Leticia M. Estevinho

Researcher

Address:

Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Campus de Santa Apolónia - 5300-253 BRAGANÇA

5300-253 Bragança

Portugal

Phone number:

(+351)273303200

Fax Number:

(+351)273303200

Any further information you consider relevant:

Maria Leticia Miranda Fernandes Estevinho was born in Vimioso, Portugal, in 1959. She received the Zootechnical Engineering degree (summa cum laude) in 1985 and the M.S. degree in biotechnology (with merit) in 1989. In 1995, she finished the Ph.D. degree in science, given by Minho University, Braga, Portugal. In 2009, she has passed with merit the proofs of Agregacao, which is the last step in the academic career in Portugal. Estevinho has worked in Agricultural College of Braganca, Braganca, Portugal, since 1986 and has a huge experience in students’ coordination. She has published more than 60 articles in indexed international journals, has written book chapters, and has presented more 160 oral and written communications all over the world, and she was the principal investigator of more than 25 scientific projects (totally financed). She is an expert on microbiology, chemistry, and toxicology. She is the Head of the Microbiology Laboratory since 1986. Estevinho has revised more than 100 articles of indexed journals, namely, Food Chemistry, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Food Microbiology, Neurosciences, Food Control, Food Science and Technology, Annals of Microbiology and Life Sciences. Nowadays, Estevinho serves as a Coordinator Professor with Agregacao in the Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Braganca, Portugal.

Your research topics:

antimicrobial resistance

interactions host-pathogen

interactions pathogen-pathogen

pathogenicity

Organism studied by your group:

Bacteria

Protozoa

Fungi

Special methods/technologies:

Molecular Biology

Screening