Ana Paula de Mira do Carmo Pereira (9F15-2D4C-F5CF)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Paula de Mira do Carmo Pereira

Ana Paula de Mira do Carmo Pereira. I graduated in Biology (1981/06/30) at Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, University of Lisbon, and obtained a Master's degree in Integrated Protection (1996/09/30) at Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Scholl of Agronomy, University of Lisbon and defended public examination, equivalent to PH.D. Degree at Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT) - Tropical Research Institute of Portugal (1999/11/26). I held positions as a Junior Research Worker (1987 - 1990), Assistant Research Worker (1990 - 1999), and a Researcher (1999 - 2015) at the Tropical Research Institute (IICT). Since 2015, I have been a researcher at Coffee Rusts Reseach Center (CIFC), a research unit of ISA, University of Lisbon. I joined the CIFC/IICT team since 2006. I am a full member of the Research Center Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF/ISA) and the Associated Laboratory Terra. I have published 10 original research papers, including peer-reviewed articles in reputed SCI journals (e.g., PlosONE; Plant Disease; Plant Pathology). I have published 3 book chapters and conference proceedings. I have collaborated in the supervision of 2 Master's thesis, 3 undergraduate thesis, and training students and technicians. I have also participated in dissemination activities (e.g. Ciência Viva, ISA Open Day). As a team member I participated in 10 projects. I have been developing research activities in Agrarian Sciences mainly in Agriculture area, namely Protection of plants. In my professional activities interacted with 94 collaborators as co-author of scientific papers. In my Curriculum Ciência Vitae the main interests are: "Coffee diseases"; "Coffea arabica"; "Hemileia vastatrix"; "Colletotrichum kahawae"; "Entomology"; "Pheromones"; Stored product pests; Lepidopterous; Insects identification; Pathogenic fungus; Pathogenity; physiological races; epidemiology; disease development and spread; disease management.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Paula de Mira do Carmo Pereira

Citation names

Pereira, Ana Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9F15-2D4C-F5CF
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7469-8147

Email addresses

appereira@isa.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

213653510 (Professional)

