faecium e Enterococcus lactis em fezes de humanos saudáveis indica E. lactis como espécie predominante". Paper presented in Congresso Internacional de Microbiologia em Língua Portuguesa, 2022.
  8. Maria J. Teixeira; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Novais, Carla; Dinis-Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge; Luisa Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "Faecal carriage of enterococci by Portuguese healthy humans: preliminary data towards accurate species identification. RevSALUS - Revista Científica Internacional Da Rede Académica Das Ciências Da Saúde Da Lusofonia". Paper presented in Congresso Internacional da TOXRUN, V Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciências Forenses, XIX Jornadas Científicas de Ciências do Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde, 2022.
  9. Joana Oliveira; Ana Almeida-Santos; Cristina Ferrás. "2018 ASCB Annual Meeting abstracts (ATP deprivation during a prolonged mitosis compromises kinetochore structure, SAC signaling and cell fate determination)". 2018.
    Published • 10.1091/mbc.e18-10-0647
Conference poster
  1. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Duarte, Bárbara; Luís M. Silva; Júlio Teixeira; Ana P. Castro; Carla Novais; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "Silent dissemination of identical VanA-carrying linear plasmids in Vancomycin-Variable Enterococcus faecium: A growing diagnostic concern". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Vienna, Austria, 2025.
  2. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Duarte, Bárbara; Michael Brilhante; Teresa M. Coque; Novais, Carla; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Bacteriocin profiling of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis: exploring the dynamic interplay between nosocomial and community isolates". Paper presented in DLM - Dia do Laboratório de Microbiologia. Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, 2024.
  3. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Bárbara Duarte; Luís M. Silva; Júlio Teixeira; Ana P. Castro; Carla Novais; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana Raquel Pinho Freitas. "Vancomycin Variable Enterococcus faecium (VVE) in human clinical and commensal samples: a challenge in antibiotic stewardship". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
  4. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Bárbara Duarte; Michael Brilhante; Teresa M. Coque; Carla Novais; Ana Raquel Pinho Freitas; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Beyond Antimicrobial Resistance: Competitive interactions and bacteriocin diversity in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
  5. Ana R. Freitas; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Bárbara Duarte; Antunes, Beatriz; Cabral, Maria; Read, Antónia; Alves, Valquíria; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Are you choosing the right colony? Exploring phenotypic and genotypic variations in clinical Enterococcus pure cultures". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
  6. Novais, Ângela; Silva, L.; Duarte, Bárbara; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Novais, Carla; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Exploring the potential of FT-IR Spectroscopy and Machine Learning to discriminate between Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
  7. Pereira, Ana P.; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Antunes, Patrícia; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas; Novais, Carla. "Impact of sub-inhibitory concentrations of chlorhexidine on in vitro horizontal transfer of vancomycin and linezolid resistance genes in Enterococcus faecium". Paper presented in ESCMID Global, Barcelona, Spain, 2024.
  8. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Duarte, Bárbara; Michael Brilhante; Teresa M. Coque; Carla Novais; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe. "Bacteriocin profiling of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis: exploring the dynamic interplay between nosocomial and community isolates". Paper presented in Dia do Laboratório de Microbiologia, 2024.
  9. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Maria J. Teixeira; Ana P. Tedim; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "Enterococcus lactis steals the spotlight: a predominant and highly bacteriocinogenic enterococci species obtained from contemporary faecal samples of healthy humans in Portugal". Paper presented in 6th International Conference on Enterococci, 2023.
  10. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Novais, Carla; J. A. Paganini; Malbert R. C. Rogers; Weizhen Xu; Rob JL Willems; Corander, Jukka; et al. "Genomic Insights into Enterococcus faecalis: A Comprehensive Study of Population Structure, Plasmid Distribution, and Source Associations in Portugal". Paper presented in 6th International Conference on Enterococci. Porto, Portugal, 2023.
  11. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Maria J. Teixeira; Ana P. Tedim; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Freitas, Ana R. "Novel insights into healthy humans faecal carriage of enterococci: Enterococcus lactis is as a dominant highly bacteriocinogenic species". Paper presented in II TOXRUN International Congress 2023, 2023.
  12. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Tedim, Ana P.; Miguel D. Fernández-de-Bobadilla; Silva, L.M.; Ramos, H.; Coque, Teresa M; et al. "Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium circulating in a Portuguese hospital (2009-2021) challenges classical infection control". Paper presented in II Toxrun International Congress 2023, 2023.
  13. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Maria João Teixeira ; Ana P. Tedim; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "An update on faecal carriage of Enterococcus species by healthy humans unveils E. lactis as a predominant highly bacteriocinogenic species that can harbor optrA. ePoster flash presentation.". Paper presented in 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023.
