Sofia Costa

LFA R&D and Manufacturing for veterinary diagnostics and food safety. • Management of internal R&D activities, and participation in the following European projects (funded under the FP7-KBBE): RAPIDIA-FIELD and WildTBVac. • Scientific writing for financial support and results' dissemination. • Coordination of the LFA´s production line. • Management of technicians’ work, lab equipment and reagents.

Reviewer of scientific manuscripts for publication in the BMC Biotechnology journal, in the Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry journal, and in the FEMS Microbiology Letters.

Production of recombinant viral proteins in the baculovirus expression system under the scope of the PoRRSCon project (funded by FP7-KBBE).

Expression and purification of recombinant frutalin for the in vitro study of its cytotoxic bioactivity in cancer cells.

Researcher at the Centre of Biological Engineering under the PhD project: Development of a novel fusion system for soluble protein overexpression and purification in Escherichia coli

Thesis: "Development of a novel fusion system for soluble protein overexpression and purification in Escherichia coli"