Dora Ferreira has a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicinal Biotechnology, from the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP-ESS) and is currently a student of the Master’s Degree in Applied Microbiology from the Faculty of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP-ESB). Her Master’s dissertation is being developed at the Blue Biotechnology and Ecotoxicology group, at CIIMAR, with a BYT+ scholarship. The focus of this work is to apply OSMaC (one strain, many compounds) strategies to yield novel cyanobacterial natural products with biotechnological/pharmaceutical interest.
