The effect of hydrodynamic conditions in Corynebacterium glutamicum growth

[Excerpt] Corynebacterium glutamicum is a facultative anaerobic, gram-positive bacterium with a GRAS status that grows fast and achieves high cell densities. C. glutamicum is commonly used in amino acids production, and is also able to convert sugars in organic acids (OA) and alcohols in specific conditions: anaerobic and limited-oxygen environments. In these conditions, the carbon metabolism is modified, namely the flux shifts from the pentose phosphate pathway to glycolysis and the TCA cycle flux decreases and consequently bacterial growth is strongly affected [1,2]. (...)

A modernidade para além da utopia tecnológica

Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Comunicação, Cidadania e Educação)

Deposição não eletrolítica de filmes plasmónicos de ouro para biossensores

Dissertação de mestrado em Biofísica e Bionanossistemas

Contributos para a elucidação do modo de ação de própolis português: o caso do própolis do Pereiro

Dissertação de mestrado em Genética Molecular

Seleção de microalgas com potencial de produção de biocombustíveis

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioengenharia

Influence of oxygen conditions on bacterial interactions within biofilms related with cystic fibrosis

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioengineering

Careers, identities and professionalization. A study on doctors about their social representations related to the labor market today and its foreseeable future

This study is in line with the analyses of university and working career in their interaction in relation with conditioning factors. It comprises two central issues: the issue of identity bound to the issue of professionalization within the domain of training and employment. Nowadays, professionalization of the individuals, inside a troubled occupational world, demands the implementation of mechanisms favoring the development of both the individuals and the institution in which they work. All this has an impact at the local, regional and even national levels. Three levels of analysis interplay from a sui generis perspective: macro-meso-micro-macro (Aparicio, 2005; 2007a; 2007b, 2013a, 2014, 2015 b, d – See the Three- Dimensional Spiral of Sense Theory). The aim was to be aware of the doctors’ representations regarding the value of such degree under the present “degree devaluation”, and its impact on the professional future as well as on the core issues of the labor market which need urgent measures with a view to a belter interaction between the two systems. The methodology used was quanti-qualitative (semi-structured questionnaires, interviews, and hierarchical evocations). The population consisted of doctors (2005-2012) from the National University of Cuyo, in Argentina. The results helped us understand the nucleus of such representations and the peripheral aspects by career and institution, thus revealing professional and disciplinary identities. The professional identities show the situated needs in terms of professionalization within the different contexts and, particularly, within the labor market.

Insights into bacterial colony morphology evolution and diversification during infection development in cystic fibrosis

Tese de Doutoramento em Engenharia Biomédica.

FluidUM: análise de fluidos de um automóvel

Dissertação de mestrado integrado em Engenharia Mecânica

Evaluation of antimicrobial strategies against biomaterial-associated infections: impact of the surrounding environmental conditions

Dissertação de mestrado em Bioengenharia