WANT A PROFILE LIKE THIS?
Create my FREE Plan Or learn about other options
Nuno Cerca
PeerJ Author
845 Points

Contributions by role

Author 810
Preprint Author 35

Contributions by subject area

Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Women's Health
Gynecology and Obstetrics
Biotechnology

Nuno Cerca

PeerJ Author

Summary

Nuno Cerca graduated in Microbiology by the Portuguese Catholic University, Porto (June 2000). He was a lecturer in Microbiology at the Mozambique Superior Institute of Science and Technology, Maputo (2001) and started his PhD on the topic of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm virulence factors, in October 2002, at the University of Minho, Braga. In 2004 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue part of his PhD work at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. After concluding his PhD (September 2006) he became a NIH funded post-doc at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA (January 2007), where he worked on the theme of genetic regulation of biofilm formation. He returned to Portugal in June 2008 with a Ciencia2007 fellowship to work at CEB-IBB as an Assistant Researcher, until June 2013. He established his research team focused on two research lines addressing studies of bacterial biofilm infections associated with bacterial vaginosis or by Staphylococcus species. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the Center of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Gynecology & Obstetrics Infectious Diseases Microbiology Molecular Biology Science Policy

Editing Journals

Work details

Principal Investigator with habilitation

University of Minho
June 2008
Centre of Biological Engineering

Websites

  • Nuno Cerca Research Team

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 6
  • Preprints 1
September 10, 2020
Evaluation of different culture media to support in vitro growth and biofilm formation of bacterial vaginosis-associated anaerobes
Aliona S. Rosca, Joana Castro, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9917 PubMed 32974104
July 15, 2020
Biofilm released cells can easily be obtained in a fed-batch system using ica+ but not with ica- isolates
Vânia Gaio, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9549 PubMed 32742809
June 15, 2020
Optimizing a reliable ex vivo human blood model to analyze expression of Staphylococcus epidermidis genes
Susana Brás, Ângela França, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9295 PubMed 32587796
May 15, 2019
Cells released from S. epidermidis biofilms present increased antibiotic tolerance to multiple antibiotics
Vânia Gaio, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6884 PubMed 31143534
August 29, 2017
Prevalence of bacterial vaginosis in Portuguese pregnant women and vaginal colonization by Gardnerella vaginalis
Daniela Machado, Joana Castro, José Martinez-de-Oliveira, Cristina Nogueira-Silva, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3750 PubMed 28875084
February 17, 2015
Diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis by a new multiplex peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization method
António Machado, Joana Castro, Tatiana Cereija, Carina Almeida, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.780 PubMed 25737820
December 14, 2014 - Version: 1
Diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis by a new multiplex peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization method
António Machado, Joana Castro, Tatiana Cereija, Carina Almeida, Nuno Cerca
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.698v1