====== Inês Mendes ======

===== Bio =====

**Full Name**: Catarina Inês Marques de Sousa Mendes\\

**Academic Qualification**: 
  * Master Degree: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - FC/UL\\
  * Degree: Cellular and Molecular Biology - FCT/UNL\\

===== Current Position =====

**PhD Student - FCT**\\
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[[https://imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/en/investigacao/labs/ramirez-lab/|Molecular Microbiology and Infection Unit (M Ramirez Lab)]], [[https://imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/en/|Instituto de Medicina Molecular]]\\
Instituto de Microbiologia, [[http://www.medicina.ulisboa.pt/|Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa]]\\ 

===== Research Interests =====

  * //De novo// assembly NGS/HTS data
  * Bacteria pan-genome analysis
  * Virulence factors discovery
  * Host-pathogen adaptation
  * Microbial Metagenomics

===== Websites =====

[[https://github.com/cimendes|GitHub]]\\
[[https://github.com/B-UMMI|GitHub Bioinformatics @ Molecular Microbiology and Infection Unit]]\\
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[[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catarina_Mendes8|ResearchGate]]\\
[[https://pt.linkedin.com/in/inês-mendes-36862a86|LinkedIn]]\\

===== Contacts =====

**Emails**: 
  * cimendes_at_medicina.ulisboa.pt (replace _at_ by @)\\

===== Publications =====

[[people:mdpinho|Pinho MD]], Erol E, [[people:bgoncalves|Ribeiro-Gonçalves B]], Mendes CI, [[people:jcarrico|Carriço JA]], Matos SC, Preziuso S, Luebke-Becker A, Wieler LH, [[people:jmelocristino|Melo-Cristino J]], [[people:ramirez|Ramirez M]]. 2016. <fc #0000FF>Beta-hemolytic //Streptococcus dysgalactiae// strains isolated from horses are a genetically distinct population within the //Streptococcus dysgalactiae// taxon</fc>. Sci Rep 6:31736. [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27530432|(PMID: 27530432)]]