People

Diana Vilas Boas

Lab Manager / Research Technician / Design

Lab.: Image and Microscopy Platform
253 601 598 (office) / 253 601 593 (lab)
dianavilasboas@ceb.uminho.pt
https://www.ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/dianaboas

Career

Since 2020: Senior Technician, Universidade do Minho
2020 - 2020: Fellowship, Universidade do Minho
2019 - 2019: Fellowship, Universidade do Minho
2013 - 2018: Fellowship, Universidade do Minho

Qualifications

2013: Master Program in Bioengineering, Universidade do Minho

Roles and Responsibilities

Since 2020: Lab Manager / Research Technician / Design, Universidade do Minho

Laboratory Management

Associate Director at Image and Microscopy Platform (PMI)
Associate Director at Laboratory of Instruments III (LI3)
Associate Director at Laboratory of Instruments II (LI2)

2012 - 2013: Understanding the mechanisms of phase of phage biofilm interaction

Past Projects

2020 - 2024: PEst UIDB/04469/2020 - Strategic Funding FCT 2020-2023 (Team Member)
2019 - 2019: PEst UID/BIO/04469/2019 - Strategic funding 2019 (Team Member)
2015 - 2018: PEst UID/BIO/04469/2013 - Strategic funding 2015-2018 (Team Member)

Recent Publications

1	Vilas-Boas, Diana; Castro, Joana; Araújo, Daniela; Nóbrega, Franklin L.; Keevil, Charles W.; Azevedo, Nuno F.; Vieira, Maria João; Almeida, Carina The role of flagellum and flagellum-based motility on Salmonella enteritidis and Escherichia coli biofilm formation Microorganisms, 12(2), 232, 2024
2	Araújo, Daniela; Gonçalves, Bruna; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Rodrigues, M. Elisa; Henriques, Mariana; Silva, Sónia C. Combined application of antisense oligomers to control transcription factors of Candida albicans biofilm formation Mycopathologia, 188, 231-241, 2023
3	Melo, Luís D.R.; Pinto, Graça; Oliveira, Fernando E.; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Almeida, Carina; Sillankorva, Sanna M.; Cerca, Nuno; Azeredo, Joana The protective effect of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm matrix against phage predation Viruses-Basel, 12(10), 1076, 2020
4	Milho, Catarina; Andrade, Márcia; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Alves, Diana F.; Sillankorva, Sanna M. Antimicrobial assessment of phage therapy using a porcine model of biofilm infection International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 557, 112-123, 2019
5	Ribeiro, Henrique; Correia, Rossana; Moreira, Tiago; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Azeredo, Joana; Oliveira, Ana Bacteriophage biodistribution and infectivity from honeybee to bee larvae using a T7 phage model Scientific Reports, 9(1), 620-620, 2019
6	Rodrigues, Célia F.; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Haynes, Ken; Henriques, Mariana The MNN2 gene knockout modulates the antifungal resistance of biofilms of Candida glabrata Biomolecules, 8(4), 130, 2018
7	Pires, Diana P.; Melo, Luís D.R.; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Sillankorva, Sanna M.; Azeredo, Joana Phage therapy as an alternative or complementary strategy to prevent and control biofilm-related infections Current Opinion in Microbiology, 39, 48-56, 2017
8	Oliveira, Hugo; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Mesnage, Stéphane; Kluskens, Leon D.; Lavigne, R.; Sillankorva, Sanna M.; Secundo, Francesco; Azeredo, Joana Structural and enzymatic characterization of ABgp46, a novel phage endolysin with broad anti-Gram-negative bacterial activity Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(208), 1-9, 2016
9	Vilas-Boas, Diana; Almeida, Carina; Sillankorva, Sanna M.; Nicolau, Ana; Azeredo, Joana; Azevedo, Nuno F. Discrimination of bacteriophage infected cells using locked nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization (LNA-FISH) Biofouling, 32(2), 179-190, 2016
10	Ferreira, Carina; Gonçalves, Bruna; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Oliveira, Hugo; Henriques, Mariana; Azeredo, Joana; Silva, Sónia C. Candida tropicalis biofilm and human epithelium invasion is highly influenced by environmental pH Pathogens and Disease, 74(8), ftw101, 2016
11	Pires, Diana P.; Vilas-Boas, Diana; Sillankorva, Sanna M.; Azeredo, Joana Phage therapy: a step forward in the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections Journal of Virology, 89(15), 7449-7456, 2015

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