Postal address:
Ares Genetics GmbH
a Curetis Group Company
Karl-Farkas-Gasse 18
1030 Vienna, Austria
Research interests
Antimicrobial resistance
Healthcare
Machine learning
Education
May 2018 - present: Ph.D. student - Natural Sciences (Life Sc.): Molecular Biology - Universität Wien, Austria
Sept 2014 - Jun 2017: Master’s degree - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Sept 2010 - Jun 2014: Bachelor’s degree - Molecular and genetics biology, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Professional Experience
May 2018 - present: Junior Researcher Microbial Bioinformatics & Clinical Microbiology at Ares Genetics
Talks and Posters
2019
ISCB-ECCB, Basel, 2019
Poster: “Harmonizing Public Resources to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance”
2018
OEGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Austria, 2018
Poster: “Antimicrobial Resistance Markers in Molecular Diagnostics: Good Enough for the Clinic?”
Publications
2021
I. Ferreira, S. Lepuschitz, S. Beisken, G. Fiume, K. Mrazek, B.J.H. Frank, S. Huber, M.A. Knoll, A. von Haeseler, A. Materna, J.G. Hofstaetter, A.E. Posch, and J. Weinberger
(2021) Culture-Free Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Markers from Native Patient Samples by Hybridization Capture Sequencing. Microorganisms, 9, 1672. (DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9081672,
PMID: 34442751,
PMCID: PMC8398375)
L. Lüftinger, I. Ferreira, B.J.H. Frank, S. Beisken, J. Weinberger, A. von Haeseler, T. Rattei, J.G. Hofstaetter, A.E. Posch, and A. Materna
(2021) Predictive Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing by Next-Generation Sequencing for Periprosthetic Joint Infections: Potential & Limitations. Biomedicines, 9, 910. (DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9080910,
PMID: 34440114,
PMCID: PMC8389688)
2020
I. Ferreira, S. Beisken, L. Lueftinger, T. Weinmaier, M. Klein, J. Bacher, R. Patel, A. von Haeseler, and A.E. Posch
(2020) Species Identification and Antibiotic Resistance Prediction by Analysis of Whole Genome Sequence Data Using ARESdb: An Analysis of Isolates from the Unyvero Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Trial. J. Clin. Microbiol., 58, e00273-20. (DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00273-20,
PMID: 32295890)
N. Mahfouz, I. Ferreira, S. Beisken, A. von Haeseler, A. Posch
(2020) Large-Scale Assessment of Antimicrobial Resistance Marker Databases for Genetic Phenotype Prediction. J. Antimicrob. Chemother., 75, 3099–3108. (DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa257,
PMID: 32658975)