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Maria Eduarda Marques de Almeida. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular em 2014/10/24 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Licenciatura em Biologia em 2012/07/13 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências. Publicou 4 artigos em revistas especializadas. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Microbiologia, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia Molecular, Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias com ênfase em Biotecnologia Ambiental com ênfase em Biotecnologia Ambiental, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia Molecular, Ciências Exatas com ênfase em Ciências da Computação e da Informação com ênfase em Bioinformática, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia Molecular e Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias com ênfase em Biotecnologia Ambiental com ênfase em Biotecnologia Ambiental.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Maria Eduarda Marques de Almeida

Citation names

  • Almeida, Eduarda

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C91E-75B7-586A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9273-966X

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Environmental Biotechnology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Engineering and Technology - Environmental Biotechnology - Environmental Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/01 - 2023/12/21
Concluded
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Major in Microbiologia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Exploring the microbial diversity of Portuguese saltern environments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/12/13 - 2017/12/15
Concluded
 Genomic Applications in Biotechnology - Natural products (Outros)
Major in Bioinformática
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2017/11/27 - 2017/11/30
Concluded
 Programming Phyton for Biologists (Outros)
Major in Bioinformática
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2014/10/24
Concluded
 Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Bacillus licheniformis specific DNA markers for identification and culture-independent monitoring" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 out of 20
2014/07/21 - 2014/07/25
Concluded
 Bioinformatics of microbial genomes and mobile elements: new perspectives and applications (Outros)
Major in Bioinformática
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2012/07/13
Concluded
 Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Characterization of Enterococcus spp. isolates from seagull faeces and cloacae, with emphasis for antibiotic resistance and bacteriocin production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 out of 20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/03/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2014/11/01 - 2015/04/01 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/09/01 - 2023/12/21 PhD Student supported by scholarships with ref.: SFRH/BD/125527/2016 and ref. COVID/BD/151721/2021 (and DOI: 10.54499/COVID/BD/151721/2021) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2023/08/16 - 2023/12/14 Adviser services for Computer Assisted Gastric Cancer Diagnosis (CAGED) project (PTDC/EEI-EEE/5557/2020) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2022/03/28 - 2023/02/27 Contracted Researcher at BIOMIC - Microbial and trophic bioindicators for reporting the ecological status of coastal areas in SUDOE (Ref.: NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/05/09 - 2017/08/31 Research Fellow (BI) at INNOVMAR - Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resources; within research line NOVELMAR (Ref.: NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2015/04/18 - 2015/12/17 Research fellow (BI) at VEGIACOR-AMINOAQUA project - Pilot project for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming marine fish using functional amino acids (Ref.: PROMAR: 209327) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2014/09/23 MSc Student in Cell and Molecular Biology Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012/06/01 Academic traineeship Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/11/01 - 2021/12/31 Exploring saltern environments: from microbial cells to leads
COVID/BD/151721/2021
SFRH/BD/125527/2016
62001DFA
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09 - 2021/10 Exploring saltern environments: from microbial cells to leads
62001DFA
SFRH/BD/125527/2016
COVID/BD/151721/2021
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/10/01 - 2023/09/30 ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources.
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
Estudante PhD
UNorte.pt, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Ongoing
2022/03/28 - 2023/02/28 BIOMIC - Microbial and trophic bioindicators for reporting the ecological status of coastal areas in SUDOE
SOE4/P1/F0993 - BIOMIC
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
UID/Multi/04423/2019
Estudante PhD
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/05/08 - 2017/08/31 INNOVMAR - Innovation and Sustainability in the Management and Exploitation of Marine Resources; Research line: NOVELMAR - Novel Marine Products with Biotechnological Applications (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035)
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035
Research Fellow
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Madeira, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2015/04/18 - 2015/12/17 VEGIACOR-AMINOAQUA - Pilot project for increasing the productivity and sustainability of farming marine fish using functional amino acids (PROMAR: 31-03-05-FEP-43)
PROMAR: 209327
