Ivone Vaz-Moreira graduated in Biochemistry and doctor in Biotechnology with specialization in Microbiology. 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 IJERPH.
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 metagenomic analyses.

Additional information:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivone_Vaz-Moreira; https://publons.com/researcher/761315

Publications

Vaz-Moreira, I., Harnisz, M., Abreu-Silva, J., Rolbiecki, D., Korzeniewska, E., Luczkiewicz, A., Manaia, C.M., Plaza, G. (2022) Antibiotic resistance in wastewater, does the context matter? Poland and Portugal as a case study. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 1-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2021.2000828

Miłobedzka, A., Ferreira, C., Vaz-Moreira, I., Calderón-Franco, D., Gorecki, A., Purkrtova, S., Bartacek, J., Dziewit, L., Singleton, C.M., Nielsen, P.H., Weissbrodt, D.G., Manaia, C.M. (2022) Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater environments: the challenges of filling a gap in the One-Health cycle. Journal of Hazardous Materials 424(C), 127407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127407

Scaccia, N., Vaz-Moreira, I., Manaia, C.M. (2021) The risk of transmitting antibiotic resistance through endophytic bacteria. Trends in Plant Science 26(12):1213-1226. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.09.001

Fortunato, G., Vaz-Moreira, I., Nunes, O.C., Manaia, C.M. (2021) Effect of copper and zinc as sulfate or nitrate salts on soil microbiome dynamics and blaVIM-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa survival. Journal of Hazardous Materials: 125631. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125631

Ferro, P., Vaz-Moreira, I., Manaia, C.M. (2021) Evolution of gentamicin and arsenite resistance acquisition in Ralstonia pickettii water isolates. Research in Microbiology 172(1):103790. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmic.2020.11.001

Durán-Viseras, A., Manaia, C.M., Vaz-Moreira, I., Nunes, O.C. (2021) Paludibacterium. In Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds M.E. Trujillo, S. Dedysh, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund, P. Kämpfer, F.A. Rainey and W.B. Whitman), 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01833

Role

Research fellow

Academic CV