IITAA
IITAA (Institute for Investigation and Technology of Agronomy and Environment) is very much engaged and has the know how to pursuit studies on insular climate characterization / prediction and effects of global change on communities from the open ocean to the islands tops, modernize agriculture ... Read more »
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José António Bettencourt Baptista
Investigator Collaborator (Past Integrated Member)
Workgroup:Food Science and Health
Address:
Universidade dos Açores Campus de Ponta Delgada Apartado 1422 PT - 9501-801 Ponta Delgada Açores, Portugal
Telephone: +351 296 650 000
Email: bapista@uac.pt
Profile:
José Baptista is an honorary member of the Technological Science and Development Department (DCTD), retired senior researcher and a coordinator of the Technological Food Science Section (DCTD), with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry with a specialization in Analytical Biochemistry. He performs research in the chemistry of natural products, and in the technology and toxicology of food science fields. Particularly, the research is focused on the extraction, separation and identification of secondary metabolites from plants and marine organisms from Azores. He has supervised several academic studies (Theses and research projects ) and currently is co-supervising students of the Food Technology and Safety master degree and Ph.D. students from 3º cycle of Biology. He also collaborates in the interface of the University Industry developing collaboration protocols with agri-food regional companies.
Selected publications:
- 1. TEIXEIRA T., RAINHA N., ROSA J.S., LIMA E.& BAPTISTA J. 2012. Molluscicidal activity of crude water and hexane extracts of Hypericum species on Radix peregra snails. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 31: 748-753. (IF: 2.8)
- 2. Rita Ferin, Maria Leonor Pavão, José Baptista (2012). Methodology for a rapid and simultaneous determination of total cysteine, homocysteine, cysteineglycine and gluthatione in plasma by isocratic RP-HPLC. Journal of Chromatography B 911: 15-20.
- 3. José Baptista, Elisabete Lima, Lisete Paiva, Ana L. Andrade and Maria G. Alves (2012). Comparison of Azorean Tea Theanine to teas from other origins by HPLC/DAD/FD. Effectof fermentation, drying temperature, drying time and shoot maturity. Food Chemistry 132: 2181-2187.
- 1. RAINHA N., KOCI K., COELHO A.V., LIMA E., BAPTISTA J. &FERNANDES-FERREIRA M. 2013. HPLC-UV-ESI-MS analysis of phenolic compounds and antioxidant properties in Hypericumundulatum shoot cultures and wild-growing plants. Phytochemistry 86: 83-91. (IF: 3.4).
- 2. Rainha N, Lima E, Baptista J, Fernandes-Ferreira, M. (2013). Content of hypericins from Plants and in Vitro Shoots of HypericumundulatumSchousb. exWilld. Natural Product Research 27(10): 869-879.
- 3. Rita Ferin, Maria Leonor Pavão, José Baptista (2013). Rapid sensitive and simultaneous determination of ascorbic and uric acids in human plasma by ion-exclusion HPLC-UV.Clinical Biochemistry 46: 665-669.
