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Juliana Moura Mendes Arrua

Country of origin: Brazil Currently in: Paraguay, Luque General field of specialization: Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Early Career Fellowship
Academic Background

Degrees

2021 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2012 Master Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
2008 Undergraduate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Research and Profession

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.

Research Keywords: 
Mycology
Antimicrobial activity
Bioactive Natural Products
Secondary metabolites
Bioprospection
Mycotoxigenic fungi
food safety
Chemotaxonomy

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 - FELACC
Red Iberoamericana de Investigadores en Micología - RIIMICO
Sociedad Paraguaya de Microbiología - SPM
Fellowship with OWSD

Fellowship with OWSD

Fellowship with OWSD

Fellowship awarded

Early Career Fellowship awarded 2023

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