Pedro Daniel Geadas Farias (8E13-7136-F4AF)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Daniel Geadas Farias

Pedro Daniel Geadas Farias concluded is Ph.D. in Biosciences in 2022 in Faculty of sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra. He has 8 peer-review papers published in open access journals, morover he has participated in 6 conferences with oral comunications and an additional 10 conferences with posters. He has organized one intenational confeence on the field of microbiology and biotechnology along with smaller conferences, sebinars, webinars and outreach activities. he his a member of the Portuguese Microbiology society and the portuguese genetic society. He has participated as a researcher in 3 distinct hired projects, in a COST Action as an invited researcher and in 4 national and international projects as team member. His work focuses on the fields of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Environmental diversity and Biomaterial production.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro Daniel Geadas Farias

Citation names

Farias, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8E13-7136-F4AF
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5451-6374

Email addresses

pfarias@.uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

239240796 Ext.: 262296 (Professional)

Addresses

Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes; University of Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-788, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Proficiency (C2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/09 - 2022/04/18 Concluded	Doutoramento em Biociências (Doutoramento) Major in Microbiologia Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "New bacterial strategies for Tellurium bioleaching and high value nanoparticles production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013 Concluded	Mestrado Bioquímica (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Gaining of join resistance to metals and antibiotics in deep sea bacteria " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17.2
2011 Concluded	Licenciatura em Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13.167

