Researcher ID: G-3878-2017

Orcid ID: 0000-0001-7629-6934

Research Gate: Bruno_Marreiros

Web of Science ResearcherID: JVD-8810-2023

Office 612 | Lab. 610 - Chemistry Department

Ph: +351 212 948 385, ext. 10931

Email: b.marreiros@fct.unl.pt

LinkedIn: bmarreiros

Education:

(2016) PhD in Biochemistry at ITQB/UNL

(2009) MSc in Biological Engineering at IST/UL

Research interests:

• Valorisation of industrial by-products and wastes into value added-products.
• Production of biopolymers (e.g. PHA)
• Process optimisation and monitoring
• Microbial Diversity
• Bioinformatics
• Bioenergetics

Relevant publications:

Marreiros BC*, Carvalheira M, Henriques C, Pequito D, Nguyen Y, Solstad RG, Eksteen JJ, Reis MAM, “Pilot-scale valorisation of salmon peptone into polyhydroxyalkanoates by mixed microbial cultures under conditions of high ammonia concentration”. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 11, 3, (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.110100.

Barros KS, Carvalheira M, Marreiros BC, Reis MAM, Crespo JG, Pérez-Herranz V, Velizarov S., “Donnan Dialysis for Recovering Ammonium from Fermentation Solutions Rich in Volatile Fatty Acids”. Membranes, 13(3):347, (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13030347.

Carvalho JM, Marreiros BC*, Reis MAM, “Polyhydroxyalkanoates Production by Mixed Microbial Culture under High Salinity”. Sustainability 14 (3), 1346, (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031346.

Carvalheira M, Marreiros BC, Reis MAM, “Chapter 13 - Acids (VFAs) and bioplastic (PHA) recovery”, (Book Chapter). Clean Energy and Resource Recovery, Wastewater Treatment Plants as Biorefineries, 2, 245-254, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90178-9.00016-0.

Silva JB, Pereira JR, Marreiros BC, Reis MAM, Freitas F, “Microbial production of medium-chain length polyhydroxyalkanoates”. Process Biochemistry, 102, 393-407 (2021).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procbio.2021.01.020.

Marreiros BC, Sena FV, Sousa FM, A. Sofia F. Oliveira, Cláudio M. Soares, Batista AP, Pereira MM, “Structural and Functional insights into the catalytic mechanism of Type II NADH:quinone oxidoreductases family”. Scientific Reports, 7 (1), 42303, (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep42303.

Marreiros BC, Sena FV, Sousa FM, Batista AP, Pereira MM, “Type II NADH:quinone oxidoreductase family: Phylogenetic distribution, Structural diversity and Evolutionary divergences”. Environmental Microbiology, 18 (12), 4697-4709, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13352.

Marreiros BC, Calisto F, Castro PJ, Duarte AM, Sena FV, Silva AF, Sousa FM, Teixeira M, Refojo PN and Pereira MM, “Exploring membrane respiratory chains”. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics, 857 (8), 1039-1067, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.03.028.

Marreiros BC, Batista AP, Pereira MM, "Respiratory complex I from Escherichia coli does not transport Na + in the absence of its NuoL subunit" FEBS Letters, 588, 23, 4520-4525, (2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2014.10.030.

Marreiros BC, Batista AP, Duarte AMS, Pereira MM, “A missing link between complex I and group 4 membrane-bound [NiFe]-hydrogenases”. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 1827 (2): 198-209, (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.09.012.

Batista AP, Marreiros BC, Louro RO, Pereira MM, "Study of ion translocation by respiratory complex I. A new insight using (23)Na NMR spectroscopy” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1817(10):1810-6, (2012). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.03.009.