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Lina Ballesteros

Junior Researcher

Research Line: Industrial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group: B.Factory
Lab.: Fermentations Laboratory
Supervisor: JAT
253 601 590 (office) / 253 601 972 (lab)
linafernanda37@ceb.uminho.pt
http://ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/linaballesteros

Career

Since 2019: Junior Researcher, Universidade do Minho

Qualifications

2016: PhD Program on Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho

Since 2019: Nano-sized oxygen scavenger for new active food packaging
2016 - 2019: Development of new technologies to extract bioactive compounds from agro-industrial residues. Food production from cassava flour.
2011 - 2016: Extraction and characterization of polysaccharides and phenolic compounds from spent coffee grounds and their incorporation into edible films/coatings for food applications

Past Projects

2016 - 2019: REDVALUE - Technological Alliance to complete the forest and agroindustrial production cycle (Team Member)

Recent Publications

1	Salas-Méndez, Esperanza de Jesús; Vicente, António A.; Pinheiro, Ana Cristina; Ballesteros, Lina F.; Silva, Pedro; Rodríguez-García, Raúl; Hernández-Castillo, Francisco D.; Díaz-Jiménez, María de Lourdes V.; Flores-López, María L.; Villarreal-Quintanilla, José Ángel; Peña-Ramos, Fidel M.; Carrillo-Lomelí, Dennise A.; Rodríguez, Diana Jasso de Application of edible nanolaminate coatings with antimicrobial extract of Flourensia cernua to extend the shelf-life of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) fruit Postharvest Biology and Technology, 150, 19-27, 2019
2	Fernandes, C.; Calderon V., S.; Ballesteros, Lina F.; Cerqueira, Miguel A.; Pastrana, L.M.; Teixeira, José A.; Ferreira, P.J.; Carvalho, S. Carbon-based sputtered coatings for enhanced chitosan-based films properties Applied Surface Science, 433, 689-695, 2018
3	Ballesteros, Lina F.; Cerqueira, Miguel A.; Teixeira, José A.; Mussatto, Solange I. Production and physicochemical properties of carboxymethyl cellulose films enriched with spent coffee grounds polysaccharides International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 106, 647-655, 2018
4	Ballesteros, Lina F.; Ramirez, Monica J.; Orrego, Carlos E.; Teixeira, José A.; Mussatto, Solange I. Encapsulation of antioxidant phenolic compounds extracted from spent coffee grounds by freeze-drying and spray-drying using different coating materials Food Chemistry, 237, 623-631, 2017
5	Ballesteros, Lina F.; Ramirez, Mónica J.; Orrego, Carlos E.; Teixeira, José A.; Mussatto, Solange I. Optimization of autohydrolysis conditions to extract antioxidant phenolic compounds from spent coffee grounds Journal of Food Engineering, 199, 1-8, 2017
6	Ballesteros, Lina F.; Teixeira, José A.; Mussatto, Solange I. Extraction of polysaccharides by autohydrolysis of spent coffee grounds and evaluation of their antioxidant activity Carbohydrate Polymers, 157, 258-266, 2017
7	Ballesteros, Lina F.; Cerqueira, Miguel A.; Teixeira, José A.; Mussatto, Solange I. Characterization of polysaccharides extracted from spent coffee grounds by alkali pretreatment Carbohydrate Polymers, 127, 347-354, 2015
8	Ballesteros, L.F.; Teixeira, J.A.; Mussatto, S.I. Selection of the solvent and extraction conditions for maximum recovery of antioxidant phenolic compounds from coffee silverskin Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7(5), 1322-1332, 2014
9	Ballesteros, L.F.; Teixeira, J.A.; Mussatto, S.I. Chemical, functional, and structural properties of spent coffee grounds and coffee silverskin Food and Bioprocess Technology, 7(12), 3493-3503, 2014
10	Mussatto, S.I.; Ballesteros, L.F.; Martins, Sílvia; Flores-Maltos, D.A.; Aguilar, C.N.; Teixeira, J.A. Maximization of fructooligosaccharides and β-fructofuranosidase production by Aspergillus japonicus under solid-state fermentation conditions Food and Bioprocess Technology, 6(8), 2128-2134, 2013
11	Mussatto, S.I.; Ballesteros, L.F.; Martins, Sílvia; Teixeira, J.A. Extraction of antioxidant phenolic compounds from spent coffee grounds Separation and Purification Technology, 83(1), 173-179, 2011

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