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Marlene Baptista

PhD Student

Research Line: Industrial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Research Group: BioPreFer
Lab.: Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory
Supervisor: LD
253 601 973 (lab)
id9614@alunos.uminho.pt
https://www.ceb.uminho.pt/People/Profile/marlenebaptista

Qualifications

2019: Mestrado em Biotecnologia, Universidade do Minho

Since 2021: Engineering Kluyveromyces marxianus for the synthesis of a top chemical through agro-industrial residues valorisation
2019 - 2021: Development of molecular markers that guarantee the authenticity of the milk used in the manufacture of cheese from "Serra da Estrela"
2019 - 2019: GLYCANZYME - New enzymes for analysis and glico-engineering of therapeutic proteins

Projects

Ongoing: ESSEntial - Establishing sustainable bioproduction of lactones from metabolic engineering of industrial cell factory systems: Ashbya gossypii (Team Member)

Recent Publications

1	Baptista, Marlene; Costa, Carlos E.; Domingues, Lucília Engineering thermotolerant Kluyveromyces marxianus strains for resveratrol production by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of whole slurry corn cob Bioresource Technology, 416(131755), 2025
2	Baptista, Marlene; Domingues, Lucília Kluyveromyces marxianus as a microbial cell factory for lignocellulosic biomass valorisation Biotechnology Advances, 60(108027), 2022
3	Baptista, Marlene; Cunha, Joana T.; Domingues, Lucília Establishment of Kluyveromyces marxianus as a microbial cell factory for lignocellulosic processes: production of high value furan derivatives Journal of Fungi, 7(12), 1047, 2021
4	Baptista, Marlene; Cunha, Joana T.; Domingues, Lucília DNA-based approaches for dairy products authentication: A review and perspectives Trends in Food Science & Technology, 109, 386-397, 2021

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