  14. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Ana P. Tedim; Fernández-De-Bobadilla MD; Luís M Silva; Helena Ramos; Coque, Teresa M.; et al. "Characterization of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from a central hospital over the last decade: fluctuating clones, plasmids and bacteriocins challenge classical infection control. ePoster flash presentation.". Paper presented in 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023.
  15. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Maria J. Teixeira; Duarte, Bárbara; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "Update on the faecal carriage of enterococci by Portuguese healthy humans unveils Enterococcus lactis as a predominant species". Paper presented in Dia do laboratório de Microbiologia 2022, FFUP, 2022.
  16. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Ana P. Tedim; Luís M. Silva; Helena Ramos; Teresa M. Coque; Carla Novais; Luísa Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "Clonal and plasmid dynamics of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium obtained from a single hospital institution over the last 20 years". Paper presented in 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII), 2022.
  17. M. Viviana Belloso Daza; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana R. Freitas; Novais, Carla; Antonia Read; Alves, Valquíria; Pier Sandro Cocconcelli; Luisa Peixe. "PCR-based differentiation of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis for accurate clinical diagnosis". Paper presented in 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII), 2022.
  18. Ana P. Tedim; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Val F. Lanza; Novais, Carla; Teresa M. Coque; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Peixe. "Unveiling the potential of bacteriocins as markers of the ecology of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis". Paper presented in 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII), 2022.
  19. Maria J. Teixeira; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Bárbara Duarte; Carla Novais; Ricardo J. Dinis-Oliveira; Luísa Peixe; Ana R. Freitas; et al. "Faecal carriage of enterococci by portuguese healthy humans: preliminary data towards accurate species identification for forensic applications". Paper presented in APCF-TOXRUN International Congress, 2022.
    10.51126/revsalus.v4isup.355
  20. Ferrás, Cristina; Oliveira, Joana; J. Monteiro; Santos, Ana; K. Bezstarosti. "ATP Availability Limits Mitotic Duration and Impacts Cell Fate Determination". Paper presented in ASCB/Embo 2019 meeting - Minisymp 21: Regulation of Cell Division, Washington DC, 2019.
  21. Oliveira, Joana; Monteiro, Joana; Santos, Ana; Abreu, Diogo; Ferrás, Cristina. "ATP deprivation during a prolonged mitosis compromises SAC signaling and cell fate determination". Paper presented in EMBO workshop on Chromosome segregation and aneuploidy, Cascais, 2019.
  22. Oliveira, Joana; Santos, Ana; Ferrás, Cristina. "ATP deprivation during a prolonged mitosis compromises kinetochore structure, SAC signaling and cell fate determination". Paper presented in ASCB/Embo 2018 meeting, 2018.
  23. Oliveira, Joana; Santos, Ana; Ferrás, Cristina. "ATP deprivation during a prolonged mitosis compromises kinetochore structure, SAC signaling and cell fate determination". Paper presented in i3S Annual Meeting, Póvoa de Varzim, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Carla Novais; Luísa Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. "Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: A current perspective on resilience, adaptation, and the urgent need for novel strategies". Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2025.01.016.
    10.1016/j.jgar.2025.01.016
  2. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Bárbara Duarte; Ana P. Tedim; Maria J. Teixeira; Joana C. Prata; Rui M. S. Azevedo; Carla Novais; et al. "The healthy human gut can take it all: vancomycin-variable, linezolid-resistant strains and specific bacteriocin-species interplay in Enterococcus spp.". Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2025): https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01699-24.
    10.1128/aem.01699-24
  3. Ana P. Tedim; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Val F. Lanza; Carla Novais; Teresa M. Coque; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Peixe; Isaac Cann. "Bacteriocin distribution patterns in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis : bioinformatic analysis using a tailored genomics framework". Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01376-24.
    10.1128/aem.01376-24
  4. Wagner, Theresa Maria; Pöntinen, Anna Kaarina; Fenzel, Carolin Kornelia; Engi, Daniel; Janice, Jessin; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Tedim, Ana P; et al. "Interactions between commensal Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis and clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium". FEMS Microbes 5 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtae009.
    Published • 10.1093/femsmc/xtae009
  5. Belloso Daza, Mireya Viviana; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Novais, Carla; Read, Antónia; Alves, Valquíria; Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro; Freitas, Ana R.; Peixe, Luísa. "Distinction between Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis by a gluP PCR-Based Assay for Accurate Identification and Diagnostics". Microbiology Spectrum 10 6 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03268-22.
    Published • 10.1128/spectrum.03268-22
  6. Novais, Carla; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Paula Pereira, Ana; Rebelo, Andreia; Freitas, Ana R.; Peixe, Luísa. "Alert for molecular data interpretation when using Enterococcus faecium reference strains reclassified as Enterococcus lactis". Gene 851 (2022): 146951. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2022.146951.
