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Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo
Address:
Rua Diogo de Arruda nº10 R/C Dto
2300-482 Tomar
Identity Card:
Number: 12287030
Date and place of issue: 20/04/2004, Santarém
Date and place of birth: 11/06/1981, Samedan – Switzerland
Marital status: Single
Nacionality: Portuguese
Phone number: 96 541 40 61
E-mail: [email protected]
ACADEMIC DEGREES
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2005 - 2008 Master in Cellular Biology at the University of Coimbra.
Thesis: “Yeast infections in Portugal. Characterization of the risk
groups and identification of the main infection sites and agents.”
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2000 – 2005 Graduation in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science
and Technology of the University of Coimbra, with grade point
average 15.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
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September 18th – 23rd 2006 Attendance of the Socrates/Erasmus
Teaching Staff Mobility Course “ Heavy metal resistance: Microbial
and plant multiple dynamic equilibrium in response to heavy metal
pandemonium”
Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2005 – 2006 Fellowship in the PYM - Pathogenic Yeast Media
project, funded by “Agência da Inovação”, at the Institute of
Microbiology of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra.
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Identification of yeasts and filamentous fungi using Molecular
Biology methods (RFLP, Sequencing)
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Assembly of a culture collection of pathogenic yeasts, which
were used in the validation of a chromogenic media kit for
rapid identification of Candida species
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The epidemiologic study of yeast infections in the district of
Coimbra, as well as the existing identification methods were
the object of my Masters dissertation.
o
In the same Institute, I was also developing an heterelogous
expression model of an HIV-1 protein in Saccharomyces
cerevisae, with the final goal of developing a kit which will
predict the probability of disease progression in small children
infected with the virus.
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2004 – 2005 the last year of the Biochemistry course, I had a
practical training at the Laboratory of Microbiology of the “Instituto
do Ambiente e da Vida” of the University of Coimbra.
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Development and maintenance of a lab-scale activated sludge
reactor for the assessment of the Bioremediating ability of
Chromium contaminated wastewater by a newly isolated
Cr(VI)-resistant and –reducing strain. The other goals were to
study
the
toxicity
of
Cr(VI)
and
later
the
effects
of
bioaugmentation with the strain on the sludge’s microbial
populations.
o
Continuation of a work already in progress, evaluating the
biological impact of the fertilization of soils with activated
sludge.
Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo
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Collaboration in the description of the new bacterial specie
Leucobacter luti
PUBLICATIONS
Paula V. Morais, Cristiana Paulo, Romeu Francisco, Rita Branco, Ana Paula
Chung and Milton S. da Costa Leucobacter luti sp. nov., and
Leucobacter alluvii sp. nov., two new species of the genus
Leucobacter isolated under chromium stress.
Syst Appl Microbiol. 2006 Volume 29 (5), 21 July 2006, pp. 414-421
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
Cristiana Paulo, José Paulo Sousa and Paula Vasconcellos Morais
Bioaugmentation and enhanced Cr(VI) reduction in a lab-scale
reactor 9th International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine
in Lisbon, May 21st to 24th 2006
C. Paulo, J. Marques, C. Mourão, A. Meliço-Silvestre, A. Florinda, T.
Gonçalves A four-year epidemiological study of aetiological agents of
yeast infections and antifungal susceptibility profiles in the centre
of Portugal 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious
Diseases and 25th International Congress of Chemotherapy
Munich/Germany, 31 March - 3 April 2007
A. Meliço Silvestre, C. Paulo, T. Gonçalves, J. Anjos, G. Rocha
The R77Q mutation and HIV Disease Progression in Children
Submitted to 25th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric
Infectious Diseases, Porto, Portugal, May 2-4, 2007
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo
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English
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German
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French
OTHER ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
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2002 - 2003 Member of the Direction of a cultural assotiation, Canto
Firme de Tomar.
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July 2000 Participation in an archaeological excavation in Tomar
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July and August 1997 Participation in an archaeological excavation
in Convento de Cristo, Tomar
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1996 - 2005 Member of an amateur choir at Canto Firme de Tomar
Cantanhede, June 2nd 2008
Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo