Docente
Ana Cristina Ribeiro Alves Ferreira Inácio

Resume

Ana Cristina Ferreira is a researcher at the National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV) and Senior member at BioISI - Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute. In 2018 I was invited as Assistant Professor at Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Lusófona University (ULHT), and presently as Director of Microbiology I and Microbiology II courses (1st cycle). Since the beginning of her PhD in Biology, specialization in Microbiology (2017, FCUL), have been working on the molecular and genomic characterization of Brucella spp. isolates and brucellosis epidemiology. Both PhD and pos-doctoral programs were carried out at INIAV and at the Faculty of Science University of Lisbon (FCUL). Have also been involved in the bacteriological, molecular and serological diagnosis of brucellosis and CBPP at INIAV and as Coordinator of the National Reference Laboratory for Brucellosis.  Ana Cristina Ferreira experience include the participation, as PI or member, in nine I&D projects, mainly in the area of animal health. More recently, have been involved in a project which is exploiting antimicrobial resistance determinants in aquaculture environments (AquaRAM) based on metagenomic approaches and in silico analysis for resistance genes counting, source attribution and risk assessment, in collaboration with the Division for Global Surveillance at DTU (Technical University of Denmark). Other projects include international collaborations in the scope of One Health Cofound EJP Consortium (IDEMBRU - Identification of emerging Brucella spp.: new threats for human and animal), as Co-PI, and ARIMNet2 ERA-NET Action (BrucMedNet - Improvement of epidemiological and serological tools for diagnosis and control of brucellosis in the Mediterranean region). The main research interests are infection biology, zoonosis diagnostic, molecular epidemiology, comparative genomics and phylogenomics.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Biologia
• Licenciatura
  Engenharia Biotecnológica
• Bacharelato
  Biotecnologia

Publicações

Artigo em revista (magazine)

• 2013, Brucella spp. infection in Portugal: VNTR based typing of B. melitensis isolates, Magazine da Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia

Edição de número de revista

• Special Issue "Serological and Molecular Epidemiology in Animals"

Artigo em revista

• 2021-11-12, Genetic Characterization of Brucella spp.: Whole Genome Sequencing-Based Approach for the Determination of Multiple Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Profiles, Frontiers in Microbiology
• 2020, MLVA-16 Genotyping of Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis isolates from different animal species in Egypt: geographical relatedness and the Mediterranean lineage, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• 2019, Marcadores genéticos associados à resistência aos parasitas - o Projeto MERINOparasite, Vida Rural
• 2018, Controlo laboratorial da brucelose em ruminantes e suídeos, Vida Rural
• 2017-10, MLVA-16 typing of Brucella suis biovar 2 strains circulating in Europe, Veterinary Microbiology
• 2017-09-12, Evolution and genome specialization of Brucella suis biovar 2 Iberian lineages, BMC Genomics
• 2016-08, Whole-genome mapping reveals a large chromosomal inversion on Iberian Brucella suis biovar 2 strains, Veterinary Microbiology
• 2016-07, Detection of virulence-associated genes in pathogenic and commensal avian Escherichia coli isolates, Poultry Science
• 2016-03-16, A Bacterial Glycoengineered Antigen for Improved Serodiagnosis of Porcine Brucellosis, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• 2014-07-10, Complete Genome Sequences of Two Central European Brucella suis bv. 2 Haplotype 2c Strains Isolated from Wild Boars, Genome Announcements
• 2014-07-03, Complete Genome Sequences of Three Iberian Brucella suis Biovar 2 Strains Isolated from Wild Boars, Genome Announcements
• 2012-10, Development and evaluation of a selective medium for Brucella suis, Research in Veterinary Science
• 2012-08-14, MLVA16 Typing of Portuguese Human and Animal Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus Isolates, PLoS ONE
• 2010, A Brucelose em suínos, Suinicultura
• 2009-01, “HOOF-Print” genotyping and haplotype inference discriminates among Brucella spp. isolates from a small spatial scale, Infection, Genetics and Evolution
• 2008-08-20, Evaluation of a Multiplex PCR Assay (Bruce-ladder) for Molecular Typing of All Brucella Species, Including the Vaccine Strains, Journal of Clinical Microbiology
• 2006-06-15, Development of a multiplex PCR assay for polymorphism analysis of Brucella suis biovars causing brucellosis in swine, Veterinary Microbiology
• 2003-05, Evaluation of a modified Rose Bengal test and an indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the diagnosis of Brucella melitensis infection in sheep, Veterinary Research

Tese / Dissertação

• 2017-03-29, Doutoramento, Comparative genomics in Brucella suis: from intra-specific and inter-specific distinctive features to diagnostic molecular markers

Livro

• 2019, Brucellosis in the Mediterranean countries: Review of history, prevalence, distribution, current situation and attempts for surveillance and control, AC Ferreira, OIE Scientific and Technical Review, Technical Series

Capítulo de livro

• 2014, Análise do Número Variável de Repetições Nucleotídicas em Múltiplos Loci (MLVA): aplicação ao estudo epidemiológico de isolados de Brucella melitensis, Abordagens Moleculares em Veterinária, 1, Lidel