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Rita Castro

Post-Doc

Research Line: Environmental Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group: BRIDGE
Lab.: Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory
Supervisor: MA
253 601 961 (office) / 253 601 963 (lab)
ritacastro@deb.uminho.pt
http://ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/anacarvalho

Qualifications

2015: PhD Program on Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho

2016 - 2019: Hydrocarbon degradation
2010 - 2015: Hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria: from bioremediation to bioenergy feedstock

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Past Students

Ana Margarida Barbosa Fernandes - Master Student

Recent Publications

1	Castro, Ana Rita; Silva, Pedro T.S.; Castro, Paulo J.G.; Alves, Eliana; Domingues, M. Rosário M.; Pereira, M. Alcina Tuning culturing conditions towards the production of neutral lipids from lubricant-based wastewater in open mixed bacterial communities Water Research, 144, 532-542, 2018
2	Paulo, Ana M.S.; Salvador, Andreia F.; Alves, Joana I.; Castro, Rita; Langenhoff, A.A.M.; Stams, Alfons J.M.; Cavaleiro, Ana Júlia Enhancement of methane production from 1-hexadecene by additional electron donors Microbial Biotechnology, 11(4), 657-666, 2018
3	Castro, Ana Rita; Guimarães, Maura; Oliveira, João V.; Pereira, M. Alcina Production of added value bacterial lipids through valorisation of hydrocarbon-contaminated cork waste Science of the Total Environment, 605-606, 677-682, 2017
4	Castro, Rita; Rocha, Isabel; Alves, Maria Madalena; Pereira, Maria Alcina Rhodococcus opacus B4: a promising bacterium for production of biofuels and biobased chemicals AMB Express, 6(35), 1-11, 2016
5	Subhedar, Preeti; Botelho, Cláudia M.; Castro, Rita; Pereira, Maria Alcina; Gogate, Parag R.; Cavaco-Paulo, Artur Ultrasound intensification suppresses the need of methanol excess during the biodiesel production with Lipozyme TL-IM Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 27, 530-535, 2015
6	Martín-González, Lucia; Castro, A.R.; Pereira, M.A.; Alves, M.M.; Font, X.; Vicent, T. Thermophilic co-digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid wastes with FOG wastes from a sewage treatment plant: reactor performance and microbial community monitoring Bioresource Technology, 102(7), 4734-4741, 2011
7	Castro, Rita; Pereira, Sofia; Lima, Ana; Corticeiro, Sofia; Válega, Mónica; Pereira, Eduarda; Duarte, Armando; Figueira, Etelvina Accumulation, distribution and cellular partitioning of mercury in several halophytes of a contaminated salt marsh Chemosphere, 76(10), 1348-1355, 2009
8	Pacheco, Catarina C.; Passos, João F.; Castro, A. Rita; Moradas-Ferreira, Pedro; De Marco, Paolo Role of respiration and glutathione in cadmium-induced oxidative stress in Escherichia coli K-12 Archives of Microbiology, 189(3), 271-278, 2008

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