Centre of Biological Engineering / Centro de Engenharia Biológica

Carlos E. Costa

Research Grant

Research Line: Industrial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group: BBiofilms
Supervisor: NC
253 602 059 (office)
carlos.costa@ceb.uminho.pt
https://www.ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/carloscosta

Career

Since 2024: Senior Technician, Universidade do Minho

Qualifications

2022: PhD Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho
2016: Master Program in Plant Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Bioentrepreneurship ECUM, Universidade do Minho

Roles and Responsibilities

Since 2024: Events / Communication, Universidade do Minho

Since 2024: Senior Communication Technician Labbels
2022 - 2024: Establishing sustainable lactone bioproduction from a systems metabolic engineered industrial cell factory: Ashbya gossypii
2022 - 2024: Establishing sustainable lactone bioproduction from a systems metabolic engineered industrial cell factory: Ashbya gossypii
2022 - 2022: Isolation of industrial yeast strains
2018 - 2022: Resveratrol de novo biosynthensis from lignocellulosic biomass: metabolic engineering of thermotolerant robust yeast strains for an integrated and intensified bioprocess
2016 - 2018: YeasTempTation: Tailoring thermotolerant yeasts for more sustainable, eco-efficient and competitive industrial fermentations
2015 - 2016: Effective bioethanol production from plant-based biomass by genetically modified yeast strains

Projects

Past Supervision of Researchers

Magdalena Delač - Trainee

Recent Publications

1	Martins, Cristiana; Costa, Carlos E.; Cunha, Joana T.; Gullón, Beatriz; Romaní, Aloia; Domingues, Lucília Whole yeast cell synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural-derivatives from apple waste processed by green technologies Bioresource Technology, 430(132570), 2025
2	Baptista, Marlene; Costa, Carlos E.; Domingues, Lucília Engineering thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus strains for resveratrol production by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of whole slurry corn cob Bioresource Technology, 416(131755), 2025
3	Sousa, Diana F.; Genisheva, Zlatina; Rodríguez-Yoldi, María Jesús; Gullón, Beatriz; Costa, Carlos E.; Teixeira, José A.; Botelho, Cláudia M.; Ferreira-Santos, Pedro Exploration of polyphenols extracted from Cytisus plants and their potential applications: a review Antioxidants, 13(2), 192, 2024
4	Arias, Ana; Costa, Carlos E.; Moreira, Maria Teresa; Feijoo, Gumersindo; Domingues, Lucília Resveratrol-based biorefinery models for favoring its inclusion along the market value-added chains: A critical review Science of the Total Environment, 908(168199), 2024
5	Costa, Carlos E.; Romaní, Aloia; Domingues, Lucília Overview of resveratrol properties, applications, and advances in microbial precision fermentation Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Nov(24), 1-17, 2024
6	Arias, Ana; Carlos E. Costa; Moreira, Maria Teresa; Feijoo, Gumersindo; Domingues, Lucília Environmental and techno-economic assessment on the valorization of vine-side streams to produce resveratrol Journal of Cleaner Production, 429(139622), 2023
7	Arias, Ana; Costa, Carlos E.; Feijoo, Gumersindo; Moreira, Maria Teresa; Domingues, Lucília Process modeling, environmental and economic sustainability of the valorization of whey and eucalyptus residues for resveratrol biosynthesis Waste Management, 172, 226-234, 2023
8	Costa, Carlos E.; Romaní, Aloia; Møller-Hansen, Iben; Teixeira, José A.; Borodina, Irina; Domingues, Lucília Valorisation of wine wastes by de novo biosynthesis of resveratrol using a recombinant xylose-consuming industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain Green Chemistry, 245(23), 9128-9142, 2022
9	Costa, Carlos E.; Romaní, Aloia; Teixeira, José A.; Domingues, Lucília Resveratrol production for the valorisation of lactose-rich wastes by engineered industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae Bioresource Technology, 359(127463), 2022
10	Costa, Carlos E.; Carvalho, Patrícia; Domingues, Lucília Strategic combination of different promoters in lactose metabolisation and host chassis selection for high bioethanol titres from dairy wastes Bioresource Technology Reports, 19(101131), 2022
11	Carvalho, Patrícia; Costa, Carlos; Baptista, Sara; Domingues, Lucília Yeast cell factories for sustainable whey-to-ethanol valorisation towards a circular economy Biofuel Research Journal, 8(4), 1529-1549, 2021
12	Costa, Carlos E.; Møller-Hansen, Iben; Romaní, Aloia; Teixeira, José A.; Borodina, Irina; Domingues, Lucília Resveratrol production from hydrothermally pretreated eucalyptus wood using recombinant industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains ACS Synthetic Biology, 10(8), 1895-1903, 2021
13	Baptista, Sara L.; Costa, Carlos E.; Cunha, Joana T.; Soares, Pedro O.; Domingues, Lucília Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of top value chemicals from biorefinery carbohydrates Biotechnology Advances, 47(107697), 2021
14	Cunha, Joana T.; Soares, Pedro O.; Baptista, Sara L.; Costa, Carlos E.; Domingues, Lucília Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae for lignocellulosic valorization: a review and perspectives on bioethanol production Bioengineered, 11(1), 883-903, 2020
15	Lip, Ka Ying Florence; García-Ríos, Estéfani; Costa, Carlos E.; José Manuel Guillamón; Domingues, Lucília; Teixeira, José A.; van Gulik, Walter M. Selection and subsequent physiological characterization of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains during continuous growth at sub- and- supra optimal temperatures Biotechnology Reports, 26(e00462), 2020
16	Cunha, Joana T.; Romaní, Aloia; Costa, Carlos E.; Sá-Correia, Isabel; Domingues, Lucília Molecular and physiological basis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerance to adverse lignocellulose-based process conditions Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 103(1), 159-175, 2019
17	Cunha, Joana T.; Costa, Carlos E.; Ferraz, Luís; Romaní, Aloia; Johansson, Björn; Sá-Correia, Isabel; Domingues, Lucília HAA1 and PRS3 overexpression boosts yeast tolerance towards acetic acid improving xylose or glucose consumption: unravelling the underlying mechanisms Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 102(10), 4589-4600, 2018
18	Costa, Carlos E.; Romaní, Aloia; Cunha, Joana T.; Johansson, Björn; Domingues, Lucília Integrated approach for selecting efficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae for industrial lignocellulosic fermentations: importance of yeast chassis linked to process conditions Bioresource Technology, 227, 24-34, 2017

