Member Profile
Membership type: full
Early Career Fellowship
Juliana Moura Mendes Arrua
Country of origin: Brazil Currently in: Paraguay, Luque General field of specialization: Medical and Health Sciences incl NeurosciencesEarly Career Fellowship
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Degrees
2021 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2012 Master Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences2008 Undergraduate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences -
Current Research Activities
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
I am currently working in three main areas: 1- Bioprospection of native plants of Paraguay with antimicrobial potential. 2- Study of secondary metabolites from fungi related to food safety and 3- Ex situ preservation of microorganisms with bioactive potential.
Publications resulting from Research:
- Antifungal activity of geraniol and citronellol, two monoterpenes alcohols, against Trichophyton rubrum involves inhibition of ergosterol biosynthesis. 2015. FO Pereira, JM Mendes, IO Lima, KSL Mota, WA Oliveira, EO Lima. Pharmaceutical biology 53 (2), 228-234. DOI: 10.3109/13880209.2014.913299
- Actividad antifúngica del aceite esencial de Eugenia caryophyllata sobre cepas de Candida tropicalis de aislados clínicos. 2012.
JM Mendes, FQS Guerra, F de Oliveira Pereira, JP de SOUSA...Boletín Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas. 11 (3): 208 - 217.
- Presencia de aflatoxina M1 en fórmulas lácteas infantiles comercializadas en el área metropolitana a Asunción, Paraguay. 2021.
AA Arrúa, PD Arrua, MGU Mayans, MYQ Viay, JM Lara, JM Mendes. Pediatría (Asunción). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31698/ped.48012021007
- Presence of Aflatoxin M1 in Commercial Milk in Paraguay AA Arrua, PD Arrúa, J Moura-Mendes, C Cazal, FP Ferreira, ...
Journal of Food Protection 84 (12), 2128-2132. https://doi.org/10.4315/JFP-21-196.
- Evaluating the Antifungal Activity of α-Bisabolol in Association with NaCl on Fusarium oxysporum in Maize Grains CAC de Medeiros, ÂV Pinto, JC de Oliveira, GS Silva, JMM Arrua, IO Lima, ...2021. Current Microbiology 78 (2), 604-610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-020-02313-8.
- Prevalence of Candida tropicalis and Candida krusei in onychomycosis in João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil from 1999 to 2010. 2015. JMM Arrua, LAS Rodrigues, FO Pereira, EO Lima. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 87, 1819-1822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520130418.
- Evaluación preliminar del efecto antimicrobiano y toxicidad aguda del extracto etanólico bruto de Luehea divaricata (Ka’a ovetĩ)
JMM Arrúa, G Franco, PA Ibarra, TRL Arias. Investigaciones y Estudios-UNA 11 (2), 78-86
- Evaluation of wheat genotypes resistance to Fusarium head blight in Paraguay. 2020. CC Cazal-Martínez, YM Reyes-Caballero, PE Pérez-Estigarribia, ...Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical. v. 50, e63609. DOI: 10.1590/1983-40632020v5063609.
- Occurrence of deoxynivalenol and ochratoxin A in beers and wines commercialized in Paraguay. 2019. AA Arrúa, JM Mendes, P Arrúa, FP Ferreira, G Caballero, C Cazal, ...Toxins. 11 (6), 308; doi:10.3390/toxins11060308
- Patent application: Patent of Invention (PI) - BR 10 2018 074391 0: Antifungal composition for phytopathogenic disease control phytopathogenic diseases composed of mixtures of Alpha-bisabolol and NaCl.
Current profession
Current professional activities type:Research
Affiliations
Federación Latinoamericana de Colecciones de Cultivos - FELACCRed Iberoamericana de Investigadores en Micología - RIIMICOSociedad Paraguaya de Microbiología - SPM -
Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship awarded
Early Career Fellowship awarded 2023