Sofia Pereira graduated in Biological Engineering by the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal (March, 2013). She did an internship at ProdAl Scarl research center, in Salerno, Italy (2012) to pursue her Master thesis work and was then awarded a studentship at the University of Aveiro, Portugal (2014), where she got involved in several research projects together with industrial partners under food microbiology and safety research line. Since July 2016, she is granted a PhD scholarship from the International PhD programme in Biotechnology at Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), in Porto, Portugal. Her work involves virulence traits of Listeria monocytogenes under stress conditions, and is supervised by Professor Paula Teixeira (UCP, Porto) and co-supervised by Vânia Ferreira (Post-doc at UCP, Porto). Her major fields of interests in Listeria are the role in clinical microbiology, the role in food microbiology and in cell biology.
Publications:
Sónia M. Castro, Rita S. Inácio, Elisabete M.C. Alexandre, Liliana Fidalgo, Sofia Pereira, Patrícia Quaresma, Paulo Freitas, Paula Teixeira, Manuela Pintado, Carole Tonello, Jorge Saraiva: Environmental Footprint of Emerging Technologies, Regulatory and Legislative Issues. In book: Innovative Technologies for Food Preservation - Inactivation of Spoilage and Pathogenic Microorganisms, 255–276, Elsevier, Editors Francisco J. Barba, Anderson de Sousa Sant'Ana, Vibeke Orlien, and Mohamed Koubaa, 2018. DOI10.1016/B978-0-12-811031-7.00008-X
Francisco J. Barba, Maria J. Mota, Rita Lopes, Sofia A. Pereira, Jorge A. Saraiva: Implementation of emerging technologies. In book: Innovation Strategies for the food industry: tools for implementation, 117-148, Elsevier, Editor Charis M. Galanakis, 2016. DOI10.1016/B978-0-12-803751-5.00007-6
Paulo Freitas, Sofia A. Pereira, Mauro Santos, Susana P. Alves, Rui J.B. Bessa, Ivonne Delgadillo, Jorge A. Saraiva: Performance of raw bovine meat preservation by hyperbaric storage (quasi energetically costless) compared to refrigeration. Meat Science, 121, 64-72, 2016. DOI:10.1016/j.meatsci.2016.05.001
Francisco J. Barba, Oleksii Parniakov, Sofia A. Pereira, Artur Wiktor, Nabil Grimi, Nadia Boussetta, Jorge A. Saraiva, Javier Raso, Olga Martin-Belloso, Dorota Witrowa-Rajchert, Nikolai Lebovka, Eugène Vorobiev: Current applications and new opportunities for the use of pulsed electric fields in food science and industry. Food Research International, 77(4), 773-798, 2015.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2015.09.015
Nuno Cerca, Fernanda Gomes, Sofia Pereira, Pilar Teixeira, Rosário Oliveira: Confocal laser scanning microscopy analysis of S. epidermidis biofilms exposed to farnesol, vancomycin and rifampicin. BMC Research Notes, 5(1):244, 2012.
DOI:10.1186/1756-0500-5-244
Researcher Center
Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF)
Academic CV
