Sandra Martins is a Post-Doc Researcher at Division of Aquaculture, Upgrading, and Bioprospection (DivAV) of Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere, I.P. (IPMA). She holds a degree in Agronomic Engineering, a Master’s in Genetic Resources and Improvement of Agricultural and Forestry Species, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Molecular Genetics and Technology. She works in the project Sea-traces. Her main scientific research area is molecular biology and more recently, related to the project Sea-traces seafood quality, mislabeling, traceability and frauds. Published seven articles in specialized magazines. She participated in twenty-four national and four international congresses and she has nine published research papers, in SCI-indexed journals. In her professional activities, she interacted with 26 collaborator (s) in coauthor of scientific works. In parallel, M. Matos and Martins S. improved the technique of DNA extraction from fungal spores and identification of Talaromyces manerffei by Nested-PCR and through band sequencing. She was co-supervisor of five curricular traineeships in molecular markers, namely SCoTs, ISSRs and in the identification of polymorphisms of the XRCC1 in humans, and three curricular traineeships in the identification of polymorphisms of the APE1 in humans and identification of Talaromyces manerffei in animals. She has been an invited reviewer for seven journals and is a member of the editorial board of a journal.
