IBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnologia

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• Antibiotic stress and virulence of enterococci
• Applied and environmental mycology
• Biochemical engineering laboratory
• Biomolecular diagnostics laboratory
• Bioseparation laboratory
• Control of Gene Expression
• Laboratory of Membrane Processes
• Microbial and enzyme technology laboratory
• Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutical Analysis
• Plant cell biotechnology laboratory
• Systems biology and engineering

Research Interests

Development of environmentally sustainable bioprocesses for water and wastewater treatment:

• Fundamental research on metabolism, microbiology and process engineering of biological nutrient and organic compounds removal;
• Membrane bioreactors for drinking and wastewater treatment;
  Bioproduction of chemicals from renewable resources:
• Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) by mixed microbial cultures using waste organic materials: microbial characterization and process optimization.

Main publications

• "Simultaneous Removal of Perchlorate and Nitrate From Drinking Water in an Ion Exchange Membrane Bioreactor”. C. Matos, S. Velizarov, J. G. Crespo, M. A. M. Reis. Wat. Res., 40, 231-240, 2006
• "Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanotes From Different Short-Chain Fatty Acids by Mixed Cultures Submitted to Aerobic Dynamic Feeding”. P. C. Lemos, L. S. Serafim, M. A. M. Reis. J. Biotechnol., 122, 226-238, 2006.
• "Optimisation of Polyhydroxybutyrate Production by Mixed Cultures Submitted to Aerobic Dynamic Feeding Conditions” L. S. Serafim, P. C. Lemos, R. Oliveira, M. A. M. Reis. Biotech. Bioeng., 87(2), 145–160, 2004.
• "Metabolic Pathway for Propionate Utilization by Phosphorus Accumulating Organisms in Activated Sludge: 13C-labelling and in vivo NMR”. P. C. Lemos, L. S. Serafim, M. M. Santos, M. A. M. Reis, H. Santos. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 69(1), 241-251, 2003.
• "Analysis of the Microbial Community Structure and Function of a Laboratory Scale Enhanced Biological Phosphate Removal Reactor”. C. Levantesi, L. S. Serafim, G. R. Crocetti, P. C. Lemos, S. Rossetti, L. L. Blackall, M. A. M. Reis, V. Tandoi. Environm. Microbiol., 4(10), 559-569, 2002

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