PrintCatarina Pereira holds a BSc degree in Biology with a master’s in applied microbiology and is finishing her PhD in systems biology at the University of Lisbon. During her career, she acquired knowledge in Mycobacterium tuberculosis characterization, bioinformatics and molecular biology fields. She is a research scientist in the CBQF (Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina) focused on the study of mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of Listeria monocytogenes strains in food contributing to improving food safety. Between health and food microbiology she presents 5 research papers having participated in several international conferences.
Publications
Pereira C, Mazein A, Farinha C, Gray M, Kunzelmann K, et al. CyFi-MAP: an interactive pathwaybased resource for cystic fibrosis. Scientific Reports. 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01618-3
Perdigão J, Silva C, Diniz J, Pereira C, Machado D, Ramos J, et al. Clonal expansion across the seas as seen through CPLP-TB database: A joint effort in cataloguing Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Portuguese-speaking countries. Infect Genet Evol. 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.03.011
Pereira C, Gomes P, Taveira R, Silva C, Maltez F, Macedo R, et al. Insights on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structure associated with migrants from portuguese-speaking countries over a three-year period in Greater Lisbon, Portugal: Implications at the public health level. InfectGenet Evol. 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.03.025
Machado D, Coelho TS, Perdigão J, Pereira C, Couto I, Portugal I, et al. Interplay between mutations and efflux in drug resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Front Microbiol. 2017 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00711
Perdigão J, Maltez F, Machado D, Silva H, Pereira C, Silva C, et al. Beyond extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Lisbon, Portugal: a case of linezolid resistance acquisition presenting as an iliopsoas abscess. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2016.07.026