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/04/24 - 2026/04/23	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2023/03/31	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
2016/11/01 - 2017/04/30	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2013/05/10 - 2016/05/09	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto Piaget, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/05/15 - 2016/06/15	Organizer and promoter of event	IATV - Instituto do Ambiente Tecnologia e Vida, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/10/01 - Current	UltraBot - Robô para desinfecção por radiação ultravioleta CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-072644 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Ongoing
2016/05/01 - 2020/04/30	New bacterial strategies for Tellurium bioleaching and high value nanoparticles formation 821096 UIBD/0285/2020 PhD Student Fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Concluded
2016/10/01 - 2017/04/30	PtW - Biotools for a sustainable supply of tungsten from biodetection to bioleaching and biorecovery PTDC/AAGREC/3839/2014 Master Student Fellow	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/11/01 - Current	SUSTe - Development of SUStainable and integrative bioprocess for the recovery of TellurIum-based nanoparticles from photovoltaic wastes 706 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Engenharia dos Processos Químicos e dos Produtos da Floresta, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/04/19 - 2026/04/18	Agenda Mobilizadora para a inovação empresarial do setor das Duas Rodas C644866475-00000012 \| 7253 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Ongoing
2015/06 - 2019/12	“BIOCriticalMetals-Recognition of microbial functional communities and assessment of the mineralizing potential (bioleaching) for high-tech critical metals” ERA-MIN/0002/2015 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Concluded
2017 - 2019	CRUP – Geomicrobiological tools for the recovery of resources from industrial residual fluxes A-02/17 Researcher	Concluded
2016 - 2019	Superficies antimicrobinas permanentes activadas pela luz"; project member PTDC/CTM-POL/6138/2014 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Farias, Pedro; Mendonça, Amanda; oliveira paulo v; Paula Maria de Melim Vasconcelos de Vitorino Morais. "Genome mining reveals potential of Pseudomonas sp strains for improved microbial induced calcium precipitation". Paper presented in Microbiotec23, 2023. Farias, Pedro; Li Xuang Ji; Sorensen, Soren J; Paula Maria de Melim Vasconcelos de Vitorino Morais. "Microbiome of hospital surfaces independent of Human occupation". Paper presented in FEMS23, 2023. Costa, Inês; Farias, Pedro; Helena Ribeiro; Paixão, José António; Branco, Rita; Pereira, Jorge Fernando Brandão. "Extraction and purification of tellurium nanoparticles from bacterial biomass using biosolvents". Paper presented in BPP 2022, 2022. Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Maccario, Lorrie; Herschend, Jakob; Piedade, Ana Paula; Sorensen, Soren J; Paula Maria de Melim Vasconcelos de Vitorino Morais. "High value tellurium nanoparticle formation by Paenibacillus pabuli". Paper presented in Microbiotec21, 2021. Farias, Pedro; Morais, Paula V.; Francisco, Romeu; Sorensen, Soren J. "Metabolic dynamics of Paenibacillus and Bacillus in response to tellurite". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2021, 2021. Farias, Pedro; Morais, Paula V.. "Yce operon arrangements to improve tellurite resistance and reduction in Bacillus strains". Paper presented in IMPSG2020, 2020. Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Sorensen, Soren J; Morais, Paula V.. "Proteomic to disentail the response to tellurite in highly metal resistant gram-positive bacteria". Paper presented in Microbiotec19, 2019. Lordelo, Roberta; Farias, Pedro; Branco, Rita; Gama, Fernando; Morais, Paula V.. "Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae traits may determine the presence of these species in the hospital microbiome". Paper presented in MIcrobiotec19, 2019. Lordelo, Roberta; Farias, Pedro; Gama, Fernando; Morais, Paula V.. "Bacterial Traits Defining the Hospital Microbiome". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2019, 2019. Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, Paula V.. "Metabolic response to tellurite by environmental Bacillus". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2019, 2019. Farias, Pedro; Morais, Paula V.. "Bacterial tools for tellurium recovery and processing". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2018, 2018. Farias, Pedro; Paixão, José; Morais, Paula V.. "Bacterial consortium as a tool for increasing efficiency in tellurium bioleaching". Paper presented in Microbiotec17, 2017. Pereira, Sara Silva; Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, Paula V.; Coimbra, Carina. "Innovative methodology to track bioleaching potential". Paper presented in Microbiotec17, 2017. Farias, Pedro; Paixão, José; Morais, Paula V.. "Bacterial consortium effectiveness on tellurium bioleaching". Paper presented in BioMicroWorld2017, 2017. Coimbra, Carina; Farias, Pedro; Branco, Rita; Paula Vasconcelos Morais. "Characterization of tungsten uptake in marine bacteria from hydrothermal vents". Paper presented in Microbiotec15, 2015. Farias, Pedro; Gama, Fernando; Reis, Diogo; Alarico, Susana; Empadinhas, Nuno; Martins, José Carlos; Almeida, Ana Maria; Morais, Paula V.. "Microbiome of non-critical hospital surfaces and equipment is an unseen ecosystem". Paper presented in Microbiotec15, 2015.