Addresses

Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa (UL), Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro (CIFC), Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505, Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/cifc/apresentacao (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
1990/12/06 - 1999/11/26 Concluded	Defended Public Examination, equivalent to Ph.D. Degree (Doutoramento) Major in Agrarian Sciences Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal "Stored-Product Lepidoptera. Use of pheromone traps in detecting their populations in stored and food processing facilities" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved
1992/02/01 - 1996/09/30 Concluded	Master's degree in Integrated Protection (Mestrado) Major in Integrated Protection Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal "Bioecology of Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and monitorization using pheromone traps in flour mills" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Good
1976/09/15 - 1981/06/30 Concluded	Biology (Licenciatura) Major in Scientific Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Estudo da acção de vitaminas do complexo B no comportamento de Tribolium castaneum em laboratório" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2015/08/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
1999/11/27 - 2015/07/31	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
1990/12 - 1999/11	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
1987/05/04 - 1990/12/06	Research Trainee (Research)	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/12/30 - 2022/12/29	Pesquisa de novas fontes de resistência do cafeeiro à ferrugem Hemileia vastatrix PTDC/ASP-PLA/29779/2017 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30	HDT-Coffee - Map da resistencia no hibrido de Timor PTDC/ASP-PLA/32429/2017 Researcher Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30	Patogenómica da ferrugem do cafeeiro para descobrir mecanismos de virulência e marcadores de diagnóstico PTDC/ASP-PLA/29189/2017 Researcher FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2020	Strategie di coffee design per il futuro del caffe¿ Arabica POR ¿ FESR Project Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal illycaffè SpA, Italy	European Regional Development Fund Ongoing
2016/07/01 - 2019/12/31	Um novo paradigma em ciclos nucleares de fungos? Uma investigação à abundante ocorrência de núcleos diplóides ao longo do ciclo de vida de ferrugens e comparação com outros Pucciniomycetes PTDC/BIA-MIC/1716/2014 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Agronomia Alimentos Ambiente e Paisagem, Portugal Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2017 - 2019	Characterization of rust races to support the identification of coffee mutants. Contract nº 20902 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal	International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2016/01/31	Genómica populacional e adaptativa da virulência na ferrugem alaranjada do cafeeiro (Hemileia vastatrix)” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/119943/2010) PTDC/AGR-GPL/119943/2010 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/04/01 - 2014/12/31	Pesquisa de proteínas biomarcadoras para a resistência do cafeeiro à ferrugem alaranjada (PTDC/AGR-GPL/109990/2009) PTDC/AGR-GPL/109990/2009 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/04/01 - 2014/12/31	Pesquisar os mecanismos de defesa do cafeeiro associados à sua resistência a Colletotrichum kahawae” (PTDC/AGR-GPL/112217/2009 PTDC/AGR-GPL/112217/2009 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2014/06/30	A perspectiva do patogénio das interacções moleculares planta-microorganismo: genes expressos durante o processo de infecção da ferrugem alaranjada do cafeeiro - Hemileia vastatrix PTDC/AGR-GPL/114949/2009 Researcher Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Universität Konstanz Fachbereich Biologie, Germany	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Guerra-Guimarães, Leonor; Diniz, Inês; Azinheira, Helena Gil; Loureiro, Andreia; Pereira, Ana Paula; Tavares, Sílvia; Batista, Dora; Várzea, Vítor; Silva, Maria do Céu Lavado da. "Coffee Leaf Rust Resistance: An Overview". In Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust, 19-38. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-3-662-67273-0_2 Várzea, Vítor; Pereira, Ana Paula; Silva, Maria do Céu Lavado da. "Screening for Resistance to Coffee Leaf Rust". In Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Leaf Rust, edited by Ingelbrecht IL; Silva, Maria do Céu Lavado da; Jankowicz-Cieslak J, 209-224. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-3-662-67273-0_15 Varzea, Vitor; Pereira, Ana Paula; Silva, Maria do Céu; Várzea V, Pereira AP, Silva MC. "Coleções de germoplasma do Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro". In Lisboa Guardiã de Saber Tropical. Coleções e saber tropical (1883- 2015): Património do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, edited by Conceição Casanova; Maria Manuel Romeiras, 94-101. Lisboa, Portugal: Conceição Casanova & Maria Manuel Romeiras, 2021. Published
