Team
We are a dynamic and ever-growing team comprised of diverse individuals with unique educational backgrounds, research interests and project goals.
Professors
Luisa Vieira Peixe
Antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance. Quick and inexpensive methods to track relevant bacteria. Human urinary microbiota.
Carla Novais
Research interests: Enterococcus spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Patricia Antunes
Foodborne pathogens (mainly Salmonella). Salmonella clonal dynamics. Antibiotic resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS and FTIR).
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ana Freitas
Research interests: Enterococcus spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Angela Novais
Clinical Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Enterobacteriaceae, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Genomics, Metabolomics and Proteomics of multidrug resistant bacteria.
Filipa Grosso
Acinetobacter spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer, Biofilms, Genomics, FTIR-ATR.
Joana Mourão
Salmonella spp. Antibiotic resistance. Metal and biocide tolerance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS).
Joana Rocha
Human Urinary Microbiota. Dysbiosis. Metagenomics. Improved culturing techniques.
Svetlana Ugarčina Perović
Human Urinary Microbiota. Dysbiosis. Improved culturing techniques. Metagenomics. Heme uptake in bacterial pathogens.
Teresa Gonçalves Ribeiro
Enterobacteriaceae, Citrobacter spp. (new species and phylogenetic analysis of intrinsic genes confering resistance to antibiotics), Antibiotic resistance mechanisms, molecular epidemiology, High-throughput techniques (WGS).
PhD Students
Carla Rodrigues
Research interests: Enterobacteriaceae (mainly Klebsiella pneumoniae). Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. Virulence. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Joana Campos
Salmonella. Antimicrobial resistance. MALDI-TOF and FTIR.
João Botelho
Antimicrobial resistance. Genomics. MALDI-TOF and FTIR.
Liliana Silva
Acinetobacter spp. Antimicrobial resistance. Horizontal Gene Transfer. High-throughput techniques (WGS, MALDI-TOF MS, FTIR-ATR).
Magdalena Księżarek
Clinical microbiology. Human Urinary Microbiota. Culturing. Antimicrobial resistance.
