PrintAna Margarida Pereira completed her degree in Chemistry at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto in 2006, where she also completed her master´s degree in Chemistry in 2009. During her scientific career she has been involved in several research projects and has had the opportunity to work in different research centers and institutes, acquiring a vast experience in microbiology, molecular biology, proteomics and biotechnology. Her recent work at University of Minho, focused on the development of functional biomaterials derived from recombinant protein-based polymers, has led to her PhD degree in Biology, specialization in Molecular Biotechnology, in 2021. She is currently working as a researcher at the ALCHEMY project (UCP-Amyris Inc. collaborative project), namely in the extraction, purification and valorization of by-products.
Publications
Pereira AM, da Costa A, Dias SC, Casal M, Machado R (2021). Production and Purification of Two Bioactive Antimicrobial Peptides Using a Two-Step Approach Involving an Elastin-like Fusion Tag. Pharmaceuticals, 14 (10), 956; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph14100956
Pereira AM, Gomes D, da Costa A, Dias SC, Casal M, Machado R (2021). Protein-engineered polymers functionalized with antimicrobial peptides for the development of active surfaces. Applied Sciences, 11 (12), 5352; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11125352
da Costa A, Pereira AM, Sampaio P, Rodríguez-Cabello JC, Gomes AC, Casal M, Machado R (2021). Protein-Based Films Functionalized with a Truncated Antimicrobial Peptide Sequence Display Broad Antimicrobial Activity. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2021, 7, 451-461; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c01262
da Costa A, Pereira AM, Gomes AC, Rodriguez-Cabello JC, Casal M, Machado R. (2018). Production of bioactive Hepcidin by recombinant DNA tagging with an elastin-like recombinamer. New Biotechnology, 46, 45-53; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2018.07.001
Pereira AM, Machado R, da Costa A, Ribeiro A, Bernardo TC, Collins T, Gomes AC, Leonor IB, Kaplan D, Reis RL, Casal M (2017). Silk-based biomaterials functionalized with fibronectin type II promotes cell adhesion. Acta Biomaterialia, 47, 50-59; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.10.002
