PrintJoana Inês Bastos Barbosa is a post-doctoral researcher at ESB-UCP working with Clostridioides difficile and bioactive substances. She completed her graduation in Microbiology in 2004 and her PhD in Biotechnology (specialization in Microbiology) in 2015 at ESB-UCP.
She is the author of 41 scientific papers indexed to Scopus (H-Index 18; 882 citations), 7 chapters in books, 3 proceedings in meetings, 4 oral and more than 50 poster communications in scientific symposiums.
Currently, Joana Barbosa is the supervisor/ co-supervisor of several undergraduate students, MSc and PhD ongoing theses. Her main research interests focus on probiotics and biopreservatives, microbiological characterization of traditional products, virulence and resistance mechanisms of food pathogens.
Publications
Barbosa J, Teixeira P (2021). Bioactive substances as anti-infective strategies against Clostridioides difficile, in “Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Anti-Infectives”, Chapter 4, Vol. 7, pp 72-102. (Ed.) Atta-ur-Rahman, Bentham Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.2174/9789814998093121070005; ISBN: 9789814998093.
Barbosa J, Albano H, Silva B, Almeida MH, Nogueira T, Teixeira P (2021). Characterization of a Lactiplantibacillus plantarum R23 isolated from arugula by whole-genome sequencing and its bacteriocin production ability. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 5515. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18115515.
Gomes J, Barbosa J, Teixeira P (2021). The inhibitory concentration of natural food preservatives may be biased by the determination methods. Foods, 10(5), 1009. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051009.
Barbosa J, Campos A, Teixeira P (2020). Methods currently used for detection/enumeration of Clostridioides difficile in foods. AIMS Agriculture and Food, 5, 102-128. https://doi.org/10.3934/agrfood.2020.1.102.
