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Isabel Maria Pires Belo
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Assistant Professor
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Department of Biological Engineering
E-mail: ibelo@deb.uminho.pt Phone: +351 - 253 604
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Education | Positions | Teaching | Research | Publications |
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Education
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Ph.D. in Chemical
and Biological Engineering, UM, 2000
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Graduation in Chemical Engineering, FEUP, 1988
Positions
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Assistant Professor, UM, 2000-
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Teaching assistant, UM, 1990-2000
Teaching
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Graphic Representation Systems (Biological
Engineering Degree - 1st year)
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Introduction to Processes Engineering
(Biological Engineering Degree - 1st year)
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Strategy of
Process Engineering – Project (Biological Engineering Degree
- 4th year)
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Research project (Biological
Engineering Degree - 5th year)
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Industry Training (Biological
Engineering Degree - 5th year)
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Technology of
Cell Culture (Biomedical Engineering Degree –
4th year)
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Integrated
Laboratories I (Biomedical Engineering Degree
– 4th year)
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Research project (Biomedical
Engineering Degree - 4th year)
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Introduction
to Process Engineering (Master on Biotechnology)
Research
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Fermentation tecnhology: Microbial physiology and mass
transfer
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Biotransformations
in biphasic media
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Oxidative stress response of microbial cells
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Pressurized
bioreactors: applications for microbial cell cultivation
Selected publications
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Lopes,
M., Gomes, N., Gonçalves, C., Coelho, M.A.Z. , Mota, M., Belo,
I. (2008) Yarrowia
lipolytica lipase production enhanced by increased air pressure. Lett.
Appl. Microbiol. 46(2), 255-260.
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Gomes N., Aguedo M., Teixeira J., Belo I. (2007)
Oxygen transfer rate in a biphasic medium: influence on the biotransformation
of methyl ricinoleate into g-decalactone by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. Biochem. Eng J. 35, 380–386.
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Coelho,
M.A.Z., Coutinho, J.A.P., Ferreira, E.C., Mota, M., Belo, I. (2007) Analysis of the effects of
hyperbaric gases on S. cerevisiae
cell cycle through a morphological approach. Process Biochemistry 42,
1378–1383.
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Teixeira,
J.A., Vicente, A.A., Belo, I. (2007) Transferência de Massa. In:
Reactores Biológicos - Fundamentos e Aplicações, M.M. Fonseca e J.A. Teixeira
(Eds.), Lidel, Lisboa, 103-124.
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Aguedo
M. , Gomes N. ,Escamilla Garcia E. , Waché Y., Mota M.,
Teixeira J.A. & Belo I. (2005) Decalactones production
by Yarrowia lipolytica under
increased O2 transfer rates Biotechnol. Lett. 27(20), 1617-1621.
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Coutinho, J A P, Belo, I, Ferreira, E C,
Coelho, M A Z (2005) Assessment of yeast viability under hyperbaric
conditions through a modeling approach, J. of Chem. Technol.Biotechnol.80, 872-877.
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Belo, I., Pinheiro, R., Mota, M. (2005)
Morphological and physiological changes in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae by oxidative stress from hyperbaric air, J. Biotech. 115(4), 397-404.
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Araujo, C., Aguedo, M., Gomes, N., Teixeira, J.A., Belo,
I. (2005) Valorization of Olive Mill Wastewater by the Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. CHEMPOR 2005 - 9th
International Chemical Engineering Conference – Full Papers in CD-ROM (ISBN:
972-8055-13-7), Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Coimbra,
6 pp.
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Aguedo, M, Ly, M. H., Belo, I., Teixeira, J.
A., Belin, J-M, and Waché, Y. (2004) The Use of Enzymes and
Microorganisms to Produce Aroma Compounds from Lipids, Food Technology and
Biotechnology, 42 (4), 327-336
· Coelho M.A.Z., Belo I. , Pinheiro R., Amaral A. L. , Mota M., Coutinho J. A. P. , Ferreira E. C. (2004), Effect of hyperbaric stress on yeast morphology: study by automated image analysis., Appl. Microbiol. Biotecnhol. 66, (3) 318-324.
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Last update:
12-Mar-2007