Cláudia Alves

Research assistant


Research Activities

My main research interests are in the fields of Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Molecular Biology and Genetics. My research focuses on the production and purification of biopharmaceuticals, namely DNA minicircles, by the engineering of an improved E. coli host producing strain, selection of optimal growth conditions to promote intramolecular DNA recombination and maximize minicircle production, followed by the development and application of chromatographic methods for the purification of the biomolecule of interest.

 

Selected Publications

 

 

Claudia P.A. Alves, Sofia O. D. Duarte, Gabriel A. Monteiro, Duarte Miguel F. Prazeres, "Use of an E. coli pgi Knockout Strain as a Plasmid Producer," BioPharm International 29 (2), pp 38-42, 2016.

Cláudia P.A. Alves, Michaela Šimčíková, Liliana Brito, Kristala L.J. Prather, Gabriel A. Monteiro and Duarte Miguel F. Prazeres; Development of a Nuclease-assisted Method for the Purification of Minicircles. MicroBiotec2015, Évora, Portugal (poster communication).

Rita Silva Santos, Cláudia P. A. Alves, Ana M. Azevedo, Duarte Miguel F. Prazeres; Separation of plasmid DNA topoisomers by multimodal chromatography. MicroBiotec2015, Évora, Portugal (poster communication).

Liliana Brito, Michaela Šimčíková, Joana Boura, Ana Marisa Salgueiro, Cláudia Alves, António Fiarresga, Cláudia Lobato da Silva, Catarina Madeira, Gabriel Monteiro, Duarte M.F. Prazeres; Transient engineered human Mesenchymal Stem Cells to promote angiogenesis. iMed 2014, Lisbon, Portugal (poster communication).

 

 

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