CARINA GOMES COIMBRA (7512-05A2-9D1B)

Curriculum Vitae

CARINA GOMES COIMBRA

Carina completed her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in 2013 from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Beira Interior and then her Master's degree, also in Biochemistry, in 2015 from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, conducting research in environmental microbiology and bioremediation. Published 5 articles in different journals, 2 have been submitted (one of them in a high-impact journal). The area of scientific activity is more focused on environments (mines, soils or water) contaminated with heavy metals, which in turn are considered toxic to their environment and consequently to the population that surrounds them. The creation of a biological tool (biotool), more resistant and economical, in the removal of metal from contaminated sites (bioremediation), is my main objective. Over the years Carina has gained experience in different molecular biology techniques (like cloning, directed mutagenesis, RAPD, 16S, inverted PCR, real-time PCR and qPCR), extraction of genomic DNA, plasmid DNA, total environmental DNA, and RNA. User-independent of gene sequencing data analysis software (Sanger and NGS), and experienced in bioinformatics analysis. Carina was included as a "staff" in organizing 2 different workshops and 7 different activities. She also organized the Microbiotec21 congress as a "staff" member. She also guided internal students of the University of Coimbra (master thesis, bachelor project and laboratory rotation), foreign students (Erasmus program) as well as students of the 12th year (Leiria Secondary school) to carry out the Biology discipline (Resources and Sustainability Unit).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: CARINA GOMES COIMBRA

Citation names

Coimbra, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7512-05A2-9D1B
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9089-3492

Email addresses

ccoimbra@student.uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Bioremediation
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/01/01 - 2024/01/31 Ongoing	Doctoral Program in Bioscience (Doutoramento) Major in Microbiology Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2013 - 2015 Concluded	Biochemistry (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Demonstration of Functionality of a tungsten (W) Uptake Bacterial System" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good
2010 - 2013 Concluded	Biochemistry (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Síntese de Indocarbocianinas por Micro-ondas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Good

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/02/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2014 - Current	Researcher member	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos, Portugal

2014/08/01 - 2014/08/31	Summer Internship	Termalistur, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2024/05 - 2025/05	MSSHBioCem - Auto- Reparação de Superfícies de Argamassa usando um Biocimento de Elevado Desempenho 2022.03631.PTDC Researcher	Ongoing
2020/01 - 2024/02	Unravelling Biological Interactions of Yttrium for Developing Recovery Strategies Contributing to a Circular Economy Concept SFRH/BD/147292/2019 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017/05 - 2019/04	ERA-MIN - Recognition of microbial functional communities and assessment of the mineralizing potential (bioleaching) for hightech critical metals ERA-MIN/0002/2015 Researcher	Concluded
2017/09 - 2017/10	CRUP- Geomicrobiological tools for the recovery of resources from industrial residual fluxes A-02/17 Researcher Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany	Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas Concluded
2016/11 - 2017/04	PTW - Biotools for a sustainable supply of tungsten from biodetection to bioleaching and biorecovery PTDC/AAGREC/3839/2014 Researcher	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/02 - 2023/07	Bioreactores membranares para remediação e rentabilização de águas de portos P04M03 Member	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Paula Maria Vasconcelos Morais. "Heterologous expression of a LanM homologous from strain Mesorhizobium qingshengii J19 involved in yttrium immobilization". Paper presented in Microbiotec23, 2023.
Beatriz Rito; Francisco, Romeu; Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Paula Maria Vasconcelos Morais. "Effect of growth conditions on Ochrobactrum tritici 5bvl1 strain Rare Earth Elements immobilization capacit". Paper presented in FEMS2023, 2023.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Paula Maria Vasconcelos Morais. "Genome transcriptional analysis of yttrium stress in strain Mesorhizobium quingshengii J19". Paper presented in Ciência2023, 2023.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Martins, Jean; F313-B890-9B46. "Interaction of Mesorhizobium quingshengii J19 with high concentrations of yttrium". Paper presented in Ciência2022, 2022.
Francisco, Romeu; Coimbra, C.; Luís Carlos Iuñes Oliveira Filho; Janaína Mattge Bröring; Sousa, José Paulo; Osmar Klauberg-Filho ; Morais, P. V.. "Rainfall impact on soils subjected to no-tillage and crop-livestock integration treatments: insights on the microbial community succession following drought or flood using PLFA". Paper presented in Microbiotec21, 2021.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Morais, P. V.. "Yttrium removal by alfa-proteobacteria". Paper presented in Ciência2021, 2021.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Morais, Paula V.. "Organization of tupBCA gene cluster of Sulfitobacter species: adapting to the environment". Paper presented in IMPSG-2020, 2020.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Morais, P. V.. "Expression of TupBCA from Sulfitobcter dubius for a better W accumulation in Escherichia coli cells". Paper presented in Microbiotec19, 2019.
Coimbra, C.; Saavedra, V.; Romano, E.; Longar, B.; Morais, P. V.. "Diversity of isolates tolerant to multi-metals from mina Los Cóndores, Argentina". Paper presented in Microbiotec19, 2019.
Silva, S. P.; Coimbra, C.; Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, P. V.. "Innovative methodology to track bioleaching potential". Paper presented in Microbiotec17, 2017.
Coimbra, C.; Branco, Rita; Chung, A. P.; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, P. V.. "Bioleaching potential of nonacidophilic bacteria from Panasqueira mine in Fundão-Portugal". Paper presented in Microbiotec17, 2017.
Coimbra, C.; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, P. V.. "Diversity of Tungsten resistant non-acidophilic bacterial strains from Tungsten mine tailings". Paper presented in BioMicroWorld2017, 2017.
Branco, Rita; Coimbra, C.; Chung, A.P.; Morais, Paula V.. "Bioleaching potential of non-acidophilic bacteria from Panasqueira mine in Fundao – Portugal". Paper presented in MicroBiotec17, 2017.
Coimbra, C.; Farias, Pedro; Branco, Rita; Morais, P. V.. "Characterization of tungsten uptake in marine bacteria from hydrothermal vents". Paper presented in Microbiotec15, 2015.