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2014/01/01 - 2015/04/17 PROFISH - Screening for novel probiotics within the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization (EXPL/MAR-BIO/0351/2013).
EXPL/MAR-BIO/0351/2013
FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-041383
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Silva, Miguel Gomes da; Santos, José Diogo Neves dos; Almeida, Eduarda; Lage, Olga Maria; Melo, Paula. "Exploring the potential of marine bacteria as novel source of plant bioactive compounds". Paper presented in IJUP 2023 – 16º Encontro de Investigação Jovem, Universidade do Porto, 2023.
  2. Almeida, Eduarda; Torre, Regina; Godinho, Ofélia; Noyer, Mégane; Cravo-Laureau, Cristiana; Duran, Robert; Antunes, S. C.; Catita, José António Morais; Lage, Olga Maria. "Metal selective pressure in the modulation of the microbial community in sediments from transitional ecosystems". Paper presented in TOXRUN International Congress 2023, 2023.
  3. Ribeiro, Inês; Amorim, Cláudia; Antunes, Jorge; Girão, Mariana; Ribeiro, Cíntia; Branco, Francisca; Almeida, Eduarda; Ana Paula Mucha; Carvalho, Maria de Fátima. "Mining deep-sea actinobacteria for new natural products". Paper presented in 2th European Congress on Marine Natural Products - XII ECMNP. Galway, Ireland, 2021.
  4. Adriana Rego; Almeida, Eduarda; Mariana Girão; Inês Ribeiro; Ribeiro, T; Urbatzka, R; Maria de Fátima Carvalho; Pedro Leão. "Deep-sea marine life molecules: assessing bioactivity potential of deep-sea microorganisms". Paper presented in 30th International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, 2018.
  5. Almeida, Eduarda; Teresa Vale Dias; Gonçalo Ferraz; Lage, Olga Maria. "Bacterial diversity of two Portuguese salterns". Paper presented in 12th International Congress of Extremophiles, 2018.
  6. Gonçalo Ferraz; Almeida, Eduarda; Olga Maria Lage. "Molecular screening of bioactivity related genes in halophile bacteria". Paper presented in IJUP’18 – 11º Encontro de Investigação Jovem, Universidade do Porto, 2018.
  7. Valentina Henriques; Almeida, Eduarda; Alexandre Lobo da Cunha; Olga Maria Lage. "Preliminary characterization of two novel actinobacterial strains". Paper presented in IJUP’18 – 11º Encontro de Investigação Jovem, Universidade do Porto, 2018.
  8. Oliveira, J; Girão, Mariana; Lopes, T; Ferraz, T; Almeida, Eduarda (C91E-75B7-586A); Amorim, MI; Lage, Olga Maria. "Study of the antimicrobial potential of hypersaline bacteria isolated from Portuguese salterns". Paper presented in IJUP’17 – 10º Encontro de Investigação Jovem, Universidade do Porto, 2017.
  9. Teresa Vale Dias; Almeida, Eduarda; Lage, Olga Maria. "Enzymatic activity of halophilic bacteria". Paper presented in IJUP’17 – 10º Encontro de Investigação Jovem, Universidade do Porto, 2017.
  10. Serra, Claudia R.; Guerreiro, Inês; Almeida, Eduarda (C91E-75B7-586A); Santos, RA; Fernando Manuel dos Santos Tavares; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula. "Diversity of sporeformers associated with European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles fed plant-based diets: towards selection of carbohydrate-active probiotics". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2016, 2016.
  11. Almeida, Eduarda (C91E-75B7-586A); Serra, Claudia R.; Albuquerque, Pedro; Guerreiro, Inês; Oliva-Teles, Aires; Fernando Manuel dos Santos Tavares. "Species specific-DNA markers for culture-independent detection and quantification of Bacillus licheniformis in fish gut". Paper presented in FEMS 2015 - 6th Congress of European Microbiologists, 2015.
  12. Claudia R Serra; Inês Guerreiro; Almeida, Eduarda (C91E-75B7-586A); Fernando Manuel dos Santos Tavares; Aires Oliva Teles; Paula Enes. "Screening for Bacillus species from European Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe, 2014.
  13. Serra, Cláudia Reis; Guerreiro, Inês; Almeida, Eduarda; Tavares, Fernando; Oliva Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula. "Screening for Bacillus spp. from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut microbiota capable of improving plant feedstuffs utilization". Paper presented in Aquaculture Europe 2014, 2014.
  14. Almeida, Eduarda (C91E-75B7-586A); Silva, AC; Amorim, A; Laço, A; Matos, Ana; Taveira, A; Silva, Ana; et al. "Screening of antimicrobial activity of bacteria isolated from the marine sponge Erylus deficiens collected in São Miguel, Açores". Paper presented in IJUP’13 – 6º Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da Universidade do Porto, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Ofélia Godinho; Dominika Klimek; Adrianna Jackiewicz; Bárbara Guedes; Eduarda Almeida; Rita Calisto; Inês Rosado Vitorino; et al. "Stieleria tagensis sp. nov., a novel member of the phylum Planctomycetota isolated from Tagus River in Portugal". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2023): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10482-023-01877-2.
    10.1007/s10482-023-01877-2
  2. Ribeiro, Inês; Antunes, Jorge T.; Diogo A. M. Alexandrino; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Almeida, Eduarda; Hilário, Ana; Urbatzka, Ralph; et al. "Actinobacteria from Arctic and Atlantic deep-sea sediments - Biodiversity and bioactive potential". Frontiers in Microbiology 14 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158441.
    10.3389/fmicb.2023.1158441
  3. Almeida, Eduarda; Carvalho, Maria de Fátima; Lage, Olga Maria. "Culturomics remains a highly valuable methodology to obtain rare microbial diversity with putative biotechnological potential from two Portuguese salterns". Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite 14 2 (2022): 11-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31083/j.fbe1402011.
    10.31083/j.fbe1402011
