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Porto, PT

Porto, Portugal

Porto Area, Portugal

• Participation in the OncoNeem Project, financed by a private company, a R&D project performing scientific development for industry;
• I was responsible for several tasks, including laboratory work devoted to the evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of natural (plant) extracts as well as their potential in vitro antitumor action on human cancer.
• Other tasks included writing progress reports of on-going work, scientific papers, supervising the daily work of two master fellow researchers and co-leading meetings with the stakeholder;
• In this project, all produced documentation were written in English and one of the team members was from a foreign country, so English was spoken every day within the team;
• Non-officially, I supervised students, by helping them solve everyday questions and practical problems at the lab;
• Two review papers published and one poster presented in an international conference.

Vila Nova De Gaia

• General management and operation of the business;
• I co-founded a total new veterinary clinic. This processes included several steps, such as design and division of spaces, licenses requests, choosing and buying of equipments, defining the business’ strategy and.
• In the every day work, I was responsible for costumer service as managing phone calls, appointments, sales and veterinary doctor assistant;
• Organization of purchases and sales records, as well as invoices, to send to the company accountant;
• Clinic’s Facebook page and website management.

Vila Nova De Gaia

Teaching Scientific Curriculum Enrichment Activities - "Ciência Viva"

Lisbon

Teaching Ciências da Natureza e Ciências Naturais

Oeiras, Portugal

• Research in clinical and veterinary microbiology, specially in Enterococcus strains.
• Essential knowledge on the role of microbe-biocide inter-relations on the development of pathologies, pathogen resistance and new threats to human health.
• I mastered numerous knowledge of several scientific techniques, namely classical microbiology and antimicrobial activity techniques and molecular biology, such as PCR, RT-PCR, multiplex PCR, MLST, gene cloning.
• Organization/participation of ITQB Open Day
• Colaborative work performed with Research Unit QOPNA, Departament of Chemestry - University of Aveiro.
• Colaborative work performed with Antibiotic and Biocides Resistance Lab - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon.

Porto, Portugal

• Participation in the Plus-Hislacto: Pilot Project for Training Course on Hygiene in the Milk and Dairy Sector – from production to transformation. 2003-2005. P/02/B/F/PP-125529: translation of documents from.
• Research in food microbiology, specially using lactic acid bacteria (e.g.: Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium) for the production of fermented milks;
• Study of antibiotic resistance of lactic acid bacteria;
• Study of different Portuguese traditional cheeses and their structure using SEM;
• Colaborative work performed with Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología de Productos Lácteos - Instituto Del Frío, Madrid (I lived in Madrid for one month);
• One research paper and thirteen posters presented at international conferences.

Licenciatura, Biologia - Ramo Científico Tecnológico, Biologia Animal Aplicada

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, Microbiology

Enterococcus and biocides: mechanisms of tolerance and selection for vancomycin resistance.

Master'S Degree, Mestrado Em Ensino De Biologia E De Geologia

Actividades práticas: contributos na aprendizagem da temática microrganismos e indústria alimentar. Um estudo com alunos do 12º ano

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