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Ana Rita Boura Varela. Concluiu o(a) Doutoramento em PhD in Biotechnology, with specialization in Microbiology em 2016/04/14 pelo(a) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia e Licenciatura em Licenciatura em Biologia em 2006/09/25 pelo(a) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. É Research Fellow FCT project PTDC/AGR-PRO/0856/2014: XF-FREEOLIVE-Multifunctional study of xylem-sap of Portuguese olive cultivars and its relation with susceptibility to infection by X. fastidiosa no(a) Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária. Publicou 12 artigos em revistas especializadas. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Doutoramento em 1 projeto(s) e Bolseiro de Investigação em 4 projeto(s). Nas suas atividades profissionais interagiu com 37 colaborador(es) em coautorias de trabalhos científicos. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Arsenite; Optical DNA mapping; PFGE; PacBio; Tellurite; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Rita Boura Varela

Citation names

  • Varela, Ana Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
691F-F3B9-590B
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9691-0217

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/04/14
Concluded
 PhD in Biotechnology, with specialization in Microbiology (Doutoramento)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
"Tracking antibiotic resistance from hospital effluents to the surrounding environment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
2011
Concluded
 Biotecnologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Microbiologia
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
"Tracking Antibiotic Resistance from Hospital Effluents to the Surrounding Environment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2006/09/25
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
"Potential use of biocontrol agents for control of Pyrenochaeta lycopersici in tomato crops" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
1998/09 - 1999/07
Attended
 Ciências do Mar (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Varela, Ana. "Avaliação do potencial antimicrobiano de endófitos de oliveira para uso como agentes de controlo biológico de Xylella fastidiosa". Paper presented in VIII Simpósio Nacional de Olivicultura Santarém, Santarém, 2018.
    Accepted
  2. Varela, Ana Rita. "Aeromonas spp. as carriers of antibiotic resistance genes in hospital and municipal effluents". Paper presented in 6th Congress of European Microbiologists – FEMS, In 6th Congress of European Microbiologists – FEMS Abstracts Book, Maastricht, Netherlands., Maastricht, 2015.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Ferreira, Catarina; Bogas, Diana; Bikarolla, Santosh K.; Varela, Ana Rita; Frykholm, Karolin; Linheiro, Raquel; Nunes, Olga C.; Westerlund, Fredrik; Manaia, Célia M.. "Genetic variation in the conjugative plasmidome of a hospital effluent multidrug resistant Escherichia coli strain". Chemosphere 220 (2019): 748-759. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.130.
    10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.130
  2. Ivone Vaz-Moreira; Ana Rita Varela; Thamiris V. Pereira; Romário C. Fochat; Célia M. Manaia. "Multidrug Resistance in Quinolone-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Hospital Effluent and the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant". Microbial Drug Resistance 22 2 (2016): 155-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2015.0118.
    10.1089/mdr.2015.0118
  3. Ana Rita Varela; Olga C. Nunes; Célia M. Manaia. "Quinolone resistant Aeromonas spp. as carriers and potential tracers of acquired antibiotic resistance in hospital and municipal wastewater". Science of The Total Environment 542 (2016): 665-671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.124.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.124
  4. A. R. Varela; G. N. Macedo; O. C. Nunes; C. M. Manaia. "Genetic characterization of fluoroquinolone resistant Escherichia coli from urban streams and municipal and hospital effluents". FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91 5 (2015): fiv015-fiv015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv015.
    10.1093/femsec/fiv015
  5. Ana Rita Varela; Vera Manageiro; Eugénia Ferreira; M. Augusta Guimarães; Paulo Martins da Costa; Manuela Caniça; Célia M. Manaia. "Molecular evidence of the close relatedness of clinical, gull and wastewater isolates of quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli". Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 3 4 (2015): 286-289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2015.07.008.
    10.1016/j.jgar.2015.07.008
  6. Ana Rita Varela; Sandra André; Olga C. Nunes; Célia M. Manaia. "Insights into the relationship between antimicrobial residues and bacterial populations in a hospital-urban wastewater treatment plant system". Water Research 54 (2014): 327-336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2014.02.003.
    10.1016/j.watres.2014.02.003
  7. Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha; Ana R. Varela; Thomas Schwartz; Olga C. Nunes; Célia M. Manaia. "blaTEM and vanA as indicator genes of antibiotic resistance contamination in a hospital–urban wastewater treatment plant system". Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 2 4 (2014): 309-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2014.10.001.
    10.1016/j.jgar.2014.10.001
  8. Varela, Ana. "Human health implications of clinically relevant bacteria in wastewater habitats". (2013):
    10.1007/s11356-013-1594-0
  9. Varela, Ana. "Quinolone-resistant E scherichia coli isolated from birds of prey in Portugal are genetically distinct from those isolated from water environments and gulls in Portugal, Spain and Sweden". (2013):
    10.1111/1462-2920.12231
  10. Varela, Ana. "Vancomycin resistant enterococci: From the hospital effluent to the urban wastewater treatment plant". (2013):
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.015
  11. Michael, I.; Hapeshi, E.; Michael, C.; Varela, A.R.; Kyriakou, S.; Manaia, C.M.; Fatta-Kassinos, D.. "Solar photo-Fenton process on the abatement of antibiotics at a pilot scale: Degradation kinetics, ecotoxicity and phytotoxicity assessment and removal of antibiotic resistant enterococci". Water Research 46 17 (2012): 5621-5634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2012.07.049.
    10.1016/j.watres.2012.07.049
  12. Varela, Ana Rita; Rämert, Birgitta; Mårtensson, Anna. "Potential use of biocontrol agents for control of Pyrenochaeta lycopersici in tomato crops". Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B - Plant Soil Science 59 4 (2009): 379-384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09064710802263218.
    10.1080/09064710802263218
Activities

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/11/01 - Current Frontiers in Plant Science