Antonio Afonso Lourenco

Jordan, K., Hunt., K., Lourenco., A., Pennone, V. Listeria monocytogenes in the food processing environment. Curr Clin Micro Rpt (2018) 5: 106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40588-018-0090-1

Costa, A., Lourenco, A., Civera, T., & Brito, L. (2018). Listeria innocua and Listeria monocytogenes strains from dairy plants behave similarly in biofilm sanitizer testing. LWT. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.LWT.2018.02.073

Maserati, A., Fink, R. C., Lourenco, A., Julius, M. L., & Diez-, F. (2017). General response of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to desiccation : A new role for the virulence factors sopD and sseD in survival. PLoS ONE, 12(11), e0187692. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0187692

Lourenço, A., Kamnetz, M. B., Gadotti, C., & Diez-Gonzalez, F. (2017). Antimicrobial treatments to control Listeria monocytogenes in queso fresco. Food Microbiology, 64, 47–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2016.12.014

Lourenco, A., de Las Heras, A., Scortti, M., Vazquez-Boland, J., Frank, J. F., & Brito, L. (2013). Comparison of Listeria monocytogenes Exoproteomes from Biofilm and Planktonic State: Lmo2504, a Protein Associated with Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79(19), 6075–6082. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01592-13

Machado, H., Lourenco, A., Carvalho, F., Cabanes, D., Kallipolitis, B. H., & Brito, L. (2013). The tat pathway is prevalent in Listeria monocytogenes lineage II and is not required for infection and spread in host cells. Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, 23(3), 209–218. https://doi.org/10.1159/000348245

Lourenço, A., Rego, F., Brito, L., & Frank, J. F. (2012). Evaluation of Methods to assess the biofilm-forming ability of Listeria monocytogenes. Journal of Food Protection, 75(8), 1411–1417. https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-11-464

Lourenço, A., Machado, H., & Brito, L. (2011). Biofilms of Listeria monocytogenes Produced at 12 ° C either in pure culture or in co-culture with Pseudomonas aeruginosa showed reduced susceptibility to sanitizers. Journal of Food Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.02011.x

Tristezza, M., Lourenço, A., Barata, A., Brito, L., Malfeito-Ferreira, M., & Loureiro, V. (2010). Susceptibility of wine spoilage yeasts and bacteria in the planktonic state and in biofilms to disinfectants. Annals of Microbiology, 60(3), 549–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-010-0085-5

Lourenco, A., Neves, E., & Brito, L. (2009). Susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes from traditional cheese-dairies to in-use sanitizers. Food Control, 20(6), 585–589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2008.08.009

Neves, E., Lourenço, A., Silva, A. C., Coutinho, R., & Brito, L. (2008). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from different sources and geographical origins and representative of the twelve serovars. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 31(5), 387–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2008.08.005

Lourenco, A., Jordan, K. (2018). The Quality of Raw Milk, and Cheese Manufactured from it, in Ireland. IAFP European Symposium on Food Safety, 25-27 April, Stockholm, Sweden

Costa, A., Lourenco, A., Civera, T., Brito, L. (2017). The non-pathogenic Listeria innocua as a good surrogate of the pathogenic L. monocytogenes in field experiments aiming to clarify persistent cheese dairy’s colonization. Nutrition and Food Chemistry, 16th World Congress. Zurich, Switzerland September 18-20. – Oral Presentation

Lourenco, A., Maserati, A., Fink, R.C., Diez-Gonzalez, F. (2016). The Influence of Water Activity on Salmonella enterica Typhimurium Biofilm’s Thermal Resistance. International association for food Protection: IAFP Annual Meeting. St. Louis (MO) – Poster

Maserati, A., Fink, R.C., Lourenco, A., Diez-Gonzalez, F. (2016). Identification of Two Virulence Genes Involved in Salmonella’s Ability to Survive Desiccation. International association for food Protection: IAFP Annual Meeting. St. Louis (MO) – Oral communication T3-03.

Maserati, A., Diez-Gonzalez, F., Lourenco, A., Fink, R. C. (2016). Comparison of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium and Escherichia coli O157:H7 Survival and adaptation to Desiccation, Low Water Activity, and Thermal Tolerance. American Society for Microbiology: ASM Microbe 2016. Boston (MA) – Poster

Lourenço, A., Frank, J., Brito, L. (2013) Listeria monocytogenes strain comparison based on exoproteomes from biofilm and from planktonic states. 1^st International Symposium on Profiling 2-4 Sep. Lisbon, Portugal. - oral presentation

Brito, L., Cabrita, P., Lourenço, A. (2013) Listeria monocytogenes exoproteomes: the differences between similar. 1^st International Symposium on Profiling 2-4 Sep. Lisbon, Portugal. - oral presentation

Lourenço, A., Brito, L., Frank, J. (2010) Listeria monocytogenes biofilm forming ability is not always corelated with benzalkonium chloride susceptibility. ICAR 2010: International Conference of Antimicrobial Research, Valladolid, Spain, 3 – 5 Nov. - Poster

Lourenço, A., Machado, H., Brito, L. (2010) Listeria monocytogenes biofilms grown at 12 ᵒC showed reduced susceptibility to sanitizers. ISOPOL XVII: 17th International Symposium on problems of Listeriosis, Porto, Portugal, 5-8 May. - Poster

Instructor for FScN 2021: Introductory Microbiology. Department of food Science and Nutrition (FSCN), University of Minnesota (UMN). Spring semester 2017.

Instructor for FScN 4121: Food Microbiology. FSCN, UMN. Spring semester 2017, 2016 and 2015.

Supervision of five undergraduate students as research assistants on research focused on thermal resistance of Salmonella. University of Minnesota. Project NIFA, U.S.D.A. 2012-67005-19613.

Co-Supervision of MSc student in Food Engineering, ISA/UTL, Ana Rita Rodrigues dos Santos.  Thesis: “Utilização de mutantes para a identificação de genes envolvidos na produção de biofilmes de Listeria monocytogenes” (Use of mutants to identify genes envolved in biofilm production in Listeria monocytogenes) 2015.

Co-Supervision of MSc student in Food Engineering, ISA/UTL, Ana Filipa Abrunhosa. Thesis: “Biofilmes de Listeria monocytogenes” (Listeria monocytogenes biofilms) 2012.