Conference abstract	Diniz I, Figueiredo A, Sebastiana M, Munoz-Pajares AJ, Valverde J, Azevedo H, Rodrigues AS, Prakash RS, Pereira AP, Guer. "First steps on the resistance profiling of Kawisari coffee hybrid through cytological and gene expression analyses". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), Montpellier, 2021. Published Birg João, Macedo C, Silva MC, Guerra-Guimarães L, Pereira AP, Várzea V, Paulo O, Batista D. "Identification of distinctive transcriptomic profiles among Hemileia vastatrix pathotypes throughout key stages of the infection process". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), Montpellier, 2021. Published Birg JA, Macedo C, Silva MC, Guerra-Guimarães L, Pereira AP, Várzea V, Paulo OS, Batista D.. "High-throughput transcriptome profiling of contrasting pathotypes of the coffee rust Hemileia vastatrix". 2020. Published Laureano A, Rodrigues ASB, Modesto I, Macedo C, Diniz I, Várzea V, Azinheira HG, Pereira AP, Loureiro J, Miguel C, Talhi. "A high genomic variability is found among Hemileia vastatrix pathotypes". Paper presented in 6th cE3c Annual Meeting: Frontiers in E3, 2020. Published Batista D, Silva DN, Vieira A, Loureiro A, Pina-Martins F, Pereira AP, Guerra-Guimarães L, Azinheira HG, Miguel C, Silva; Batista, Dora; Silva Diogo Nuno; Loureiro, Andreia; Pina-Martins, Francisco; Guerra-Guimarães, Leonor; Pereira A. P; et al. "An integrative genomics approach to probe virulence mechanisms and evolution in a coffee pathogen.". Paper presented in 4thcE3c Annual Meeting: Frontiers in E3, Lisboa, 2018. Published Vieira A, Diniz I, Loureiro A, Pereira AP, Silva MC, Várzea V, Paulo OS, Batista D ; Vieira Ana ; Diniz, Inês; Loureiro, Andreia. "Profiling and genome-wide association mapping of aggressiveness in Colletotrichum kahawae". Paper presented in 2º Simpósio SCAP de Proteção das Plantas; 8º Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Fitopatologia e 11º Encontro Nacional de Proteção Integrada, Santarém, 2017.
Conference poster	Azevedo, Herlander; Diniz, Inês; Figueiredo, Andreia; Guedes, Fernanda Alves Freitas; Sebastiana, Mónica Guita; Azinheira, Helena Gil; Barros, Danielle; et al. "Characterization of the transcriptional signatures associated with resistance and susceptibility to Hemileia vastatrix in the Kawisari coffee hybrid". 2023. Laureano A, Rodrigues ASB, Macedo C, Diniz I, Pereira AP, Várzea V, Talhinhas P, Batista, D. "Assessing the involvement of retrotransposons in the genetic and genomic variability of Hemileia vastatrix". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), 2021. García-Gómez Alejandro, Olmedo-Castellanos C, Valverde J, Azevedo H, Guimarães L, Alves de Freitas FG, Abdelaziz M, Camp; o-. "Comparative characterization of resistance proteins in Coffea species". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), 2021. Silva MC, Julca-Otiniano A, Alvarado L, Castro-Cepero V, Borjas R, Gómez L, Pereira AP, Nielen S, Ingelbrecht I, Várzea. "Survey of Hemileia vastatrix races from Peru to identify potential coffee mutants with disease resistance". Paper presented in 28th International Conference on Coffee Science (ASIC), 2021.
Journal article	Keith, Lisa M.; Matsumoto, Tracie K.; Sugiyama, Lionel S.; Fukada, Mach; Nagai, Chifumi; Pereira, Ana Paula; Silva, Maria do Céu; Varzea, Vitor. "First report of the physiological race (XXIV) of Hemileia vastatrix (Coffee Leaf Rust) in Hawaii". (2023): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28022. Silva MC; Leonor Guerra-Guimarães; Ines Diniz; Andreia Loureiro; Helena Gil Azinheira; Ana Paula Mira Carmo Pereira; Sílvia Tavares; Dora Batista; Vítor Várzea. "An Overview of the Mechanisms Involved in Coffee-Hemileia vastatrix Interactions: Plant and Pathogen Perspectives". Agronomy (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/2/326. 10.3390/agronomy12020326 Pereira, Ana Paula. "First Report of Hemileia vastatrix (Coffee Leaf Rust) Physiological Races Emergent in Coffee Germplasm Collections in the Coffee-Cropping Regions of China". Plant Disease 105 12 (2021): 4162-4162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-04-21-0796-pdn. Published • 10.1094/pdis-04-21-0796-pdn Li, Le; Várzea, Vitor Manuel Pinto; Xia, Quianfeng; Tang, Tianle; Zhu, Mengfeng; He, Chunping; Pereira, Ana Paula; et al. "First report of Hemileia vastatrix (cofee leaf rust) physiological races emergent in coffee germplasm collections in the coffee-cropping regions of China". (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23257. Andrade, Adilma; Silva, Elsa Borges da; Pereira, Ana Paula; Franco, José Carlos. "Identificação e monitorização de cochonilhas-algodão (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae) associadas ao cafeeiro em estufa". (2019): https://doi.org/10.19084/RCA16144. https://doi.org/10.19084/RCA16144 Vieira, A.; Diniz, I.; Loureiro, A.; Pereira, A. P.; Silva, M. C.; Várzea, V.; Batista, D.. "Aggressiveness profiling of the coffee pathogen Colletotrichum kahawae". Plant Pathology 68 2 (2018): 358-368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12950. Published • 10.1111/ppa.12950 Talhinhas, Pedro; Batista, Dora; Diniz, Inês; Vieira, Ana; Silva, Diogo N.; Loureiro, Andreia; Tavares, Sílvia; et al. "The coffee leaf rust pathogen Hemileia vastatrix : one and a half centuries around the tropics". Molecular Plant Pathology 18 8 (2017): 1039-1051. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12512. Published • 10.1111/mpp.12512 Diniz, I.; Figueiredo, A.; Loureiro, A.; Batista, D.; Azinheira, H.; Varzea, V.; Pereira, A.P.; et al. "A first insight into the involvement of phytohormones pathways in coffee resistance and susceptibility to Colletotrichum kahawae". PLoS ONE 12 5 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85019379110&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0178159 Batista, D.; Silva, D.N.; Vieira, A.; Cabral, A.; Pires, A.S.; Loureiro, A.; Guerra-Guimarães, L.; et al. "Legitimacy and implications of reducing Colletotrichum kahawae to subspecies in plant pathology". Frontiers in Plant Science 7 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85009819893&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.3389/fpls.2016.02051 Gichuru, E.K.; Ithiru, J.M.; Silva, M.C.; Pereira, A.P.; Varzea, V.M.P.. "Additional physiological races of coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) identified in Kenya". Tropical Plant Pathology 37 6 (2012): 424-427. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871430490&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1590/S1982-56762012000600008