Journal article

Coimbra, Carina; Branco, Rita; da Silva, Pedro S P; Paixão, José A; Martins, Jean M F; Spadini, Lorenzo; Morais, Paula V. "Yttrium immobilization through biomineralization with phosphate by the resistant strain Mesorhizobium qingshengii J19". Journal of Applied Microbiology 135 7 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jambio/lxae156.
Published • 10.1093/jambio/lxae156
Rito, Beatriz; Almeida, Diogo; Coimbra, Carina; Vicente, Diogo; Francisco, Romeu; Branco, Rita; Weigand, Harald; Morais, Paula Vasconcelos. "Post-measurement compressed calibration for ICP-MS-based metal quantification in mine residues bioleaching". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19620-8.
Published • 10.1038/s41598-022-19620-8
Ana Paula Kuan Yon Chung; Coimbra, C.; Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Branco, Rita; Simão, Francisco V.; Gomes, Elsa; et al. "In depth microbial community structural and functional dynamics in basins of tungsten mine tailings". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55706-6.
Published • 10.1038/s41598-019-55706-6
Coimbra, C.; Branco, R.; Morais, P.V.. "Efficient bioaccumulation of tungsten by Escherichia coli cells expressing the Sulfitobacter dubius TupBCA system". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 42 5 (2019): 126001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2019.126001.
Published • 10.1016/j.syapm.2019.126001
Coimbra, Carina; Farias, Pedro; Branco, Rita; Morais, Paula V.. "Tungsten accumulation by highly tolerant marine hydrothermal Sulfitobacter dubius strains carrying a tupBCA cluster". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 40 6 (2017): 388-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2017.06.005.
Published • 10.1016/j.syapm.2017.06.005