    Published • 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146951
  7. Freitas, Ana R.; Tedim, Ana P.; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Elghaieb, Houyem; Abbassi, Mohamed S.; Hassen, Abdennaceur; Novais, Carla; Peixe, Luísa. "High-Resolution Genotyping Unveils Identical Ampicillin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strains in Different Sources and Countries: A One Health Approach". Microorganisms 10 3 (2022): 632. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10030632.
    10.3390/microorganisms10030632
  8. Almeida-Santos, Ana C.; Novais, Carla; Peixe, Luísa; Freitas, Ana R.. Corresponding author: Freitas, Ana R.. "Enterococcus spp. as a Producer and Target of Bacteriocins: A Double-Edged Sword in the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis Context". Antibiotics 10 10 (2021): 1215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10101215.
    10.3390/antibiotics10101215
  9. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Martins-Mendes, Daniela; Gayà-Vidal, Magdalena; Pérez-Pardal, Lucía; Beja-Pereira, Albano. "Characterization of the Oral Microbiome of Medicated Type-2 Diabetes Patients". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370.
    10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370
Online resource
  1. Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Novais, Carla; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana R. Freitas. BioProject ID PRJNA1168715 of NCBI whole genome sequences (6 vancomycin-variable Enterococcus faecium). 2024. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA1168715.
  2. Ana Almeida-Santos; Ana P. Tedim; Carla Alexandra Novais; Luísa Maria Vieira Peixe; Ana Raquel Pinho Freitas. BioProject ID PRJNA1055432 of NCBI whole genome sequences (21 Enterococcus faecium, 13 E. lactis, 10 E. faecalis, one E. thailandicus). 2023. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJNA1055432..
  3. Mireya Viviana Belloso Daz; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Ana R. Freitas; Novais, Carla; Antonia Read; Alves, Valquíria; Pier Sandro Cocconcelli; Luisa Peixe. BioProject PRJNA851953 of NCBI (whole genome sequences of Enterococcus lactis genomes C1041, C1055, HPH55b, HPH67, HPH133, HPH282, HPH288,. 2022.
  4. Freitas A.R.; Tedim,A.P.; Ana Almeida-Santos; Duarte, Bárbara; Elghaieb,H.; Abbassi,M.S.; Hassen,A.; Novais, Carla; Luisa Peixe. Bioproject PRJNA800622 of NCBI. Enterococcus faecium whole genome sequences of 342T, 361T, 464T, 365T, 465T, 349T, 437T, 508T. 2022. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA800622/.
Preprint
  1. Ana P. Tedim; Ana C. Almeida-Santos; Val F. Lanza; Carla Novais; Teresa M. Coque; Ana R. Freitas; Luísa Peixe. "Bacteriocin Distribution Patterns in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis: Bioinformatic Analysis Using a Tailored Genomics Framework". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.13.566347.
    10.1101/2023.11.13.566347
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/05/02 Bacteriocin Dynamics in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus lactis: Implications for Clinical and Commensal Strain Interactions III 1H-TOXRUN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2024
One Health Toxicology Research Unit (1H-TOXRUN), at Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS) and Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde do Tâmega e Sousa (ESTeSTS) (Porto, Portugal)
2024/04/30 Genetic landscape of Enterococcus faecalis in Portugal: population dynamics, plasmid distribution and source correlations Oral presentation at 34rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Barcelona, Spain
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2022/04/24 Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium causing hospital infections in Porto, Portugal (2009-2020): a retrospective analysis 32th European Congress Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Lisboa, Portugal)
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)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/10/04 - 2024/06/26 Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of contemporary Enterococcus faecium from hospital infections
Co-supervisor of Beatriz Leite Antunes
 Estágio de Investigação em Ciências Biomédicas (Other)
Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde Unidade de Investigação em Toxicologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/02/23 - Current Pre-ECCMID Day on Diagnostics
Conference
 Pre-ECCMID Day on Diagnostics
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
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")
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Luís Sampaio (Other)
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário CRL, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/06/15 - 2024/06/28 Bacteriologia Clínica (Theoretical) Análises Clínicas (2ª edição) (Pós-Graduação) Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário CRL, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2025 Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the ESCMID Global 2025
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
2025 Top rated posters at ESCMID Global 2025 "Silent dissemination of identical VanA-carrying linear plasmids in Vancomycin-Variable Enterococcus faecium: A growing diagnostic concern"
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
2024 Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the 34st ECCMID
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
2024 Scholarship application - Full registration to II 1H-TOXRUN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2024
ESCMID Study Group for Food- and Water-borne Infections (EFWISG), Switzerland
2023 Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the 33st ECCMID
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland
2022 Ana C. Almeida-Santos review highlighted as an Editor's Choice in Microorganisms journal (https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/10/10/1215)
MDPI AG, Switzerland
2022 Travel grant award attributed for the outstanding quality of the research work presented on the 32st ECCMID
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Switzerland