Journal article	Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Morais, Paula V.. Corresponding author: Morais, Paula V.. "Potential of tellurite resistance in heterotrophic bacteria from mining environments". iScience 25 7 (2022): 104566. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104566. Accepted • 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104566 Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Maccario, Lorrie; Herschend, Jakob; Piedade, Ana Paula; Sørensen, Søren; Morais, Paula V.. Corresponding author: Morais, Paula V.. "Impact of Tellurite on the Metabolism of Paenibacillus pabuli AL109b With Flagellin Production Explaining High Reduction Capacity". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.718963. Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2021.718963 Sapkota, Rumakanta; Santos, Susana; Farias, Pedro; Krogh, Paul Henning; Winding, Anne. "Insights into the earthworm gut multi-kingdom microbial communities". Science of The Total Environment 727 (2020): 138301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138301. Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138301 Chung, Ana Paula; Coimbra, Carina; Farias, Pedro; Francisco, Romeu; Branco, Rita; Simão, Francisco V.; Gomes, Elsa; et al. "Tailings microbial community profile and prediction of its functionality in basins of tungsten mine". Scientific Reports 9 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55706-6. Published • 10.1038/s41598-019-55706-6 Coimbra C; Farias, Pedro; Branco R; Morais PV. "Tungsten accumulation by highly tolerant marine hydrothermal Sulfitobacter dubius strains carrying a tupBCA cluster.". Systematic and applied microbiology (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28802743. 10.1016/j.syapm.2017.06.005 Pedro Geadas Farias; Fernando Gama; Diogo Reis; Susana Alarico; Nuno Empadinhas; José Carlos Martins; Ana Figueiredo de Almeida; Paula Vasconcelos Morais. "Hospital microbial surface colonization revealed during monitoring of Klebsiella spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and non-tuberculous mycobacteria". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 110 7 (2017): 863-876. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10482-017-0857-z. 10.1007/s10482-017-0857-z Farias P; Espírito Santo C; Branco R; Francisco R; Santos S; Hansen L; Sorensen S; Morais PV. "Natural hot spots for gain of multiple resistances: arsenic and antibiotic resistances in heterotrophic, aerobic bacteria from marine hydrothermal vent fields.". Applied and environmental microbiology (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25636836. Published • 10.1128/aem.03240-14 de Abreu, Pedro; Farias, Pedro; Paiva, Gabriel; Almeida, Ana; Morais, Paula. "Persistence of microbial communities including Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a hospital environment: a potential health hazard". BMC Microbiology 14 1 (2014): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-14-118. Published • 10.1186/1471-2180-14-118
Thesis / Dissertation	"New bacterial strategies for Tellurium bioleaching and high value nanoparticles production". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/100334. Farias, Pedro Daniel Geadas. "Gaining of join resistance to metals and antibiotics in deep sea bacteria". Master, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/26071.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2022/10/11	Bacteria from mining environments: potential of tellurite resistance and reduction	Microbiologia 2022 (Portugal)
2021/07/07	Bioleaching of mining residues using highly resistant bacterial strains	Circular Economy: Make It Happen
2019/12/07	Proteomic to disentail the response to tellurite in highly metal resistant gram-positive bacteria	Microbiotec19 Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/05	Biomanufacturing: microbes beat factories	Environmentally sustainable process in critical metals recovery: bio (micro) technologies to support a circular economy of raw materials Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/09/18	Microbiota of a Hospital's environment is composed by bacterial species usually not associated with this environments	TEMPH2014 Lisbon School of Health Technology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/12/06	Hospitals environmental microbial communities: a survey in two hospitals with different dimensions	Microbiotec13 Universidade Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2013/12/06	Sequenced mobile elements from submarine hydrothermal vents include simultaneously genetic determinants for heavy metal and antibiotic resistance	Microbiotec13 Universidade Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2013/12/06	Natural hotspots for multiple resistances gain: arsenic resistance in heterotrophic aerobic bacteria from marine hydrothermal vents	Microbiotec13 Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/12/07 - 2019/12/09	Membro da organização do Congresso internacional Microbiotec19 (2019/12/07 - 2019/12/09) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/03/16 - Current	Invited speaker - presenting " Metabolismo Microbiano: do genoma ao Fenótipo" Workshop	III meet.Lab Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/03/28 - 2033/03/28	Bactérias como ferramentas para a remediação e recuperação de metais Other	Semana da Ciência UC 2023 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Escola Secundária de Adolfo Portela, Portugal
2023/05/23 - 2023/05/26	Sustainable Value Creation Summit - round table - "How to create value from mining in extreme environments?" Conference	Sustainable Value Creation Summit Universidade NOVA de Lisboa NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/09/29	PRODUCTION OF THE RECOMBINANT RETROPEPSINLIKE PROTEASE FROM RICKETTSIA CONORII (APRC) (Thesis) Arguer	Carolina Pagaimo Faim (Master) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2019/03/25 - Current	90 segundos de Ciência	Microbioma Hospitalar

Distinctions

Title

2020	Membro Sociedade Portuguesa de Genética

Other distinction

2016	COST-Short Term Scientific Mission -ES1406-35328
2013	Membro Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal