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Joana Alves

Post-Doc

Research Line: Environmental Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group: BRIDGE
Lab.: Anaerobe Microbiology Laboratory
Supervisor: MA
253 601 986 (office) / 253 601 960 (lab)
joana.alves@deb.uminho.pt
http://ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/joanaalves

Qualifications

2013: PhD Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Universidade do Minho

Honors and Awards

2007: Best poster on the 11th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Brisbane, Australia

2013 - 2019: Microbial physiology applied to Environmental Biotechnology
2009 - 2013: Microbiolology of thermophilic anaerobic syngas conversion

Projects

Ongoing: INNOVsyn - Innovative strategies for syngas fermentation (PI)

Recent Publications

1	Pereira, Ana Luísa; Alves, Joana I.; Stams, Alfons J.M.; Alves, M. Madalena; Sousa, Diana Z. Enrichment of syngas-converting communities from a multi-orifice baffled bioreactor Microbial Biotechnology, 11(4), 639-646, 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	Alves, Joana Isabel; Alves, M. Madalena; Plugge, C.M.; Stams, Alfons J.M.; Sousa, Diana Z. Comparative analysis of carbon monoxide tolerance among Thermoanaerobacter species Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(1330), 1-9, 2016
4	Visser, M.; Parshina, S.N.; Alves, J.I.; Sousa, D.Z.; Pereira, I.A.; Muyzer, G.; Kuever, J.; Lebedinsky, A.V.; Koehorst, J.J.; Worm, P.; Plugge, C.M.; Schaap, P.J.; Goodwin, L.A.; Lapidus, A.; Kyrpides, N.C.; Detter, J.C.; Woyke, T.; Chain, P.; Davenport, K.W.; Spring, S.; Rohde, M.; Kleuk, H.P.; Stams, A.J.M. Genome analyses of the carboxydotrophic sulfate-reducers Desulfotomaculum nigrificans and Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans and reclassification of Desulfotomaculum caboxydivorans as a later synonym of Desulfotomaculum nigrificans Standards in Genomic Sciences, 9(3), 655-675, 2014
5	Alves, J.I.; van Gelder, A.H.; Alves, M.M.; Sousa, D.Z.; Plugge, C.M. Moorella stamsii sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic hydrogenogenic carboxydotroph isolated from digester sludge International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 63(11), 4072-4076, 2013
6	Alves, J.I.; Stams, A.J.M.; Plugge, C.M.; Alves, M.M.; Sousa, D.Z. Enrichment of anaerobic syngas-converting bacteria from thermophilic bioreactor sludge FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 86(3), 590-597, 2013
7	Abreu, A.A.; Alves, J.I.; Pereira, M.A.; Sousa, D.Z.; Alves, M.M. Strategies to suppress hydrogen-consuming microorganisms affect macro and micro scale structure and microbiology of granular sludge Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 108(8), 1766-1775, 2011
8	Abreu, A.A.; Alves, J.I.; Pereira, M.A.; Karakashev, D.; Alves, M.M.; Angelidaki, I. Engineered heat treated methanogenic granules: a promising biotechnological approach for extreme thermophilic biohydrogen production Bioresource Technology, 101(24), 9577-9586, 2010
9	Cavaleiro, A.J.; Salvador, A.F.; Alves, J.I.; Alves, M.M. Continuous high rate anaerobic treatment of oleic acid based wastewater is possible after a step feeding start-up Environmental Science and Technology, 43(8), 2931-2936, 2009
10	Sousa, D.Z.; Alves, J.I.; Alves, M.M.; Smidt, H.; Stams, A.J.M. Effect of sulfate on methanogenic communities that degrade unsaturated and saturated long chain fatty acids (LCFA) Environmental Microbiology, 11(1), 68-80, 2009
11	Sousa, D.Z.; Pereira, M.A.; Alves, J.I.; Smidt, Hauke; Stams, A.J.M.; Alves, M.M. Anaerobic microbial LCFA degradation in bioreactors Water Science and Technology, 57(3), 439-444, 2008

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