  4. Eduarda Almeida; Valentina Henriques; Sandra Wiegand; Luciana Albuquerque; Peter Schumann; Timo Kohn; Christian Jogler; et al. "Salsipaludibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterial strain isolate from a Portuguese solar saltern and proposal of Salsipaludibacteraceae fam. nov. and Salsipaludibacterales ord. nov.". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005228.
    10.1099/ijsem.0.005228
  5. Eduarda Almeida; Teresa Vale Dias; Gonçalo Ferraz; Maria F. Carvalho; Olga M. Lage. "Culturable bacteria from two Portuguese salterns: diversity and bioactive potential". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 113 4 (2020): 459-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-019-01356-7.
    10.1007/s10482-019-01356-7
  6. Almeida, Maria. "Selection of carbohydrate-active probiotics from the gut of carnivorous fish fed plant-based diets". (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42716-7.
    10.1038/s41598-019-42716-7
  7. Diógenes, A.F.; Teixeira, C.; Almeida, E.; Skrzynska, A.; Costas, B.; Oliva-Teles, A.; Peres, H.. "Effects of dietary tryptophan and chronic stress in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles fed corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) based diets". Aquaculture 498 (2019): 396-404. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052935180&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.08.079
  8. Almeida, E.; Serra, C.R.; Albuquerque, P.; Guerreiro, I.; Teles, A.O.; Enes, P.; Tavares, F.. "Multiplex PCR identification and culture-independent quantification of Bacillus licheniformis by qPCR using specific DNA markers". Food Microbiology 74 (2018): 1-10. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85042905893&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.fm.2018.02.016
  9. Olga Maria Lage; María C. Ramos; Rita Calisto; Eduarda Almeida; Vitor Vasconcelos; Francisca Vicente. "Current Screening Methodologies in Drug Discovery for Selected Human Diseases". (2018): https://doi.org/10.3390/md16080279.
    10.3390/md16080279
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/24 Exploring the microbial diversity of Portuguese saltern environments Oceanus Seminar Series
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR) (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2022/05/12 Summasphaera aliquam gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel planctomycetotal strain belonging to the class Phycisphaerae isolated from saline sediment of a Portuguese solar saltern Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae (PVC) V Conference 2022
(Bergen, Norway)
2019/05/28 Planctomycetes isolates associated with Aveiro saltern in Portugal Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobia-Chlamydiae (PVC) IV Conference 2019
Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
2018/04/11 Bactérias de ambientes extremos - o sal Micróbios Marinhos
CMIA da Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2017/03/30 Bacterial diversity from extreme environments INNOVMAR project (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035) workshop
Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR) (Matosinhos, Portugal)
2015/12/18 Supplementation with tryptophan of high plant protein based diets for seabream (Sparus aurata) juveniles kept under stressed and unstressed culture conditions Aquaculture Research Workshop: AMINOAQUA research project
Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências (Porto, Portugal)
2014/06/04 Culture-independent monitoring of Bacillus licheniformis, a putative probiotic, in fish faecal samples Student Seminar in Biodiversity and Evolutions
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO) (Vairão, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017/09/01 - 2018/06/30 Preliminary characterization of two novel actinobacterial strains
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/06/30 Molecular screening of bioactivity related genes in halophile bacteria
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2018/06/30 Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of bacteria from deep sea
Co-supervisor
 Biologia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/07/31 Antimicrobial potential of saltern isolates and Planctomycetes against fish pathogens
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2017/07/31 Antimicrobial potential of saltern isolates and Planctomycetes against fish pathogens
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of bacteria from saltern environments
Co-supervisor of Teresa Vale Dias
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 The study of mussels' bacterial community
Co-supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2015/10/01 - 2015/12/18 AQUACULTURE RESEARCH WORKSHOP: VEGIACOR-AMINOAQUA and AQUAIMPROVE research projects. December 18, 2015, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Full organization of this onference, namely: -Development of posters, badges, A4 cover and certificates -Budget management and purchases -E-mail management -Applications managment (2015/12/18 - 2015/12/18)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2014/04/09 - 2014/04/10 Attendance at a conference
Conference
 Bioinformatics Open Days
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012/12/04 - 2012/12/05 Attendance at 3rd Annual Workshop MAP-BioPlant
Conference
 3rd Annual Workshop MAP-BioPlant
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/28 Laboratórios em Microbiologia Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2018 Poster award from International Society of Extremophiles
12th International Congress of Extremophiles, Italy

Other distinction

2018 FEMS Grant to attend 12th International Congress of Extremophiles
12th International Congress of Extremophiles, Italy

Federation Of European Microbiological Societies, United Kingdom
2017 Grant to complementary training from EuroMarine Individual Fellowshio Programme
EUROMARINE - European Marine Research Network, France