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JUNE 2008 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 • 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.” • 2000 – 2005 Graduation in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, with grade point average 15. ADDITIONAL TRAINING • 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 • 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. o Identification of yeasts and filamentous fungi using Molecular Biology methods (RFLP, Sequencing) o 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 o 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. • 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. o 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 o 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 • English • German • French OTHER ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS • 2002 - 2003 Member of the Direction of a cultural assotiation, Canto Firme de Tomar. • July 2000 Participation in an archaeological excavation in Tomar • July and August 1997 Participation in an archaeological excavation in Convento de Cristo, Tomar • 1996 - 2005 Member of an amateur choir at Canto Firme de Tomar Cantanhede, June 2nd 2008 Cristiana da Silva Oliveira Paulo