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024	Synergistic Membrane-Bio System for Efficient Yttrium Removal from Acid Mine Drainage Solutions	Symposium organized by the Department of Life Sciences, named DCV Talks (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023	Donnan dialytic transport and biological removal of yttrium from synthetic AMD solutions	CIRCULAR ECONOMY: MAKE IT HAPPEN Smart Waste Young Professionals (Portugal)
2023	Whole-genome transcriptional analysis of yttrium stress in strain Mesorhizobium quingshengii J19	FEMS2023 (Hamburg, Germany)
2021	Interaction of Mesorhizobium quingshengii J19 with high concentrations of yttrium	Microbiotec21 (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019	Microbial community structural and functional dynamics in basins of tungsten mine tailings: a vertical profile analysis	Microbiotec19 (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30	European Researchers' Night - Coimbra (2022) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra EPE Centro de Simulação Biomédica dos Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/09/17 - 2022/09/17	International Microorganism Day "O Dia Internacional do Microrganismo vai à radio!” (Coimbra University Radio, Coimbra, Portugal) (2022) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/09/17 - 2021/09/17	International Microorganism Day "Microorganismo de Estimação" (Ciência Viva Exploratory, Coimbra, Portugal) (2021) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/09/17 - 2020/09/17	International Microorganism Day "Microorganismo de Estimação" (Ciência Viva Exploratory, Coimbra, Portugal) (2020) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/12/05 - 2019/12/07	Congress Microbiotec19 (2019) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019/09/17 - 2019/09/17	International Microorganism Day (Ciência Viva Exploratory, Coimbra, Portugal) (2019) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018/05/03 - 2018/05/04	Workshop "Environmentally sustainable processes in critical metals recovery: Bio(micro)technologies to support a circular economy of raw materials" (2018) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/06/06 - 2016/06/06	Workshop "Environmentally sustainable processes in critical metals recovery linked to the project BIOCriticalMetals". (2016) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010/06 - 2010/06	Scientific exposition associated to "Laboratório Aberto" in Biology sarea (12th grade) for elementary school students (2010) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Escola Secundária de Tondela, Portugal
2008/06 - 2008/06	Scientific exposition associated to "Laboratório Aberto" in Biology and Geology area (10th grade) for elementary school students (2008) Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)	Escola Secundária de Tondela, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/06/12 - 2024/06/12	Workshop Workshop	XRD Insights – Explorando a difração de raios-X e as suas aplicações Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/21	Online webinar Other	Exploring the Microbial World: A Journey through Sequencing Applications Novogene Co Ltd, China
2024/02/09 - 2024/02/09	Scientific workshop entitled "As bactérias podem encontrar valor no lixo que descartamos: Vamos fazer bio-extração" for elementary school students (Escola Secundária Artur Gonçalves, Torres Novas, Portugal) Workshop	Semana da Ciência UC Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/09	Congress Congress	Microbiotec23 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/10/25 - 2023/10/25	Online conference Conference	Circular Economy: Make it Happen \| SWYP
2023/07/09 - 2023/07/13	Congress Congress	FEMS2023 Centro de Congressos de Hamburgo, Germany
2023/07/05 - 2023/07/07	Conference Conference	Ciência2023 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/02/10 - 2023/02/10	International Day of Women for elementary school students (Escola Secundária Cristina Torres, Figueira da Foz, Portugal) Other	International Day of Women in Science 2023
2022/10/20 - 2022/10/20	Online webinar Other	A Beginner's Guide to DNA Sequencing: Recent Advances Novogene Co Ltd, China
2022/05/16 - 2022/05/18	Conference Conference	Ciência2022 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/02/17 - 2022/02/17	Online webinar Other	RNA-seq Results Explained: what you can expect from the analysis Novogene Co Ltd, China
2022/01/20 - 2022/01/20	Online webinar Other	A Beginner's Guide to RNA-seq Novogene Co Ltd, China
2021/06/28 - 2021/11/30	Conference Conference	Ciência2021 Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/11/23 - 2021/11/26	Congress Congress	Microbiotec21 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/10/22 - 2021/10/22	Workshop Workshop	Breve introdução ao uso do software PLINK para estudos de associação genética Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 - 2021	3rd edition of the science communication competition in microbiology, with the work "A super bactéria e o salvamento dos pequenos metais" Other	Comunicação de Ciência em Microbiologia
2020/07 - 2020/07	Online advanced course by Coursera Other	Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners Universidade da Califórnia, United States
2020/06 - 2020/06	Online advanced course by Coursera Other	The R Programming Environment Universidade Johns Hopkins, United States
2020/05 - 2020/05	Online advanced course by Coursera Other	Basic Statistics Universidade de Amsterdão, Netherlands
2020/05 - 2020/05	Online advanced course by Coursera	How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper Escola Politécnica de Paris, France
2020/02/24 - 2020/02/28	Advanced course Other	Computational Biology Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/01/23 - 2020/01/24	Conference Conference	IMPSG-2020 Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2020 - 2020	2nd edition of the science communication competition in microbiology, with the work "O tempo das bactérias estranhas" Other	Comunicação de Ciência em Microbiologia
2019/12/05 - 2019/12/07	Congress Congress	Microbiotec19 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/12/07 - 2017/12/09	Congress Congress	Microbiotec17 Universidade Católica do Porto, Portugal
2017/11/04 - 2017/11/04	Scientific exposition with the work “Soil, the support of life” Exhibition	World soil day Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017/10/17 - 2017/10/19	Conference Conference	BioMicroWorld2017 Universidade Complutense, Spain
2016/11/04 - 2016/11/04	Scientific exposition with the work “Soil, the support of life” Exhibition	World Soil Day Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014/04/11 - 2014/04/14	Workshop "Best of Christalography in 180 minutes" Workshop	VII ENEBIOQ Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2014/04/11 - 2014/04/14	Biochemistry student meeting Conference	VII ENEBIOQ Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2013/05/08 - 2013/05/09	Biochemistry journey Conference	Chemistry and Biochemistry Journeys Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013/03/22 - 2013/03/24	Biochemistry student meeting Conference	VI ENEBIOQ Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2017/09 - Current	Portuguese Society of Microbiology	Member
2017 - Current	Portuguese Society of Microbiology	Member

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2019/09 - 2020/07	Mestrado em Bioquímica	Beatriz Fidalgo Gonçalves Pereira Rito

Distinctions

Award

2023	2nd Prize of best oral presentation in Circular Economy: Make it Happen Conference

Other distinction

2020	Erasmus+ grant for PhD student at University of Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France)
2017	CRUP grant as a researcher at Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (Gießen, Germany)
2014	Intern at Termalistur (São Pedro do Sul, Portugal)