Ivone Vaz-Moreira graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Sciences and Technology) in 2005 and completed her Ph.D. in Biotechnology with specialization in Microbiology at Biotechnology College from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2012.
Presently she is a postdoctoral researcher at CBQF.
Her research is focused in Environmental Microbiology, associated with aquatic habitats and their intersections with soil/sediments, plants, animals, and finally humans; including the study of the bacterial diversity with particular emphasis on the urban water cycle and the potential of antibiotic resistance dissemination from aquatic environments. In 2014, she was considered one of the ten bacterial taxonomists in Portugal. Academic editor of PlosOne journal and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
She has experience in different methodologies, from most classical microbiology methods till last generation Microbiology and Molecular Biology methods, as the use of bioinformatics tools for genome or microbiome’s analysis.
Additional information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivone_Vaz-Moreira; https://www.publons.com/a/761315/
Publications:
Vaz-Moreira, I., Nunes, O. C., Manaia, C. M. (2014) Bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in water habitats: searching the links with the human microbiome. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 38(4), 761-778. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24484530)
Ferro, P., Vaz-Moreira, I., Manaia, C.M. (2019) Betaproteobacteria are predominant in drinking water: are there reasons for concern? Critical Reviews in Microbiology 45(5-6): 649-667. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31686572)
Vaz-Moreira, I., Nunes, O. C., Manaia, C. M. (2017) Ubiquitous and persistent Proteobacteria and other Gram-negative bacteria in drinking water. Science of the Total Environment 586:1141-1149. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28238372)
Becerra-Castro, C., Lopes, A.R., Vaz-Moreira, I., Silva, M.E.F., Nunes, O.C., Manaia, C.M. (2015) Wastewater reuse in irrigation: a microbiological perspective on implications in soil fertility and human and environmental health. Environment International 75, 117-135. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25461421)
Vaz-Moreira, I., Narciso-da-Rocha, C., Lopes, A.R., Carvalho, G., Whitman, W.B., Snauwaert, C., Vandamme, P., Manaia, C.M., Nunes, O.C. (2017) Oryzisolibacter propanilivorax gen. nov., sp. nov., a propanil degrading bacterium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67(10):3752-3758. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28895512)
Researcher Center
Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF)
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