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Biomedical Scientist & Data Analyst | Advanced user of R | Expert in qiime2
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
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Work Experience
PhD student
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina
November 2018 - Present
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina
April 2018 - October 2018
Commercial Trainee
Speculum Artigos Médicos, S.A.
February 2018 - March 2018
Education
PhD program on Biomedicine (Medical Sciences)
Universidade de Aveiro
November 2018 - Present
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine (Life Sciences)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
September 2015 - December 2017
BSc in Biomedical Sciences (Medical Sciences)
Universidade do Algarve
September 2012 - July 2015
Certifications
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Applied Metagenomics (AM21) from GTPB
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
November 2021 - Present
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CRA Certification (Escola de Study Coordinators)
Work4Research and Hospital da Luz Learning Health
July 2018 - Present
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ICH Good Clinical Practice E6 (R2)
The Global Health Network
April 2018 - Present
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Curso Intensivo em Medicina Legal
CRIAP
July 2014 - Present
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Melo-Dias and Carla Valente and L{\'{\i}}lia Andrade and Alda Marques and Ana Sousa(2022). Saliva As A Non-Invasive Specimen For COPD Assessment . Respiratory Research. Research Square Platform {LLC}
PREPRINT
Sara Melo-Dias, Miguel Cabral, Andreia Furtado, Sara Souto-Miranda, Maria Aurora Mendes, João Cravo, Catarina R. Almeida, Alda Marques, Ana Sousa (2022). Responsiveness to pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD is associated with changes in microbiota .
Sara Melo-Dias, Carla Valente, Lília Andrade, Alda Marques, Ana Sousa (2021). Saliva As A Non-Invasive Specimen For COPD Assessment .
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Sara Melo-Dias, M Cabral, A Furtado, S Souto-Miranda, J Carvo, A Mendes, C Almeida, A Marques, S Ana(2022). Pulmonary rehabilitation changes the oral microbiota of people with COPD . 05.01 - Airway pharmacology and treatment. European Respiratory Society
Melo-Dias, Sara, Valente, Carla, Andrade, Lília, Marques, Alda, Sousa, Ana, 2021, "The salivary microbiota signatures of COPD".
(2020). Could salivary microbiota be used as a COPD BIOMARKER?. Research Summit 2020 - University of Aveiro.
Sara Dias, Filipa Machado, Carla Valente, Lilia Andrade, Alda Marques, Ana Sousa, 2019, “Saliva’s Microbiota as a biomarker of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”.
Composição e diversidade da microbiota das vias aéreas correlaciona-se com a severidade da Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crónica @inproceedings {
author = {Sousa, Ana and Dias, Sara and Machado, Ana (E712-8E77-D474) and Valente, Carla and Andrade, Lília and Marques, Alda},
title = { Composição e diversidade da microbiota das vias aéreas correlaciona-se com a severidade da Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crónica },
address = {Albufeira},
number = {026},
volume = {24},
pages = {12--13},
year = {2018},
month = {nov},
keywords = {Microbiota das vias aéreas; Disbiose; Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crónica; Medicina Personalizada; Remodelação da microbiota}
}. XXXIV Congresso Nacional de Pneumologia 2018.
(2018). Microbial, inflammatory and clinical determinants of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic obstructive pulmonary Disease. Research Summit - University of Aveiro.
CONFERENCE POSTER
The effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD is associated with specific shifts in oral microbiota Melo-Dias, Sara; Cabral, Miguel; Furtado, Andreia; Souto-Miranda, Sara; Almeida, Catarina; Marques, Alda; Sousa, Ana, 2022, “The
Effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD is associated with specific shifts in oral microbiota” (poster accepted to 7th meeting of
ISEMPH 2022, Lisboa) . 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health.
The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation in salivary microbiota of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A longitudinal study @misc {
author = {Andreia Furtado and Dias, Sara and Miguel Cabral and Alda Marques and Ana Margarida Domingos Tavares de Sousa},
title = {The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation in salivary microbiota of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A longitudinal study},
year = {2021},
month = {oct}
}. IV International Conference - Microbiota and Health.
Saliva as a patient-friendly specimen for COPD assessment @misc {
author = {Dias, Sara and Carla Valente and Lília Andrade and Alda Marques and Ana Margarida Domingos Tavares de Sousa},
title = {Saliva as a patient-friendly specimen for COPD assessment},
year = {2021},
month = {sep}
} . ERS International Conference 2021.
Exploring Salivary microbiota as a COPD Biomarker @misc {
author = {Melo-Dias, Sara (C41A-6CA5-4D84) and Tavares, Ana (C816-3B3E-32D7) and Valente, Carla and Andrade, Lília and Marques, Alda and Sousa, Ana},
title = {Exploring Salivary microbiota as a COPD Biomarker},
year = {2020},
month = {jan}
}. International Meeting of Portuguese Society of Genetics.
Melo-Dias, S.; Tavares, A.; Valente, C.; Andrade, L.; Marques, A. and Sousa, A. (2020) “Exploring salivary microbiota as a COPD biomarker”, International Meeting of Portuguese Society of Genetics, 23-24 January, 2020 Faro, Portugal.