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2001/09	Survey and estimate of moth population density in a flour mill in Cape Verde Islands	Meeting do Working Group da IOBC/WPRS "Integrated Protectionof Stored Products" Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015	Interação cafeeiro HDT - Hemileia vastarix Berk & Br. Caracterização da resistência. Supervisor	Engenharia Agro-Pecuária (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal
2014 - 2014	Cochonilhas-algodão associadas ao cafeeiro em estufas Co-supervisor	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Agronómica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2001 - 2004	O papel do armazenamento para a segurança alimentar: Um estudo de caso na área periurbana de Luanda/Angola Co-supervisor of Rosa Escórcio Pacavira de Matos	Mestrado em Produção Agrícola Tropical (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2002 - 2003	Detecção de Ephestia elutella e Lasioderma serricorne em centros de cura de tabaco Supervisor	Engenharia das Ciências Agrárias, opção Agrícola (Degree) Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal
2000 - 2001	Utilização de armadilhas com feromonas na protecção do tabaco armazenado Supervisor	Engenharia Agronómica (Degree) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2001/09/02 - 2001/09/05	Meeting do Working Group da IOBC/WPRS "Integrated Protection of Stored Products" Member	Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2016/11/21 - 2023/12	"Estratégias de Protecção Integrada" do Mestrado em Engenharia Agronómica	Engenharia Agronómica (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2016/11 - 2023/12	"Nutrição e Toxicologia Alimentar" do Mestrado em Engenharia Alimentar	Mestrado em Engenharia Alimentar (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2009/11/15 - 2009/11/26	Apoio Técnico em Protecção Vegetal	Rural development and food security
2002/12 - 2004/06	Tecnologia dos Produtos Tropicais	Engenharia Agronómica Ramo Agronomia Tropical (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
1993 - 2004	Tecnologia Pós-colheita	Mestrado em Produção Agrícola Tropical (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
1998/10/26 - 1998/10/30	Identificação e bioecologia de insectos (Lepidoptera) e meios de protecção biotécnicos	Fitossanidade dos Produtos Armazenados (Outros)	Ministério da Agricultura Florestas e Desenvolvimento Rural, Portugal