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Carlos E. Costa

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Career

Qualifications

Roles and Responsibilities

Projects

Past Supervision of Researchers

Recent Publications

Whole yeast cell synthesis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural-derivatives from apple waste processed by green technologies

Engineering thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus strains for resveratrol production by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of whole slurry corn cob

Exploration of polyphenols extracted from Cytisus plants and their potential applications: a review

Resveratrol-based biorefinery models for favoring its inclusion along the market value-added chains: A critical review

Overview of resveratrol properties, applications, and advances in microbial precision fermentation

Environmental and techno-economic assessment on the valorization of vine-side streams to produce resveratrol

Process modeling, environmental and economic sustainability of the valorization of whey and eucalyptus residues for resveratrol biosynthesis

Valorisation of wine wastes by de novo biosynthesis of resveratrol using a recombinant xylose-consuming industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain

Resveratrol production for the valorisation of lactose-rich wastes by engineered industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Strategic combination of different promoters in lactose metabolisation and host chassis selection for high bioethanol titres from dairy wastes

Yeast cell factories for sustainable whey-to-ethanol valorisation towards a circular economy

Resveratrol production from hydrothermally pretreated eucalyptus wood using recombinant industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of top value chemicals from biorefinery carbohydrates

Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae for lignocellulosic valorization: a review and perspectives on bioethanol production

Selection and subsequent physiological characterization of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains during continuous growth at sub- and- supra optimal temperatures

Molecular and physiological basis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerance to adverse lignocellulose-based process conditions

HAA1 and PRS3 overexpression boosts yeast tolerance towards acetic acid improving xylose or glucose consumption: unravelling the underlying mechanisms

Integrated approach for selecting efficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae for industrial lignocellulosic fermentations: importance of yeast chassis linked to process conditions

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