Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
126270
- Reference
RECI/BBB-EBI/0179/2012
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
5876-PPCDTI
- Funding amount
338,852.00 €
- Start date
2013-01-01
- End date
2015-12-31
Documents
17 - Cyanobacterial toxins as a high value-added product
Geada, Pedro; Gkelis, S.; Teixeira, J. A.; Vasconcelos, V.; Vicente, A. A.; Fernandes, Bruno D.Cyanotoxins are known to cause severe damage to humans and animals. However, these metabolites are also considered as very promising compounds with potential use in biomedical treatments (e.g., anticancer/antitumor drug development) and to act against bacteria, fungi, algae, and insects. Despite the increasing demand of such high value-added products both for research and industrial applications, their availabi...
World climate suitability projections to 2050 and 2100 for growing oil palms
Paterson, R. R. M.; Kumar, L.; Taylor, S.; Lima, NelsonPalm oil (PO) is a very important commodity used as food, in pharmaceuticals, for cooking and as biodiesel: PO is a major contributor to the economies of many countries, especially Indonesia and Malaysia. Novel tropical regions are being explored increasingly to grow oil palm as current land decreases, whilst recent published modelling studies by the current authors for Malaysia and Indonesia indicate that the ...
Anti-aflatoxigenic effect of organic acids produced by Lactobacillus plantarum
Guimarães, Ana Cristina Silva Esperança; Santiago, A.; Teixeira, J. A.; Venâncio, Armando; Abrunhosa, LuísICFC 2017 - International Conference on Food Contaminants (Book of Abstracts); Molds play an important role in food spoilage, being estimated that 5 to 10% of the world food’s production is lost due to fungal contamination. Further, certain fungal species produce highly toxic metabolites, designated as mycotoxins. Biopreservation, de fined as the control of one organism by another, has received much attention i...
Antimicrobial peptide combinations against major infectious pathogens: in vitro...
Jorge, Paula Alexandra SilvaTese de Doutoramento - Engenharia Química e Biológica; Microbiology research has been investing significant efforts in the development of new and effective antimicrobial therapies against the growing number of multiresistant pathogens. Notably, the use of natural compounds, such as antimicrobial peptides (AMP), and the combination of different antimicrobials are being increasingly explored as means to improve i...
Flow cytometry as a tool for assessing spore cell viability
Calado, Thalita; Feio, M.; França, Ângela Maria Oliveira Sousa; Abrunhosa, Luís; Venâncio, ArmandoICFC 2017 - International Conference on Food Contaminants (Book of Abstracts); Acknowledgment: Thalita Calado, Luís Abrunhosa and Ângela França received support by grants SFRH/BD/79364/2011, UMINHO/BPD/51/2015 and SFRH/BPD/99961/2014 from FCT, respectively. CEB gratefully acknowledge FCT support through projects UID/BIO/04469/2013, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004, and RECI/BBB-EBI/0179/2012.; info:eu-repo/semantics/...
Synthesis of fusion genes for cloning by megaprimer-based PCR
Aguiar, Tatiana Quinta; Oliveira, Carla Cristina Marques de; Domingues, LucíliaThe polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the technique of choice used to obtain DNA for cloning, because it rapidly provides high amounts of desired DNA fragments and allows the easy introduction of extremities adequate for enzyme restriction or homologous recombination, and of artificial, native, or modified sequence elements for specific applications. In this context, the use of megaprimer-based PCR strategies ...
Management and mitigation strategies for mycotoxins: the biological solutions
Abrunhosa, LuísICFC 2017 - International Conference on Food Contaminants (Book of Abstracts); Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi that are found worldwide in many food products. They are a diverse group of chemical compounds that possess a multiplicity of toxic properties and affect human and farm animal health. Additionally, they cause significant economic losses. The problem of mycotoxins results ma...
Developing a model for cystic fibrosis sociomicrobiology based on antibiotic an...
Lopes, Susana P.; Azevedo, Nuno Filipe; Pereira, Maria OlíviaCystic fibrosis (CF) infections are invariably biofilm-mediated and polymicrobial, being safe to assume that a myriad of factors affects the sociomicrobiology within the CF infection site and modulate the CF community dynamics, by shaping their social activities, overall functions, virulence, ultimately affecting disease outcome. This work aimed to assess changes in the dynamics (particularly on the microbial c...
A design of experiments to assess methane production from anaerobic co-digestio...
Oliveira, João Vítor; Duarte, T.; Costa, J. C.; Cavaleiro, Ana Júlia; Pereira, M. A.; Alves, M. M.Redirection of sewage sludge in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) from landfilling or incineration to biological treatment, for instance anaerobic digestion, has become a part of the current global environmental, economic and regulatory issues. A statistical approach, based on a design of experiments, was adopted in order to assess methane production from the anaerobic co-digestion of mixed sewage sludge (MS) ...
Bioelectrochemically-assisted recovery of valuable resources from urine: invest...
Barbosa, Sónia Glória LinharesTese de Doutoramento em Engenharia Química e Biológica; Source separated urine is highly concentrated in nutrients and biodegradable compounds. This thesis explores the potential of combining nutrient recovery from urine with simultaneous energy production in bioelectrochemical systems (BESs). Non-spontaneous phosphorus (P) recovery by struvite precipitation was analysed by adding three different magnesium (Mg)...
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